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Month: July 2007

  • Every Little Helps

  • TV Under Fire

    A great piece by Janine Gibson from today’s Media Guardian about how producers have forgotten how to tell the truth any more.

  • Tintin Storms the Charts

    Is it a good thing or a bad thing that Tintin in the Congo is currently sitting at number five in the Amazon best sellers list? This follows everyone suddenly noticing that a book first published between 1930 and 1931 is actually a bit racist. I don’t believe that this is particularly new news, and…

  • No Bikes Here

    New sign on Golden Square, originally uploaded by Adrian Fitch. In the week after The Tour de France hits London and literally millions of people come out on the streets, this sign appears on the railings of Golden Square where I work. One of Mayor Ken Livingstone’s main reasons for getting the Tour to start…

  • Sunshine Widget Test

  • Dr Who at Christmas

    I find this exciting!

  • Paying For Autographs

    This is something I still can’t quite get my head around. If you’re an actor, sportsperson, artist or musician, you’re probably regularly asked for an autograph. It’s something personal, and I understand why people like that personal touch. When I’m buying a book, if there are copies that are signed, then I’m likelier to pick…

  • Proms 2007

    This Friday sees the start of the new Proms season, and I really must try to make time to get along to a few again. I actually quite fancy Saturday’s Music from Great British Films concert that ties in with BBC Two’s Summer of British Film, although being a Saturday will mean getting there early,…

  • Aurelio Zen

    This is written as a review of the most recent, and sadly last, Zen novel. But really, it’s a reflection of Michael Dibdin’s work. And a fine body it is too.

  • Shed

    I see from today’s Media Guardian, that Shed Productions’ Waterloo Road is one of the series that the BBC is considering using to fill the Neighbours slot once Five get the rights to the series next March. I’m not enormously surprised to learn this, since I imagine it’s Shed who told Media Guardian that it…

  • Is He Past It?

    I didn’t see Ricky Gervais on either Live Earth or, god forbid, the Diana thing. But I can’t help thinking that this Jim Shelley piece has a ring of truth about it.

  • British Film Season

    BBC Two is going to be showing The Summer Of British Film with a major seven part series entitled British Film Forever. Of course, there was previously the not-at-all-bad The Best of British Cinema which seemed to be a bought-in series at a time (1987) when indie productions were pretty rare on the BBC. I…