If what I read last week isn’t lying, the ABC has already appointed two people to manage ABC3, a confidence move which will only pay off if Labor gives the channel some money.

By the way – apparently ABC3 has started. Anybody know what’s going on there?

At least Aunty’s not hiding the fact that all this rebranding is copied wholesale from the BBC.

Really, really impressive. Genuinely.

Josh : As a journalist, how do you separate yourself from the people who would obviously also call themselves journalists who are doing these exploitation [pieces]… in [the Britney Spears] case there seems to be a very definite line but there is that chance you’re all going to get lumped into the same batch?

James: I think, as a rule, [conduct endangering lives] would be about where that line is.

Ross: So if Britney came to London, what would you be doing?

James: Christ… Wishing I wasn’t in London [...] I guess we would be doing the story; which means I would be doing a piece to camera from outside whatever hotel she was staying at or wherever else she might be.

Ross: [Or] institution?

James: Yeah, potentially, but I don’t like the thought of that; certainly there’d be no chasing going on.

Josh: Okay, I think that’s an important line; I think that makes a lot of sense.

James: Other people might say that that’s a false line; that we shouldn’t be standing outside whatever institution she’s in either.

Isn’t it possible that the media’s presence outside a mental institution, with all the people, cameras and lights, could be endangering lives?

Sorry James, your commie ethics set you up for this; I’m sure Bryan Seymour and Dylan Howard never struggle with these questions.

Wish I had CNN.

CNN’s doing magic things with a political correspondent standing in front of an interactive plasma screen. He’s using it like an iPhone to highlight – and then sweep away – individual counties in individual states. More numbers than I can get my poor head around!

No sign of a shredder.

dunno where else to put this but here will do:

1) icetv has been updated (but private beta style) and has all the functionality of tivo now..

2) tivo is doing beta testing itself and “you may or may not get to keep the pvr after the trial period”

3) josh’s favourite jeopardy contestant was on this american life this week..

that is all .

pete.

Yet again I find myself on the outside looking in – I actually *liked* Terminator 3. But mostly because it was the last ever properly ‘old school’ action film (i.e. no ridiculous ‘bullet time’ effects, and actual fight choreography rather than fast-cut editing where you can’t tell what is actually happening.)
The series, I haven’t seen (yet), but you’ve managed to make it sound altogether too “A-Team”. Which admittedly isn’t as funny as James’ “Gilligan Island” line, but there you go…

Fourth – I freely admit I don’t really like Sci Fi (with a couple of exceptions), but didn’t you feel Terminator: TSCC was just rehashing the Terminator 2 elements? Suspension of disbelief aside it just felt (to me) like a cynical grab at the Terminator audience.

^Cap of the obtrusive NBC watermark

Starz Cinema
Starz Comedy
Starz Edge

etc.. etc..

Huzzah.

Has anyone noticed Nine has now added little ads to their watermark when they feel like it. Why don’t they be done with it and give up….