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6 Nations Remaining Free To Air
When I recently wrote about the end of Eurosport, I also referenced once more, the then ongoing discussion about what would happen with the Six Nations. The good news is that yesterday a four-year deal was announced for 2026-2029 between the Six Nations and the BBC and ITV. The tournament will continue to be available…
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Licencing One Streamer’s TV Show For Your Streaming Service
There seems to be a bit more of this happening: licencing your service’s programming in a “second window” to either a broadcaster, or now more commonly, a streamer. This week I read that ITVX is licencing Suspicion, an Apple TV+ original for its service. This seems to be the first time that an Apple TV+…
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RAJAR MIDAS Report – Winter 2024
RAJAR has published its Winter 2024 MIDAS report, with fieldwork carried out over two weeks of November/December 2024 sampling 1668 former RAJAR respondents aged 15+. They each completed a 7-day online diary recording their listening habits. Most of the measures show no real changes since the Summer 2024 release. But podcast listening has risen from…
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Edison Research Top 25 Podcasts in the UK: Q4 2024
Edison Research has just published its Q4 2024 list of the top podcast titles in the UK. A reminder that this data is based on a survey of at least 2,000 weekly podcast listeners in the UK using the same methodology that it employs for its US survey. And the survey is based on recall,…
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RAJAR Q4 2024
This post is brought to you in association with RALF from DP Software and Services. I’ve used RALF for the many years, and it’s my favourite RAJAR analysis tool. So I am delighted that I continue to be able to bring you this RAJAR analysis in association with RALF. For more details on the product, contact Deryck Pritchard via…
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Getting an 80s/90s Hong Kong Action Film Fix
I noticed the other day that Sky has a new film on its platform called The Killer. It’s a common enough name for a film, with the most recent example being a 2023 David Fincher film for Netflix featuring Michael Fassbender as an assassin. But this 2024 film had a vaguely familiar plot and it…
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Farewell Eurosport…
Yesterday, Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) announced that from the end of February, Eurosport as a brand would no longer exist in the UK. All its programming would be wrapped into TNT Sports. From my perspective, this particularly impacts on how I watch cycling, a sport to which Eurosport has the vast majority of rights. But…
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David Lynch
The first time I watched a David Lynch film I was 14. Dune had just come out, and I was a science fiction loving teenager who’d only just read Frank Herbert’s opus with a film tie-in cover. I lapped up the film, warts and all. Granted, Sting’s golden underpants didn’t quite sit right with me,…
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Trees in the Abstract
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Boxing Day TV & Radio – Radio Times – 2024
Yes – I’m back for one final look at the TV and radio you could be watching or listening to. Although to be honest, have you thought about going out for a Boxing Day walk or something? But if you’re dead set on staying at home, and not binging on various new offerings from Amazon…
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Christmas Day TV & Radio – Radio Times 2024
Merry Christmas to all my readers! Yes – it’s the big day, and for some reason, you’re unclear which TV or radio is worth listening to. That’s despite the fact that only BBC1 has really bothered this year. Nevertheless, here is my regular rundown of what’s worth your time, something I’ve been offering the world…
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Christmas Eve TV and Radio – Radio Times – 2024
For reasons that are now lost in the mists of time, every Christmas I go out, buy the double issue of that year’s Radio Times magazine, and annotate the key days over the festive period with my thoughts on what is and is not worth watching. I’ve been doing this since 2009, and I’m still…
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Sky and Warner Bros. Discovery Make Peace
Regular readers will know that I’ve been fascinated by what has been going on between Sky and Warner Bros Discovery (WBD). In short, WBD is going to launch Max in the UK in 2026, but for many years now, there has been an output deal between WBD’s HBO and Sky. This has meant that massive…
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