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Review: Ashes to Ashes 1×6

Some pleasing symmetry in my Ashes to Ashes viewing this week. As with last week’s episode (which I still haven’t watched all the way through), I only watched half of last night’s. The difference is that I only caught the second half rather than the first half, since we were doing something vitally important at 9pm (watching Terminator 2 on DVD). Will have to use the iPlayer to catch up at some point.

As a little experiment to determine what annoys me most about DI Drake, I tried putting my thumb between me and the TV to block her out. Turns out though, it’s her voice and everything she says that set my teeth on edge. Not sure if there’s a journal I can write that up in or not – maybe the Journal for Marginally Insane Bloggers.

All the same, it was a little bit redundant as an experiment because she wasn’t that bad last night and I thought the episode was better than previous efforts.

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British TV on iTunes – but not in the UK

A while ago, I complained that various British TV shows are being released on DVD overseas but not in the UK. Some of these gaps in our heritage have since been filled; some haven’t.

But now, the same thing’s happening with British TV on iTunes. You can now get At Last The 1948 Show and Do Not Adjust Your Set – both precursors to Monty Python – through the US iTunes store. In Britain, it’s not an option, although you can get them on DVD.

What’s up? Are rights issues so much easier to deal with in the US? Are US consumers just more likely to buy TV through iTunes, given it’s cheaper than in the UK? Or are the overseas distributors of British shows just more on the ball than the UK distributors?