Archive for the 'Entertainment' Category

Robin Hood Returns

17/09/2006

Robin Hood returns to television shortly after an absence of 20 years. Coming this autumn (no specific date yet), the BBC will launch a new series called, surprisingly, Robin Hood. It looks to be following the plot of Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves by having Robin return from the crusades to find an [...]

iTunes Top 10 Classical Music Downloads

15/09/2006

I’m a fan of some classical music, but I’m not sure which. I hear some stuff on the radio or a movie soundtrack and like it but couldn’t tell you who it was or track them down. I’ve been meaning to try and get hold of a CD called something like ‘Popular Classical [...]

Done the Impossible

24/08/2006

Over the weekend I learnt about, downloaded and watched a documentary called Done the Impossible all about the fans of Firefly and Serenity. I’ve written before about Firefly and Serenity. For anyone who doesn’t know, Firefly was a TV series from Joss Whedon, creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel. It [...]

Say Hi to Dick

18/08/2006

Who’d have thought that Dick Whittington, a character in a popular pantomime story in the UK, was actually based on a real person? I thought he was all fiction.
Goes to show, you learn something new everyday.

From Topfield to DVD

8/01/2006

A while back I bought a Topfield TF5800 PVR to allow me to watch and record Freeview digital TV channels. I’ve been very impressed with it, the picture quality on digital TV, and the Topfield in general, is excellent, the dual tuners very handy and it’s very easy to use.
One of the things [...]

Download TV

20/11/2005

Ivan Askwith has written an interesting article on how TV downloads will change the way TV works. As someone who has recently taken to the freedom a PVR allows for control and rescheduling of TV programmes I can certainly see what he’s saying. I am also one of the people who bought Firefly [...]

Disneyland Hong Kong

17/09/2005

You may not have noticed it (I’d never heard of it before yesterday, which is odd as they must have been building it for a while) but Disney opened their first theme park in China (though not on the mainland), Disneyland Hong Kong (doesn’t roll off the tongue as with the others). Nowhere, it [...]

Trailer Trash

19/08/2005

I gave up buying singles a long time ago, it seemed pointless. £4 on a CD with, maybe, four tracks on it, or £9.99 on a CD with a full album? There wasn’t really much of a contest. Equally though, I was loath to payout for an entire album of an artist [...]

House

6/08/2005

No, not the infamous bingo call, but the TV series. I’d heard about it due to its success in the States, but I wasn’t too fussed until I saw a couple of recorded episodes we had at home, and now I’m hooked. Think of is as CSI minus the murders, but with doctors. [...]

Potter Update

27/07/2005

Apologies to anyone who visits this site and isn’t a Harry Potter fan, I will get back to other subjects soon. Anyway, I’ve been flying through (once I got so far I was hooked, I actually had to talk myself into putting it down to go to bed Monday night) and have finished the [...]