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Digital Movie Libraries in the UK
Buying a digital movie or TV series in the UK is an utter mess. You can buy movies or TV series from a number of sites including: iTunes, Google Play Movies, Amazon, Sky Store and Rakuten. But if you buy something in one of those places, you can only watch it via that company’s app…
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Photography Portfolio
For those who are interested, I’ve just rebuilt my photography portfolio, which incorporates a bit of video and screen printing too. The link at the top now takes you to an exciting new page, adambowie.photography which has a much neater design asthetic. Yes, I’m using one of those new(ish) domains. And it should be full…
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Netflix Viewing Figures
Bird Box is Susanne Bier’s Netflix film the streaming service released just before Christmas. It stars Sandra Bullock as a mother who has to protect her children from an unseen entity. Furthermore, if she (or others) see it themselves, they are done for. Think of it as a visual companion to A Quiet Place. I enjoyed it well enough,…
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Finding something new to watch on Netflix can be incredibly hit or miss. I’ve mentioned before that I think Netflix’s marketing leaves something to be desired. While the “above the fold” promotional spot on Netflix is highly important to them and clearly drives a lot of viewing to shows or films that get that position,…
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Another Fine Mess by Tim Moore
Tim Moore seems to love setting himself unlikely challenges, often related to cycling. In French Revolutions he rode the route of the Tour de France a few weeks ahead of the race. In Gironomo! he did something similar, with the 1914 Giro d’Italia route, but used a bike from the era to do so. Most recently in The Cyclist Who Went Out in the Cold, he…
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The Flower Girls by Alice Clark-Platts
A twisty psychological thriller than will keep you on your toes until the last page. In 1997, ten-year-old Laurel and six-year-old Rosie are playing a game that somehow results in the death of a baby. The country is shocked, and Laurel is old enough to be criminally responsible. She ends up juvenile detention and later prison, while…
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Bauer Launching Scala Radio with Simon Mayo
UK radio really is quite exciting at the moment! Bauer has just announced the launch of Scala Radio, a new classical music station which will launch digitally on the 4th March 2019. Simon Mayo is the big name signing. He’s been keeping everyone guessing about where he might be going since he left Radio 2…
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Breakfast Show Sponsorship
In his first breakfast show on Virgin Radio this morning, Chris Evans is reported to have said: “This show will be commercial free for at least the next 100 years…” That would suggest that, at least as far as Evans is concerned, that his new breakfast show is not going to be taking ads for…
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Sports TV: UK v US
Yesterday evening, UK time, the NFL championship games took place, deciding which teams will contest the Super Bowl. I have an on/off relationship with the NFL – but will flip over to catch a bit every now and then. So last night, when I wasn’t watching Les Miserables on BBC1, I caught a bit of these games…
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British Cyclo-Cross National Championships 2019
Last weekend, I headed down to the Cyclopark in Gravesend to see the British National Cyclo-cross Championships. These are held annually and the winner gets to wear their national flag on their jersey for a year (unless they go on to win the World Championships of course). The event was taking place at the Cyclopark,…
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Longer Lasting
Over the last few weeks, a lot of things around me have started to break. Most annoyingly, the TV that was given to my father just over 18 months ago has developed a fault in the panel – the lower quarter flickers and then stays slightly greyer and fuzzier than the rest. It’s only 18…
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Netflix’s UK Drama Originals
One of the issues that Netflix has to face is how it can satisfy all its users in every country around the world. If you set up in France, you need to produce local French programming. If you set up in Australia, you need to produce local Australian programming. To some extent, Netflix has been…
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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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