gamebunny (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009 | TV
STAR TREK ONLINE: According to a post at Eurogamer, Atari and Cryptic have confirmed February, 2010 as the debut date for STAR TREK ONLINE. It seems almost unbelievable that a Star Trek-based MMO will finally be released in just a few short months. When I launched gamebunny back in 2001, a Trek MMO was rumored and [...]
The Guardian - TV & Radio blog (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009 | TV
Why can't UK television drama compete with the best of the American shows? Thriller writer Peter Jukes has written an angry piece for Prospect about why British TV has lost its way so badly that it could never hope to produce a series like The Wire . It's familiar but still interesting stuff. The breakup of the old US network cartel and competition from cable channels such as HBO has been good for...
Outside the Beltway (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009 | TV
Nell Scovell, one of a handful of women who has ever worked as a comedy writer for David Letterman — or any of the late night comic talk shows — contends that an atmosphere of sexual harassment routinely exists on those shows: Without naming names or digging up decades-old dirt, let’s address the pertinent questions. Did [...]
Anorak News (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009 | TV
One day on from news that Simon Cowell is to investigate stories that X Factor’s ‘Bronze Age Will Young’ Danyl Johnson has been mean to Stacey Solomon, comes news of a living hell
Peter Black AM (Free subscription) | 25/10/2009 | TV
I don't want to harp on about Nick Griffin's appearance on Question Time, after all that is the only thing the mainstream media can talk about, but I did want to draw attention to this page on Channel Four's website . They have fact-checked the BNP's pronouncements on the programme and concluded like the rest of us that he was being economical with the actualité: the claim "Guided tours...
The Quantum Pontiff (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009 | TV
Two notes on chairs. Michael Green is the new Lucasian chair of Mathematics replacing the esteemed Stephen Hawking. Green helped sparked the great optimism in string theory by discovering with John Schwarz the Green-Schwarz anomaly cancellation mechanism . Elsewhere, the Perimeter Institute has named ten new distinguished research chairs , among them a host of the quantum computing afflicted: Dorit...
VideoGamer.com (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009 | TV
Closed beta 'right around the corner'.
Charlie's Diary (Free subscription) | 13/10/2009 | TV
I have a confession to make: I hate Star Trek. Let me clarify: when I was young — I'm dating myself here — I quite liked the original TV series. But when the movie-length trailer for ST:TNG first aired in...
normblog (Free subscription) | 08/10/2009 | TV
Oy, a grunk un a schlunk, bedetz! It's another move towards taking over the world. A somewhat Jewish person, Haim Saban, is bidding to buy half of the Al-Jazeera satellite network. Hmmm... I wonder if I could interest him in...
The HR Capitalist (Free subscription) | 06/10/2009 | TV
Surely you didn't think I'd let the Letterman situation go unchecked, did you? If you've lived in a hole for the past week, you missed the disclosure by David Letterman that he's had relationships with several women who have been...
Pickled Politics (Free subscription) | 06/10/2009 | TV
Sunny and others have argued that Anton Du Beke should not be sacked, because he apologised for the use of ‘Paki’, and because it wasn’t meant in a malicious way. I have some sympathy for the latter, but what most people seem to have missed is that Mr. Du Beke did not apologise. He issued [...]
Biased BBC (Free subscription) | 04/10/2009 | TV
Today the BBC told the Telegraph that an "unnamed producer" was responsible for an outburst of swearing on yesterday's Morning Reports on Radio Five Live. I noted yesterday that a couple of tweets suggested that the racing correspondent Cornelius Lysaght was to blame. Compare the f-bomb clip with the one of Cornelius Lysaght taken from Radio Five Live today. Is it the same person? If it is...
UruK---Wonderful World & metakrisis (Free subscription) | 01/10/2009 | TV
Mohamed ElBaradei says Iran was 'on the wrong side of the law' but rejects British intelligence claims Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Egyptian Mohamed ElBaradei Mohamed ElBaradei, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said British claims of an Iranian nuclear weapons programme were unfounded. Photograph: Roland Schlager/EPA The UN's chief weapons...
Pink Is The New Blog (Free subscription) | 26/09/2009 | TV
Sad news for fans of Ashton Kutcher’s new primetime drama The Beautiful Life: TBL … all 3 of you. The CW has decided to cancel the series after airing only 2 eps. Plagued by poor ratings from the start, the drama which stars Mischa Barton didn’t really have a chance. And so, [...]
Althouse (Free subscription) | 24/09/2009 | TV
Glenn Reynolds is pretty sure ACORN is falling into a trap. Yes, it's almost as if the real point of the videos was to provoke a lawsuit that would open ACORN to the legal intrusions of discovery. And of course, Giles and O'Keefe will get even more publicity, and it shouldn't be hard for them to attract aggressive legal counsel and a hefty litigation fund. And here's Barney Frank on O'Reilly today:...
