blogging about TV
Media companies, but particularly newspapers, have had their knickers in a twist for some time now as they wonder how to make money out of “online”. That is, the provision of information via the internet which, before the advent of the internet, they were able to charge money for. It is almost axiomatic today that if [...]
While most of the TV industry got itself into a light lather over the Digital Britain report which was published today, Tuesday, I was having a much more amusing time thinking about how we actually consume media in our house.
For about two years now, since my older daughter started school, we’ve had to use an [...]
After last week’s Horizon with David Baddiel contemplating the education system and children’s happiness, comes this article from the Family section of Saturday’s Guardian. And a whole new level of self-doubt and questioning for liberal-minded parents.
Forget, for the moment, that the author is the son of former Archbishop of Canterbury Robert Runcie. Runcie Jr writing [...]
Yesterday, ITV unveiled a cunning plan. It could merge with Channel 4 and Five, to save all the commercial (advertising funded) broadcasters from certain doom during this recession. But it will never happen. And it’s not just me who says so.
I caught former ITV exec Steve Hewlett opining on this subject on, of all things, [...]
Don’t get me wrong: I love Twitter. Just like I love Facebook and I don’t see them as mutually exclusive. We have an open relationship. I put my photos etc on Facebook, where I track who my so-called Friends are (a lot of them are colleagues, but it’s all a blur these days). I feed [...]
The sad news that Jade Goody has been diagnosed with terminal cancer aged just 27 is one of the biggest showbiz stories of the week. It is also, of course, a private tragedy for her and her family.
So why write about it? Because she’s halfway through filming a fly-on-the-wall series with Living TV. Because she’s using Max [...]
That’s a little unfair, for I’ve no reason to believe that director Danny Boyle is a slumdog. He does originally come from Manchester but, still, is far from a slumdog, I assume. It’s just that, post-Trainspotting, Slumdog Millionaire has become THE film which we associate with Boyle.
Having only just seen Slumdog Millionaire and having loved [...]
There’s all sorts of excitement on the web today, as there is every day of course. Earlier I was alerted by one of Stephen Fry’s excellent tweets to the brewing row between LBC/Global Radio and blogger and Guardian Bad Science columnist Ben Goldacre over a programme on MMR. You can read all about that here. [...]
You’ve got to hand it to BBC 1 controller, Jay Hunt. Speaking on Radio 4’s Today programme this morning she ably defended the decision to sack Carol Thatcher from The One Show for using the term “golliwog” in connection with a black tennis player. Hunt also quickly squashed comparisons with the offence Jonathan Ross caused [...]
Ah, bless.
I’ve been meaning to mark the sad passing of Tony Hart, another great icon of children’s TV and 1970s youth. Vision On and Take Hart with its twirly whirly opening titles were tea-time faves. I still remember the music. Like a zephyr from a more innocent age. Hart’s programmes didn’t make me into an [...]
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