Two Days Junk Mail From Virgin Media

They may have been inefficient at fixing my phone problems in the past, but they certainly know how to get junk mail through my door.

Two Days Junk Mail From Virgin Media

I’ve also read, that they still haven’t concluded a deal with BT so that their TV customers can get the matches BT has the rights to.

Most of the junk mail was addressed to that person, who doesn’t live here, the Mr. D.E.A.R. Householder.

Anything, marked without my name is instantly put into the green sack for recycling. Perhaps I should hang one outside for the postman!

BT Are Making A Big Play For Customers

BT seem to be pulling out the stops to get customers to use their broadband services to get sporting TV, and especially football.

BT Are Making A Big Play For Customers

As I’m a customer of BT Vision, I don’t need to do anything.

Jeremy Clarkson Is More Popular Than Hillary Clinton In Iran

This story from the BBC’s web site must be the strangest to come out of Iran in recent months.

It is about how Top Gear is very popular in the country and relates the story of a visit to Kurdistan, by the actor, who dubs our Jeremy into Farsi. Here’s an extract.

The BBC cannot operate freely in Iran, so Top Gear’s popularity is hard to measure. But last year, when PTV dropped an episode to air an exclusive interview with then US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the audience protested bitterly.

I think in some ways that the man or woman on the Teheran omnibus or stuck in the Isfahan traffic jam think about the same things as their equivalemts in New York, Glasgow and Sydney.

Perhaps, Hillary Clinton could be a star in a reasonably priced car to raise her popularity in Iran.

Adverts On The BBC

The only television I watched was BBC World and it was good to see such as Nick Gowing, who I once met on holiday.

However, I was rather fed up with the adverts, for products I weren’t interested in. Although, one was for a mini diabetic meter, much like the device I use to test my INR.  Although it was very small.  It does show the way these devices are going.

I wonder how long before cruise ships such as the Oriana have a digital television service based on Freesat.

The Joke’s On The Recession

We may be in the depth of a recession, but you wouldn’t suss this from the magnificent response of the public to Comic Relief, as reported here  on the BBC.

The First Lesbian Kiss on British Television

Type the title of this post into Google and you get linked to an episode on Brookside.

But this is wrong!

Last night, David Rose in his presentation showed a clip from the play he produced some years earlier called Girl.

This play doesn’t appear to be mentioned on either Wikipedia or the Internet Movie Database.

So the Internet isn’t always right!

A Presentation By David Rose At The Duke Of Wellington

David Rose is one of the most important people in the history of British television and film drama.

Tonight he gave a fascinating and insightful presentation of his work at the Duke of Wellington in the Balls Pond Road.

I remember him in some ways for the work he did in the 1960s with Z-Cars and Softly-Softly. Did Z-Cars and the music scene in Liverpool in some way influence me to go to University in that city?  If it did, David is worth a big thank-you, as I’ve often said that Liverpool made me. I did of course meet C there, although she was fairly local to me in North London.

His later work for the BBC in the 1970s, was not something I remember very much, as it was the time, when we were bringing up the kids and working hard, so we didn’t watch television very much.

If David’s presentation turns up at a venue near you, it is very much worthwhile seeing.

I just wish, I’d seen more of the plays and films he has produced.  Sadly, it would appear that copies don’t exist of all of them, due to the BBC’s policy of reusing videotapes.

How Not To Interview Mo Farah

This article from the Sun, talks about and shows one of worst interviews I’ve ever seen.

It does show what a mild-mannered guy, Mo Farah must be! I wouldn’t have kept so calm!

The Danger Of Religious Fraud

This story is running on BBC’s London News. This is the first part.

TV shows made in London that encourage viewers to believe they are cured of life-threatening illnesses by prayer have been condemned by charities.

Charities criticised an episode of the Miracle Hour show, on Faith World TV, during which a diabetic caller was told he was “set free” from the disease.

“It is particularly dangerous and puts his life at risk,” said African Health Policy Network head Francis Kaikumba.

It strikes me that when people like these make dangerous television programs like this, that the law should get involved.

At least they should be charged with fraud, as that is what it is!

How To Shoot Penguins

I like penguins, and it was one of the reasons, I joined the London Zoo.

But in the new BBC series; Penguins – Spy In The Huddle, which is previewed in the papers today, there does seem to be some amazing shots of everybody’s favourite birds. There is more here in the Daily Mail, which includes a video. The article in The Times is more technical describing how fifty cameras were used, some of which went to a cold watery grave.  One egg camera was even stolen by a sea bird.

I shall be watching on Monday night.  Probably along, with a good proportion of the UK population! the iPlayer was made for television like this.