If you’re a web user outside the USA you may well have been in the following situation. You find a site that has an embedded video clip. “Watch this clip – it’s brilliant!” says the page author, so you click ‘Play’ and instead of a video you’re greeted by a message that says something like [...]
“I came away from the M.E.N.’s offices last night with a feeling of optimism for the future of those news outlets that can adapt properly to the new landscape“.
Those are the words I closed this post with in September last year. I’d visited the offices of my local newspaper, the Manchester Evening News, and been [...]
Amongst all the dross on TV over Christmas there were some real gems. BBC One’s Christmas Day evening lineup was particularly good. I ended up watching it from Doctor Who at 6pm right through to the end of the Blackadder documentary at 11.30. The problem is that it isn’t always Christmas and now we’re into [...]
It’s a common grumble up and down the country at this time of year – “Christmas TV isn’t what it used to be”. I’m the same – every December I buy the Christmas issue of the Radio Times and flick through, tutting at page after page of abysmal programmes. “Not that film again!” “I see [...]
UK-based production company Ragdoll have spent 24 years perfecting the art of preschool TV. From Pob’s Programme and Rosie & Jim through to The Teletubbies they’ve captured the imaginations of millions of children around the world time and again with their thorough understanding of young children’s minds. While many people complained about Pob or Tinky-Winky’s [...]
As the recorded music industry struggles to turn around from the rampant piracy that has seen a vast decline in sales over the past few years, sales video games have been on the rise. It seems that UK sales of games will exceed sales of music and video this year. With games becoming [...]
Forget Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld, there’s a new laughing stock in the advertising world. Last night a new advertising campaign for Country Life Butter began on British TV. Its star is John Lydon, better known as Sex Pistols frontman Johnnny Rotten.
Now I don’t really need to describe why the advert itself is bad. Just [...]
Suggestions have come to light that BBC producers may have fiddled a little more than you’d expect with goings-on in an observational documentary. Don’t Tell The Bride is the kind of programme only people who are desperate to appear on TV apply to take part in. A BBC TV series currently airing on BBC Three, [...]
Give Microsoft a chance, Seinfeld and Gates could be a winning team
Sep 06 2008
Posted by Martin as General Technology, Media, TV
Over the past 24 hours there has been much debate online as to whether Microsoft’s new ad campaign is any good or not. The general view across many of the major blogs is that Microsoft have wasted a huge amount of money on a dud. There’s Jerry Seinfeld, Bill Gates, a discount shoe shop and [...]
As someone who likes to watch America’s quality TV exports, I have to confess I’ve dropped the ball of late. Madmen? Haven’t seen it. Battlestar Galactica? Likewise. I put the blame on me not having Sky Plus. These programmes are always on when I’m out or watching something else. One day I’ll get Sky Plus [...]
