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Peter Jones
So Peter Jones (not the deparment store) has signed for ITV to present two shows for them, one of which is supposed to be a version of American Inventor. Of course, Jones has already signed on for another series of Dragon’s Den. What a busy man. How does he get time to run his companies?…
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Da Vinci Code Case Code
This is a great story. Mind you, if you thought the whole thing was a big PR stunt for the film, which it wasn’t, then this isn’t going to convince you otherwise…
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News in TV
As television commoditisation increases evermore, there’s much discussion at the moment about BBC1’s weak Wednesday nights. Davina’s chat show has been lambasted, and the lack of a drama series at 9pm means that even Paul McCartney on the fur trade doesn’t get as many as 2 million. ITV are putting out a stream of dramas…
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Top Drivers To This Site
There’s something terribly dispiriting about consulting your server logs – not something I do very often – to discover exactly why people are visiting your site. Here, then, are the top three search terms that lead people to my site in the last few months: 1) Ultimate Force – And this was by a long…
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Daily Mail
OK – I’ve been tempted away from the straight and narrow again. The Daily Mail is running a free DVD promotion at the moment, and it’s just too easy to stop off at the WH Smith in the tube station each morning and pick up The Ladykillers for 45p. I’ve already had other Ealing classics…
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BBC Programme Catalogue Now Open
I’m loving access to the BBC’s Experimental Archive. Find out when all those programmes you remember were first broadcast nice and easily (and yes, I know that Bird of Prey has just been released on DVD. I’d completely forgotten until ten minutes ago that it was coming out. Now I have to rush off to…
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Another Channel Caves in to “Quizzes”
One of the few strengths of Channel Five when it launched was its coverage of US sport. If you were a night owl, there was something to watch, with live baseball, ice hockey (at least before they all went on strike for a year or so) and basketball. There were various random other sports bought…
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Upgrading to MT3.2
Well I had a very scary experience over the last 24 hours. No, not going through the pain that is watching Arsenal scrape through a very tricky tie to go through to the Champions’ League Final in Paris on May 17 (any offers of tickets most welcome). I went through an upgrade process to get…
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Poor TV Reviews
Maybe I’m just getting grumpier in my old age, but is The Guardian’s TV reviewer, Sam Wollaston, getting worse. Read today’s review. Now I didn’t see any of the reviewed programmes – wild horses couldn’t make me watch something called “Extraordinary People: Identical Quads”. Similarly anything called “The Real…” immediately drops off my radar as…
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Waterstone to Buy Back Waterstone’s?
First off, I must admit that I don’t think I’d ever before noticed the apostraphe in Waterstone’s name. I certainly don’t believe I used it before. My mistake. Anyhow, Tim Waterstone has launched a bid to buy back the book chain from parent company HMV. HMV, of course, had been thinking about a buyout of…
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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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