You haven't surfed the net if you haven't visited the official Erik Estrada fan site.
It’s amazing what lengths some lobbyists will go to. Take a look at these American TV ads downplaying climate change and calling CO2 “life”.
Take all those cheesy Japanese TV series featuring crash helmets, coloured tights and rubber monsters. Move them to France, into the hands of enthusiastic amateurs and you get France Five, defending the Eiffel tower and camembert from the forces of evil.
Take all those cheesy Japanese TV series featuring crash helmets, coloured tights and rubber monsters. Move them to France, into the hands of enthusiastic amateurs and you get France Five, defending the Eiffel tower and camembert from the forces of evil.
Do you remember watching La Linea as a kid? (The video format may be a bit dodgy on mac, you’ll have to get the URL from the source)
A dashboard widget for Lost fans. You too can be a Dharma initiative test subject.
Vintage French TV report on raves from 1994, with some hilarious quotes and comments in there.
Hold on to that cathode ray tube TV a bit longer if you can.
In other news, armageddon is upon us…
That’s impressive: if half of British homes buy a plasma-screen TV, two nuclear power stations would have to be built to meet the extra energy demand.
The V&A’s latest exhibition site features a great sixties TV documentary on the swinging London fashion scene.
What’s Wrong With Blasphemy? A 4-part TV programme by Stewart Lee, co-writer of Jerry Springer the Opera, which examines religions’ increasing use of offendedness as a weapon for censorship.
Hollywood is the second largest polluter in the Los Angeles area. The full report is online. (thanks Dimitri)
A few bits of classic British comedy tracked down on Youtube: Not the Nine O’clock News featuring Gerald the Gorilla, Spike Milligan’s Life on Earth, and more Spike Milligan with the memorable Daleks sketch.
Loads of old Belgian television archives viewable online, from Expo 58 reports to interviews with celebrities.
Neal Stephenson is getting the TV treatment, I hope he’s more lucky than William Gibson. The Diamond Age is a fantastic novel and doesn’t deserve to be defaced on screen.
They’ve already got the iphone on Lost.
Twin Peaks: How Laura Palmer’s death marked the rebirth of TV drama
Twin Peaks: How Laura Palmer's death marked the rebirth of TV drama
They're deliberately creating TV content as a background to people's phone addiction now.
It’s O.K. to look at your phone all the time, the show seems to say, because Emily does it, too. The episodic plots are too thin to ever be confusing; when you glance back up at the television, chances are that you’ll find tracking shots of the Seine or cobblestoned alleyways, lovely but meaningless.
