Thinking about the televised live debate last night between Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Nick Clegg – leaders, respectively, of the Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrats parties – I still have the same view I had after watching it last night: it was a gameshow. See what you think from this 8-minute segment I recorded [...]
Television
A challenge for broadcasters during the election campaign that’s now well underway – the next UK general election takes place on May 6, in just under four weeks’ time – is controlling their broadcasts in terms of what you see on screen and the message being conveyed. Take a look at this screenshot from a [...]
Just like many other people, I watched Tiger Woods on live TV on Friday as he made his public apology for the revelations that emerged about his sex addiction following the car crash he was involved in outside his house last November. I didn’t see all of the eight minutes or so that he spent [...]
European satellite TV company Sky News has launched an iPhone app that enables you to receive the broadcaster’s news and information content on your iPhone or iPod Touch. The free app offers a rich array of content including news, sport, business, weather and more in words, pictures and video. You can sign up to get [...]
Did the first use of Twitter on live TV in the UK happen this morning? These tweets by ITV presenter Phillip Schofield certainly suggest so: I did tune in to “This Morning†for a few minutes after catching the first tweet. I didn’t see the actual moment of tweeting, though. Schofield’s show is not one [...]
In common with thousands of fellow Twitter users, I sat down on the sofa at 10:35pm last night for the first of the continuance of the 15th series of Friday Night With Jonathan Ross, the chat show on BBC1 with the eponymous but recently-disgraced radio and TV presenter. Ross is a Twitter user as is [...]
This ad spot for airline Virgin Atlantic is currently running on TV in the UK: It’s one of the best ads I’ve seen for a long time, one that grabs your attention and keeps it. Once you start watching, you’re hooked. Those 80s icons! Just see how many you can spot, from mobile phones to [...]




