What a night of television heaven with Top Gear and Doctor Who

So the Sunday night will kick off at about 19:30. I’ll get the youngest children to bed and then sit down to watch Doctor Who (slightly delayed thanks to Sky+) with my daughter. Then I’ll get her to bed before switching to the recording (in progress) of BBC Three‘s Doctor Who Confidential for a look at how the episode was made and the chance of a glimpse at the new [...]

 

Just.... wow!

As well as being a seriously amazing piece of camera work, a stunningly beautiful footage and as Engadget readers put it … Camera Porn – this is an epic leap in natural world film making by the BBC. To get the full effect of the video below … wait until the BBC HD broadcast – but failing that click on HD and the full screen it. It was filmed on [...]

 

BBC iPlayer goes HD

I like new toys, new things to play with and enjoy – especially when they’re shiny. And they don’t come much shinier than 720p 3mb+ video streaming over the internet. OK so it isn’t as good as the 16mb+ and 384k audio you get with BBC HD over satellite – but it is still impressive for the web. Unfortunately I live in Jersey where the maximum broadband speed is still [...]

 

Me in Spooks

Well not exactly Spooks but the new spin-off series set in the future and on BBC Three, Spooks Code 9. We’ll actually not that either – a really funky internet app that puts you in your own short movie.