Posted by Simon Perry on 26 January 2007 | Tagged as: Content, TV related, Shift to Web delivery, UK, Analysis, TV programme review
Why are Channel 4 damaging the trust they need to have with their viewers - and all over Big Brother? Give us a Big Break.
Posted by Mike Slocombe on 30 January 2006 | Tagged as: Content, Web, TV programme review
In a first for a UK terrestrial broadcaster, Channel 4 premieres new series on the Internet, before its TV showing.
Posted by Heidi Jacoby-Ackland on 25 October 2004 | Tagged as: Web, Content, Digital TV, Cross platform, TV programme review, Satellite TV, Gaming
Many feel that words “TV drama” and “interactivity” have no place in the same sentence unless “don’t do” also appear. Heidi Jacoby-Ackland looks into how the BBC is try to change that with the third series of Spooks.
Posted by Fraser Lovatt on 28 September 2004 | Tagged as: Content, Licensing, TV programme review, Software
After-school animated heroes Roobarb and Custard will be back on our screens, with hand-drawn animation faithful to the original.
Posted by Fraser Lovatt on 18 August 2004 | Tagged as: Content, Mobile, TV programme review
Music, puppets and drunk yoof with mobiles – it’s got revenue SMS’d all over it.
Posted by Heidi Jacoby-Ackland on 15 October 2003 | Tagged as: Business, Cross platform, TV programme review, Reviews
Fightbox is the BBC’s new computer-graphics-meet-humans TV show that premiered on Monday.
A true cross-platform creation - initially released as PC software, to allow the audience to create the characters and automate the elimination rounds, it is now a TV show and next it will be moving to a pay-for computer game.
The BBC have provided a tool kit for a TV show enabling the contenstants to provide most of the content. Heidi Jacoby-Ackland follows up on her preview by reviewing the results.
Posted by Heidi Jacoby-Ackland on 13 October 2003 | Tagged as: Uncategorized, Business, TV programme review, Industry Trends, Gaming, Computer-Centric
Program your Tivo now. Fightbox, the BBC’s new cross-platform interactive programme, is coming to a TV near you. Robot Wars meets The Sims-on-performance-enhancing-drugs, the BBC publicity machine is very keen to emphasise that Fightbox is a TV first. What, exactly, is Fightbox though? Is it the logical future of entertainment? …
Posted by Heidi Jacoby-Ackland on 18 September 2003 | Tagged as: Content, TV programme review
A Great Idea Poorly Executed
