blogging about TV
More than one person (yes, OK, it was two people) has asked me why I watch so much crap TV. I know, media people, it’s incredible to you and me to comprehend but some folk out there in the “real world” with “real jobs” and “real lives” don’t appreciate your efforts at churning out expensive, [...]
I know this is beneath me. It’s beneath all of us, frankly, to judge the proverbial book by the cover, the 47-year-old life-long singleton and newly created reality TV star Susan Boyle by her appearance.
But it was, inevitably, Boyle’s appearance - complete with bra strap falling down a plump upper arm - that created [...]
What is it about Heston Blumenthal? The more Channel 4 appear to be in love with the guy, the more I decide I hate him. I wasn’t sure about him in Big Chef Takes on Little Chef. He is basically a poncey chef, who finnicks around in his Berkshire restaurant with slivvers of gold leaf. [...]
Have been too busy with paid employment to post on here. But the crap has clearly hit the circulating cooling device today, with ITV unveiling an abysmal set of results and announcing 600 job losses plus a staggering £65m cut to its programming budget. ITV spends less than £1bn a year on programming (£867m last [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The briefest of posts in the final minutes before the next series of Celebrity Big Brother to make a prediction. Not a particularly bold prediction, but a forecast nevertheless.
After disappearing from our screens for a year, Celebrity Big Brother is back on Channel 4 for the first time since the infamous Jade Goody/Shilpa Shetty row [...]
Seems the government is considering either privatising Channel 4 or merging it with Channel Five. A reality check with the viewing public (ask your aunties and some mates) shows some already think C4 is privately owned, given it has ads on it. Some think it’s somehow owned by ITV. It isn’t, but ITV used to [...]
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