Month: November 2003
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Wife Swap Lost The Tape
When bad “reality” programmes go good…
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Trawler
Radio 4 are currently serialising the latest Redmond O’Hanlon book, Trawler, as book of the week. I must admit that I haven’t read a great many of his books since I read Into The Heart of Borneo first in Granta, and then in paperback back in the eighties. Actually I did read the follow-up, In…
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Amazon Web Services A Go Go
Well not content with finally twiddling with MTAmazon enough to get it working, I’ve now been playing with the top 10 thing on the right hand side of the page. Basically you can play around with Amazon.com’s scratchpad in an attempt to build an RSS XML feed, but the scratchpad doesn’t fully work. For one…
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Nepotism Alive And Well
Last night BSkyB named their new CEO – James Murdoch. Wow. What a coincidence. You mean the same James Murdoch who’s son of the Chairman Rupert Murdoch? That’d be the one. Howls of outrage – and rightly so – since BSkyB is only 35% owned by Murdoch. The rest of the shareholding is held by…
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Royal Stories Blocked
There have now been two injunctions in two days relating to a story that The Mail on Sunday first attempted to run this weekend. It seems particularly dubious use of the law since one can’t comit libel until it’s actually been printed. But here’s the run – I think I know what the story is,…
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Hitchhikers Confirmed
Well it seems that The Hitchhikers’ Guide to the Galaxy really is returning to radio! Of course there’s still no BBC Press Release in the radio section, but given the enormous detail (including the fact that some of the stories won’t appear until this time next year!), I’m rather inclined to believe it. In fact…
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MTAmazon
Well I’ll be buggered if I can get MTAmazon working at the moment. It returns precisely nothing. I’m fed up with it now! UPDATE: Obviously I’ve got it working again.
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Dude Where’s My Country
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In The Cut
I went to see In The Cut on a complete whim, as I’m not the world’s greatest Jane Campion fan. Holy Smoke was so-so, The Portrait of a Lady a little dull and The Piano – well the music really made The Piano. I haven’t seen it since the first time I watched it, but…
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Intolerable Cruelty
Well it’s been out a couple of weeks, and hasn’t exactly set the review world alight, but I simply have to see everything that the Coen brothers put out. Intolerable Cruelty starring George Clooney and Catherine Zeta-Jones has everything going for it. It’s supposedly based on those fast talking screwball comedies of the thirties and…
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BBC Viewpoint
An interesting attempt by the BBC to look at viewer feedback. One would expect them to use this in conjunction with usual research methodologies!
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ITV Drama
It really has been quite a season for ITV drama so far this year. I know that in the US, many series have already been cancelled, and that shows that are already in the can will probably never see the light of day (unless Trio decides they’re worthy of revisiting), but here in the UK…