True Blood returned for its fifth season last night.
As always, no slacking in picking up the pace. Read below for our thoughts and take on it but beware there are spoilers.
Joanna Lim's blog
The Paralympics will be broadcast to more countries than ever before after organisers have negotiated a series of new international TV deals.
The demand for new TV rights is huge after the demand for tickets for the event have also soared.
Details of today’s opening ceremony have also emerged; the three hour ceremony directed by Jenny Sealey and Bradley Hemmings, will feature more than 3,000 volunteers including 50 disabled performers. The athletes will arrive earlier than in the Olympics opening ceremony and will sit on the track to form part of the audience.
The organising committee, Locog, has signed deals with 11 new broadcasters, which will cover more than 100 countries. Even though the Olympic TV rights are sold by the International Olympic Committee, Locog sells the Paralympics rights directly.
The BBC’s footage of the Olympics was highly praised for its extensive channels and content and while you would think they would have wanted to do the same for the Paralympics, they were outbid by Channel 4 to the rights. We don’t think they would have let Channel 4 out bid them to the Olympics, so it seems a shame that they did so with the Paralympics; after all doesn’t the Paralympics deserve the same coverage and publicity?
Channel 4 have won the rights and they have scheduled hundreds of hours of coverage; more than 400 in fact and will dedicate multiple television and online channels to show us all the action.
Here’s our round-up of how to watch, when to watch and where: Continue reading »
Even though The X Factor’s viewing figures increased with its second episode this series, it’s still a far cry from its heady heyday of being a must watch on TV. Gone is the buzz on a Monday morning where everyone asks, “Did you watch The X Factor?” and everything about it seems rather forgettable.
News surfaced this morning that Simon Cowell is set to make an appearance on the show, much like he did in Britain’s Got Talent, the first year after he left and re-appeared for just the live shows.
Cowell, 52, has been based in Los Angeles for the past two years focussing on the American version of the show, but it seems he’s realised maybe it’s this one that needs his attention.
Executive producer Richard Holloway revealed at the Edinburgh TV Festival that Cowell will be appearing “in some guise, somewhere” in the series, but refusing to give any more away.
The stars of the revamped US soap Dallas hit the London scene earlier this week to mark the arrival of the series to UK screens next month.
The new series sees the return of former stars Patrick Duffy and Linda Gray, with Larry Hagman reprising his role as JR Ewing.
The UK launch of the 10-part series about the famous Ewing clan saw its new crew come together with the old.
Jesse Metcalfe, best known for playing hunky gardener John Rowland in Desperate Housewives, said that he believed his former show is to be applauded for bring Dallas back to our screens.
Metcalfe, plays Christopher Ewing said, ”I think Desperate Housewives definitely took its cue from the original Dallas. There’s no doubt about that.But I think that Desperate Housewives in some respects is responsible for reopening the door for more scripted drama and more night-time soap operas. I think that being on the heels of Desperate Housewives is why the new Dallas was possible.” Continue reading »
So The X Factor returned to our screens last Saturday night and not to the best start.
The total audience viewing figures hit 8.7 million viewers, with a 42.4% share, and it was the worst for a launch show since 2006. Wow.
Some may blame the super hot weather for everyone going out and enjoying themselves instead but is that really what happened? The X Factor was the Ultimate Saturday Night TV a few years ago. Everyone loved Simon, Cheryl, Dannii and Louis and everyone loved the contestants that spawned from it.
After last year’s series, I wasn’t sure I was going to tune in to be honest, but for some reason, after the demise of the BBC’s The Voice, I really felt like tuning in to see if The X Factor spark could be rectified with the new addition of Nicole Scherzinger to the panel instead of Kelly Rowland.
Sky have unveiled an update to their Sky+ app for iPad which is set to revolutionise the way we use and watch TV.
The app update will allow users to use their iPad as a remote control.
It’s an update that will no doubt be a common feature in the near future; we’re guessing many TV’s will come packaged without remote controls soon enough because you can use your phone or a tablet to change the channels.
Sky has got ahead of the times and allowed their users to control their TV’s through the app. You will be able to change the channel, pause, play and rewind with just a simple tap or swipe of your fingers on your iPad. Continue reading »
The Olympics provided us with many a celebration; joyful, tearful and sometimes sad but we’re wondering, just what are the top 5 moments of the Olympics?
Of course, we’re going to pick out our own top five moments but first, the top 5 most watched moments.
The opening ceremony kicked off things in sensational style with an audience of 26.9 million viewers.
Usain Bolt’s 100m sprint managed to nab 20 million while Mo Farah’s 10,000m win reaped in 17.1 million viewers. The top three were closely followed by Tom Daley’s diving spectacular and Jessica Ennis’s 800m race to the Heptathlon gold with 15.9 million viewers.
Keep reading for our top 5 Olympics moments:
So it’s pretty safe to say that we’ve all been caught up in the Olympic games this year; it’s in our home country, it’s been gloriously sunny, we’ve seen some great medals won and history has been made.
The Olympic games comes to a close this Sunday and begs the question, er, what exactly shall we watch now? It seems all we’ve done for the past (nearly) two weeks is watch the BBC and their Olympics coverage, which we have to say, has been excellent.
Of course, there’s still some great Olympic action to come, Mo Farah in the 5,000-metre final on Saturday, the sailing today that was postponed from yesterday and we’re hoping Luke Patience and Stuart Bithell will be bringing home another gold medal, and of course, who could forget the closing ceremony on Sunday at 9pm but what will we watch after that? Continue reading »
Person of Interest is an American crime drama that will be coming to our screens next week.
The very synopsis looks like something that we would like but is it worth the commitment?
Well, it has already been picked up for a second season in the US and its credentials are certainly something.
The screenplay is written by J.J. Abrams and Jonathan Nolan; a very fine pairing whose work we already love. Abrams is the brains behind two of my favourite TV shows, Alias and Lost, while he was also behind the fantastic Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol of last year. Nolan on the other hand, is if you hadn’t already guessed, the brother of Batman supremo Christopher Nolan and he’s got brains to boot too. His short story was used by his brother for the highly acclaimed Memento while he also worked on the screen play for The Prestige and of course, who could forget, co-wrote the greatest and most financially successful Batman movie of all time, The Dark Knight.
Add to the talent behind the scenes, the great cast which includes Jim Caviezel who we loved in The Count of Monte Cristo and the fantastic Michael Emerson who was of course, Benjamin Linus in Lost, it definitely looks like one to watch.
We were lucky enough to watch the pilot so here’s what we thought of Person of Interest.
SPOILERS>>> Continue reading »
Since the beginning of the Olympics radio transmissions in 1924, the games have been used by broadcasters to showcase the latest in cutting edge technology.
Today, the London Olympics have shown just what is next after HD.
What is next we hear you ask?
It’s called Super hi vision and it means that images are 16 times as sharp as HD with multi channel surround sound. It looks like London likes to be pioneers in television technology with the Olympics; back in 1948, the London games were the very first to be broadcast into people’s homes. Continue reading »
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