The latest series of Dragon’s Den has just come to an end. Amazingly, it was the sixth series of the programme, and aside from a few changes in the dragon lineup, it hasn’t changed at all. The whole thing is produced to a perfect formula, where the pacing, the setting, and even the camera angles [...]
BBC blogger nodalpoints has posted up 4 questions he’d like people to answer. The questions concern how people consume BBC content. Seeing as I watch BBC TV, listen to BBC radio stations, and read the various BBC websites, I thought I should respond. The questions seem a little unrelated to each other to me, but [...]
This weblog is getting to be a bit broken at the moment. I’ve reached the disk space limit for my hosting deal, and don’t want to have to pay for the next step up. The bandwidth is exceeding 3GB a month too, and costing a small fortune. I’m hoping to solve this by moving the [...]
Well I thought the first episode of Castaway was pretty good. Mostly because they all seemed like a fairly laid back bunch, and the conflicts were taken in good spirits, rather than endless bitching. No doubt the beautiful weather and surroundings help. The lead ‘character’ in the series has so far been established as Jonathan, [...]
I watch a fair bit of TV, maybe a few hours an evening, as a way of relaxing and being entertained without having to do much. The problem is that, whilst there’s usually a couple of good things on per evening, they’re ever more thinly spread out among a growing range of channels. I’d be [...]
I’m more excited than I posssibly should be about the fact that Louis Theroux is finally back on out TV screens, with a documentary on at 9PM tonight about gambling in Los Vegas. Looks good, and timely too. Louis has apparently signed with the BBC to make 10 one-off documentaries over the coming three years. [...]
I just watched Alan Yentob’s Imagine tv programme on the topic of the web, mostly because it was on after the news and happened to catch my eye. The programme starts with the invention of computers, romps through creation of the Internet and soon whizzes past the introduction of the world wide web (albeit via [...]
The lecture by Mark Thompson on BBC 2.0 is worth reading in full. It details some of the BBC’s strategy around ‘web 2.0′ and the move to on-demand content becoming the default method of consumption. Thompson talks in the lecture about the MyBBCPlayer (or Interactive Media Player or BBC iPlayer or whatever it’s called this [...]
So another series of Spooks, possibly my favourite tv show, ended last night. As I had been watching the BBC Three broadcasts, it had been two weeks since I’d seen the previous episode (the BBC Three broadcasts are shown a week ahead of BBC One, but don’t include the first or last episodes), so I [...]
Just played BBC History’s new online game, ‘CDX‘, via the promo curently on the BBC homepage. It’s a really slick piece of work – an interactive 3D environment in Flash, with the ‘point and click’ style gameplay of old adventure games (which I used to enjoy). The game is a tie-in to the tv programme [...]