Category: Television
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It’s week 3 of The Apprentice on BBC Knowledge. Miriam and Adele return from the boardroom. They embrace Rachel, who says “well done” and then grimaces. Presumably because her friend got fired, whilst they survived. Saira is talking sense, for once: “The dynamics of the group are four loud-mouthed girls. We will be sitting in…
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Sorry, I'm a bit late with this. The first series of The Apprentice continues on BBC Knowledge on Monday nights, and this is week two. Usual introduction. This time Sir Alan tell us that Nick and Margaret are going to stick to the teams like glue. Hmmm, that could be tricky. Anyway, the task is…
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“As far as I am concerned, what I have in front of me here, are 14 of Britain’s best prospects. Quite a few thousand people applied for this job. A job with me” says Sir Alan. Sebastian smiles ruefully, and wonders whether he (or any of them) really want to work for the man they…
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BBC Knowledge is finally bringing the UK version of The Apprentice to Hong Kong (Mondays at 9.20 pm starting tonight). I have mentioned this version of the show once or twice before (notably here), and I have to say that I prefer it to the Trump original (much more on The Apprentice here). The US…
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By general consent, the English Premier League is the #1 league in the world, as demonstrated by the fact that PCCW paid a small fortune to secure the exclusive rights to show the games in Hong Kong. Yet Cable TV apparently know better, and has decided that its viewers are more interested in La Liga,…
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Stupid choices – the Rugby Sevens in high definition (on Jade HD), but with no English commentary, or with a fuzzy picture and an English commentary on Pearl. Why couldn’t TVB arrange for an English soundtrack to be available on Jade HD?
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Hong Kong's digital terrestrial TV isn't as bad as I had been led to believe. So what about Now TV HD? Well, it's not very good, I'm afraid to say. For a start, the choice of channels is very limited – HD versions of Discovery and National Geographic, something called Voom TV, and the sports…
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I am rather surprised by this, but I think I have to report that digital tv in Hong Kong isn’t as bad as some people have suggested. The digital channels have been allocated to TVB and ATV. TVB’s Jade HD is one of the two high-definition channels, and (no surprise here) it is basically a…
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The Standard reports that “a pay tv operator” wants to be allowed to re-transmit the digital channels on its network: If successful, the change would be a boon for i-CABLE Communications’ Cable TV service and PCCW’s Now TV, essentially expanding their content offerings for free and allowing their subscribers to watch the Olympics in digital…
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It’s progress of a sort, but it’s no use to those us who live outside the UK. The BBC is going to start selling downloads of shows through the UK iTunes store. Which means that if you forgot to watch a show, and you forgot to record it, and you couldn’t be bothered to watch…
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