A momentous occasion demands a worldwide audience. Or at least both a US/Canada and UK audience.
Sky1 will broadcast the finale of Lost at the same time as ABC in the US.
So whilst ABC are showing it at 7/6c Sunday evening in the US. Sky1 and Sky1 HD will also be broadcasting at the same time here in Blighty, 5am Monday.
4:30am wakeup call on Monday peeps, get that coffee ready!
Source: TechRadar
It’s official, ABC have canned FlashForward. But no word yet on the sets being destroyed, so if the will is there, the producers could take it to another network.
Obvious choice would be SyFy where it would receive some decent commitment to let its story develop, though a much lower budget.
I don’t think NBC would take it as they’re still smarting from their experience with Heroes, and we need NBC to minimise their risks so that Chuck can continue to grow.
CBS perhaps? Not really their bag though. And you might as well just bury it six feet under rather than let "Fox (Serial Series Killers) get their mitts on it.
It is still bewildering how ABC make these decisions considering that FlashForward has been a world-wide phenomenon. Ok maybe the US viewing figures aren’t as good as they could be, but ABC have to be raking in serioous cash from overseas.
Perhaps if overseas markets were willing to pay extra for a second season, it would be renewed. But that’s a big perhaps, in the current financial situation they’d be wanting to pay less.
Shame…
At long blooming last!
The BBC Trust has approved Project Canvas, the next-generation IPTV platform designed to provide a unified method of delivering BBC, ITV, C4 and Five programmes to the UK.
Delivery over broadband gives Canvas UK wide coverage from day 1. So no wonder Sky and Virgin are bothered. Maybe this will give the incumbants the kick up the jacksy they need to innovate in their offerings.
Sky could have been delivering IPTV for a couple of years now, they’ve seriously dragged their feet.
And Virgin are only starting to roll out their IP-based network.
Canvas has BT and TalkTalk as partners, arguably the two biggest names in UK broadband, so the future’s looking bright.
Now where’s my Canvas box? I fancy some beta-testing!
The classic anti-drugs campaign, twisted:
This is your brain.
This is your brain on drugs.
This is your brain on speed.
This is your brain in stilettos.
This is your brain in a thong…
New put-down:
I'm not saying the guy is odd, but he spends all day searching Google… and the letters C O and K look faded on his keyboard...
Did any of you hear PM Gordon Brown's speech yesterday when he was dribbling on about the new 3rd generation of public services...
Was hilarious... tech name-dropping galore...
"I'd like to thank Sir Tim Berners-Lee for his hard work..... and I'd like to thank Martha Lane-Fox for her hard work...."
Was waiting for "I'd like to thank Sir Bill Gates (remember honorary knighthood)... and I'd like to acknowledge Alan Turing.... not forgetting Charles Babbage.... "
Come on, what about Bill Yeager? Daddy of the router! We'd have no internet without Daddy Bill...
About bleeding time!
Yes, the fantastic news all original TiVo UK users have been waiting for. TiVo are coming back to Blighty!
VirginMedia have made the wisest decision ever to team up with TiVo to produce their next generation of cable set-top-boxes with the first units due to appear in 2010.
Sky+ will now get the stiff competition it’s been crying out for. I’d like to think this will spur Sky on to implement viewer ratings, recommendations and intelligent schedule-clash resolution features in the next releases of Sky+ and Sky+HD.
But I doubt it.
Instead Sky will probably just try and market VirginMedia and TiVo’s tie-up to death. The new Virgin+TiVo box won’t be cheap, so Sky will likely start giving Sky+HD boxes away for free with 6 months free HD viewing.
But then again, TiVo have just published their results in the US, they’re not signing up many new customers and are losing lots of existing subscribers.
Could we see NDS swooping in to snap-up TiVo at a bargain price?
Let’s see…
