On Wednesday I got up early, took the children to school, went to work and then walked on down to the St Helier waterfront to the Cineworld cinema – in time for a film that started at 10:15. Now this is nothing unusual for me, I’ve been to the cinema that time of the morning many times before, in fact I almost ALWAYS go to the cinema in time for [...]
This weeks iPlayer pick comes from radio and is the second episode of the new series of I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue – fronted by the ever wonderful Stephen Fry. This is Stephen Fry’s last stint in the hosts chair – taking over from the late, great and true legend – Humphrey Lyttelton. Over the next four weeks Jack Dee and Rob Brydon will do a stint of two [...]
Previously on my Top Gear obsessed blog – I wrote suggestions for Top Gear 100 – that was last series and it came and then went away. Not that the Top Gear team noticed – Andy Wilman, show executive Producer, asked the crew to work out the number of episodes and tell him when it gets to 100. He said: “Count up how many shows we’ve done since we came [...]
It was something of a tough call for me when thinking up an iPlayer pick for today – mainly because I couldn’t decide between Stephen Fry and David Mitchell. Image via Wikipedia On one hand you have The Unvelievable Truth which mixes lies, lies and a bit of truth in a format that, on paper at least, sounds very much like an earlier vehicle for Sandi Toksvic – Call my [...]
I have a post coming very soon with the title ‘the rise and rise of online video’ that looks at sites like ChannelFlip and Rev3 and how they’re fast becoming the ‘Digital TV’ of the 21st Century. Image via Wikipedia To understand what I mean by that you need to take a step back in time to around the early to mid-nineties when Digital TV (in the form of Sky) [...]
OK so I just witnessed something a bit weird – the opening up and first postings of what will soon become one of the highest profile Twitter accounts. It’s great that @Wossy (Jonathan Ross) and @stephenfry (Stephen Fry) and even @bobbyllew (Robert Llewellyn) are on Twitter but now that @rustyrockets (Russell Brand) has joined the BritTwit fellowship – things are going to go mental. Image via Wikipedia I watched Jonathan [...]
The latest bandwagon our illustrious British celebrities (especially the cooler ones) seem to be jumping on is that bastion of micro content – Twitter. Stephen Fry is a regular Twitterer and has something like 30 thousand plus followers – mainly because he is actually a very good twitterer with interesting things to say. Robert Llewellyn is also on Twitter (AKA Kryten) with something like 2000 followers and, killing time before [...]
Friends, Bloggers,Geeks, lend me your eyes; for today I come to praise the BBC, not bury it. It may seem and sound like I come to complain, but the complaints all form the words and feelings of great praise. Actually I’m going to write a blog post about the use of video clips on the new sites from the BBC Vision teams – but I wrote Friends, Romans, Countrymen and [...]
