Month: May 2007

  • Pet Shop Boys – Hammersmith, May 2007

    To the Hammersmith Apollo to see a great Pet Shop Boys concert with all your favourites in a non-stop show. Great stuff, and more photos to be found here in my Flickr stream.

  • Is Channel 4 Being Held to Account?

    You really do need to listen to this week’s episode of MediaGuardian’s Media Talk podcast. Presenter Matt Wells interviews C4 Chief Exec Andy Duncan, and really takes him over the coals in response to Ofcom’s damning endictment about how Channel 4 and producers Endemol failed in their duty. As Emily Bell and Janine Gibson, also…

  • Meeja News

    All culled from Broadcast: – Kudos is developing a new BBC series called Outcasts, an SF series about “social misfits and criminals” sent into space to find and develop a new home for mankind. Science fiction is suddenly cool again with the likes of Dr Who, Battlestar Galactica, and even Life on Mars (yup –…

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  • OCD Example

    Realising that the reason the woman in front of me exiting the tube this morning is walking so slowly is that she’s checking her Blackberry the nanosecond she’s back in reception. (We’ll leave aside my Facebook refresh tendencies…)

  • BAFTA Awarding

    I didn’t comment on it at the time, but the best “Continuing Drama” award was given to Casualty. This was seen as a bit of a surprise at the time (As were many of the other awards – and I’m sure Ross Kemp on Gangs is good, but that good?). As I don’t watch any…

  • Panorama on Wi-Fi

    Oh dear – a very poorly argued episode on the supposed dangers of Wi-Fi. I just don’t know where to begin with this sensationalist scaremongering. The relative powers of different kinds of transmitters was ignored, the inverse square law was ignored, and it was mixture of facts and unproven information. We heard about Sylvia who…

  • 100 Films

    John Naughton and Sean French are baffled about how someone could put this sequence together of 100 quotes from 100 films counting down the numbers from one to one hundred. Naughton thinks that it’s un-Googleable. Well it’s very Googleable. Or rather, with a good knowledge of various sites, you could do it. It’s worth noting…

  • BAFTA TV Awards

    Some high/low-lights: The ridiculous charade that is “Continuing Drama Series” when they mean “Soap” Award. The look on Ross Kemp’s face when he realised that “Ross Kemp on Gangs” had actually won. OK – so I’ve never seen an episode, but it must be really good to beat the others: Tribe, Stephen Fry – Secret…

  • Culture, Media and Sport – Fifth Report

    Here’s a dull sounding subject which doesn’t seem to have had an enormous amount of coverage this week. The House of Commons Committee for Media, Culture and Sport has published a report of recommendations across a wide range of media issues. There are 28 in total, covering a wide range of issues – I’ll concentrate…

  • Alan Johnston

    Happy 45th Birthday Alan Johnston, wherever you’re being held.