Last of the Summer Wine

Back for another series in 2010. The worlds longest running sitcom - somehow, the BBC wouldn't be the same without it.

News article here courtesy Digital Spy

Setanta loses Football Deal

Just been announced on the BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8109954.stm

I wonder if ITV might take the risk, the gamble in going for it? It's been a long time since that level of football was on terrestrial, 'free' television, and I wonder if it might be worth a punt from them for the potential revenue it may bring in?

Big Brother 10 UK

Just realised that I don't know the name of ANY contestant in this years Big Brother.

Amazingradio!

Just turning to DAB radio at the moment. It seems on the Digital One multiplex that the Birdsong channel has gone and been replaced by Amazingradio, which promises to play nothing but unsigned bands. It's set for a six month trial on the national multiplex and probably needs the best luck in the world to be honest to succeed!

The website is here - www.amazingradio.co.uk

Now, where is the 24 hour news and information station on DAB that has been promised for years? That really would be amazing.

Another ITV Diatribe

Following on from my previous post.

Krypton Factor It!

In the days when ITV had regions and wasn't the corporate one body mess it is now.

With little features like this, it shows the pride that ITV had in it's regional "sum of all parts" structure. Sad that it's all gone due to greed, incompetence and negligence.

Harry Worth

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaTxTPAMduM

(unfortuntely the embedding has been switched off for this video)

Another fine find from Youtube.

Harry Worth was very popular in the 1960s but seems forgotten amongst the gems of Steptoe and Till Death. A great deal of his stuff is missing from the archives, but this is quite a funny example of his work. He wasn't there to change the world ala Speight and Garnett, just to entertain.