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Bookmarked for when I have a moment! - Stuart Ian Burns

As I've always hoped, the BBC are experimenting with the tea time slot with something other than The Weakest Link. - Stuart Ian Burns

Worth reading to hear about a moment that won't be on the Antiques Roadshow but you sort of wish would be on the Antiques Roadshow but you're also pleased isn't. - Stuart Ian Burns

It's not how it seems on television, let's but it that way, in other words, it doesn't seem to matter if you can sing ... - Stuart Ian Burns

Half hour documentary about one of my top five favourite films. Hopefully better than director Rob Reiner's commentary on the dvd which amounts to "Billy was very clever .................................................................. Meg was very clever ........................................ that's my mother .........................." - Stuart Ian Burns

Danes seems to be doing her best impression of Ute Lemper here. Without the singing. Because it's on paper. - Stuart Ian Burns

On why the new release of Oshima's Ai No Corrida (AKA In the Realm of the Senses) has been cut. It's not for the reason you might expect. - Stuart Ian Burns

80s soundtrack themes recorded in the style of The Shadows. Yes, I know. - Stuart Ian Burns

What I was probably really listening to when you all discovered Oasis. - Stuart Ian Burns

About as magnificent as you'd expect. Fairly committed orchestral backing track, slightly less committed vocal. - Stuart Ian Burns

Yes. Indeed. When Annette was here and we walked the city without trying to we managed to pass all of them except the original Metro in Clayton Square. That might be a sign of convenience but it is also a sign of the chain going for a strangle hold in the city. If the shops were tanks it would look like a seige. And opening one next door to The Philharmonic Pub on Hope Street. Really? That's not going to screw up the character of the area is it? - Stuart Ian Burns

Valleywag (Gawker) discovers Spotify. Incidentally, I've paid for a Premium account. The FrankMusik adverts were getting on my wick. It is also very strange not be hearing the slow reading Amy MacDonald every ten minutes. - Stuart Ian Burns

Paul Magrs is exasperated by amateur book reviewers. Me to. I hate them (!). - Stuart Ian Burns

Blimey, this looks strong. Loads of new biographical drama, a season of programmes about the digital revolution and games (seek out the trailer for Syntax Era -- it's hilarious). The press pack is visually very interesting too, very web 2.0 (ish). - Stuart Ian Burns

The new BBC Four controller talks about what he's trying to achieve: "BBC4 is all about purpose, proposition and passion and all with a twinkle in our eye." - Stuart Ian Burns

But then, as I found out, if you're caught smiling on the tube people think you're weird. - Stuart Ian Burns

Justin Webb's final post. For now. - Stuart Ian Burns

James Cromwell and James Bolam. Together. Wow. - Stuart Ian Burns

Finally, and hopefully in region 2 soon. Rather a good potted history otherwise, especially the section about the production choices which made it so distinctive. - Stuart Ian Burns

I'm not entirely sure why they can't keep it open permanently. As I discovered, Stratford would benefit from having a range of theatres, especially somewhere for national touring productions to pitch up. - Stuart Ian Burns

"I will not be devastated if I miss news of Joe Gideon and the Shark's new single." - Stuart Ian Burns

Sorry about yet another Guardian link, but this has Neil Hannon talking about All Saints, considering the brilliance of Black Coffee. It's too short to offer a quote but consider it. Neil Hannon, All Saints fan. Sadly he doesn't offer an opinion of Studio One, one of the best forgotten pop records of recent years. - Stuart Ian Burns

Somehow I managed to entirely miss this event. Grrr. Anyway, here are the results. I think my favourites are the silliest, the lamb and banana next to the lambanana for example. - Stuart Ian Burns

Fascinating approach to making user content viewable by the BBC for automatic linking and pulling into their web pages. It means your stuff is seen by a wider public and makes their pages look prettier. Essentially you tag your photos or blog posts or whatever with a given programme's PID code. Yeah, one of those. - Stuart Ian Burns

And I thought I held grudges. - Stuart Ian Burns

Steve Williams offers some analysis of the new channel's premiership coverage: "One of the best things about ESPN’s Premiership coverage is what they’re not doing." - Stuart Ian Burns

The six-disc boxset which was released a few years ago, the later discs filled without outtakes and demos. Fabulous moments between Richard Burton and David Essex and surprisingly Anthony Quinn trying to get his chops around the Spanish Language version and being chided by the director for his mispronunciations. - Stuart Ian Burns

Useful discussion on how Pocket Books failed to capitalise on the release of the new Star Trek film by cutting back on the Prime universe TOS Novels and only releasing a novelisation. I should note I haven't read a Trek novel since the mid-nineties, but to my mind it would be like BBC Books not bothering with nuWho books and keeping the old line going. - Stuart Ian Burns

Beautiful piece by Ringwald about John Hughes in which she deploys a recent conversation with Anthony Michael Hall to talk about he feelings about the director's death comparing their relationship with that between Trauffaut and Jean-Pierre Léaud. One of the tragedies of Hughes's death is that we'll not now see rumoured sequel to The Breakfast Club which revisits the characters two decade later. - Stuart Ian Burns

Every episode of the BBC News channel's review slot since mid 2006, mostly with Mark Kermode (sometimes with Andrew Collins and Angie Errigo now and then). Worth watching to see the reaction of the various news people who've been put in front of him to be shouted at. - Stuart Ian Burns