Month: March 2012

  • One Night

    On BBC1 this week, there’s been an excellent drama over three nights, with a final fourth episode tonight. One Night tells the goings on over a single twenty four hour period in an inner-city part of London. Each episode tells one side of the story, starting with Ted (Douglas Hodge) who lives in his fairly…

  • Sport on TV – Racing

    Channel 4 has just done a deal with the Racecourse Media Group to become the exclusive free-to0air broadcaster of horse racing of all forms of horse racing in the UK. At first glance, it’d seem to be a good deal, with Channel 4 picking up the rights to prestigious events such as the Grand National,…

  • King’s Cross Station

    I was expecting the new concourse at King’s Cross station to be open tomorrow. That’s when we’d been told it’d open. But sneakily, they actually opened it today. So although I hadn’t planned to, I had a bit of a look around. Now I’m no expert on architecture, and you’d best look elsewhere if you…

  • Games on the High Street

    Now I’m not much of a gamer these days. I take a broad interest in the industry and perhaps buy one – maybe two – games a year. I have an Xbox 360, but my Wii hasn’t been switched on in many months. Anyway, I say this as I’m vaguely aware that Mass Effects 3…