TV in general

TV in general: The Apprentice:2008! (1982 words)
by thedevilinme - written on 11.04.08 (Very useful, 426 readings)
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"Turnover is vanity, profit is sanity" The Apprentice 2008 Wednesday at 9pm on BBC 1 After show at 10pm on BBC2 Repeated Saturday midnight... 16 chefs, two pots, and one kitchen-it must be 'The Apprentice'! So here we all are for series four, Sir Alan Sugars search for his successor still going strong. His first big hope was Tim, a very likeable Afro-Caribbean, English guy, who worked on the London Tube and ticked all the boxes, his honest and hard working approach impressing Sugar. He could see lot of himself in Tim but Tim couldn't see a future in Sir Alan, soon unhappy at Sugar enterprises after being bunged ...

Shows that finished too early. (1100 words)
by dididave - written on 29.10.07 (Very useful, 136 readings)
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How many shows end just as you start to enjoy them? I know it seems that whenever I start to watch something it seems to be coming towards the end of it's run. It is almost as if programme makers have a camera into my living room and say, "Dave is enjoying himself again, quick let us stop this schnell!". Do not know why programme makers tend to lapse into German but there you go. Anyhoo, back to my review and in no particular order... 5: Knightmare. An absolute classic, this children's TV show seemed to end abruptly in the height of it's popularity. A team of competitors enter the magical dungeons with "Tregard", a wizened ...

TV in general: TELEVISION, WHERE WOULD WE BE WITHOUT IT (851 words)
by f18nfz - written on 26.08.07 (Very useful, 84 readings)
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TV - Television is great!! ---INTRODUCTION AND HISTORY---- God bless Willoughby Smith in 1873 for the discovery of the photoconductivity of the element selenium and the invention of a scanning disk by Paul Gottlieb Nipkow in 1884. Yes television is complicated and was black and white until the Russians in 1889 realised they could have colour televisions! ---the UK's history--- The first British television broadcast was made by Baird Television's electromechanical system over the BBC radio transmitter in September 1929. Baird provided a limited amount of programming five days a week by 1930. On August 22, 1932, BBC launched its ...