Matt Smith: The Eleventh Doctor It’s been a day since the announcement, so I thought I’d bore you all with my thoughts on Matt Smith as the eleventh Doctor. When I first heard the news I though “who?”, like most people, but then I looked him up on the web and realised that I knew… Continue reading Matt Smith: The Eleventh Doctor
Category: media
Changing Your Story
One of the things I despise most about parts of the British press is the way they assume that their readership has the memory of a goldfish. This means that they are free to make outrageous claims on the flimsiest of evidence on one day and then take the story in a completely different direction… Continue reading Changing Your Story
The BBC’s Merlin
I’ve been a fan of Arthurian legend for as long as I remember. It’s one of my favourite stories. I’ve read and seen countless versions over the last thirty or forty years. But I don’t think I’ve ever come across a version as terrible as the BBC’s new series Merlin which started last night. It… Continue reading The BBC’s Merlin
An Experiment
Tim has been talking about the Daily Mail’s comment moderation policy recently. It seems that any comment which fails to endorse the Mail’s editorial policy is very unlikely to be published on their site. So here’s an experiment. On their web site today (I assume it’s in the paper too, but I haven’t looked), they… Continue reading An Experiment
Daily Mail on Chrome
It’s very unlikely that you haven’t heard of Chrome, the browser that Google launched last week. If you’re running Windows then you may have even tried it out. Those of you (and I assume it’s most of you) who follow tech news will also know that there was some confusion over Chrome’s licence agreement during… Continue reading Daily Mail on Chrome
The Press on Dawkins
Richard Dawkins‘ new documentary series, The Genius of Charles Darwin, begins on Channel 4 this evening. He has therefore been doing a round of publicity interviews and the results have been appearing in the press over the weekend. It’s interesting to see how different papers treat it. The Times ran a pretty straight article about… Continue reading The Press on Dawkins
Dr Horrible
Ooh, ooh. ooh. Much excitement. Dr Horrible is coming. This is going to be fabulous. Update: Well, it might be fabulous. I can’t be sure. It seems that you can only view it from within the USA. Bugger.
Lowering My Blood Pressure
I like a bit of controversy in my RSS feeds. I subscribe to feeds from the Daily Mail and the Sun – papers that are guaranteed to get my blood boiling. An occasional increase in blood pressure can be most invigorating. But I’ve just removed an RSS feed from my list of subscriptions because there… Continue reading Lowering My Blood Pressure
Russell T Davies to Leave Doctor Who
We all knew it would happen sometime (not even John Nathan-Turner went on forever) and there have been rumours flying around for a while, but yesterday the BBC confirmed that Russell T Davies will be stepping down as executive producer of Doctor Who. He’ll stay on for the four specials to be broadcast next year… Continue reading Russell T Davies to Leave Doctor Who
Pushing Daisies on ITV
Pushing Daisies Like most people I know, I very rarely watch anything on ITV. The channel just doesn’t seem to want to appeal to people with my tastes. But recently that seems to be changing. ITV have been showing a couple of American import that seem to be aimed at people exactly like me. Firstly… Continue reading Pushing Daisies on ITV