Thursday, February 4th, 2010
In ITV’s Corronation Strett, Gail Platt is famous for her lack of success with men: she is now up to marriage number 5! And in true soap style, none of them have ended happily (well, marriages just don’t end happily, do they?).
In marriage number one, Gail Potter became Gail Tilsley. They later divorced after her affair with Ian Latimer, amid Brian’s doubt that he was the father of Sarah-Lou. They later re-married (making this Gail’s second marriage), before Brian was tragically killed in a stabbing. Marriage number 3 was to toy-boy Martin, making her Gail Platt. In this marriage, it is Martin’s second affair that ends the marriage. Thrice bitten, but still not shy, Gail marries the psychopathic murderer Richard, making her Gail Hillman and onto her forth marriage. As viewers will know, this marriage was doomed from the start, as the clearly unhinged Richard plunged the whole family into a canal in a bid to end all of their lives.
And after all of this drama, normal people would think that Gail would give up on the idea of marriage, as she clearly has horrendous taste in men. But nope, man number 5, Joe McIntyre, has popped the question and got her to registry office on time. And now he is trying to fake his own death to get out of debt! And in real Corrie style, this plan is bound to backfire and catch Gail head-on.
Can Gail pick them or what?!
Saturday, January 23rd, 2010
Companies like Verizon and SBC Communications have made attempts to distribute TV content over fibre-optic networks using internet technology. This has proved to be one communication channel competing with cable and satellite to broadcast TV content to homes. IPT (internet protocol television) is now been taken up by Akimbo systems which is attempting to deliver TV over broadband and this comes as a output to your TV rather than computer making it much more appealing. The Akimbo box looks and functions like a TiVO and you need a receiver and a subscription package. Once set up the program is very similar to what you get from cable.
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010
With the technology advancing the internet allows more and more of us to watch television programs online. Companies such as Yahoo have recently announced partnerships with television manufactures as they foresee a trend from the computer to the TV screen. One of the directors quoted that are consumers watch more TV they are demanding Internet connectivity to further the viewing experience. Online programs are known as widgets. Web Capable televisions would be embedded which in turn would allow more video on demand, social networks, games and online shopping.
Sunday, January 17th, 2010
In the UK the government has set up a body to regulate the content of advertising and broadcasted content. The restrictions have applied since the early days of TV and as a result only ITV, Channel 4 and 5 can show an average of 7 minutes of advertising per hour. As a result any of the programs from the US have to be edited to as the TV breaks were originally intended for US channels and US advertising breaks. The rules for advertising extend to which programs can or cannot have adverts – such as the news or current affairs program, documentaries and programs for children.
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010
Most people think of the need for a TV license if they watch TV on a plasma, or ‘normal’ tv. However as technology progresses, new developments also make it possible to watch TV on more devices than ever – as such you still need to check If you are properly licensed. If you watch any programme while it’s being broadcasted then by law you still need to be licensed even if it’s via the internet, mobile or any other device. However, if you use the on demand services that are now available such as the ITV I Player, 4 on Demand or the BBC’s version. The same rules apply if you use a video or DVD recorder to watch or record programmes as they are shown on TV.
Thursday, January 7th, 2010
The content of what you see on television is normally financed by the government, advertising, licensing (in the UK, this is the TV license) or subscription such as BT vision, Sky or Cable. To ensure that only the individuals that have paid receive the channels TV channels are usually encrypted and they receive a decryption code to see that signal. Those channels which are free are not encrypted and known as Free to air. The use of Televisions to advertise to the public is a great way of creating publicity and for producers to fund their programming, and networks and stations sell blocks of broadcast time for advertisements.
Monday, November 30th, 2009
It’s the final episode of Series 1 tonight in Flash Forward on channel 5 at 9 o’clock and from what I have been hearing its not one to be missed with an explosive finish guaranteed. In the last episode Bryce began his search for the woman in his flash forward in which he came so close to meeting and I am sure tonight’s episode will see them meet, Aaron becomes concerned over Tracy’s odd behavior, Mark attempts to track down the person responsible for texting Olivia and outing his drinking during his flash forward vision, and Demetri’s co-agents try to find the mysterious caller who forewarned him about his unfortunate fate.
Monday, November 30th, 2009
When you ask many working people what their ideal weekend is the response you here time after time is chilling in with a nice drink whether alcoholic or not watching xfactor. It seems to take over so many people’s life on the weekend and the worst thing is they then come in Monday morning and ask did you watch xfactor and start to go on about it. It was estimated that The X Factor’s top five performances show drew 12.3m (47.8%) for ITV1 between 8pm and 9.45pm on Saturday night, according to early figures.
I mean the stats say it all there is some seriously sad people out there would not mind if the acts where good but this year it has been very poor. I think there should be Celebrity xfactor where the sing off against each other and the public vote of the worse performance at least this way the music will be better.
Monday, November 30th, 2009
Many people say you either love him or hate him and i agree but i am not talking about the STIG here nor James May but Jeremy Clarkson. Over the past few weeks he has been everywhere on the radio, TV with Jonathon Ross, papers regarding incidents at work. I have to admit he can be very arrogant but i think this is just how he is personally i love the show and way Clarkson presents at times it puts me in hysterics and hope that the show continues for many years to come and that Clarkson heads the show.
Friday, November 27th, 2009
I often have this conversation with my friends regarding what the best TV series to come on TV and we always end up arguing one i tell you my top five you tell me what you think:
1. 24
2. Heroes
3 Lost
4. Flash Forward
5. Prison Break
Yes that’s right my number one is the 24 has to be the best out of the lot it was an entertaining action drama but lost me a bit when it went over to SKY1. The new series on Channel 5 on Mondays Flash forward is only up to its first Series here in the UK but has already attracted allot of attention and is defiantly one to watch out for. What’s your top 5?