Month: August 2003

  • The Two Towers

    Well I bought my copy of The Two Towers on Saturday, but I’ve still to hear the real story about the ins and outs of Sainsburys apparently breaking the embargo on Friday, and all the other chains feeling that they have to follow suit. Only East Anglian Daily Times shows up when you do an…

  • Reliable Sources

    What a pity that CNN Europe doesn’t broadcast Reliable Sources over here. There really are few media outlets for the discussion of media. About the only place you can get anything is on Radio 4’s The Message. Years ago there was Ray Snoddy’s show on Channel 4, and the various follow ups of sorts. But…

  • BBC Creative Archive

    Was I unnecessarily negative about this idea the other day? There’s quite a lot of detail about the whys and wherefores of how it might work here. Sadly I can see lots of David Attenbrough and Simon Schama footage being available to download, rather than all those Plays For Today that I fancy seeing. Danny…

  • Commandante

    Nice piece about Oliver Stone’s forthcoming film about Fidel Casto, Commandante which has so far not been shown by HBO (yup – the same channel I was praising earlier). Stone was railing against possible media censorship if Americans are allowed in to buy British media concerns. With any luck the documentary will finally appear with…

  • Richard Ingrams

    Yesterday’s Observer carried an interesting piece by Richard Ingrams – Ppp-Up TV. Ingram’s main point was that Stuart Murphy, BBC Three’s wunderkind controller, has been quoted as saying that BBC Three’s news directly targeted its 16-34 audience, and it did that by skewing its news towards stories that specifically interested them. These, he’s reported as…

  • K Street

    Can some kind TV channel in the UK please show K Street? It’s an HBO production (come on guys – I thought we bought anything by HBO these days?), set in the Washington world of political consultants and spin doctors. I’d love to see this – particularly as it apes in part the Gary Trudeau…

  • BBC Archives Online

    How exciting is this? I can’t wait. OK – time to step back a little. I think that while old news programmes and a number of documentaries will find their way onto websites, episodes of drama series won’t. There are already discussions under way to limit the amount of time the BBC can hold onto…

  • Fox News Lose

    Tragically, Fox News lost their case!

  • New Fan

    Scary – I finally got around to fitting a new fan to my main PC. The problem was that every time I came to rebooting it, the motherboard made beeping noises at me, and I had to wait a few minutes for it to cool down. This is surely not a good thing! So now…

  • Sobig

    The Sobig virus is really virulent just at the moment. I got *20* emails today with it attached – far more than I’ve ever had in one day from any other virus. I’m keeping my antivirus software well up to date just now.

  • Feeling Guilty

    In neither of these two incidences should I have felt guilty, but in both I did – irrationally. On Monday I was on the tube and there was a spare seat, but I didn’t bother sitting down. A few stops later, another seat was freed up, and for no good reason I sat down. Then…

  • Paris Barclay

    With a name like Paris Barclay, you’re likely to spot it when it comes up on credits. Even more so when the same name pops up twice in one evening. First off was episode four of the fourth series of The West Wing, followed a short while later by episode eight of series 2 of…