Month: July 2005
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ITV Drama Sponsorship Credits
I’m not the only person, surely, who thinks that the sponsorship credits for ITV Drama by Sainsburys are the most annoying and condescending anyone’s ever seen? Faceless voices say things that oh-so-cleverly could refer both to the drama we’re watching, and Sainsbury’s food. “Is it finished yet?” “No there’s a another bit.” “I’m really enjoying…
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Top of the Heap
Top Of The Heap is another in the Hard Case Crime series. This time it’s by Erle Stanley Gardner and details a complicated investigation involving seedy motels, mob leaders, shady companies, strippers, and illegal gambling dens. All the ingredients to make a good noir thriller then. I’ll admit that I didn’t find it quite as…
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WWII 60th Anniversary
It was great to see that thousands went into London today to celebrate the 60th anniversary of war ending. There were some obvious parrallels between events of the early forties and today, but high security or not people came out in their droves. The flyby of WWII planes was spectacular, and I was lucky to…
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BBC Ceefax
Something I only just noticed. If you’re watching BBC TV on an analogue set that has teletext, and change channels to BBC1 or BBC2 during the break between programmes, instead of seeing the Ceefax generated “BBC1” or “BBC2” it instead shows the name of the next programme. This reverts to the station’s name once the…
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Travelling in London
Obviously the wall to wall coverage of the London bombings is continuing today, but here are a couple of things that have raised my ire over the morning. Lots of reporters were out and about at the major stations this morning seeing how Londoners were coping with transport in this morning, and would they get…
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Bombings
It’s difficult to know what to think of people who can bomb so callously targeting random men, women and children. The authorities have been really good, and although transport was closed down in central London, people have been walking out of “Zone 1” to many of the mainline stations that are open. Personally, I had…
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London Today
It’s all pretty chaotic, and we sit here pretty helpless wondering what the best thing to do is. Staying put is the best option for the time being. It’s seems like there are around six blasts around London in what seems at the moment to be a co-ordinated terrorist attack, not dissimilar to that in…
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Deep Impact Picture
This is a spectacular photo of comet Tempel 1 taken from the flyby craft just after the impactor craft had hit the comet – actually 67 seconds afterwards.
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We Got The Olympics!
I can’t tell you how pleased I am that London’s been awarded the Olympics in 2012. I’m as big a naysayer as you could find, and I’ve long railed against the corruption that’s endemic in the IOC. But I’m thrilled! I was basically transfixed the whole morning as the IOC went through its voting process…
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Live 8 Again
So what’s the final verdict on the weekend? A great concert, certainly. Some great performances (and some pretty terrible ones). Hundreds of thousands of people giving their support to a great cause that has truly got the country behind it. But, but, but. Still the doubts linger. Full credit to Pink Floyd (and The Who…
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Beneath The Skin
I’ve just been watching part one of a perfectly average two part whodunnit on ITV (Hey! With the Tour de France, that makes two seperate ITV programmes this weekend!). But it was really let down by one aspect – the sound. The effects were really lazy. This isn’t the sort of thing I’d normally look…
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Live 8 Global Coverage
I don’t want to sound mean and dispirited, but the usual claims are being made about Live 8 being the most watched broadcast in history. Well no. In the US, it’s network airing is on ABC – a two hour highlights package on Saturday evening. No wall to wall coverage there on a major TV…