Am I correct in thinking that you got the series in four two hour chunks? In
which case, you've seen the whole series that aired in eight parts in the
UK. I know it was re-edited a little as it crossed the Atlantic, but only
modestly. It aired on ITV1 in the UK, so one hour is probably about 45
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 5:20 PM, Kevin M. drunkbastar...@gmail.com wrote:
Not only has the internet been switched off for the majority of
Egyptians (I think it is ironic that the antiquated dial-ups still
work), but now the popular arabic network has been blocked from
Egyptian TVs. When Al
I'm not going to disagree that on British television we do get a certain
number of awful American accents. Given the amount of US TV we see, most
Brits can spot a poor American accent at 100m.
But the odd thing is sometimes they come from actual Americans. There seems
to be a limited pool of
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 5:52 PM, Tom Wolper twol...@gmail.com wrote:
I read in one review
that series creator Julian Fellowes is rather conservative and the
question arises whether the relationships across class lines as
represented in Downton Abbey are a rose-colored look at the
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 6:04 PM, Tom Wolper twol...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 4:20 AM, Adam Bowie adam.bo...@gmail.com wrote:
The final scene..
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...sees the outbreak of World War I announced, and I've got to say
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 8:17 PM, PGage pga...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 1:45 AM, Adam Bowie adam.bo...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm not going to disagree that on British television we do get a certain
number of awful American accents. Given the amount of US TV we see, most
Brits can
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 9:35 PM, Mark J. mjeffr...@marcrealty.com wrote:
On Jan 31, 3:20 pm, Bob in Jersey bob.in.jer...@juno.com wrote:
We might never know whether he or Monty Norman (still living, sez
Wiki) created the basic theme to all those Bond films, but his diverse
résumé of film
That'll be Alexa Chung. She's done a load of TV over here - mostly on
Channel 4 - but not, to the best of my knowledge, any of that red carpet
stuff, which I suspect is harder than it looks. Yes, I know the questions
have to largely revolve around who designed your dress, but you do have to
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 2:47 PM, PGage pga...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 6:43 AM, Adam Bowie adam.bo...@gmail.com wrote:
That'll be Alexa Chung. She's done a load of TV over here - mostly on
Channel 4 - but not, to the best of my knowledge, any of that red carpet
stuff, which I
It's not just The Times, but every UK newspaper. None are published on
Christmas Day. But then, there aren't any shops open to sell them anyway, so
it'd be pretty pointless. And therein lies the reason the papers aren't
published. But yes, most of the papers will publish on Sunday in relatively
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/dec/20/more4-daily-show-stewart
Basically we're just going to be getting the Global Edition - ie. the
best-of from the previous week.
I can't tell you how upset I am about this. Well I can. As well as
commenting on that link above, I've already complained to
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 5:19 AM, Tom Wolper twol...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 12:03 AM, Kevin M. drunkbastar...@gmail.com wrote:
House of Cards was filled with so many talented character actors
(and a Spice Girl, but we don't talk about that) that I often watch
other shows and
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 7:50 PM, Mark J. mjeffr...@marcrealty.com wrote:
The premiere of the Dancing With the Stars spinoff on ABC last night
claimed 11.2M viewers, but mostly though an on-purpose 13-minute
overrun by DWTS' that ended with Skating host Vernon Kay crossing
the hall at CBS
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 2:58 AM, PGage pga...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 3:48 AM, Adam Bowie adam.bo...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Kevin M. drunkbastar...@gmail.com
wrote:
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 9:41 AM, Adam Bowie adam.bo...@gmail.com
wrote:
NFL
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 9:38 AM, JW redbu...@gmail.com wrote:
Once the NFL finds a way to get a team back into LA, they'll be
looking at small markets in the U.S., while billions of non-Americans
are out there to potentially buy tickets and jerseys and watch games
on television. I don't know
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Kevin M. drunkbastar...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 9:41 AM, Adam Bowie adam.bo...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm surprised that they were talking about relatively basic stuff
since you have to be a bit of a die-hard to stay up late for those
Sunday night
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Kevin M. drunkbastar...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 6:44 AM, Adam Bowie adam.bo...@gmail.com wrote:
And they're already up there:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/the-beatles/id136975
Yes, the iTunes Store updated before the Apple website did
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Mark J. mjeffr...@marcrealty.com wrote:
On Nov 16, 9:08 am, Adam Bowie adam.bo...@gmail.com wrote:
Although my employer has just turned over this station to non-stop Beatles
:-)
http://absoluteclassicrock.co.uk/
And you must really mean just, since
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Mark J. mjeffr...@marcrealty.com wrote:
On Nov 15, 10:02 am, Bob in Jersey bob.in.jer...@juno.com wrote:
Punting is a common part of rugby, and if the host doesn't have any
knowledge of that either, he's completely lost.
