“No valiant showdown between a small number of larger-than-life geniuses. The battle was lost six months ago, against human fallibility."

"So what did Ofcom do? Naturally, it listened to the public, ignored the uncompetitive rent-seeking proposals from the commercial sector, adhered to EU law, and rejected the proposal. Well, that's what they did in a parallel universe. In this universe, Ofcom accepted the self-serving arguments of the companies they're meant to be regulating, ignored the public whose interests they were meant to be safeguarding, and gave the BBC what it asked for. Why did it do this? It's a secret. But not any more."

"State Administration for Radio, Film & Television said that TV dramas that involve characters traveling back in time “lack positive thoughts and meaning.” The guidelines discouraging this type of show said that some “casually make up myths, have monstrous and weird plots, use absurd tactics, and even promote feudalism, superstition, fatalism and reincarnation.”"

"The biggest weakness of the entire genre is this: the protagonists don't tell us anything interesting about the human condition under science fictional circumstances. The scriptwriters and producers have thrown away the key tool that makes SF interesting and useful in the first place, by relegating "tech" to a token afterthought rather than an integral part of plot and characterization. What they end up with is SF written for the Pointy-Haired [studio] Boss, who has an instinctive aversion to ever having to learn anything that might modify their world-view."

"It shows the keenness of leading players in Britain’s media industry and Government to lobby the quango, which rules on complaints about TV programmes and carves up the radio and mobile phone markets."

"People who read the nonsensical story checked off more letter strings –– clearly they were motivated to find structure," said Proulx. "But what's more important is that they were actually more accurate than those who read the more normal version of the story. They really did learn the pattern better than the other participants did."

"A team of conservationists are having to repair damage caused to a Dorset landmark by an episode of the BBC's Challenge Anneka. Television star Anneka Rice attempted to spruce up the Osmington White Horse landmark in Weymouth in 1989, but 20 years on the repairs are coming undone."

" met Antony at a talk where he effectively sold the idea of the plinth project to me. I dreamt that I would end up standing on the plinth on a Saturday night st 3am and it has come true, weird! I like the idea of a strange snap shot of Britain through all the random people that have been chosen by computer. At least it is a democratic shot in the dark. I currently plan to do a bit of drumming and to resurrect my red character from last Samhuinn."

"I wonder if it ever occurred to these people that the reason the music of these interesting and alternative bands is being recruited is because their fans are now the ones calling the shots. In other words, we have arrived! Of course the ad is trying to sell you something and by using a band you like, attempting to gain your confidence by exploiting the band's integrity for a commercial end. So what? You're not a fuckin' moron are ya? You see through that, don't ya?"

"Bittorrent filenames are often filled with cryptic abbreviations, leaving the uninitiatied puzzled as to what they mean." Eddie explains...

"The BBC's fledgling RAD department - or rapid application development project - has revealed another of its very early stage, prototype working models, this time exploring how to construct a video show designed, from the outset, to be published, pulled apart and shared on the web.

The longer, 30-minute version provides more material for those who want to cut and re-use footage for their own video, but crucially every element of the show's assets in one bundle - at least 27 different elements including the full-length interviews in different video file formats including Quicktime, Flash and Ogg, audio, logos and also metadata files."

"Matroska on the other hand, not only supports H.264, but it also allows you to include data files with your videos. This means that you can create a video file that includes options like DVD menus, closed captioning data and subtitles for global audiences. It also allows you to include multiple video files into a single download. This would allow a content creator to take one of their popular videos and bundle less well known content along with it. Whether it’s including things like Director commentary and bonus scenes with a download or having the ability to attach an upcoming pilot episode to a more popular season finale download, there are many different ways that content creators can leverage this technology in order to create a more compelling video experience for their fans."

"Al Jazeera Network today announced the world's first repository of broadcast quality video footage released under the ‘Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution’ license. Select Al Jazeera video footage – at this time footage of the War on Gaza - will be available for free to be downloaded, shared, remixed, subtitled and eventually by users and TV stations across the world with acknowledgement to Al Jazeera."

Did watching the 2nd and 3rd debates give you a feeling of déjà vu? This montage of synced-up footage from all three presidential debates confirms our deep-seated belief that every debate was exactly the same.""

"The MAKE stage has gotten a whole lot bigger! Coming to public television stations across America, Make: television brings the spirit and energy of the magazine to TV sets in beautiful HD."

Vice Presidential Debate coverage rockrolled

"The most senior judge in Saudi Arabia has said it is permissible to kill the owners of satellite TV channels which broadcast immoral programmes."

"FOX NEWS EXCLUSIVE: Enjoy our FREE photo samples from FOX News below! We have over 10 years of the hottest babes on TV."

"The communications ministry is pouring 300 million yen into the NHK project to develop and launch a higher quality 33.2 million pixel broadcast standard by 2015."

"This will allow, by 2017, the eventual conversion of all the Freeview transmission to high definition. In ten years, it expected that the entire Freeview service could be transformed to high definition."

