Links for 2005-11-26
- Channel 4 rapped over 'Lost' ad breaks Sixty-four minutes of apparent programming contained only thirty-six minutes of new editorial content. I buy Channel 4's excuse a bit, but it's still a shame - bad advertising spaces and overlong breaks make shows less watchable. It hurts them in the end.
- Monkeyhub presents a music video to the single JCB by band Nizlopi It's a pretty fluffy song, and kind of gimmicky, but the sentiment appears genuine and the video is pretty amazing. They want to be Christmas #1 and I see no reaason not to help them achieve it...
- Why Yahoo! will be the center of the million-channel universe. A Wired Magazine article about Yahoo that features my new boss Bradley Horowitz. There's not quite enough about him online for me to feel that I know him well though...
- "Boy band Take That have announced that they are to reform for a tour - 10 years after they split up." Odds of Robbie Williams joining in are substantially less than zero, I would imagine...
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I saw Take That on their last tour in 1995 (...without Robbie).
It was amazing especially Never Forget.
→ Posted by: Jem Stone at November 26, 2005 8:22 AM
Nizlopi are really nice guys. I saw them in June last year, and they are fantastic live.
When it came to doing JCB, they left the stage and stood on a couple of chairs in the middle of the audience so we'd still be able to hear them as they did it acoustically, and then got the entire audience singing harmonies in the later part of the song.
It's great to see them finally getting their big break, and it'd be cool if they pull off the Christmas number one!
→ Posted by: Adrian McEwen at November 26, 2005 11:29 AM
watching anything new on E4 is nigh-impossible with their ad-breaks. Every ten minutes during a show (sometimes even more frequently) just ruins the whole thing. So much so, that we don't watch E4 now even though there are shows we would like to catch...
Even Sky doesn't kick the arse out of it like C4 (on E4)...
:(
→ Posted by: Pete Barr-Watson at November 28, 2005 7:07 AM