blogging about TV
No, no, no, I thought. Don’t mess with a good format. I avoided this, because I liked Mary whatshername so much in Mary Queen of Shops where she revamped and boosted ailing independent stores around country. I didn’t want to see a poorer imitation (or reinvention) of the same show.
But a friend of mine, [...]
Perhaps consciously playing on the title Who Do You Think You Are? which has also featured comedian David Baddiel in a serious role, last night’s Horizon saw Baddiel investigating the British education system and asking whether it can maximise both a child’s intellectual potential and their happiness at the same time.
A worthy question and one [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The TV industry may not agree with Gerhard Zeiler’s assessment of Channel 4 and Five being “complementary broadcasters” (the cultures of the two places are radically different, as is their history), but C4 changed the day it started selling its own advertising in 1993.
From that point on, its public service remit has been in tension [...]
Staying with a financial theme, we are of course lapping up the news that Cash in the Attic presenter Lorne Spicer has filed for bankruptcy. Seems her attic wasn’t full enough of valuable treasures to keep the bailiffs at bay. But in another delicious irony, she has also presented a programme called Beat the Bailiff [...]
And thank mammon for the BBC’s Evan Davis. He put all the bits of the current economic crisis together and explained it in one hour of relatively easy to follow narrative: sub-prime mortgages, securitisation, the credit crunch. It all makes perfect sense now. At least it did last night, after watching this first of three films [...]
Andy Burnham, the secretary of state for culture, media and sport (let’s call him the media secretary, eh?) is due to make a speech next week at a media get-together in Oxford where, it’s widely thought, he will outline the government’s thinking on public service TV.
Ofcom’s been doing its own work on this and [...]
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