Posts from
October 2006
Tuesday 31 October 2006
Where did it go wrong for Channel Five and Dan Chambers? Rightly or wrongly, Channel Five still seems to be stuck in that "no man's land" between the average satellite/cable channel and the long-established four terrestrial channels; it has the...
Read all of 'Losing formula'.
Thursday 26 October 2006
It has taken a day or so of analysis of the publicly available BARB data, but there are one or two interesting conclusions out of this week's data. It doesn't happen very often with multi-channel programmes, and it is more...
Read all of 'Ratings Review: BARB Week Ending 15th October 2006'.
Monday 23 October 2006
I have noticed something in my observations of the various blogs and commentators on the internet, and that is that there is no single "enemy" organisation for conservatives. Bill O'Reilly, Michelle Malkin, Natalie Solent and others regularly target almost all...
Read all of 'Bias In The Media - Don't conservatives get it?'.
Sunday 22 October 2006
I've been looking forward to watching Torchwood - the new Doctor Who spinoff series "for adults" - for a long time, and didn't mind the prospect of seeing it first on BBC Three because normally they turn off their...
Read all of 'No logo please, it's Torchwood'.
Saturday 21 October 2006
Paul Waters has died. Starting his career with ATV, then moving on to BBC telefilm and then BBC radio, "Paulie" did mostly behind-the-scenes jobs until the invention of "Wake Up to Wogan", where he gradually moved closer to front-of-house, not...
Read all of 'Paul Waters'.
Wednesday 18 October 2006
Media Guardian: Beyond soap - BBC embraces villains, plot twists and Latin style of telenovela So the Brazillian style soap opera, or Telenova, is coming to the UK. The difference is that there's a fixed number of episodes - self...
Read all of 'The BBC goes Latin.'.
Tuesday 17 October 2006
Sony BRAVIA Advert Website Sony ad bursts on to screens Normally a new television commercial can go to air relatively unnoticed, but when it's the followup to a critically acclaimed advert featuring lots of multicoloured balls bouncing down a street...
Read all of 'Not a load of balls'.
Samsung launches BluRay player in the UK (BBC Radio 4, Today, Business Report) The first player from one of the two high-definition optical disc formats has been launched in the UK: it's Samsung's BluRay Disc (BRD) player and it'll cost...
Read all of 'Hi-Def disc format war begins today.... not.'.
I don't know about anyone else, but I discovered a cool little sci-fi series a few weeks ago, A Town Called Eureka, running on Sky. Unfortunately I missed the first few episodes and as a result I looked the show...
Read all of 'Cleverness and stupidity combine to annoy'.
Wednesday 11 October 2006
Well, there are a few surprises coming out of the latest publicly viewable ratings. On the channel side, we see that the joint highest rating channels right now, according to share of viewing are ITV2 and Sky Sports 1, both...
Read all of 'Ratings Review: BARB Week Ending 24th September 2006'.
BBC threatens to abandon Manchester move It seems fairly obvious that the BBC won't get all of its own way relating to the forthcoming licence fee settlement. Although Tessa Jowell is in favour of a larger-than-inflation rise for the licence...
Read all of 'Too ambitious?'.
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