Staff
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BBC confirms Mark Byford to leave
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The BBC has confirmed that Deputy Director-General Mark Byford is to leave the organisation “in early summer” after stepping down from the Corporation’s Executive Board at the end of March.
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Second Adobe DRM ebook reader arrives on iPad
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Bluefire Reader has become only the second ebook app for Apple’s popular iPad allow book lovers to read ePub titles protected by Adobe’s DRM to be read on the devices. Previously anyone wanting the ability to buy books from various retailers and read them all in a single app only had the choice of the…
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Review: The Social Network
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Aaron Sorkin’s The Social Network is that rarest of things – an intelligent Hollywood movie totally absent of cheap thrills, stunts, or special effects and which assumes equal intelligence on the part of the audience as it tells a complex and, at times, emotional story of young people and the business decisions they made. Based…
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Preview: A History of Horror
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In A History of Horror (BBC Four, Monday at 9pm) Mark Gatiss explores the “three greatest eras” of horror films drawing on his own passion for the genre and favourite films to chronicle cinema’s attempts to scare us out of our seats. The series opens with Frankenstein Goes To Hollywood which covers Hollywood movies of…
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Handling the truth – Aaron Sorkin on The Social Network
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The Social Network – the big screen portrayal of the claims and counterclaims surrounding the genesis of Facebook – opens in the UK next week and we were lucky enough to be on hand when writer Aaron Sorkin and cast members Jesse Eisenberg, Justin Timberlake and Andrew Garfield met the press in London. “I don’t…
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New book celebrates work of BBC visual effects dept.
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The ultimate account of the BBC Visual Effects Department – responsible for such diverse iconic images as Monty Python’s exploding newsreaders on, the Queen Vic engulfed in flames and Blake’s 7’s majestic Liberator sailing through outer space – is told in a new book set for release next month. Written by former Department staff Mat…