Month: July 2007

Monday’s

9 July 2007 Rob Buckley 3 Comments

…headline of brevity

Doctor Who

Film

  • Maggie Gyllenhaal talks about The Dark Knight and hints at spoilers
  • Clips from War, starring Jet Li and Jason Statham
  • Jim Carrey will play Scrooge (and the ghosts of Christmas) in A Christmas Carol
  • Cloverfield based on Cthulhu?
  • Remake of Jacob’s Ladder planned

Theatre

  • Jonathan Pryce and Aidan Gillen do Glengarry Glen Ross in the West End

British TV

US TV

Events

Friday’s Newsround

6 July 2007 Rob Buckley 5 Comments

James Marsters with Sarah Michelle Gellar

No John Craven in sight.

Doctor Who

Film

Music

  • Avril Lavigne sued for ‘homaging’

British TV

  • Channel 4+1 launches on Freeview et al on August 20th. You’ll have to wait until Autumn for Five US+1 and Five Life+1 and they’ll only be on satellite [free registration required]
  • Michael Brandon from Dempsey and Makepeace to guest on The Bill for four episodes

Web TV

  • Minnie Driver is the voice of Lara Croft in an online web series, written by people like Warren Ellis and Peter Chung
Technology reviews

Review: Turbo.264

4 July 2007 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

Elgato Turbo H.264



It might seem at first, humble reader, from this delightful blog that I am a “thought leader” and “opinion former” of the highest order. In actual fact, I am very easily led.

Case in point: the Elgato turbo.264. I read reviews of it in MacFormat and Macworld and thought to myself “I need one of those!”

The reason for this is simple: Bastard, my PVR, takes forever to export stuff into a format that my iPod or Apple TV can cope with. I record The F-Word, it lasts an hour, and Bastard takes two or three hours to export it at a reasonable video quality. I don’t especially want to be leaving my Mac on all night – not very environmentally friendly is it? – so anything that speeds the process up and reduces electricity consumption has to be good.

The Turbo.264 is what I need, apparently. At least, that’s what I’ve been told.

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News

Wednesday morning’s eye-opening and independent news

4 July 2007 Rob Buckley 32 Comments

David Tennant and Catherine Tate

Happy Independence Day, America!

Doctor Who

  • And the new companion is… Catherine Tate. Seriously. I’m not fibbing

Film

  • David Oyelowo, Idris Elba, Colin Salmon, Winston Ntshona and John Kani are all in The No 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency

Journalism

British TV

  • Keeley Hawes is the new John Simm for Life on Mars sequel Ashes to Ashes
  • The Beeb says the viewing public wants it to innovate
  • Michael Grade says TV shouldn’t treat the viewing public with ‘casual contempt’
  • Oh yeah? Well, ITV are copycats, says the Beeb [free registration required]

US TV