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RAJAR Q3 2026
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Eurovision
I’m loving the Lithuania entry. Broadly speaking, the entire song’s lyrics were: “We are the winners… of Eurovision” and “Vote for the winners” I think there were a few boos in the audience in Athens though. I guess that some people take the competition a bit more seriously than I do. [UPDATE] Oh look. The…
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Avoiding Channel Four For The Next Three Months
If the ad on the back page of today’s Guardian is anything to go by, it looks like I’m going to be avoiding Channel 4 even more than usual for the next three months. Meanwhile on the other side, ITV are somehow stretching out a celebrity football match into a week long event. So I’ll…
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Bugger
What a shame.
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The Omen
This remake of The Omen is very interesting. It’s quite a while since I first saw the original Omen from 1976 which came, I guess, as something as a riposte to 1974’s The Exorcist. This version has been described as a re-imagining, but I’d say that it’s more of a shot-for-shot remake, with David Seltzer…
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Val Guest
It was sad to hear about the death of Val Guest. He died last week, but no newspaper (perhaps with the exception of the subs only Variety) has yet run an obituary. He had a fabulous career, working with Will Hay in his early days, through to directing the Hammer versions of the Quatermass films…
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Scanning
Great piece from Sunday’s New York Times Magazine by Kevin Kelly on the state of play in scanning books (via just about everywhere)
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Italian Ad
No doubt this’ll show up in the future on one of those Chris Tarrant shows, but I was amazed when I saw this advert on Italian TV at the weekend. Did someone, somewhere, think maybe, just maybe, that this ad is, well, racist? Someone’s put it on Google Video, so here it is: Still, at…
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The World Is Flat
This book comes garlanded with awards – it’s the FT business book of the year, and the author’s won many a Pulitzer prize. In short it’s a book about globalisation, although that’s far too simplistic a word to truly explain what Friedman’s getting at. The “Flatness” of the world that he’s talking about is the…
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Incendiary
Incendiary had the misfortune, last year, to be published in hardback on July 8. I must admit that I thought that it was a run of the mill thriller. Well I couldn’t have been more wrong. Obviously the cover isn’t really right, and the book is about 200 pages shorter than the average thriller. The…
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New Road – Dug Up!
Don’t you love it when the council relay a road, and it’s beautifully smooth… only for one of the utility companies to come along a day later and dig it up before the road markings have even been painted!
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TV BAFTAs
I’m not going to comment on the winners and losers, although I don’t have any real problems, aside from noting that the fact that ITV had just one winner all evening is a very sad idictment of the current state of the channel’s programming. But perhaps someone can explain why ITV felt the need to…
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