Pats and Steelers were the NBC game,
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 7:53 PM, David Bruggeman bru...@yahoo.com wrote:
I can't be that surprised by this after the mothership inserted a Graham
Norton animated bug in the last few minutes of a serious Doctor Who episode.
David
Although they did apologise fully. And so far it's not happened
Definitely a software product of sorts. Not hardware.
It'll be subscription/cloud based music somehow.
Adam
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 8:07 PM, David Risner da...@risner.org wrote:
Speculation I've been reading is that they will introduce some sort of
streaming music service building on the
I was also worried about Martin Freeman being able to schedule another
series of Sherlock around his new Hobbit commitments, even though the
second series of Sherlock was announced first. I'm pretty sure I know
which one has the more significant pay packet. But according to this
tweet from Mark
Thanks Kevin,
That was quite interesting.
Euronews is a multilingual channel that comes out of France. The
version I get in the UK has an English language voiceover, but other
voiceovers are available in different European countries. You never
see any on-screen presenters, so it's a relatively
This is a list of the missing episodes found in the recent haul (I say
recent. It turns out that the episodes were found in May this year -
the announcement has just been kept back for various reasons). There's
no Doctor Who, and unless you're familiar with early British
television drama, few
I'm still getting over the fact that CBS abandoned coverage of the
Men's Final of the US Open in place of its all-rerun schedule on
Monday evening leaving coverage to ESPN2.
If any network in the UK did anything like this to just about any
sporting event ever, then they'd never be trusted for
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 5:51 PM, Ben Scripps benscri...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 10:02 AM, Adam Bowie adam.bo...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm still getting over the fact that CBS abandoned coverage of the
Men's Final of the US Open in place of its all-rerun schedule on
Monday evening
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Kevin M. drunkbastar...@gmail.com wrote:
Morgan officially named to take King's job.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100908/ap_en_tv/us_tv_cnn_morgan
In related news, I am anxious to get out of this country.
--
Kevin M. (RPCV)
Whereas there are street parties
I wouldn't dream of watching this myself, but X-Factor returned to UK
TV screens at the weekend with a massive 11m viewers (not bad for the
summer), and a brand new scandal:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2010/aug/22/x-factor-accused-autotune-enhancing-singers
The audition rounds of
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 9:01 AM, PGage pga...@gmail.com wrote:
While I am on Five-0, questions about the impending re-imagination. I
thought I had heard they were not going to use the original theme, but I saw
a commercial for it last weekend on CBS and they were definitely playing the
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 7:38 PM, Mark J. mjeffr...@marcrealty.com wrote:
If you want to know what our London correspondent Adam Bowie sounds
like, in his guise as an employee for Absolute Radio he's heard on the
Radio Academy podcast this week discussing radio in the UK five years
from now
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 9:51 PM, Kevin M. drunkbastar...@gmail.com wrote:
I am clearly out of the pop culture loop... Does this guy constitute a
get for CNN? From what little there is about him online, he is a
failed and discredited tabloid journalist and editor whom Jeremy
Clarkson once
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 2:07 AM, PGage pga...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 5:43 PM, Kevin M. drunkbastar...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 5:28 PM, PGage pga...@gmail.com wrote:
#2. As part of my British TV surfing I got hooked on MI-5 (my son
doesn't
like this so
Paul McKenna went to my school a few years before me, and he
absolutely loathed it - he mentions this frequently in interviews. I,
on the other hand, really liked it. I think that explains my dislike
of McKenna who started out as a radio DJ.
(Alfred Hitchcock also went to my school. But he's one
It may be something to do with having a compatible graphics package but the
BBC is certainly adopting the standard graphics package as they're using a
house style. So it is doable if technically more complicated.
