Tonight, having decided that rather than watch episode by episode, we’d watch in one go, we sat down to watch the whole of The Passion, the BBC and HBO co-production that aired in the UK in four episodes over Holy Week. (As an aside, the slightly odd one hour, thirty minutes, one hour, thirty minutes [...]

After weeks of only having shaky in-cinema recordings of the preview trailer, the BBC have posted a copy of the Doctor Who Season 4 trailer to YouTube – less than two weeks to go now, April 5th is the date for the diary.

There is a brief glimpse of the Sontarans fighting UNIT soldiers, giant wasps [...]

In amongst the great news that Formula 1 is returning to the BBC – no more ad breaks mid-race – and some interesting discussion as to why the broadcaster is changing mid-contract – is another discussion about who will host the programme. Steve Rider, who hosted the programme for the BBC previously, has only [...]

If you happen to read the BBC Internet Blog, the picture that has appeared today on one of their postings might be familiar, especially if you’ve read my post about the BBC iPlayer. One interesting thing I’ve learnt from the e-mail exchange with the BBC guy who asked to use the picture though, Apple apparently [...]

I’m not sure whether it’s because the BBC has been stung by the criticism over their handling of the Mac in relation iPlayer, or the official explanation which is that it’s the highest quality portable device, but yesterday the BBC launched the iPlayer for the iPhone and iPod Touch ahead of versions for any of [...]

It’s been about eight years now since I ditched the bunch of muppets at Lloyds TSB in favour of Smile, the Internet bank from the Co-operative. Quite apart from their ethical banking policy, they offer decent rates on their accounts, and more than that running the account is a minimum of hassle.
Tonight, Watchdog on the [...]

One of the things you learn pretty quickly looking at the statistics for your blog is that the most surprising posts are popular, and that for no apparent reason, posts suddenly get a burst of popularity.
That kind of thing periodically happens with the BBC News site, that lists the most read and most e-mailed articles [...]

One of the biggest criticisms of the BBC iPlayer has been that the download service is Windows only – and limited to specific versions at that – ruling out licence payers using other platforms such as the Mac. Indeed I’ve blogged previously about the pressure that the BBC is under by the BBC Trust to [...]

Hat tip to Ian over at Youthblog for pointing out the Panorama tonight – One Click from Danger.
I’ve blogged several times before about various aspects of online safety, in particular Bebo and Myspace including the irony of the fact that on the one hand we’ve had regular concerned parents asking us not to put pictures [...]

So here we are in 2008 – and the PM programme has kicked off the year with an interview about the same old Anglican story – but of course that is because this year comes another crunch point with the Lambeth Conference. The item today is a seven minute segment interviewing Katherine Jefferts Schori, the [...]

Okay, was anyone else surprised to see the Titanic sailing around in orbit in the Voyage of the Damned teaser trailer?

So since I have a nice little device that can play video, I’ve been trawling through all the old video clips I have sitting around to try them out. One item I came across was this, our fifteen minutes of fame from early 2003 back when Inside Out interviewed us about Geocaching (see their page [...]

It was good to see that the BBC Trust are getting tough with the BBC over their iPlayer project. The BBC have said that they may not do a download service for anything other than PC’s, offering only a streaming service for other platforms. The BBC Trust have come back saying that iPlayer was only [...]

Apparently after faking the results of one competition, it has been revealed that producers of Blue Peter have again deceived the public with a story that their new cat, Socks, wasn’t the name that was selected in an online poll.
Having said that, dig into the story a little bit, and you’ll actually find it was [...]

We got back from Canada to what is possibly confirmation that David Tennant is leaving Doctor Who at the end of the next series – Beth being a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company had a copy of their 2008 brochure sitting waiting, confirming this Daily Mail story from July, David Tennant is to play [...]

So after a disappointing finale, and a couple of major announcements about the series, a number of fans can hear the sounds of Fonzie readying a pair of water ski’s… All of this is more amazing following on mere weeks from the triumphs that were Human Nature, Family of Blood and Blink.
So what has brought [...]

Quite often with two part stories, the second part is by far the weakest, almost as if the writers had put everything into a spectacular cliff-hanger, and then don’t know what to do with part two. With Human Nature being such a great first part, coming to part two there was a definite question mark [...]

Another Eurovision, and another block vote spectacular!

For a long while it looked as though the UK was heading for a repeat of their ‘nul points’ performance by Jemini in the 2003 contest. In the end a grand total of two out of the forty-two voting countries actually gave us points – the two countries that [...]

So blow the whole cliff-hanger why don’t you… There is a comment from Russell T that he couldn’t very well turn down a Radio Times cover, which I guess is true, but you can do it without blowing the entire climax of the episode by doing so!
Anyway, aside from having the shocking revelation of the [...]

The BBC doesn’t quite seem to know what to do with Sea of Souls. After the first series they replaced two out of the three major characters, and in series three they went from three two part stories in the series to six single episode stories. ‘Series 4′ which was shown this week on BBC1 [...]