This kind of thing seems to have increasingly seeped into what's supposed to be tv news programming. One of these days, we great unwashed will be asked for our opinion on a topic and actually have something interesting to say. Though I secretly expect that the really impressive stuff is left on the computer and it's the bland comments, unlikely to offend anyone which are actually read out on air.
Customer service fail, especially since Warner Music don't have been asked directly for their opinion in the first place. I recently asked Spotify by Madeleine Peyroux's album Bare Bones isn't with them yet, but haven't got a reply. Perhaps that's the better policy.
Pretty good survey which covers all the bases and even mentions Julie Taymor's Titus. To the list I'd add My Kingdom, which is King Lear in Liverpool gangland and the most recent A Midsummer Night's Dream, the one with Kevin Kline as Bottom and Michelle Pfeiffer as Titania. It's an underrated piece of magic.
I keep meaning to write my long post about what's gone wrong with BBC Two though it largely amounts to some numptiness about it almost completely losing its identity, having become the scheduling dumping ground for programmes which don't seem quite right on any of the BBC's other stations or for rerunning shows that do. Oh and not being able to do much as their successes are poached to put up on the main channel more often than not because they probably should have been there in the first place.
It should be as distinctive as Radio Four. You should be able to look at one of its programmes and say 'That's very BBC2" but even with some of their drama output I'm not sure that you can. In this post at their blog, they show that the key to their success is varying the theme with banded programming expectations.
What looks to be the whole of the general introduction to the Oxford edition of my joint favourite Shakespeare masterpiece and given the news which is coming out of Pakistan recently in relation to the Taliban, a play that is as relevant as ever.
Largely a York Notes version of Adventures in the Screen Trade though there's an interesting bit of gossip: Slumdog Millionaire nearly went straight to dvd. Which just confirms that no one knows anything, especially these days.
Star Wars fan watches the ten Star Trek films all together. Has most of the same opinions about them as the rest of us. Especially about The Final Frontier. "What does God need with a starship?" etc.
"I have this fear of telegraph poles, and I’ve been planning out a short story based on it, but I thought that in the mean time I’d tell you all about my actual fear, and how it came about."
Man reads out someone else's blog posts about Lost claiming they're his own. Is found out. Seems to go into hiding, whilst some of his fans mount a defence suggesting that since the person he ripped off was writing about someone else's tv show and using some of their material in the process, she's as guilty as he is of plagiarism, thereby illustrating they've not sure of the difference between plagiarism and fair use.
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