Category: Television

  • An easy guide to destroying reputations

    The kerfuffle surrounding Russell Brand, Jonathan Ross and the BBC came to a conclusion of sorts a few days ago with Brand quitting, Ross suspended and the BBC’s head of Radio 2 resigning. This story has many of the ingredients…

  • Brand and Ross: Their publics may be their downfall

    The hot news today isn’t the global financial crisis. Nor is it the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Not even the US presidential election. No, hot news in the UK this morning is the kerfuffle surrounding entertainers Jonathan Ross and…

  • Gearing up for London 2012

    Whatever you think of it, this symbol is one we’ll be seeing a great deal of in the coming weeks as London starts to gear up as host city of the 2012 Olympic Games in four years’ time. When the…

  • Social media and the 2008 Olympic Games

    The opening ceremony for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing gets underway at midday GMT today, an event that will be broadcast live on television across the world. During the next two weeks, you’ll be hard pressed to avoid seeing…

  • Government to ban product placement on TV

    One of the great things about digital TV and a personal video recorder (PVR) is the ease with which you as a viewer can wholly control what you watch. With the exception of the news, I rarely watch TV as…