Month: September 2004

  • BBC News – Other Sources

    I see that the BBC News website has introduced a “From Other News Sites” box on some of their stories. According to the explanation, this facility is supplied to them by Moreover, and I’ve got to say it is a useful tool for discovering more about a story you’re interested in. I guess the big…

  • Club Class

    I’m just beginning to catch up on the recent Radio 4 series – Club Class. The first of the latest series featured the Skulls and Bones – a secret society which invites just 15 new members a year, yet has both George W Bush and John Kerry as members. The really interesting thing about this…

  • Tanner on Tanner on BBC Four

    I know I keep going on about this – but I’m so happy to see that BBC Four’s bought the UK rights to Robert Altman’s Tanner on Tanner. And they’re showing it in the run-up to the US election which means we won’t have to wait very long at all to see it! Maybe they…

  • Cricket TV Rights

    Well the England cricket rights are up for grabs at the moment (free reg reqd). Over the last three years, Channel 4 have had all the home Tests, save one, and Sky have had the one dayers as well as a single Test. Ofcom have recently put out a draft of the latest Listed Events…

  • TV Themes

    So what I’ve really noticed from sampling the new US TV series for this autumn (or Fall) – barely any have original theme tunes: CSI:NY, Veronica Mars, LAX, and Dr Vegas, amongst others, all have reused old songs. I guess that having something instantly hummable attracts viewers, although I’ve got to say that I don’t…

  • Cowboy Junkies on NPR

    The Cowboy Junkies are touring again, and were on NPR the other day.

  • Gordon Brown is a Busy Man

    It’s the Labour Party conference in sunny Brighton, and this morning Gordon Brown was really doing the rounds. At 7.34am he was live on GMTV. At 7.45am he was live on Five Live. At 7.52am he was live on BBC Breakfast News And although I didn’t hear it, he was, of course, the 8.10am interviewee…

  • Product Recalls

    This months issue of Personal Computer World magazine has a copy of Windows XP SP2 attached to it – not unlike most of the other magazines this month. But more interesting to me is the inclusion of a four page advertisement that lets users know what the service pack includes. I say “advertisement”, but in…

  • Tanner on Tanner

    New York Times article on the forthcoming Tanner on Tanner TV series on the Sundance Channel. Good to hear that the original series, and new one, are getting DVD releases.

  • Popetown Cancelled

    Very interesting news about the planned BBC3 series, Popetown, being cancelled (free reg. req’d – or read the BBC statement here). I’m actually pretty pleased about this. Not because, as someone who was raised a Catholic, I can see that a savage and witty comedy about the Catholic Church would be fine if done well,…

  • Happy Birthday Ceefax

    It’s 30 tomorrow.

  • Music Industry and Microsoft

    The Times today carries a piece (free at the moment, but likely to become subscription only) describing how the music industry, through its trade bodies, is lobbying Microsoft to include methods to prevent people from copying music in the new version of Windows – codenamed Longhorn. “One of the possible improvements that has been mooted…