I accidentally caught the BBC putting out their version of this Japanese game show format and sat for a while transfixed at how unremittingly lowest common denominator it was for the BBC.
I was thinking ‘how very ITV’ before finding out it was made for the BBC by Thames Television(now a production company). Charlie Brooker, via [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Television’
September 24, 2008
Hole In The Wall
September 14, 2008
Repackaging Old Bread
Hovis seem to have pulled all the stops out to advertise their bread brand with an epic ‘we’ve always been here’ style advertising campaign that is hitting British TV screen at the moment.
High quality stereo version here
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September 5, 2008
Video Archive:123 Sesame Street
Somehow Rainbow was just never as cool as Sesame Street (no shed Sherlock).Stevie Wonder’s appearance on the ground breaking children’s educational show in 1972 features some amazing live performances from Stevie Wonder including probably one of the best renditions of Superstition.
These only popped to the surface after this Sesame Street ditty got stuck in my [...]
August 23, 2008
BBC iPlayer adds H264 With Series Stacking To Follow
BBC’s iPlayer continues to develop and recently the Beeb added the ability to view H264 encoded versions of their content which theoretically should give higher quality pictures combined with moderate streaming bandwidth overheads.
Currently this mode can be toggled as the downside of H264 encoded material is that it calls for greater
processing power at the playback [...]
July 31, 2008
Freesat PVR Ghost Ship In The Night
It’s not been long since the official launch of Freesat and take up in this short period has been good, statistically outstripping any ongoing Freeview purchases though it could be argued that most of the major take-up for Freeview has already happened with only the minority still using existing analogue broadcast signals prior to the [...]
