He’s thinking of changing the name of the company to something other than ITV. Because when you’ve just spent ages cutting costs, the first thing you want to do is spend more on rebranding.
Month: August 2006
Yet another Dune cash-in book arrives
Brian “Son of Frank” Herbert and Kevin J Anderson are putting the finishing touches to “Dune 7”, aka the latest cash-in book in the Dune series. I’m really getting sick of these.
The ostensible explanation for these books is that Frank Herbert, the author of Dune, had huge numbers of notes for his books sitting around in safety deposit boxes. Herbert Jr and Anderson found them and together, have been putting flesh on them to create new novels that fill in the gaps that Herbert was probably going to fill himself.
Now, fair-dues, the last three books of the original series weren’t great and even the second and third lacked the spark of Dune itself, but with each new book these two produce, the quality average keeps going down. So far, they’ve written a series of prequels set in the early origins of the Dune universe, a series of prequels set just before the original series of books and a collection of Dune short stories.
But what’s noticeable is just how bad these books are.
Technology reviews
Review: Elgato EyeTV for DTT stick
I bought myself one of those DTT sticks last week. I promised I’d let you know how it was working it, so here we go. Remember, you can click any of these pictures to make them bigger, if you want a better look:
Philip K Dick biopic planned by Paul Giamatti
The new darling of sci-fi circles, Paul Giamatti, has just launched his own production company. Its first project, according to Variety, is likely to be a biopic of author Philip K Dick. Apparently, “The nontraditional biopic will interweave the prolific author’s life with his fictionand incorporate elements of his last unfinished novel, ‘The Owl in Daylight.'”
To find out more about Dick and to view 24 minutes of A Scanner Darkly, Richard Linklater’s adaptation of Dick’s Through A Scanner Darkly, visit this old entry.
Audience testing
What actually happens in those focus group tests…