"TiVo is using XMPP now instead. ... Yep, TiVo is basically using instant messaging for real-time communication. Now when the TiVo server has a new recording to schedule, it will IM the TiVo to tell it. ... It is really a clever idea."

"Viacom has put online the entire eight year archive of its top rating comedy series, Daily Show with Jon Stewart, in a move which will be closely watched by all the major networks, advertisers, telcos and the burgeoning new media video industry."

"The BBC has also confirmed that users of Apple Mac and Linux machines will be able to use its TV catch-up service from the end of the year."

"Michael Fish's infamous weather forecast 20 years ago today, in which he seemed to scotch rumours of a hurricane, has gone down in broadcasting history. There's only one problem - that wasn't what happened"

"Women own 28 percent of all non-farm businesses in the US, while minorities own 18 percent of such businesses. When it comes to TV and radio, though, Free Press found that these percentages plummet."

"Its composer Ronnie Hazlehurst died this week and a story about a hidden meaning within that famous score, deciphered by Morse code, was mentioned in some obituaries."

"This "Wiki" is a catalogue of the tricks of the trade for writing scripts. We dip into the cauldron of story and place it in front of you to read."

"The Chuckle Brothers - AKA Barry and Paul Chuckle - celebrate 20 years of their BBC children's show ChuckleVision this week."

"It seems to me that the purpose of this show is to effect a morbid and depressing display of dysfunctional people whose lives are in turmoil." He added that it was "human bear-baiting which goes under the guise of entertainment".

"Field then continued, “If mothers ruled the world, there would be no –” But the Fox Emmycast cut off her sound and pointed the camera away from the stage, silencing the rest of her sentence: “god-damned wars in the first place.”"

“There have been two or three reports of public executions of North Korean young people in major cities including Chungjin, as punishment for having illegally copied and distributed South Korean visual material,”

Free video clips from Comedy Central including The Daily Show and The Colbert Report.

"The BBC is being threatened with an anti-trust challenge in Europe over its use of the Windows Media format in its on demand service, iPlayer, which is in the final stages of testing."

Justin's Star Trek plot generator. Had me in stitches.

"The Revolution Will Not Be Televised ... is a 2002 documentary about the April 2002 Venezuelan coup attempt which briefly deposed Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. A [Irish] television crew ... happened to be recording a documentary about Chávez during

"These animations (NSFW) are French ads promoting AIDS awareness and condom use. They are pretty entertaining, and well done. The sex scenes are hillarious. The straight version is above, the gay version below. Enjoy."

"Mosquito killer with UV-bulb, 27 watt, quality tested, high-efficiency killing, painless and hygienic, free of chemicals, environmentally-friendly."

"One thing is finally beginning to shake up popular attitudes to fatness - the explosion of Arab satellite channels obliterating the monopoly held until recently by the state channel. ... They said they want to be 'a normal size' like the Lebanese pop sta

"When advertising became about image rather than facts, adverts for the most part ceased to make truth-claims at all."

"Dot Cotton isn't very well... but wait, who's this? The doctor from Jam? She's not well at all. Video by the Media Lounge."

"At the end of the show, I concluded with this remark: 'The weirdest thing about weird people may be how normal they are.'"

Incredibly sample worthy.

10 rather good videos from 2006.

Woopsy!

I love you Apocalypse Ponies!

Feckin' 'ell.

On why Lost sucks (atm?).

DigiGuide Lite TV listings software. Handy.

"Hoot's mon there's juice, loose aboot this hoose."

"Ever been in a club when a new Tupac record is released?"

Ananova v2 using Half-Life 2 and a Google News style news aggregation system?

A video mashup of Desperate Housewives and Micky Mouse.

"I think I'll stick with a four"

"There is more than drugs in that house."

"At this moment, it looks like the uppity Wiki elite have taken all of "useless trivia" out, but we painstakingly copied all of the removed information (via the entry's history) and have it for you below."

The Colbert Report: The Complete First Season

A rather good anime torrent tracker.

A popular US TV show references the CDC and BO in explaining '1337'.

"The Internet TV charts track the most popular video clips from four leading Internet TV sites."

Online TV listings for the UK.

Silly mashup of the Star Trak and Simpsons themes.

Bit of a FUD article, but the comments are rather informative for an LCD vs. plasma comparison.

Lots of information on different video formats and equipment.

Many links to full length documentaries.

For the first time in its history BBC News is opening its archives to the UK public for a trial period. You can download nearly 80 news reports covering iconic events of the past 50 years including the fall of the Berlin Wall, crowds ejecting soldiers fro

"Nobody's Watching", a pilot made for last year's upfronts that was never picked up, is being put back into development by NBC after gaining attention on YouTube.

I'm torn between the exploitative and sexist nature of this video and wishing I was a woman so I could have joined in.

The pilot episode for an American sitcom, Nobody's Watching.

Internet TV app utilising RSS and bittorrent.