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The Winter Queen
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Pils, Patients & Profits
Another great BBC World Service documentary series is underway. Pils, Profits & Patients is available to listen to online, and examines the influence and behaviour of the pharmaceutical industry. Is what they do good for the world? “The pharmaceutical industry is the most profitable industry in the United States of America.” (Wouldn’t it be great…
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Olympics: TV Viewers
The IOC are already starting my favourite game at major sporting contests – the unfeasibly large audiences. Of course events like the Olympics attract astronomical audiences with global appeal. But much of the world still doesn’t have electricity regularly available and they won’t be tuning in for the Men’s 100m Final at Athens. They’re saying…
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The Light of Day
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The Digital Divide
Whilst compiling a reasonably detailed forthcoming entry on international TV audiences I came across this amazing map (PDF) entitled A World Divided by a Common Internet. It shows the haves and have nots of the world – visually demonstrating the “digital divide”.
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Olympics Blogs
A couple of Olympic blogs that are making fascinating reading: Stuart Hughes and Scott Goldblatt.
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Site Down
My ISP went down for most of yesterday, and I must admit that it gave me something of a fright. I did consider that maybe all the stuff I’ve put on this website might have been lost. For all I knew, the company had gone bust or something! Fortunately that’s not the case and it…
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Channel 4 to Launch Digital Radio Station
Channel 4 are supposedly considering launching a digital radio station, that will be in “direct competition” with Radio 4. Umm, yeah, right. Running a radio station might not be such a bad idea, and the author of the piece is right in thinking that struggling Oneword would be the channel to morph into such a…
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Carnaby Street New “Concept”
There’s a new shop on Carnaby Street that’s staffing up at the moment that is calling itself “a new concept in mens’ retailing”. I think they mean that they’re “a new menswear shop”. Unless, that is, that they’re moving away from the traditional “pay the price on the price-tag” model that shops have traditionally adopted.…
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ITV Binning Series
Today’s Mediaguardian has a piece by David Liddiment where he tries to avoid any kind of blame attached to the axed drama Making Waves. If I’m reading the piece correctly he’s saying that he and Nick Elliot both had their doubts about the series and weren’t going to go ahead with it until the BBC…
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Entourage
I’ve been watching Entourage, the new HBO series, and it’s pretty good. We have the star actor Vince and his group of hangers on, supposedly modelled on the likes of Executive Producer Mark Wahlberg’s own gang, as well as those of people like Leondardo DiCaprio. He has his brother, a not quite as successful actor,…
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Wynton Marsalis at the Proms
Another night, another Prom. I always enjoy the visits of Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra (last seen 18 months ago at the Barbican), so I’d been looking forward to this Prom for a while. I showed up quite early, but not early enough it seemed. Instead of joining the Arena queue, I was…
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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…
Hadrian’s Wall
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