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Is Sky One Becoming the UK’s HBO?
Short answer: No. I alluded a little the other day to this, but I think it’s a discussion worthy of its own topic anyway. Every couple of years or so, Sky One gets a new controller – most recently Stuart Murphy who was appointed at the start of this year. Every new channel controller wants…
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One More Radio Drama
Here’s something that links the last two entries on this blog. Following The Power of Yes yesterday, and the radio I was mentioning, I caught up with something else from the BBC World Service that I’d not previously listened to. The Day That Lehman Died details events in the US over the weekend when the…
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Some Recent Radio (and TV)
Apologies in advance – just about everything I’m going to mention here is now beyond the iPlayer’s Listen Again window. The BBC World Service has just finished another Worldplay series, this time based on the subject of science. The last piece was called Moving Bodies by Arthur Giron and starred Alfred Molina. It was actually…
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The Power of Yes
David Hare is an angry playwright, and rightly so. The Power of Yes is his attempt to make sense of the financial crisis, and rather than a conventional piece, we see the “author” (Anthony Calf) attempt to make sense of everything by conducting a series of interviews with relevant people. Many of them are named,…
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Waterstone’s
A new Oxford Street Waterstone’s opening soon. I love a good bookshop. I’m addicted to them. Yes – I certainly use Amazon a great deal, but browsing is something that simply can’t be replicated online. If you go to Amazon – despite the store’s best efforts, it’s hard to replicate the browsing feeling you get…
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10 Things You Shouldn’t Do…
…but people seem to do all the time just now. Please don’t do any of these things. You just look a bit sad. 10. Mention on Twitter how many followers you now have. I don’t really care. 9. Produce an iPhone version of your site, but not bother with a generic mobile version. 8. Get…
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Watching Football on the Internet
And so it has come to pass – this weekend’s dead rubber between the Ukraine and England, will only be available online or at your local Odeon cinema. The prices seem to range from £4.99 if you book now to £11.99 if you book on the day of the game. Odeon cinemas seem to be…
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Content
Warning. You are about to read a bit of a rant: if you haven’t already stopped reading already that is. It’s been a long time in coming, but I feel I have to say something about it. I loathe content. The word “content” that is. I really, really loathe it. It’s a hideous and yet…
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Smart Scheduling Decisions
Or perhaps they’re not so smart. This week, Channel 4 starts showing a couple of hot(tish) new(ish) shows from HBO. On Wednesday at 10.00pm it starts showing True Blood, a great vampire show based on novels by Charlaine Harris set in the Deep South. It’s a bit soapy, not a little sexy and but great…
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Dabbl
Allow me, if you will, a work related post. A few minutes ago saw the launch of dabbl, a new radio station from Absolute Radio. It’s an exciting new station that lets listeners choose the music. And for the record, because these things are important to know, the first track played was Bon Jovi and…
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Aerial Photography: An Experiment
They say that if you don’t experiment, you won’t succeed. So let’s call yesterday an experiment shall we? About a year ago, Photojojo – a great photography website – sent out a link to a balloon photography experiment carried out by a guy named David Trawin. He basically attached helium balloons to a cradle that…
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Lazy TV Journalism
Tonight, [channel] Five shows the first episode of what we’re told is the hot new US series of the Autumn – FlashForward. But their advertising campaign is a bit odd: “From the US network that brought you Lost…” run the trails. That’s true – they both air on ABC in the US. But that’s really…
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Yellowface/All The Lovers In The Night
Yellowface by R F Kuang I first came across R F Kuang with last year’s very enjoyable Babel, an alternate history of the British Empire told in a world where magic exists and is controlled by an elite group of individuals. Yellowface is very different, but no less enjoyable. It’s a book about books, and…
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