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- Chris McCausland: Seeing into the Future – an astonishing look at how tech is changing disabled people’s lives | Television | The Guardian theguardian.com
I love having my perspective shaken up. A glass screen with no buttons sounds like the most excluding device imaginable, McCausland acknowledges, yet his phone became the most accessible tool he’s ever used. He’s similarly excited by the Meta Specs – I don’t think that’s what they’re actually called – which are always on and offer live video interpretation, telling you what you’re looking at. Like a phone but, crucially, wearable. “The one thing blind people never have is two hands free,” he observes.
- Is the Latest Daredevil Shake-Up a Sign Marvel TV Will Be ‘Born Again’ — Again? | Rotten Tomatoes editorial.rottentomatoes.com
- It’s time to take a deep breath… theguardian.com
We wrote the first season in the belief that nobody would watch the show. And nobody did, really. Or the second season. It took a global pandemic, and the world’s population sitting at home wondering what they could do, for people to really start paying attention.
“Succession” is a tragedy because breaking the cycle of familial abuse has always been a pipe dream; “Succession” is a comedy because of how the show illustrates that truth. The diamond-sharp scripts are an indelible mix of erudition — bags aren’t big, they’re “ludicrously capacious” — and inarticulate bluster, the Roys stammering in strings of “ums” and “yeahs.” The direction, established by Adam McKay in the pilot and then led by executive producer Mark Mylod, is hyperactive and deliberately un-stylized, focusing on anxious, greedy people rather than the gorgeous spaces they inhabit. Visually, the show looks more like a vérité-style cringe sitcom (such as “The Thick of It,” where Armstrong once worked as a writer) than an escapist fantasy.
- What happens when a story loses a main character? economist.com
- Ted Lasso VFX Breakdowns vimeo.com
In retrospect it seems obvious that a relatively low-budget TV show needing stadium crowd shots during a pandemic would make heavy use of VFX.
By the end of its second episode, I knew that Netflix’s new series “Emily in Paris” was not a lighthearted romantic travelogue but an artifact of contemporary dystopia.
- What Danes consider healthy childrens’ television | Hacker News news.ycombinator.com
- The Wire in HD (updated with video clips) davidsimon.com
<blockquote>while we were filming in 35mm and could have ostensibly “protected” ourselves by adopting wider shot composition in the event of some future change of heart by HBO, the problem with doing so is obvious: If you compose a shot for a wider 16:9 screen, then you are, by definition, failing to optimize the composition of the 4:3 image. Choose to serve one construct and at times you must impair the other.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Does the BBC treasure him? Does it understand the talent it has in its possession? "I don't really think so, no. They don't always say yes. If I say I want to do four hours about brutalism, they'll give me two. The last film we had to do in just 19 days. You can't do any fancy set-ups: no cranes, no dollies. It's not slavery, obviously, but it's much more difficult than it used to be. My subjects are regarded as minoritarian and that's a self-fulfilling prophecy. On BBC2, I used to get 2.5 million to 3 million viewers; now I get a tenth of that on BBC4."</blockquote>
- Raspbmc raspbmc.com
- Armando Iannucci, Writer of “Veep” on HBO : The New Yorker m.newyorker.com
It will help you find shows that others have not only watched, but are talking about. Hopefully it'll throw up a few hidden gems. People's interest, attention and engagement with shows are more important to Shownar than viewing figures; the audience size of a documentary on BBC FOUR, for instance, will never approach that of EastEnders, but if that documentary sparks a lot of interest and comment - even discussion - we want to highlight it.
- Pulse Laser: Shownar schulzeandwebb.com
Shownar tracks millions of blogs and Twitter plus other microblogging services, and finds people talking about BBC telly and radio. Then it datamines to see where the conversations are and what shows are surprisingly popular. You can explore the shows at Shownar itself. It’s an experimental prototype we’ve designed and built for the BBC over the last few months
- Shownar shownar.com
Tracks the online buzz around BBC shows. It's an experimental prototype.
