Month: April 2008
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Pushing Daisies – Episode 2
This is just too brilliant. Just when you think that ITV has done something interesting and innovative – showing US series Pushing Daisies in a primetime slot (albeit Saturday night at 9pm) – they do something so boneheaded, you just can’t believe it. ITV has spent a fortune promoting this series – I’ve seen copious…
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Bear Grylls
Sadly, Harry Hill’s TV Burp finished its run last weekend, so he’s not going to get to comment on the new series of Born Survivor with Bear Grylls! Now regular readers may recall that in the past I’ve been a little cynical about the absolute reality of everything Bear did in the last series. Then…
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Adidas Owns Your Stripes
This is incredible. It’s staggering. Adidas has somehow won a ruling at the European Court of Justice that says it owns stripes. “Adidas can prevent other companies using two stripes on the shoulders of their shirts, even though Adidas branding has three stripes.” I really can’t believe this. Seemingly Adidas owns the rights to stripes.…
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!@$%ing Bugs
I came late to it, but I really enjoyed the first series of Gavin and Stacey. So when the second series started on BBC Three a few weeks ago, I started watching it. As a rule, I can’t stand BBC Three. But, with both Gavin and Stacey, and Pulling, it actually has a couple of…
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The Free Tibet Protest (AKA The Olympic Torch Relay)
So I thought that I’d head down to see the Olympic Torch Relay – the multi-country tour of the Olympic torch as it wends it way towards Beijing for this summer’s Olympic Games. It was obvious from the outset that following recent increased violence inside Tibet, that this was also going to be used to…
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HD on Freeview
So today, Ofcom has announced that it’s planning a reorganisation of Freeview to allow one of the current six multiplexes to be made available for high definition services. New Freeview boxes will come onstream, and improved compression rates will to allow these new services to squeeze into the space. At the same time services currently…
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Merlin
Very interesting news from the US where NBC has just announced its schedule for the next year from the autumn (fall) through to next summer. Most interesting for Brits to note is that Merlin, a series being made by Shine for the BBC, and starring Anthony Head, is going to air on Sunday nights from…
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Photography in Public Places
Here’s a cracking little film made for Current.TV about the rights of people to take photos or video in public places. (Link via 2point8) Amateur Photographer magazine has recently been carrying a series of stories about photographers stopped on the streets because they were considered “suspicious.” They even went as far as republishing the cover…
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If Only It Were A Fool
The BBC has a list of ten stories that could be April Fools but aren’t. For some reason, the fact that Lily Allen has been recommissioned by BBC Three doesn’t make the list – and it’s not an April Fool!