blogging about TV
At the heart of the Digital Britain report published yesterday is the government’s laudable desire to ensure everyone in the UK has access to broadband internet access.
In the words of the report: “We need a programme to ensure that everyone can connect to the digital economy, that its benefits and advantages are available to all. [...]
For those two readers who are avidly following recent policy (non-)developments in the world of broadcasting, my cursory reading of the Digital Britain interim report published today is that things are still under review.
Of the 22 action points so carefully detailed by broadcast minister Stephen Carter and team, the ones that relate directly to TV [...]
That stay being short because the visitor, Dr Anne Turner, killed herself at one of the Swiss clinics which provides assisted suicide.
This true story was the basis of a 90-minute drama which aired on BBC 1 on Sunday night. Was it any good? Well, yes, it was because the subject matter was so difficult. A [...]
With the newspapers still attempting to stir up controversy over presenters like Jonathan Ross, let’s remind ourselves of what edgy actually means. I’m going to try to be quite brief.
A couple of other people are also pondering this subject. Well, loads really. Frank Skinner has made a special edition of Panorama about swearing and has [...]
It clearly wasn’t enough for BBC director general Mark Thompson to post a defence of the corporation’s decision not to air an appeal for Gazan aid on a BBC News blog on Saturday evening. Noone appeared to have read it. The Sunday papers review on the otherwise execrable Radio 2 Michael Ball show made no [...]
So what did we all make of Mr Ross’ return to TV and radio last night and this morning? My highly scientific survey of a cross-section of the British public (one septuagenarian and a few presumably younger folk blogging here) suggests the oldies still don’t like him, the younger crowd still do.
In this new spirit [...]
After yesterday’s media talkfest in Oxford, you have to wonder who the audience is for this stuff. Is it simply the press?
Media secretary Andy Burnham made it clear that broacasters had to sort out their local difficulties themselves, mainly about funding. Within hours, a solution for C4 had emerged in the form of some quite [...]
Stand by your beds: Jonathan Ross is back with his BBC 1 Friday Night Show tomorrow night at 10.35pm. And by the time you read this the show will already be in the can, having been pre-recorded (as usual) today, Thursday although at the slightly earlier time of midday.
The BBC made something of the excitement [...]
From the speech made by media secretary Andy Burnham today:
“The old media world has ended – and the sooner we say so the better.
With it must go old thinking.
But the difficulty we all have is this: it doesn’t yet feel like an era of new possibility, and change we can all believe in, but [...]
Early indications are that the government minister in charge of broadcasting, Andy Burnham, doesn’t favour merging Channel 4 with channel Five. Instead, he thinks a deal could be done between C4 and BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the BBC which publishes magazines and sells TV programmes abroad.
All this, from a few words at the [...]
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