Category: media

“Internet TV is no longer simply linear, scheduled TV channels. DVRs will soon be passé. The future of television is video served on demand, by subscription and à la carte, on multiple devices.”

“The regulations affecting television broadcasters, cable and satellite companies cleared the commission Tuesday on a 4-0 vote at the agency’s monthly meeting in Washington. Commercials can’t be louder than surrounding programming under rules that take effect Dec. 13, 2012.”

Best motion picture drama nominees include The Descendants, The Help, Hugo, The Ides of March, Moneyball and War Horse.

Nominations for the Screen Actors Guild Awards were unveiled this morning, with “The Artist,” “The Descendants,” “Bridesmaids” and “Midnight in Paris” all getting nods for outstanding cast performance.

“The Inbetweeners Movie, which was released on DVD on Monday, is expected to pass one million sales by the end of this week, making it the best-selling comedy DVD ever.”

“When it was first set up in 1912, the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) – or Film Censors, as it was known then – concerned itself with the ‘unnecessary exhibition of under-clothing’ or ‘scenes calculated to afford information to the enemy’. Now … it finds itself more likely to be fending off Hollywood studios attempting to shoehorn too much violence into films aimed at 12-year-olds.”

“What if a parasitic creature is squatting in one’s womb? What if, once born, the baby is a monster – alien and unlovable? What exactly does one do if the darkest and most unspeakable of parental fears come to terrifying fruition? These questions drive one of the classic tropes of horror: the bad seed film.”

“Peppered by a conservative group’s complaints about the program, the Lowe’s home-improvement chain last week pulled its sponsorship — and has been fielding countercomplaints that the company had caved in to the very prejudices faced by the program’s protagonists.”

“The conservative group that got Lowe’s to pull its ads from a reality TV show about American Muslims has been fighting for more than two decades against gay rights, strip clubs and most anything else that offends evangelical Christians.”

“News leads the way for daily podcasts with Global News notching up 89 million downloads since 2007. The top daily programme is The Archers, with 35 million total downloads. Scott Mills’ Radio 1 show has 31 million.”