Category Archive

The following is a list of all entries from the Television category.

Skins

Just watching skins on BBC America.  They have had to subtitle it.


I don’t like Dr Who

I thought as I was making myself unpopular anyway I would get everyone’s hatred towards me out in one fell swoop.  Not a bright idea this close the LDV blog awards true, but I am nothing if not stupid brave. Here goes.
Dr Who. Why?  It’s effing dreadful.  I have always avoided it due to some [...]


Damn you NBC

Just watched the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics on NBC.  Annoyingly, when it got to Team GB they missed their entrance by still talking about Latvia, had a quick shot of Tom Daley and then cut to Nicholas Sarkozy! 
God I miss the BBC.
Still , the drummers were cool.


Live Advertising on C4

If you are in front of your TV tonight at about 8.10ish, you might want to switch over to Channel 4 to see Britain’s first live TV ad.
From The Guardian:
“The programmes that surround them might habitually rely on cliffhangers to maintain attention, but advert breaks are not normally known for their sense of jeopardy. That [...]