Month: August 2004
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The Block Annexed
As predicted, The Block has suffered the same fate as Making Waves and been axed from primetime by ITV. Not unsurprising given that it’s a daytime format dressed up in primetime gladrags. In brief, from what I can tell, several pairs of contestants are given identical flats to do up on fixed budgets. Those that…
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The Bourne Supremacy (& The Bourne Identity)
A couple of years ago Matt Damon starred in a reasonably good thriller called The Bourne Identity, and last night it was on Sky Movies so I watched it again. I liked this thriller based on the Robert Ludlem novel (and previously filmed some years ago with Dr Kildare himself) because it had a believable…
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Ice Cold In Alex
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DABs Dirty Little Secret…
I love DAB. In many respects it’s great. But there are things wrong with it…
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Hard Disk Recorders
Their time has yet to come. There’s Sky+, but it’s quite expensive and tied to a Sky subscription. Freeview does now have a 7 day EPG which is an essential part of the mix, but the boxes are unsubsided so still pricey. So they need to come down in price (you can buy a VCR…
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No London News
Very strange. The 10.30 ITV News ended and we were due to go into the local London news. Instead we got “Welcome to Meridian News, and also to viewers in London.” This was followed by a full local Meridian bulletin. I should explain that I’m in north London and shouldn’t ever get the news from…
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Various links
I see Carl Hiaasen has a new book out… Alex Cox may have stopped his diary, but he wrote a piece in The Guardian about the depths of US cinema… The Avengers is getting another release on DVD in the UK (well I care!)… SUVs are trucks and are banned from many streets in California!
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The Winter Queen
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Pils, Patients & Profits
Another great BBC World Service documentary series is underway. Pils, Profits & Patients is available to listen to online, and examines the influence and behaviour of the pharmaceutical industry. Is what they do good for the world? “The pharmaceutical industry is the most profitable industry in the United States of America.” (Wouldn’t it be great…
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Olympics: TV Viewers
The IOC are already starting my favourite game at major sporting contests – the unfeasibly large audiences. Of course events like the Olympics attract astronomical audiences with global appeal. But much of the world still doesn’t have electricity regularly available and they won’t be tuning in for the Men’s 100m Final at Athens. They’re saying…
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The Light of Day
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The Digital Divide
Whilst compiling a reasonably detailed forthcoming entry on international TV audiences I came across this amazing map (PDF) entitled A World Divided by a Common Internet. It shows the haves and have nots of the world – visually demonstrating the “digital divide”.