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RAJAR Q3 2026
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Sponsors’ Tickets to the World Cup
I could probably spend about an hour writing a vituperative piece on all the inequalities of the Worlld Cup’s ticket distribution system. The Observer’s been waging a campaign against the current scheme that sees just 8% of tickets going to the fans from each country in any given match. Sponsors, meanwhile, share 16% of the…
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New Andrew Jennings Book
One of the benefits of supping with the devil and buying The Daily Mail for the past week or so, aside from building a nice cheap Ealing Comedy DVD collection, has been to read the extracts of the new Andrew Jennings book. As sure as night turns to day, a new international tournament – in…
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ABC Streaming Video
I’ve just been trying ABC’s new streaming service. It requires Flash 8, and the video quality is pretty good – significantly better than Youtube or Google Video, but then it’s being encoded at a much better rate. Currently there are just a handful of major ABC shows available including Lost, Desperate Housewives, and Commander in…
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Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
I’ll freely admit that I’m not exactly up on my Russian fiction, so I came to Dead Souls quite fresh. Narrated by Michael Palin, who “appears” in the story, he accompanies Chichikov as he goes about his way trying to buy dead peasants. Chichikov, played expertly by Mark (Spaced, Green Wing) Heap, has a scheme…
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Computers Have Feelings Too
As anyone who’s travelled by train knows, most platform announcements these days are automated. There’s nothing especially wrong with this, since the male and female voices are clear and concise. The system at the stations on my regular route are very listenable. However, we, the passengers, do realise that it’s a recorded voice. So when…
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Radio Programmes
I’ve been meaning to write a little more about some of the radio I’ve been enjoying recently. First up is Nebulous, Graham Duff’s sci-fi comedy starring Mark Gatiss. Series 2 has just passed the half-way mark – it’s broadcast at 11pm on Wednesday. It’s more of the same, and very very silly. I love it.…
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Judges Da Vinci Code Code Cracked
Well I spent at least half an hour on this after work yesterday, and didn’t get anywhere. Fortunately, someone else has. Here’s the solution.
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Peter Jones
So Peter Jones (not the deparment store) has signed for ITV to present two shows for them, one of which is supposed to be a version of American Inventor. Of course, Jones has already signed on for another series of Dragon’s Den. What a busy man. How does he get time to run his companies?…
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Da Vinci Code Case Code
This is a great story. Mind you, if you thought the whole thing was a big PR stunt for the film, which it wasn’t, then this isn’t going to convince you otherwise…
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News in TV
As television commoditisation increases evermore, there’s much discussion at the moment about BBC1’s weak Wednesday nights. Davina’s chat show has been lambasted, and the lack of a drama series at 9pm means that even Paul McCartney on the fur trade doesn’t get as many as 2 million. ITV are putting out a stream of dramas…
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