Month: August 2010
-
Tate Britain
Three exhibitions. One Tate. That was what I visited today at Tate Britain – a museum that I must admit I’ve not been to as much as I once did. Certainly not since Tate Modern opened. Today I was specifically going to visit the Rude Britannia exhibition and also catch Fiona Banner’s “Harrier and Jaguar”…
-
Event Cinema: Price, Comfort and “Security”
On last Friday’s Five Live film review programme, with Colin Patterson sitting in for Mayo and Kermode, there was a long discussion about event or location screenings of films. The discussion involved Fabien Riggall of Secret Cinema, and David Cox from Film4. They were talking about their respective outdoor screenings. Secret Cinema has been running…
-
RAJAR Q2 2010
It’s that time of year again when up and down the land, radio stations learn how many listeners they have, and therefore how well they’re doing. I always like to think of them as the equivalent of getting your exam results. There’ll be lots of coverage of RAJAR in the usual places: Media Guardian and…
-
Sky Doing More Import Deals
The other day I tried to assuage fears that every decent US TV series was going to disappear from free to air screens following Sky’s deal with HBO for the next five years. Today, I’m not so sure. Seemingly Sky is attempting to do similar deals with Showtime and AMC. That would be a disappointing…