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Archive for September, 2008

Last week, a bunch of us from Channel 4 and OMD (not Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark but our media agency) had a session to discuss how we promote the new version of channel4.com that will be launching towards the end of the year. The new site will be all about Channel 4 TV shows, the linear TX and [...]

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On Friday night, the new Gaelic TV channel, BBC Alba, finally launched.

Long pushed for, the channel has been the focus of many movers and shakers in the Gaelic media/political/activist world for nigh on 20 years. Since the early 1990s, the BBC and STV were forced by an Act of Parliament to [...]

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Anything but by any means

Sam Wollaston savaged By Any Means, the BBC1 series where Charley Boorman travels from Ireland to Australia using any method of transport except commercial flights.
Without wanting to re-hash Sam’s argument (which is neatly summed up as who the hell is Charley Boorman anyway, and why is he on my telly?), it was an utterly baffling and irritating programme. 
What [...]

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