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ITV Play
So ITV Play has launched today, and you can watch it online! Seemingly, there’s no end to these channels, and I’d expect that at least one other channel on Freeview is likely to convert fully to this format – FTN is practically there already with only four hours a day of non-quiz programming. Even repeats…
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Never Let Me Go
First of all, it’s probably worth pointing out that this book is Science Fiction. It’s not immediately obvious from the cover that it is, but publishers are nervous of “condemning” a novel by a mainstream author into the ghetto that is genre fiction. The story is narrated by Kathy from some time in the future,…
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Scary Scary Scary
Very scary.
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Premiership Football Rights
As we get closer and closer to the next TV deal for football, it’s interesting to read this story from today’s Times about the price that ITV or the BBC would have to pay should they bid for one of the six packages that have to be offered seperately. Of those six packages, no single…
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Mark Burnett
Mark Burnett is a man who not many will have heard of in the UK, unless they follow the TV industry that is. He’s the producer of such US hits as Survivor and The Apprentice (Broadcast also lists The Contender as a US “hit”. It was made in the US, but with the best will…
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Law
It’s good to know that two legal actions have been rightly defeated: 1) The Mazher Mahmood action has been dropped, although I note that no-one’s particularly interested in actually publishing the pictures. In a discussion on Friday’s Channel 4 News, the camera quickly cut away when Gorgeous George held up an A4 picture of Mahmood.…
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Don’t You Have Time to Think?
I can’t remember precisely how I first came across Richard Feynman, but I’m pretty sure it was reading Surely You’re Joking, Mr Feynman. Later, I’d see one of the best hours of Horizon ever made in Christopher Sykes’ The Pleasure of Finding Things Out. But aside from a couple of other documentaries, and famously his…
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Thank You For Smoking
Thank You For Smoking is the film that Lord of War probably wanted to be. That is to say, we’re supposed to empathise with the lead character despite him having a, frankly, despicable job. And you know, you do. But let’s step back a second. Aaron Eckhart plays Nick Naylor, one of the most prominant…
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Spring May Really Have Finally Arrived
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Mazher Mahmood
OK. This is getting silly. According to the latest news at Mediaguardian, Mahmood’s won another temporary injunction preventing publication of his photograph. Why? If he was in a witness protection scheme, then I could understand it. But as far as I’m aware he’s not. So why can’t we see his picture. Well, there’s an old…
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Sam Bourne
Great piece from Kieren McCarthy on the Jonathan Freedland/Sam Bourne fiasco. Be sure to follow all the links.
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George Galloway and the Fake Sheikh
I am absolutely no fan of George Galloway. Time and again he’s shown himself to be a complete buffoon. However, I fail to understand exactly how News International have gained a 24 hour injunction to prevent the publication of pictures of the fake sheikh himself, Mahzer Mahmood. The News of the World regularly publishes photos…
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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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