crossover potential

  • Ham Life: The Now Show, 23 April 2009
  • On the spot review of Friday's show. Includes photographs for the curious. It's still available on iplayer and as a podcast and features a rather brilliant cameo from some comedy royalty.

  • HIGHLY SPECIFIC INTERNET POLLS, AND THEIR LARGELY UNSURPRISING RESULTS.
  • This kind of thing seems to have increasingly seeped into what's supposed to be tv news programming. One of these days, we great unwashed will be asked for our opinion on a topic and actually have something interesting to say. Though I secretly expect that the really impressive stuff is left on the computer and it's the bland comments, unlikely to offend anyone which are actually read out on air.

  • For Sale Ad Fail
  • See above.

  • Warner Music representative creates firestorm by suggesting tweep steal music and download it to his "brat blog" after he complained it was impossible to buy
  • Customer service fail, especially since Warner Music don't have been asked directly for their opinion in the first place. I recently asked Spotify by Madeleine Peyroux's album Bare Bones isn't with them yet, but haven't got a reply. Perhaps that's the better policy.

  • Two women in a room.
  • Sophie Ellis-Bextor has a new collaboration coming out. Sounds like early naughties retro. See if you can spot her vocal buried in the mix.

  • The Play’s The Thing - An Easy Guide To Liking Shakespeare Onscreen
  • Pretty good survey which covers all the bases and even mentions Julie Taymor's Titus. To the list I'd add My Kingdom, which is King Lear in Liverpool gangland and the most recent A Midsummer Night's Dream, the one with Kevin Kline as Bottom and Michelle Pfeiffer as Titania. It's an underrated piece of magic.

  • Schwarzenegger Approves Virtual Version of Himself for Terminator Salvation
  • "You're not sending me to the cooler..."

  • BBC2: 45 years of contrast
  • I keep meaning to write my long post about what's gone wrong with BBC Two though it largely amounts to some numptiness about it almost completely losing its identity, having become the scheduling dumping ground for programmes which don't seem quite right on any of the BBC's other stations or for rerunning shows that do. Oh and not being able to do much as their successes are poached to put up on the main channel more often than not because they probably should have been there in the first place.

  • Scheduling Radio 4
  • It should be as distinctive as Radio Four. You should be able to look at one of its programmes and say 'That's very BBC2" but even with some of their drama output I'm not sure that you can. In this post at their blog, they show that the key to their success is varying the theme with banded programming expectations.

  • Color, shape, movement . . . and talk
  • The legacy of Saul Bass.

  • Royal Mint Launches 2012 Olympics Coin
  • Proof that the logo still looks horrible even when painted onto a five pound coin.

  • Measure for Measure is a Jacobean play
  • What looks to be the whole of the general introduction to the Oxford edition of my joint favourite Shakespeare masterpiece and given the news which is coming out of Pakistan recently in relation to the Taliban, a play that is as relevant as ever.

  • Newman, Hoffman, Redford and me
  • Largely a York Notes version of Adventures in the Screen Trade though there's an interesting bit of gossip: Slumdog Millionaire nearly went straight to dvd. Which just confirms that no one knows anything, especially these days.

  • Know Your Meme: Jean-Luc Picard
  • "Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra."

  • '*Star Wars*' fan boldy goes in search of the 'Star...
  • Star Wars fan watches the ten Star Trek films all together. Has most of the same opinions about them as the rest of us. Especially about The Final Frontier. "What does God need with a starship?" etc.

  • Why '*Star Wars*' fans will love new 'Trek'
  • "Hayden Christensen Isn't In It: 'Nuff said."

  • Poles
  • "I have this fear of telegraph poles, and I’ve been planning out a short story based on it, but I thought that in the mean time I’d tell you all about my actual fear, and how it came about."

  • Republican Congressperson Totally Pwns Secretary of...
  • Ignorance is bliss. Unless you're representing a congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives in which case it's criminal.

  • LOST RECAP RECAP: Confusing Things Happen, and It...
  • Man reads out someone else's blog posts about Lost claiming they're his own. Is found out. Seems to go into hiding, whilst some of his fans mount a defence suggesting that since the person he ripped off was writing about someone else's tv show and using some of their material in the process, she's as guilty as he is of plagiarism, thereby illustrating they've not sure of the difference between plagiarism and fair use.

  • Sugacoobs: Cinemas closed for winter on Nat's new...
  • Review of Natalie Imruglia's new film. Suggests crossover potential.

  • ESC Radio is non-stop sound of Eurovision
  • We're going to lose. Again. We were similarly robbed in 2001:

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