Month: April 2007

  • The Cult of the Amateur

    I’m looking forward to reading this.

  • World Cup? What World Cup?

    Yesterday Australia won the cricket world cup final – or as the organisers would have us call it, the ICC CWC 2007. It just trips off the tongue doesn’t it? It was a complete farce of a final, coming after a long and dull tournament that had its own tragedy. The Aussies got to celebrate…

  • Entourage Series Three and a Half

    I’ve been meaning to say that Entourage is back in the US, and for this set of episodes, the cast is joined by Carla Gugino as an agent (saying any more might mean spoilers). I love Entourage, and Gugino joining the cast just makes it better. I wish the late and much lamented Karen Sisco…

  • Is WiFi Dangerous?

    This week’s Independent on Sunday had a massive banner headline – “Wi-Fi: Children at risk from ‘electronic smog’ ” A further story was entitled “Danger on the airwaves: Is the Wi-Fi revolution a health time bomb?” The reports go on to report that WiFi is everywhere these days including many homes, towns and schools. So…

  • Please Can We Have A Moratorium on Size Zero Shows

    I’ve got a brilliant new idea for a TV show! As someone who always like to catch the zeitgeist, I know I’m onto a winner. Any TV production companies reading who might be interested in this potentially brilliant idea, get in touch forthwith. Sky One, Living and Five are bound to be interested! What I’ll…

  • Disappointment

    There’s nothing like having something really built up, only for you to be let down at the last moment. I feel a bit of a heel for saying this, but that’s a reasonably accurate reflection of me earlier this evening. I was at the evening do for the Radio Academy’s Production ’07 conference. After a…

  • Oyster Cards

    The London news today is that the Mayor is giving away 100,000 free Oyster Cards to people who don’t yet have one. This is an attempt by Transport for London to get some of the die hards who’ve not yet got one, to get around to picking one up. Ordinarily you have to pay a…

  • Breaking News: Young Couple Splits Up

    I do feel sorry for Kate Middleton. This is Monday’s Standard billboard – “Kate Shows Strain: Picture” And indeed, the front of that day’s paper showed a picture of Kate sitting in the back of taxi or similar looking seriously pissed off. That wouldn’t be anything to do with photographers following her everywhere she goes…

  • Real Lives

    In recent years there’s been this awful new “non-fiction” genre of books develop. It started with the Dave Pelzer books which detailed his terrible upbringing. It was so bad, he got a trilogy out of it. Anyway, the books sold loads with their distinctive white covers and distant looking photos. There was plenty more misery…

  • Alan Johnston

    I’ve added a button to the right hand side of this blog to show support for Alan who has been missing for over a month now in Gaza. More over on the BBC Editors’ blog.

  • Slow Google Press Releases

    Why are Google press releases emailed so slowly? Given everything else Google does is incredibly fast and efficient, I find it odd that GooglePress mailshots take so long to appear. At around 14:40 this afternoon, I noticed message posted on the Google Blog, via Bloglines (in other words, it was posted earlier). The message in…

  • The Tudors

    I note that The Tudors has finally found a UK home on BBC2. The Tudors is a 10 part Showtime Network series that’s just started in the US. It stars Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Henry VIII, Sam Neill as Cardinal Wolsey and Jeremy Northam as Thomas More. In other words it’s a “British” costume drama…