Poor quality fantasy TV risks a return to the 90’s
Robin Hood has been axed, a mild cause for celebration in many ways given the ongoing refusal of producers to acknowledge and fix the show’s glaring failings.
I’ll be keeping my reservation at Hotel Bablyon
Squeezed into the Friday night schedule between the usual dreary and lamentably bad soaps and the self-indulgent and utterly crass Jonathan Ross was an hour of fun, lively and stylish British drama, yup Hotel Babylon (BBC One, 9pm) is back.
The BBC’s woes are wholly of its own making
The decision to force the BBC to share some of the licence fee was only possible because its bosses, including the trust, have become deaf to the complaints and grumbles of ordinary licence fee payers and frittered money away with no regard for the institution they were entrusted with.
The Elgin Marbles, they’re incomplete so not really worth anything…
One of my guilty TV pleasure’s is ITV’s Dickinson’s Real Deal, a sort of Antiques Roadshow meets Cash in the Attic where members of the pubic queue up to sell their family heirlooms for a few quid to dealers or, in the case of the wary and greedy, in a local auction.
Star Trek is my kind of reboot
I’ve been a bit slow seeing it and I was initially pretty sceptical at the idea of a re-cast Star Trek movie but after actually seeing the film I’m impressed not least because I can happily watch the original TV series and the follow up films as part of a wider canvass in which the new film also takes place.
Civilization 4 Gold Edition (finally) comes to Mac
I’ve never understood why Mac games are so expensive for so long, it takes much longer for any price reductions to come along and surely acts as a sales deterrent? The innocent in me wonders how charging so much that large numbers of people are put off of buying has a positive impact on profits.
Hurrah for Anne’s return to Watchdog, now what about Tomorrow’s World?
She’s not everyone’s cup of tea but I’m cheered by news of Anne Robinson’s return to BBC One’s Watchdog. When she last presented it the show had a ballsier feel to it and the underlying journalism seemed stronger than currently seems to be the case
The frustrations of watching via 4oD
If, as we’re endlessly told, the future of TV really is on the web someone needs to spend a little more time on the usability and a little less on the hype.