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Review: Apple TV 1.2

Most people won’t care, but Apple today updated its Apple TV device to include YouTube support

YouTube

It also updated it with a couple of other useful extras at the same time. You can now select the appropriate iTunes Store for your country to make sure the “iTunes Top TV episodes” and “iTunes movies” options don’t appear unless you’re in the US because you can’t buy bloody anything from the iTunes Store unless you’re in the US.

Apple TV store

You can also sort things by date, which is helpful if you don’t name your files properly or the cocking useless Apple TV sorts things out of order.

Date sorted Apple TV

How about a “play stuff that’s recorded in some format I might actually have” option, Apple?

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Review: Meadowlands 1×1

Meadowlands

In the US: Sundays, Showtime, 10pm ET/PT

In the UK: Coming soon to Channel 4

Now here’s curious. We have a co-production between UK network Channel 4 and US cable network Showtime. It’s made by British production company Ecosse Films. It’s filmed in Britain. It’s set in Britain. It’s cast is almost entirely British.

But it’s airing in the US first.

How’s that work then?

More to the point, it’s also very British – very Channel 4, in fact –  which makes me wonder what Showtime sees in it. We have a family, headed by David Morrissey, who have to enter the witness protection programme. They wind up in Kent in a strange little town called Meadowlands populated by strange little people. And it’s all very, very bleak – and very very strange.

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Wednesday’s news funs

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The 10 best moments from 30 Rock

It’s not yet been picked up in the UK, so write a complaint letter to all the UK networks: 30 Rock was one of the best of the new series that aired in the 2006-2007 season. Some enterprising person has put together the 10 top moments from the series, together with YouTube clips, so go and see what you’re missing (or missed if you didn’t watch it and you’re in the US).

I actually thought the introduction to Alec Baldwin’s character was the funniest moment in all the episodes, and would have placed that one below, but NBC, in their wisdom, have removed it from YouTube. Twannocks.

Tuesday’s news blast

I keep hearing the sound of drums. Is that bad?

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