Month: October 2007

  • Paranormal Egypt

    Living TV has for the last few years ridden the crest of a “paranormal” wave – most successfully with their “Most Haunted” franchise, in which teams of “ghosthunters” arrive at some old building and try to sense the presence of spirits from days of old. There are two key elements to these programmes: the “psychic”…

  • New Services on Multi Channel TV

    In a blaze of publicity (well, they’d bought the back pages of either one or both of the free London papers), Virgin 1 launched last night at 9pm. Virgin 1 (like most Virgin products – no relation to my employers), is partially Virgin Media’s response to the petty falling out between Virgin Media and Sky…

  • Radiohead

    This is fascinating. Radiohead has suddenly announced that their new album comes out… next week! And much more interesting is their revenue model. Since they’ve been out of contract with EMI, it was I suppose, expected that they’d either re-sign with EMI or another label. But they’ve gone down a very different route. As their…