On 22 Jun 2010 03:02, JoshG joshua.gor...@gmail.com wrote:
On Jun 21, 4:59 am, Adam
It looks like contrary to what I said before, that Martin Tyler has
been specifically signed by ESPN for this World Cup. In the UK, as I
say, he's the lead commentator on Sky who have the biggest Premier
League TV package, so he is considered one of the best commentators in
the world.
The
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 11:40 AM, JW redbu...@gmail.com wrote:
A few things:
-The play-by-play men I've seen on ABC are Martin Tyler and Ian Drake.
This weekend, each called a game with Efan Ekoku, so they may all be
in the broadcast centre rather than on-site.
I'm sure he's at the ground
I've not heard the US coverage but I understand ESPN is using Martin Tyler
who I believe is the voice ofthe international English language feed. He
does Sky games in the UK but Sky has no World Cup rights hence he's free for
other duties. He'll certainly be at the stadium.
In Europe nearly all
I must say that I think Justified is my current favourite US show (but I've
not properly got into Treme yet). I'm even reading Pronto, Leonard's novel
that introduced Raylan Givens. We're a few weeks behind in the UK where it's
being shown on Five US (Five's channel dedicated to rerunning CSI
295 in fact.
And all written by the same man, Roy Clarke, who's been penning them since
1973.
Sitcoms don't get much gentler, although it's had something of a cast
turnover as it has always been about old folk, and many of the actors and
actresses have died over the years.
On Fri, Jun 4, 2010
Strictly speaking, during this series, the war is still going on in Asia.
It's just finished in Europe...
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 6:33 AM, Kevin M. drunkbastar...@gmail.com wrote:
And the British show hasn't been retitled Foyle's Peace, even though
the new series is set after the end of WWII.
If NBC take him up, then he might be doing us Brits a favour. His primetime
ITV chat show is the most nauseous thing I've seen for years. I can't abide
the man.
Adam
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 3:46 AM, Bob in Jersey bob.in.jer...@juno.comwrote:
NYPost: After seeing Barbara Walters cutting back,
2 episodes, this has already aired. I watched it a few
months ago, and was well done.
Jeff
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 5:01 AM, Adam Bowie adam.bo...@gmail.com wrote:
Yeah - this episode aired last summer in the UK and is usually taped a
couple of days before airing (even if many of the stunts
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 5:08 PM, Joe Hass hassgoc...@gmail.com wrote:
Depending on how you want to treat it, he was the voice of Mr.
Bergstrom (credited as Sam Etic) in one of the greatest Simpsons
episodes of all time, Lisa's Substitute, in 1991.
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Bob in
This is quite a big story in my world (commercial radio, rather than BBC).
At the moment it's just a consultation, and the services won't actually
close until the end of 2011 assuming the consultation doesn't change
anything which isn't actually a given. Personally - I quite like 6 Music. I
Prime Minister's Questions in the UK is scripted but isn't at the same time.
Basically, any MP can ask a question and gives his question to the speaker
in advance. The speaker draws lots as to who gets to ask questions, but
he'll alternate between the major parties.
Nearly all the questions put
Newswipe is an unmissabble treat. We're two episodes into a new series.
I suppose that this is the closest we have to The Daily Show in the UK. But
without a studio audience. Or a guest. Although we do get authored films and
topical poetry.
Tonight's episode - which will surely end up in three
I guess what'd be interesting is how many people *didn't* watch one of the
channels the telethon was carried on compared with an average week. In other
words - did more or fewer people watch than usual.
(Incidentally, in case you're interested, all the MTV channels took the show
live as well as
I'm looking forward to seeing NBC's episodes of this. I think it's been made
by the same production company as the UK version, but the quality of the
series is all down to the genealogist researchers who make sure that the
celebrities have interesting backgrounds. In the UK I know that various
A good piece summarising the position pretty accurately I'd have said (from
this side of the pond anyway).
But when push comes to shove, X-Factor and Pop Idol are essentially the same
show. I'm not sure if there's a territory anywhere airing them both. In the
UK X-Factor replaced Idol. And I'm
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 4:48 PM, Jon Delfin jondel...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Kevin M. drunkbastar...@gmail.com
wrote:
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 8:19 AM, Adam Bowie adam.bo...@gmail.com
wrote:
Isn't the old entertainment maxim to leave 'em wanting
more?
