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Edison Research Top 25 UK Podcasts – Q4 2025
Edison Research has just published their Top 25 Podcasts in the UK for Q4 2025. As ever, this chart is based on recall from 2,000 online interviews with weekly podcast listeners in the UK. As ever, I’m going to take the long view on this and show how the chart has changed over time. This…
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TV Themes
So what I’ve really noticed from sampling the new US TV series for this autumn (or Fall) – barely any have original theme tunes: CSI:NY, Veronica Mars, LAX, and Dr Vegas, amongst others, all have reused old songs. I guess that having something instantly hummable attracts viewers, although I’ve got to say that I don’t…
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Cowboy Junkies on NPR
The Cowboy Junkies are touring again, and were on NPR the other day.
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Gordon Brown is a Busy Man
It’s the Labour Party conference in sunny Brighton, and this morning Gordon Brown was really doing the rounds. At 7.34am he was live on GMTV. At 7.45am he was live on Five Live. At 7.52am he was live on BBC Breakfast News And although I didn’t hear it, he was, of course, the 8.10am interviewee…
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Product Recalls
This months issue of Personal Computer World magazine has a copy of Windows XP SP2 attached to it – not unlike most of the other magazines this month. But more interesting to me is the inclusion of a four page advertisement that lets users know what the service pack includes. I say “advertisement”, but in…
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Tanner on Tanner
New York Times article on the forthcoming Tanner on Tanner TV series on the Sundance Channel. Good to hear that the original series, and new one, are getting DVD releases.
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Popetown Cancelled
Very interesting news about the planned BBC3 series, Popetown, being cancelled (free reg. req’d – or read the BBC statement here). I’m actually pretty pleased about this. Not because, as someone who was raised a Catholic, I can see that a savage and witty comedy about the Catholic Church would be fine if done well,…
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Happy Birthday Ceefax
It’s 30 tomorrow.
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Music Industry and Microsoft
The Times today carries a piece (free at the moment, but likely to become subscription only) describing how the music industry, through its trade bodies, is lobbying Microsoft to include methods to prevent people from copying music in the new version of Windows – codenamed Longhorn. “One of the possible improvements that has been mooted…
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HHGTTG
Hitchhikers is back! As many of the original cast as could be rounded up (well you can age far more gracefully on radio), and I love the clever way they handled the change of the Voice of the Book from the now deceased Peter Jones to William Franklyn. Fortunately, if you missed it today, it’s…
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The Perils of Conference Calls
This is brilliant (free reg. reqd)! The ex-head of publicity at the US TV channel, FX, continued dialling in to conference calls after he’d been fired by the channel. He listened in to over 100 calls – and then told competitors about what he’d heard. Criminal it might well be, but the fact that it…
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Rescue Me
Sky One has bought this excellent US TV series starring Denis Leary as a post 9/11 New York firefighter. I’m surprised that a channel like BBC3 didn’t pounce as it’s got to be one of the best imports for ages, and it’s been better as it goes along.
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Fun Day In Parliament
The fox hunting lobby have been up to their tricks, invading the Commons while the bill to ban hunting was being debated. I suspect that Tony Blair is using this to appease a country who don’t see him in a great light just now. Look at his new found environmental slant with a speech yesterday.…
Hadrian’s Wall
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