A TV channel I had never heard of before (Yesterday) started showing the old TV programme Colditz a couple of weeks ago. I can remember loving that programme in the 70s, reading the Pat Reid books that tied in with it, and playing the board game in the dorm at school – up in Trinity [...]
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BBC hustings – too much, too late
September 17th, 2010 · No Comments · Politics
I watched the Labour leadership hustings on BBC’s Question Time tonight. It was the most I have enjoyed QT for a long time, but then it would have to be as I hardly ever watch it. I think it would have been a lot more useful if it had been scheduled before a lot of [...]
Tags: Elections·Labour Party·TV
The Napoleon of crime
August 7th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Life
The BBC say that this week’s episode of Sherlock will see him face to face with Moriarty. So far Gatiss and Moffat have done a good job so I hope they don’t make a mess of this.
Tags: Sherlock Holmes·TV
No hugging and no learning
August 2nd, 2010 · 3 Comments · Life
Interesting story at Chortle about the Americans’ attempts to re-make The IT Crowd.
Three years ago they made a pilot which was a bit like the failed attempt at doing Red Dwarf – sticking slavishly to the original script, keeping one member of the UK cast – but now they are going for it again, keeping [...]
A Study in Pink
July 26th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Life
As soon as I got home from work today I fired up iPlayer on the TV and watched the BBC’s new Sherlock programme, and now I have to join in with the general consensus that it is very good indeed. It went down very well here, playing to a mixed audience of me (read all [...]
Tags: Sherlock Holmes·TV
Sherlock
July 25th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Life
I am a little bit of a fan of Sherlock Holmes. Not totally obsessive – only a couple of the boxes I am packing are full of Holmes-related books, and I have only visited the set of the Granada series once. OK, so I used to have a Sherlock Holmes tea towel and like to [...]
Tags: Sherlock Holmes·TV
Cold turkey
July 5th, 2010 · 14 Comments · Life
After a coupl eof weeks of football, cuminating in two days of extremely exciting quarter-finals, it has been a bit strange to have no World Cup games to watch today. The TV hasn’t even been turned on today. Really looking forward to the semis now.
Tags: Football·TV·World Cup 2010
It’s all kicked off
June 12th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Life
The World Cup has started at last.
I watched the pre-tournament concert on TV on Thursday night, which was a bit disappointing. Instead of showing it live, the BBC showed edited highlights, but their idea of a highlight is not necessarily mine. For example, Amadou & Mariam were on the bill but didn’t feature at all [...]
Tags: Football·TV·World Cup 2010·World music
Desperate Russian Housewives
June 2nd, 2010 · 6 Comments · Technology
This is an interesting FoI request – about what domain names the BBC has registered to it.
Along with the long list of expected domains, like www.bbcbrasil.com, www.bbcspanish.com and www.bbctrust.org there are a few amusing ones like www.desperaterussianhousewives.co.uk and www.brightonbam.co.uk
Watching telly
June 1st, 2010 · No Comments · Technology
I had a bit of a surprise yesterday. Jayne came home with a new TV.
Only the other day I realised that I was possibly the only person I knew who was persisting with a CRT television, and now I don’t have that distinction as we have one of those plasma jobbies.
Tags: Brookmyre·Gadgets·TV·World Cup 2010·Zombies