Yes
And the campaign has succeeded.
The Rage song is the Christmas number one in the UK (something that people
still seem to care about).
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 2:22 AM, Kevin M. drunkbastar...@gmail.com wrote:
A more detailed follow-up on the plan (as Glenn Beck would call it)
to dethrone the
Adam Bowie adam.bo...@gmail.com
And the campaign has succeeded.
The Rage song is the Christmas number one in the UK (something that people
still seem to care about).
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 2:22 AM, Kevin M. drunkbastar...@gmail.comwrote:
A more detailed follow-up on the plan (as Glenn
I always enjoy how poorly shows hide the fact that they aren't shot abroad
and are busy trying to fake it.
Lost does a bad job of hiding Hawaii in its non-island segments, although
there was one sequence shot in the UK when they needed Alan Dale who was on
stage in London at the time and
I thought that it was pretty clear that the kids knew they were being set
up. Indeed somebody obviously told the kids to complain the moment they
didn't hear the story books they expecting.
I thought that it was all pretty harmless fun. And very funny.
Adam
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 8:47 PM,
of scrimmage and down/to go graphics
overlaid onto the field. It's very rare these days to see a football
game on a major network without the first down line.
On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 17:48, Adam Bowie adam.bo...@gmail.com wrote:
I've been watching (or half watching) the CBS double-header
I've been watching (or half watching) the CBS double-header this afternoon
(or evening where I am). We've seen Indianopolis at Baltimore, and are
getting the less exciting San Diego at Denver as I type.
But in neither game this week, have I seen those 1st Ten lines overlaid
on the screen. I know
There's a documentary film coming out over here shortly called
Starsuckers (http://www.starsuckersmovie.com/) explaining how UK
tabloids are so lazy that you can phone them up on burner mobiles,
tell them anything you like (if it's reasonably trivial) and they'll
print it.
More here too:
While this *may* turn out to be true, it's worth pointing out that all
the stories everywhere on the web seem to be sourced from this Express
story. The Daily Express in the UK, while a heritage paper with a long
and fine history, is now owned by a pornography magnate in the UK, and
he's managed
Unsurprisingly, perhaps, I do know a little about this as my employer
is part of it.
Many UK stations already stream, and some like the BBC and Absolute
Radio (my employer - formerly known as Virgin Radio) don't block by IP
address.
However, it's likely that this uber-player will block by IP
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 9:43 AM, JW redbu...@gmail.com wrote:
Be advised: football wrapped up 75 minutes late at 8:15pm Eastern so
if you only pad your TAR recording by an hour (as I usually do) you'll
miss the last 15 minutes.
Really obscure question (all times eastern) - when the network
He's written a pretty good response to all this:
http://www.stephenfry.com/2009/10/19/poles-politeness-and-politics-in-the-age-of-twitter/
(This was by no means Stephen Fry alone. *A lot* of UK names on
Twitter were tweeting this on Friday).
Adam
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 5:15 PM, Kevin M.
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 4:31 AM, PGage pga...@gmail.com wrote:
n Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 8:17 PM, Bob in Jersey bob.in.jer...@juno.com wrote:
It didn't beat 'Survivor' a second time, but boosted its time slot by
almost one-third over last year, and showed the greatest gain of all
freshman
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Bob in Jersey bob.in.jer...@juno.com wrote:
Sheesh... first credits get squashed, now studio logos get cut?
I think we blame cable for this...
FlashForward does still have a studio logo at the end. HBO
Entertainment doesn't, but then how many production
Here's an interesting premise for a new sitcom from the BBC and Showtime.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2009/10_october/01/episodes.shtml
The plot revolves around a UK sitcom being reworked for a US audience.
Matt LeBlanc plays himself in the US casting of the series.
The story we heard, as propogated by people like Alan Alda was that the BBC
was accidentally sent the first series without a laugh track. For the second
series, one was offered, but by then people didn't expect to hear laughter,
so the BBC asked for laughtrack-free episodes.
One thing's perfectly
Enhanced AAC podcasts tend to only work on iPods and have chapter points.
Sometimes each chapter will have a separate illustrative photo attached.
If you listen via an iPod on just play back on iTunes, then they tend to be
worth getting IMHO.
