Category: Television
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Wednesday’s SCMP had a short piece about the English Premier League coverage moving from Cable TV to Now Broadband TV (Premier League loss not end of world for i-Cable): Badge of honour At Now TV, meanwhile, executives are proud of their Premiership coup, but they can’t talk about it as much as they like because Cable…
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Yesterday I was watching an episode from towards the end of series three of Six Feet Under, and Nate was complaining that Lisa (his wife) always played the Wiggles to their baby daughter – not that I can ever recall hearing the singing of the improbably cheerful Australians on any previous episode in this series of the show. Then…
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I see that my estimable colleague Fumier QC has beaten me to the punch in reviewing the local version of Deal or No Deal. I watched a few minutes of it last Sunday night, and although I have never seen the British version (which stars the formerly ubiquitous Noel Edmonds) it only took a few…
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The problem with the final task in The Apprentice is that by this stage we (normally) already know who’s going to win, and it’s quite a challenge for that person to make such a big mess that it makes any difference. Tana did manage it in series three – she looked the most likely winner…
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It appears that Now Broadband TV have secured the rights to the English Premier League from next season (from yesterday’s Standard). Their initial bid was significantly higher than anyone else, so under the rules of the auction there will be no 2nd round, and they are now in exclusive negotiations with the EPL to finalise…
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The fifth season of The Apprentice has now finished its run on TVB Pearl. As usual, the final task was split over two shows (though thankfully this time the second part was only 90 minutes). First, though, there was week 13, in which Roxanne and Allie were both fired for their hopeless performance. The…
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It never ceases to amaze me the way that contestants on The Apprentice "over-think" the tasks they are given. The classic example was when they were asked to promote a product in a sports store and one team put on a great event but actually reduced the sales of the product compared to a normal…
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As of yesterday, BBC Prime on Now Broadband TV became BBC Entertainment. However, as I expected, it appears that this is mainly a re-branding exercise, with a few minor changes to the schedule – though it’s hard to tell because although there is a bbcentertainment.com website, it redirects to bbcprime.com and if you select Hong…
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The BBC is to replace BBC Sub-Prime with a new channel, BBC Entertainment. It’s not at all clear what this might mean (after all, BBC Prime is already supposed to an entertainment channel) but I suppose we can hope for fewer old sitcoms starring Geoffey Palmer and something more modern instead. The BBC will also…
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It’s fairly obvious that when they choose contestants for The Apprentice it’s more about casting than it is about picking the best candidates. In the early weeks the "characters" provide some entertainment, cause trouble, and then get fired. Hence (as I mentioned before), this time around we had a fat bloke with glasses (Brent) and…
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