Posts from January 2011

Last night of the Proms

At first glance, the axing of the BBC's Electric Proms may superficially seem regrettable but perhaps understandable from a financial perspective given that major cuts have to be made. But as with those recent website cutbacks, you still can't help...

A pragmatic stance?

There will no doubt be a lot of people looking at Jeremy Hunt today and drawing a lot of negative conclusions.

Sky low

I'm no particular fan of this present government. I'm hardly unique in this, but I'm still finding it hard to accept that we appear to have got both the furthest-to-the-right government the country has had since the war and the...

More to do, less to see

So the BBC has finally revealed a list of its online services for trimming or closure in order to meet its 25% budget cut, which broadly correlates with a similar list previously revealed but does contain unpleasant surprises that have...

Age concern

Just like other long-established media sectors such as the music industry, television seems to have its own set of unwritten rules in terms of how people are handled within its industry; specifically presenters and actors that appear in front of...

We'd like you to meet some of the people at public television

Television companies are quite keen on showing you who their stars are be it Channel 4 getting people to tap on glass, or Thames showing what we'd miss as it headed off in to history

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