Month: October 2008

  • Recent Films

    I must admit that I’ve been pretty poor at writing about films of late, and you might think it was because I hadn’t seen any. To be honest, I haven’t been to the cinema this year as frequently as I have in the past and it’s not solely because the experience is so dreadful these…

  • Peter Kay’s X-Factor Pastiche

    [I must admit that this is a revised version of some comments I already posted on a Guardian blog] Peter Kay is someone I’ve observed more from afar than anything. I’ve never watched Phoenix Nights (shoot me now), and I’ve only caught bits of his various live routines. I enjoyed the Amarillo video enough, but…

  • Channel 4 Radio

    So finally, on Friday, came the news that Channel 4 was pulling the plug on its radio operation. Let’s revisit a little history. Commercial Radio has been broadcast nationally in UK on Digital One since 2002. But of late, the platform has struggled to be filled with the ten or so services it needs to…

  • Statuephilia at The British Museum

    Third time lucky – today I finally made it into the Hadrian exhibition. When I’d previously popped in to try to see it, I’d gone on Saturday afternoons when all the tickets for the day had already been sold. I tried to book online for today, but no luck, so I pitched up early to…

  • Photos Of Kids

    Now here’s a subject that could leave me in all sorts of trouble, because some may have some very strong feelings about it, but it’s prompted by something I heard today. I was in London, sitting in the sun reading the paper. Nearby a father was playing with his son. He was using DSLR and…

  • Radio Times 11 October 2008

    These seem to be popular, so I might attempt one a week or so as the mood takes me. Best viewed large (or even original). Think of them as an ongoing comment on the state of British TV.

  • TV Tonight

    Here’s me defacing a copy of this week’s Radio Times showing today’s TV. It’s part of a very irregular series. Best viewed large.

  • TV Programme Making By Rote

    Word magazine’s website has a great list of things that people find annoying – or the dumbest things in entertainment. It’s a great list, and you can’t help but nod as contributors add more and more. Someone halfway down the list mentions half-hour TV programmes that throw-forward to the second 15 minutes just before the…

  • Aussies Take The Leads

    Fringe is Sky’s big new import, and one of the first US shows of the new season to get the full order of shows commissioned. But it’s basically The X-Files isn’t it? Were it not for a bit of Googling, I’d have even thought that it was shot in Vancouver like early series of that…

  • The State of the Product Placement Nation

    A cracking article from New York magazine on product placement and it’s implications. Well worth a read.

  • Abbey Road Studios

    We made a video for work the other day at Abbey Road studios. I thought I’d share it here too:

  • Virgin Radio 1993-2008 Mosaic

    Click through to Flickr for the full size image.