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Happy fourth birthday to The Medium Is Not Enough

22 June 2009 Rob Buckley 23 Comments


A birthday cake

Happy Birthday, The Medium is Not Enough. Yes, four years ago (sort of – it was yesterday actually – subject to blog migration, blog splitting, blog reunions, etc), this blog emerged into the light of the Internet with its first two posts: previews of the just-deceased Prison Break, the not-unpopular Supernatural and the still-unseen Global Frequency; and tedious cruft about The Omega Factor (which I’m really not going to write a review of after all, except when I get stuck for a Lost Gem).

What we’ve learned this year
In our fourth year, we discovered the following ten exciting things:

  1. David Tennant is as popular sitting down as he is standing up.
  2. That while captioned pictures of David Tennant sitting down will get you lots of comments and even interest from the weirdest locations, ultimately, articles about Joanna Page or Ali Larter, preferably including the words ‘naked’ or ‘sex’, will attract vastly more interest from Google – albeit not many comments.
  3. Ali Larter’s and Joanna Page’s popularity are considerably dwarfed by Sarah Beeny’s, even without the use of the word ‘naked’ or ‘sex’. Either that or there’s something going on with the housing market at the moment.
  4. David Tennant fans are more loyal and dynamic than Richard Armitage’s, although Richard Armitage’s head turns out to be the Muse of haikus.
  5. Six episodes may – or may not – be the natural length for any TV series.
  6. No amount of begging will make anyone watch programmes on S4C.
  7. Heroes is finally getting better.
  8. You all still loves Doctor Who. Well, almost all of you.
  9. The best invention in the world is Rob’s Great Blonde Elevator.
  10. Twitter allows me to make passing comments on TV shows that I can’t quite be bothered – or have time – to blog about.

Changes
Over the last year, there have also been a few changes.

  • We finally got a proper URL, rather than the cack old one I used to use.
  • We’ve seen the launch of Random Acts of Ali Larter, which approximately three people understand the true point of, including me. But even if you don’t, you can still enjoy it.
  • Dick Heads came, went, then came back again.
  • Sitting Tennant’s logistics became somewhat trickier and now involves flowcharts on a wall.
  • The new ‘Meme of the week’ seems to be doing quite well for itself.
  • People really do want to help their fellow TV viewers in ‘What have you been watching this week?’
  • There were some quite weird title sequences back in the 70s.
  • Canadian TV has come on by leaps and bounds of late, although appears to have run out of money as well.

    I’d like to say a great big thank you again to Anna, Lisa, Marie, Matt, Rosby, Scott, Stu_N, Stu, other Scott, Stuart, Iko, Poly, espedair, kaballa, Electric Dragon, Linda, cindylover1969, Fraser, Kev, Craig, Lesley, Jonathan, Cackle Jr, Murray, Mark, Toby, Phoenix, Persephone, Jane, TemplarJ, Vin, Chris and Andrea for continuing to hang around and contribute with always entertaining comments.

    I’d also like to thank Dan, Rev/Views, Aaron, Jaradel, Nik, Joe, Bob and Sister Chastity for joining in with the fun this year.

    Apologies to infrequent commenters and anyone I left out but my brain hurts – you know what I’m like with names. But you’ve all been absolutely wonderful to be here, join in and interact with my baffling ramblings.

    Fingers crossed, the fun’s just going to keep on rolling on for another year. Hope you continue to enjoy your stay! And if you have any suggestions for what else you might like to see on the blog, please let me know below.

    Have a nice week,

    Rob

    Random Acts

    Random Acts of Ali Larter: Supporting modern art

    18 June 2009 Rob Buckley Post a comment

    Ali Larter at the Whitney Museum

    This week, Ali Larter has been supporting modern art, which is jolly nice of her, if a bit random. Still, she does it a lot, since she’s a bit of a collector, particularly of photography by Lillian Bassman. But this week she’s been to the Whitney Museum’s annual art party and auction.

    I think the Whitney is amazing. It has an incredible collection of American art, and I think it’s important, especially in these times, to come out and support, to get the attention back to the museums. I think that art inspires people during difficult times and I hope that there is always funding, especially to keep the programs alive in the schools.

    The Whitney houses one of the world’s foremost collections of contemporary American art and programmes provocative special exhibitions by the most promising and influential American artists of the 20th and 21st century.

    Look, here’s a BLT at the Whitney. Giant BLTs – now that’s random.

    Have you seen Ali Larter acting randomly? If so, let us know and we’ll tell everyone about it in “Random Acts of Ali Larter“

    UK TV

    Psychoville viral marketing takes a leaf out of Obsessed’s book

    12 June 2009 Rob Buckley Post a comment

    Psychoville

    Two of the League of Gentlemen – Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton – have a new show called Psychoville coming to BBC2 on Thursday. To promote it, they appear to have taken a leaf out of the lovely Ali Larter’s promotional playbook and come up with a viral marketing campaign similar to that used for Obsessed.

    Simply go to the Psychoville web site, enter a few details and upload a friend’s embarrassing photograph, and they’ll receive a mysterious warning from Graham Norton of a virus that will infect their computer – and a black-gloved man will threaten to expose all their secrets unless they do what he says. You can see a demo version done on David Tennant below.