Posts by
Dave Jeffery
Tuesday 27 March 2007
Moira Stuart loses BBC News slot It's bad enough that BBC Television News has become a round-up of the day's press-releases from think-tanks, pressure groups, charities and universities interspersed with showbiz trivia and cross-promotions for other programmes on BBC TV....
Read all of 'RIP BBC Television News'.
Monday 12 March 2007
In PC Pro this month (May 2007 edition), editor Tim Danton writes: In the 1960s, people were happy with black-and-white, grainy images with jittery sound quality.They weren't. 405-line television in the 1960s looked and sounded very much like a monochrome...
Read all of 'Irritating cliché #234563'.
Saturday 10 February 2007
What seems like an age ago, I designed some Flash files for the BBCi Cult website. However, I was reminded of them the other day when I noticed that the 1972-1974 BBC 1 COLOUR strapline from one of them was...
Read all of 'Diamonds should have been forever...'.
Sunday 18 December 2005
Bleak House Finale Tops Ratings I wasn't suprised by the success of Bleak House. The fact that Brazilian style soap would be successful in the UK is something I've been thinking for years. In common with Bleak House, South-American soap...
Read all of 'Time to bin TattyCockneys and go Latin.'.
Friday 9 December 2005
Now on BBC Radio Four, we present The Antidote to Flannel Pains....
Read all of 'Thought For The Day'.
Tuesday 11 October 2005
Chefs urge safeguards for ads on children's TV The Guardian today carries a story about television chefs who have signed a letter to Tony Blair urging the banning of junk food advertisements during children's television. I was pleasantly surprised to...
Read all of 'Setting the Patten for Delia'.
Monday 8 August 2005
A selection of bull Every morning the ?Today? programme provides a platform to people who wish to make wild unfounded claims, exhibit a smug sense of superiority, tell us how to live our lives, and make authoritative statements on things...
Read all of 'Time to end "Thought For The Day"'.
Friday 10 December 2004
Thomson buys ITV's special effects unit TWW History "We have made very significant progress on restructuring our balance sheet, reducing debt and delivering the benefits of the merger, and driving shareholder value." Charles Allen chief executive of ITV plc "We...
Read all of 'Compare and contrast...'.
Monday 22 November 2004
Sharp rise for on-demand Before I got married, I was an avid Radio 4 listener. I picked up the Radio 4 bug at university during the Gulf War, and I found myself utterly unable to shake it off. After that,...
Read all of 'A boon for busy fathers'.
Thursday 21 October 2004
Best Of British Light Music (5 CD set) One of the best things about growing up in Somerset in the 70s was being able to watch the incredible Westward Television colour start-up each morning. The visuals were beautifully shot -...
Read all of 'An English Overture'.
Sunday 5 September 2004
I'm rather bemused with the habit the BBC, ITV and others have developed of "loading" phone or internet poll questions. Instead of asking for straight yes or no reponses to yes or no questions, you get: Was 70s TV better...
Read all of 'The words you're putting in my mouth are making me sick'.
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