- SnapStream TV Trends snapstream.com
Graph mentions of any word on national U.S. television
- Zattoo | TV meets PC zattoo.com
- Thanks Striking Writers, Online Video Going Up, Up, Up, Up techcrunch.com
According to new figures from Nielsen Online some online video sites have doubled their audience since the strike began.
- TV Converter Program Website dtv2009.gov
US digital -> analogue TV switchover site.
- Online TV Ads Suck Less Than TV Ads On TV: Study techcrunch.com
A new study by Simmons, a unit of Experian Research Services has found that consumers are 47% more engadged by ads that run with television programs viewed online than those watched on a TV set.
"BitTorrent and the like are simply new distribution models and the number of our viewers choosing to view our content this way is as relevant as those still choosing to watch on broadcast television. What’s missing is the definitive business model for
- iPlayer - on GNU/Linux - blog - James Cridland james.cridland.net
Unofficial Flash iPlayer announcement with quick round-up of the competition.
- WetPaint White Labels For Businesses And Brands techcrunch.com
Just Add Wetpaint gives businesses an easy way to generate an official community, as has been done with CSI, Dexter, Tmobile, the always-awesome Myth Busters, and even Oracle.
- 'Quarterlife' Comes to MySpaceTV adweek.com
A day after each segment's initial airing, it also will be presented on Quarterlife.com, a social networking site that Zwick and Herskovitz are starting with an aim to connect young creative people to one another and to the resources they need.
- TechCrunch UK » Blog Archive » Channel 4 launches widget contest uk.techcrunch.com
Platform 4, best described as the geeky arm of UK TV station Channel 4, has announced a widget contest at the WidgetyGoodness conference in Brighton today.
- BT Vision - What's on BT Vision - Download to PC btvision.bt.com
The video content includes a few adverts that play in-show similar to standard TV broadcasts. All of the available films are high quailty and in surround sound.
You can’t skip the ads or remove them without making the film unwatchable. But it does mean the file could go anywhere on the Net and still show adverts based on the user’s preferences when the registered to get the codec.
Cohen credits DVD sales as the force behind Futurama's return. "This new revenue stream saved our neck," he says. "A few years from now, when Internet speeds are better, maybe one person buys it and shares it with a hundred of their friends."
- BBC NEWS | Entertainment | BBC commissions new Aussie soap news.bbc.co.uk
The BBC has commissioned a new daytime Australian soap after losing the long-running show Neighbours in a bidding war with Five.
The lesson learnt by MTV Networks subsidary, Comedy Central, when it made the entire archive of “The Daily Show” available for streaming online, is that Internet TV viewing can lead to more traditional television viewing.
"Rossi declined to disclose how much Verizon paid for the "30 Rock" integration but said that in addition to fees, it provided marketing support for the show with a co-branded ad in Maxim magazine and promotional content on VerizonWireless.com."
"The DVDs basically have a little more material than the episodes will have, but we actually put in a few treats in the episodes that are not on the DVDs, so you know... we want to reward people no matter how they come back to Futurama, we want to give th
- TV is OFF and going ON line trendsspotting.com
77% of today’s online youth would rather live without television than live without the Internet.
- Twitter / SubShootout twitter.com
For Suburban Shootout. Assume it's official. Looks dead.
The new service [...] will be launched in 2008 and will include free downloads, streaming, show rental and purchase via the internet, with possible future expansion onto other platforms.
- TechCrunch UK » Blog Archive » BBC, ITV, Channel 4 to launch joint on-demand web TV uk.techcrunch.com
"Kangaroo will have wide implications for the BBC’s iPlayer and Channel 4’s 4oD service, with the latter being replaced by the new joint service. The smallest UK TV player, Channel 5 (owned by RTL of Germany), is conspicuous by its absence from the ve
- Is snack TV the future? | Review | The Observer observer.guardian.co.uk
On KateModern: "The whole thing is filmed in one take, in five minutes flat at 6pm, in the middle of rush-hour traffic. The film is then posted on the social networking site Bebo, where you can log on daily to catch up on the storylines and post comments.
- Why is the iPlayer a multi million pound disaster? | The Register theregister.co.uk