From the Horse’s Mouth
The BBC Trust has given its go-ahead for BBC Scotland and Gaelic Media Service (GMS) to launch their planned Gaelic Digital Service (GDS).
The GDS service will cost £20.8m-per-year in total, of which GMS will contribute £10.1m and the BBC £10.7m.
It’s a pity the BBC didn’t mention how many gaelic speakers there are […]
Just seen 2 episodes on TV. Could be my new favourite show.
via the BBC…
Two people have been cautioned for using people’s wi-fi broadband internet connections without permission. Neighbours in Redditch, Worcestershire, contacted police on Saturday after seeing a man inside a car using a laptop while parked outside a house.
Apart from using someone’s property in a way that you’re not supposed to, this is just […]
Who hasn’t done it? Personally, I once taped over the early evening cop/flower drama Rosemary and Thyme with the Die-Hard-on-a-Boat action movie Under Siege. But I did argue my case. There was no label on the tape, and nothing had been mentioned, so I thought it was free to use. Thankfully, ITV3 bailed me out […]
Tony Benn* currently has a slender lead over Mrs Thatcher in the Politics Show "Political Heroes". Votes close in 3 days, so get your vote in sooner rather than later.
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Gerry Robinson (ex-Granada, ex-Allied Domecq) has spent 6 months looking into the NHS. There’s a TV series on it starting this week, that I intend to follow, but there’s also a little taster from yesterday’s Telegraph.
It sounds like Gerry’s investigations show the same attitude I sense when I go into hospitals….
The theatres simply weren’t being […]
A comment that is worthy of mention from Tim Worstall’s Blog…
Those people who like maths and would like their children to have some exposure before adulthood should tune their TV’s to channel Five for the "Royal Institution Christmas Lectures" - primes are covered in the second episode. I believe the BBC are running repeats of […]
What are you, dear readers lining up for your Christmas viewing?
I suspect that a lot of mine is going to be on DVD, but I’ve only got 3 things planned for the recorder:-
Royal Institution Lectures. Marcus du Sautoy on numbers.
New Years Day Concert from Vienna.
Harry Hill’s Christmas TV Burp. I normally avoid christmas specials, but […]
There’s an article by Carol Midgely in The Times about Christmas TV
I have here, you see, the Christmas TV schedules from 1976, exactly 30 years ago, … But the main, juicy film offering from the BBC is Oliver! with Ron Moody, which, fabulous though it is, even then was nine years old….
The thing is that […]
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