Category Archives: TV
Is there gender bias on Have I Got News For You?
I noticed someone on Twitter last night point out that yet again, everyone appearing on Have I Got News For You was male. This piqued my interest, and I decided to take a look and see how HIGNFY had done over its existence in balancing representation of men and women. The answer appears to be [...]
Russell T Davies and faith
Writing and reading about Aliens vs Wizards on Thursday sparked up some old thoughts on Russell T Davies’ writing, and I wanted to set them down somewhere. As I’m trying to encourage myself to blog more again (as I have been doing for almost all of the ten years since I started) I thought this [...]
Wizards, Aliens and Doctor Who
If you haven’t heard, former Doctor Who showrunner Russell T Davies has got a new children’s show starting on the BBC soon – Wizards vs Aliens. The Guardian have seen the first episode at a press screening, and their review is very positive, and the sort of thing that makes me wish I was 10 [...]
Now the games are done
So, unless they suddenly remember a third set of sporting events they’d agreed to hold in London this year, that’s it for the 2012 Games. There’s been a lot of talk about how we can carry forward all the good feeling and the spirit of the Games, but rather than go into a general ‘why [...]
Two thoughts on BBC Sport from the Olympics
It’s all still ongoing, but I wanted to set these down before I forget them. First, the Olympics Live red button coverage has been great. Just getting to flick through and watch everything that’s going on live, without someone deciding what we should be watching is a whole new way to watch sport. So why [...]
Sing your way out from way down in the hole
Everyone needs to go and see The Wire: The Musical, even if it doesn’t appear to feature a one-word duet between Bunk and McNulty: The Wire: The Musical with Michael Kenneth Williams from Michael Kenneth Williams You should also, of course, make sure you’re fully familiar with the 19th century work that it’s based on. [...]
Local news and local elections
With the election over, I got to return to one of favourite evening pastimes (after canvassing, of course) – shouting at the TV when Look East is covering politics. Firstly, they clearly have an issue in getting accurate information about what’s going on. Last night, their political editor reported that the Bedford mayoral contest wasn’t [...]
Trevor Eve day
To mark the end of Waking The Dead this week, Jonathan Calder provides us with a chance to see the (rather long) opening titles of Trevor Eve’s first crime series Shoestring. A few years after leaving Shoestring (and inspiring the creation of Bergerac in his wake), Eve was trying his luck in California and appearing [...]
Worth Reading 29: In advance of the leap year
One of these is obviously a day late. Can you guess which? One genre to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them – There’s been some interesting discussion recently about the claims of literary fiction, and how this one genre dominates media coverage of books and reading. Here’s an interesting take on it [...]
70% of the way there
Interesting headline for a post on Political Betting: Is now the moment to replace Dimbleby Even though -like many others – I rarely watch Question Time now, because it’s become so pointless and merely a reflection of a Westminster political culture that regards shouting at people and never backing down as the most important skill [...]
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