Adam
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Jon Delfin
David Mitchell in particular really likes radio. As well as his own
series - which is probably easier and quicker to make without costumes
and sets to worry about - he also hosts a radio panel gameshow The
Unbelievable Truth (which is similar to, but not the same as a TV
panel gameshow in which
A new BBC production with James Cromwell amongst others in the cast.
Can't see that it's an HBO co-production or anything, but thought it
was worth noting. A single 60 minute drama.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2009/08_august/19/lehman.shtml
Adam
I grant you that it does *sound* tasteless. But it's being made by
production company Darlow Smithson who've made some excellent
programmes in the recent past. These include The Diary of Anne Frank
(dramatised version of the diary - superb), Touching the Void (watch
this if you ever get the
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Ed Draveckydrave...@gmail.com wrote:
I just checked my stats from '08-09 and so far I'm doing fairly well.
Sadly, my cynicism about the fate of Dollhouse and Friday Night
Lights are keeping me from the upper reaches of the contest. (Did the
BBC renew Merlin?
Wow - I see what you mean about all the redirects. That's awful!
Yes - the new football season starts in a few weeks and everyone is
getting their fantasy game up and running (my employer is no
exception!). They're big page drivers after all getting nine months
worth of repeat visits.
But
I'm surprised that ABC doesn't save a bit of cash and utilise the
international set in Argentina. Endemol has a fixed production base
there and many countries utilise it. You need only fly contestants and
a presenter to the country. Top and tail in your home nation and you
have a finished show.
Must admit that I've not watched any of them yet (and there were three
audio plays on Radio 4 last week too which were available as mp3s for
a limited time - might be UK only). But it's while this mode of
scheduling is unusual - it's not unheard of. 2 x 2hr mini-series are
regularly scheduled on
I couldn't be bothered to register and reply to this online, but the article
suggested that this was remarkable for the staid and fussy Wimbledon.
But in the UK we've had live streaming for a couple of years via the BBC
website (UK only sadly). You can choose from several different courts. As I
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 11:25 PM, Mark J.mjeffr...@marcrealty.com wrote:
On the other hand, I know you also get Fixed Noise 24/7 in the UK--you
are so lucky, Adam. :)
Amusingly it's adjacent to the state Chinese English language channel.
Actually we get a reasonably decent selection of
It's always interesting to read all this talk about CNN when we get
the quite news-heavy international flavour in the UK. Sure we get The
Situation Room and Larry King - but they're live and thus in the
middle of the night. During peak hours they actually show - well -
news.
(Would still like
Not quite, as Channel 4 is also a state owned (although not operated)
public service broadcaster. It's just that they aren't making enough
in advertising revenue.
However there is talk of public service money being made available to
make ITV's local news. That would be closer to your analogy.
Look out for even more Brits heading to Hollywood to seek fame and
fortune. Because ITV is doing exactly the same thing.
I see Mylene Klass is the latest Brit, co-presenting I'm A Celebrity...
And James Nesbitt claims he's off there
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/8090670.stm)
Just curious. Are there no DVR/PVR boxes available for consumers who
are watching digital TV via an antenna? A quick look at the Best Buy
website reveals lots of digital to analogue converter boxes, but
nothing more sophisticated than that.
In the UK, for under $150, you can buy one of these
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 5:43 PM, Kevin M. drunkbastar...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 9:11 AM, Adam Bowie adam.bo...@gmail.com wrote:
What happened to the mooted idea - I think by NBC - of doing a US
state by state competition along similar lines? You have two
semi-finals
You really need to see the video of Lumley with the minister
responsible. She is one person you really don't want to mess with.
She appeared on the main Sunday morning political show last week, The
Andrew Marr Programme, and because she's passionate and very well
spoken, her case comes across
Calling Spiral better than The Wire is a pretty pointless comparison
as this is crime/legal thriller. I think it's purely the case that
every drama has to be compared to The Wire by law at the moment in
Britain. Spiral's an exceptional series however, and I'm really
looking forward to the second
Yup. Football's one of those strange areas where we don't even have a
single national team. So while the Olympics has Team GB, at the World
Cup it's England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales (well probably
only a maximum of two of them qualify). That's pretty unique, and I
can't think of a
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 9:01 PM, Joe Coughlin inturnaro...@gmail.com wrote:
Yes.
Lisa Scott-Lee formerly of the pop group Steps.
