Category: Television

  • The saviour for English football

    I’ve never watched The Likeaballs, a cartoon TV series for kids on the BBC’s Ceebeebies channel at 7am every weekday. I’m a bit outside the target demographic :) But could The Likeaballs be the saviour for English football now that…

  • When you’re sitting comfortably

    As the chairs in this photo might indicate, the hip Soho Hotel in London has quite an eye-popping venue for a meeting. This was the scene early yesterday morning in the hotel’s screening room  just before people arrived for the…

  • Cleaning house time for television

    If you think much of British television swims in a swamp of distrust, as I think it does, you ought to read the text of the James MacTaggart Memorial Lecture delivered by Jeremy Paxman on Friday night at the Edinburgh…

  • From cheating and lying to betterment

    One of the great things about RSS readers, and FeedDemon in particular, is how they enable you to see what’s going on in your areas of interest easily and quickly. So in the space of 20 minutes or so this…

  • Floods catastrophe in England

    They are the worst floods in modern history, says a breaking news report on Sky News. The flood crisis grows as rivers rise, says a BBC News report. All the TV news has nothing but reporting on the growing catastrophe…