Some thoughts on the final episode of the new series of Doctor Who. In general I’ve really enjoyed this series. Most of the stories have worked well and I think that Eccleston was a great choice to play the Doctor. Bizarrely, the stories that I have liked least (“Father’s Day” and “Dalek”) have been the… Continue reading The Parting of the Ways
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Newspapers vs the BBC
An interesting article from the Economist discussing the fall in newspaper circulation and largely blaming the BBC’s web site for this. It is the success of the BBC’s news website that most troubles newspapers. Its audience has increased from 1.6m unique weekly users in 2000 to 7.8m in 2005; and its content has a breadth… Continue reading Newspapers vs the BBC
BBC Beethoven
You’ll have heard that the BBC are making new performances of all of Beethoven’s symphonies available for download as MP3s. In this post, Dan Hill (from BBC Radio and Music Interactive) says that this has been extremely successful (600,000 downloads) and has generated a huge amount of discussion around the BBC. Which can only be… Continue reading BBC Beethoven
24 (update)
Yesterday I mentioned how the BBC had screwed up the transmission of Sunday’s episode of 24. I didn’t mention that I’d fired off a letter of complaint to various email addresses at the BBC, including the Radio Times. Last night I got an email from the RT thanking me for my letter and telling me… Continue reading 24 (update)
24
I’m watching season 2 of 24 on BBC Three (don’t worry there are no spoilers here for people watching a week behind on BBC Two). They show it at 10:40pm on Sunday night, then afterwards they have a really lame program called Pure 24 where people with no lives discuss the current episode in great… Continue reading 24