Chico, from Simon Cowell's UK talent show The X Factor. Famous (or
infamous) for his self-penned song It's Chico Time!
Lionel Blair, an old-school song and dance
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Steve Timko steveti...@gmail.com wrote:
Gardening shows are big on the BBC, right? So this is gardening writ
large -- American Chopper for people who grow beans and peas in their
backyards?
Gardening shows are big on the BBC. Gardener's World started a new
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 2:15 PM, David Lynch djly...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 04:10, JW redbu...@gmail.com wrote:
I have a strong feeling NBC took a step to not alienate their TiVo
viewers. They never mentioned TiVo or DVR, but they did announce
early, and then repeat
I guess I should await the episodes before casting judgement. It's
just that the only clip I've seen is them walking around a shopping
centre. Not the most expensive of locales to shoot in.
Adam (Who only really watched the series on and off)
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 6:35 PM, M-D November
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Mark J. mjeffr...@marcrealty.com wrote:
I assume that C5's highest-rated program in its history was some sort
of sports event.
You assume right. 5.6m for an England World Cup qualifier (against
Albania of all places) in 2001.
To put this in perspective,
On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Bob in Jersey bob.in.jer...@juno.com wrote:
Adam Bowie, to Mark J., in part:
There's a nice little tool here which can be illuminating if you're
really interested:
http://www.barb.co.uk/report/weeklyTopProgrammesOverview?
This notes when each programme
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Mark J. mjeffr...@marcrealty.com wrote:
A clip from the reunion episode, airing in the UK in two weeks on
digital channel Dave:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/tvandradioblog/2009/mar/26/red-dwarf-back-earth
And for those who might know, yes, that is the
Shaun Williamson is supposed to be playing himself. But they treat him
as though he's still called Barry his Eastenders character. That
character was a bit stupid - loveably stupid. And the gag here is that
nobody can remember the actor's name, and he's stupid in real-life.
There's not much more
And Jamie Bamber's got a starring role in the
surprisingly-not-that-bad Law Order: UK. It's easily the best
continuing drama series that ITV's had in a while even if they're
repurposing old scripts at the moment.
I've noticed the same thing with The Wire cast members being villains
of the week
BAFTA got plenty *wrong* this year, including an unforgiveably bad
edited sequence of Terry Gilliam film clips when he was given the
Fellowship (BAFTA's biggest award), but I think the In Memorium
sequence is much better handled than this year's Oscars.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hh49uPk3lZI
BAFTA got plenty *wrong* this year, including an unforgiveably bad
edited sequence of Terry Gilliam film clips when he was given the
Fellowship (BAFTA's biggest award), but I think the In Memorium
sequence is much better handled than this year's Oscars.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hh49uPk3lZI
Slightly off topic, but Graham Linehan, the writer and director of The
IT Crowd has a good blog (and Twitter account), and he hates lazy UK
journalists who use the phrase canned laughter as it's just about
not used at all in Britain.
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 11:06 PM, Jim Ellwanger train...@ellwanger.tv wrote:
Adam Bowie wrote:
It seems pointless somebody else re-transcribing the dialogue when it's
already been done in the Britain.
The major issue: it's the BROADCAST that was originally
captioned/subtitled
It gets a BBC2 airing this evening. So that'll get it another million
or so viewers.
Awareness of the series is definitely higher (even if I'm still way
behind on season one).
Adam
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 4:37 PM, Mark J. mjeffr...@marcrealty.com wrote:
The second season of Mad Men made its
On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 2:45 AM, Bob in Jersey bob.in.jer...@juno.com wrote:
The writer got the suggestion that Will asked someone on a Beeb radio
station about getting on the show...it was probably more like, someone
on a Beeb radio station prolly asked him, and got lucky.
I listened to the
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 8:21 PM, Tom Wolper twol...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Mark J. mjeffr...@marcrealty.com wrote:
Is golliwog really that bad a term? Adam?
A golliwog can be compared to a lawn jockey or blackface character.
Carol Thatcher called a person a
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Mark J. mjeffr...@marcrealty.com wrote:
As in the U.S., the audience was down from last year's fourth season
premiere. Does C4 still have the terrestrial rights to the series in
the UK?
Nope. Basically, after the first season (for which Channel 4 had this
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