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Nov 252009

I’ve been looking forward to this series for a while now and I’m glad to ssay that it didn’t disappoint.

I’m not going to post any blurb from the BBC site. I’ll tell you what I think the story is about.

Basically this astrophysicist called Dr Christian King, whilst montoring the sun and giving whether warnings about eruptions from the sun. He starts receiving a mysterious download from one of the imaging satellites, there are several pictures. It turns out that these pictures are from 18 hours in the future. He calls in the police, DI Rebecca Flint, played by the wonderful Tamsin Outhwaite is sent to investigate.

As expected she’s skeptical about Dr King’s claims that these images are indeed from the future at first. However events start building up quite rapidly and it’s not too long that the pieces of the jigsaw alarmingly start to fall into place. The team are however too late to prevent a disaster from happening, as one of the pictures shows an explosion. I’ll let you watch the rest and make your own mind up.

I think this has got the makings of an excellent mini-series.

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Public say on BBC editorial standards

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Oct 082009
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Just read this article written by Andrew Laughlin for digital spy:

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/broadcasting/a180923/public-to-shape-bbc-editorial-standards.html

This is a good idea the BBC consulting the public about their editorial processes. However my main worry is that the minority of viewers who think they speak for the whole of the country will demand that programming be diluted down so much that certain programs will lose their edge, humour and become dull and boring.

Imagine this minority getting their teeth into programmes like “Mock The Week”, “Never Mind the Buzzcocks” and “HIGNFY”. These programmes could become boring.

I admit that at times some programmes I do watch, sail close to the wind, if that does happen, I just chose another channel or I switch off the TV completely.

I hope the views from the members of the viewing people take this into account and are balanced in their arguments for what constitutes good editing standards.

Listen to your viewers, take their views on board, but please do not feel the need to act upon every suggestion you receive, you will just tie yourself in knots trying to please everyone.

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Posted by wizzardsblog at 7:07 am

"Wildest Dreams"

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Aug 202009

Has anyone else been watching this on BBC1 about nine hopefuls wanting to join the BBC’s Natural History Unit as wildlife film-maker?

Did you watch the latest episode, with the starving hippos?

Were you like me screaming at the screen because both teams had failed to uncover the real story behind why the hippos were starving?

Good job the one team cottoned on late into the 2 days of filming.

The one team wanted a “fluffy bunny” story, despite that not being the point, the film they were supposed to making was about the failed rains in the area, so no grass was growing so the hippos were starving.

The worst thing was the one team had experience in zoo-ology!!

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Michael Schumacher

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Jul 312009
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So what are you thoughts on his decision to drive for Ferrari in place of Massa?

I think it’s going to be great, just wondering if any of the other drivers will be as enthusiastic as Lewis Hamilton seems to be?

Don’t get me wrong, I thought at the beginning of his Ferrari dominance, he was an arrogant SOB. But then towards the end I started warming to the guy. Even more so when he appeared on Top Gear recently.

He’s definitely going to keep the other drivers honest. I agree with Eddie Jordan, he’ll be sniffing around the podium in Valencia.

At least Rubens Barrichello will be happy, for a short time, he won’t be the oldest driver on the grid :D

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Virgin Media win rights to air Supernatural S5

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Jul 242009

[sarcasm]Congratulations to Virgin Media on winning the rights to air Supernatural S5 and chosing to air it on “Living”[/sarcasm]

Virgin Media you do realise to get full exposure for what has been an excellent series, you don’t put it on a channel that not everyone can view.

Living isn’t available on freeview as you are probably already aware, so how the hell are the rest of us supposed to watch the latest season? Other than waiting 6 months for the part 1 boxset to become available.

It would have made sense to put it on Virgin 1 which is available on freeview.

Then again since when have broadcasting companies made a rational decision.

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Where have I been for 3 days?

General, Social Media, Television 1 Response »
Jul 092009

As the title says, where have I been? I’ve been getting caught up in the Torchwood Children of Earth machine, spending most of my time posting over at http://gallifreybase.com trying to bring some calm to the chaos and chaos to the calm.

Coupled with getting to know the folks over at the winelibrary.tv forums.

So time just flies and unfortunately (smack the back of my hand) my blog took a back seat.

Despair no longer I am back in the saddle :)

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Top Gear

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Jun 292009
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Posing as 17 year olds to see if they could buy a car and insure it with a budget of £2,500 or £2,000 (please correct me in the comments) was another class challenge, as usual James May having to put up with being the butt of Richard Hammond‘s and Jeremy Clarkson‘s extremely funny pranks.

The cars on show were awesome as usual, don’t expect me to go into minute detail, I’m not a petrol head, even though I do like cars, I don’t know one end of a piston to the other. But I do know a fast car when I see one.

Good to see Stephen Fry on the show, and a nice shout out to Twitter as well.

I thought they’d done away with the “Star in a reasonably priced car” segment because they didn’t have it on last week, good to see they hadn’t.

Bring on next week’s show, I feel this series is going to fly by far too quickly.

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On Thin Ice

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Jun 292009

Anyone else caught the first episode of this new series with Ben Fogle and James Cracknell? I didn’t realise Johnny Lee Miller was such a fitness fanatic and he was really stoked that he was asked to participate in the Atlantic Race.

I’m really looking forward to this weeks episode.

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Super Bowl and Porn?

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Feb 022009

It was a great game last night wasn’t it? I was watching it on the BBC until 3.15 am, boy I am really tired right now, after only a few hours sleep.

Apparently some of you in Tuscon, Arizona got a little bonus feature towards the end of the game. Did you see the “bonus feature”? If so let me know in the comments and what you thought about it and any theories you may have about how this came to be broadcast?

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Adrian Lester returns to Hustle

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Dec 302008

Hustle returns to BBC1

Just seen the trailer for the new series of Hustle and Adrian Lester is making a welcome return. Marc Warren and Jaime Murray appear to have flown the nest.

I don’t know who the new female lead in the series is, I recognise the face but cannot put a name to it.

Do you know who she is? Let me know in the comments.

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