This week John Plunkett reports from the Voice of the Listener and Viewer (Vlv) conference in London, where the campaign group celebrates its 30th year.
We hear from Steven Barnett, professor of communications at the University of Westminster on the challenges facing Vlv as the digital revolution takes hold in broadcasting.
BBC director general Tony Hall faces questions from the floor and rallies the troops to defend the public service broadcaster in the runup to charter renewal – but could he and his team be doing more? Former BBC media correspondent Torin Douglas and journalist Raymond Snoddy provide their analysis.
Away from the conference Edgar Wright – director of Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and The World's End – announces plans to return to television for the first time since Spaced.
Plus Rebecca Nicholson escapes her TV lair and reviews the 50th anniversary episode of Doctor Who, Masterchef: the Professionals and previews...
We hear from Steven Barnett, professor of communications at the University of Westminster on the challenges facing Vlv as the digital revolution takes hold in broadcasting.
BBC director general Tony Hall faces questions from the floor and rallies the troops to defend the public service broadcaster in the runup to charter renewal – but could he and his team be doing more? Former BBC media correspondent Torin Douglas and journalist Raymond Snoddy provide their analysis.
Away from the conference Edgar Wright – director of Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and The World's End – announces plans to return to television for the first time since Spaced.
Plus Rebecca Nicholson escapes her TV lair and reviews the 50th anniversary episode of Doctor Who, Masterchef: the Professionals and previews...
- 11/28/2013
- by John Plunkett, Matt Hill, Rebecca Nicholson
- The Guardian - Film News
Blu-ray Release Date: Oct. 8, 2013
Price: Blu-ray $29.95
Studio: Twilight Time
Angus Scrimm gets under your skin and into your brain in Mindwarp.
Horror veterans Bruce Campbell (Evil Dead) and Angus Scrimm (Phantasm) co-star in the 1992 cult horror-science fiction film Mindwarp, making its Blu-ray debut through from Twilight Time.
The movie, directed by Steven Barnett and produced by Fangoria Films (an off-shoot of the popular horror film magazine), tells the grisly tale of a post-apocalyptic society in which the privileged exist only as “Dreamers,” eternally plugged into a virtual reality fantasyland, Inworld. Meanwhile, in the ravaged Outworld, humans have mutated into savage flesh-eaters, led by a mysterious, charismatic despot (Scrimm) interested only in survival.
The Blu-ray includes an isolated audio track of Mark Governor’s score, the original theatrical trailer, and liner notes by Julie Kirgo.
The Blu-ray is now available for pre-order and as supplier Twilight Time prints up only 3,000 copies of each title,...
Price: Blu-ray $29.95
Studio: Twilight Time
Angus Scrimm gets under your skin and into your brain in Mindwarp.
Horror veterans Bruce Campbell (Evil Dead) and Angus Scrimm (Phantasm) co-star in the 1992 cult horror-science fiction film Mindwarp, making its Blu-ray debut through from Twilight Time.
The movie, directed by Steven Barnett and produced by Fangoria Films (an off-shoot of the popular horror film magazine), tells the grisly tale of a post-apocalyptic society in which the privileged exist only as “Dreamers,” eternally plugged into a virtual reality fantasyland, Inworld. Meanwhile, in the ravaged Outworld, humans have mutated into savage flesh-eaters, led by a mysterious, charismatic despot (Scrimm) interested only in survival.
The Blu-ray includes an isolated audio track of Mark Governor’s score, the original theatrical trailer, and liner notes by Julie Kirgo.
The Blu-ray is now available for pre-order and as supplier Twilight Time prints up only 3,000 copies of each title,...
- 9/23/2013
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
Articles and letters by academics and industry experts are published ahead of the Leveson report
Hugh Grant and some of the country's leading journalism academics, including two former heads of BBC News, have renewed calls for the end of self-regulation of the press as battle lines are drawn ahead of the publication of the Leveson report.
The actor has launched a spirited defence of the Hacked Off campaign which he fronts in the Spectator magazine, claiming he is not out to muzzle the press and would close down the lobby group if he "detected even a bat's squeak of genuine threat to public interest journalism".
However, in another Spectator comment piece published online on Thursday, former Daily Mail and Daily Express political journalist turned PR Kirsty Walker made the opposite case, warning of the "chilling effects" Lord Justice Leveson's inquiry is already having on newsrooms.
The academics, including the former...
Hugh Grant and some of the country's leading journalism academics, including two former heads of BBC News, have renewed calls for the end of self-regulation of the press as battle lines are drawn ahead of the publication of the Leveson report.
The actor has launched a spirited defence of the Hacked Off campaign which he fronts in the Spectator magazine, claiming he is not out to muzzle the press and would close down the lobby group if he "detected even a bat's squeak of genuine threat to public interest journalism".
However, in another Spectator comment piece published online on Thursday, former Daily Mail and Daily Express political journalist turned PR Kirsty Walker made the opposite case, warning of the "chilling effects" Lord Justice Leveson's inquiry is already having on newsrooms.
The academics, including the former...
- 11/1/2012
- by Lisa O'Carroll
- The Guardian - Film News
Rupert Murdoch's dream of controlling a British broadcasting behemoth has evaporated with the withdrawal of his bid for BSkyB . the latest, biggest casualty of what Prime Minister David Cameron called the hacking "firestorm" sweeping through British politics, media and police.Cameron appointed a senior judge to lead an inquiry into the phone hacking and police bribery scandal engulfing Murdoch's British newspapers, and promised it would investigate whether Murdoch's reporters sought the phone numbers of 9/11 victims in their quest for sensational scoops."There is a firestorm, if you like, that is engulfing parts of the media, parts of the police, and indeed our political system's ability to respond," Cameron said Wednesday in the House of Commons."What we must do in the coming days and weeks is think above all of the victims ... to make doubly sure that we get to the bottom of this and that we prosecute those who are responsible,...
- 7/13/2011
- Filmicafe
The media mogul may be all smiles at Wednesday's launch for his iPad newspaper, The Daily, but he's depressed about his suddenly shaky prospects for gaining total control of something much more important-the $12 billion BSkyB. Howard Kurtz reports.
Controversy swirls around Rupert Murdoch like a cloud, from thunderclaps of overheated rhetoric at Fox News to the phone-hacking scandal at News of the World. But the 79-year-old mogul has a way of getting what he wants.
Related story on The Daily Beast: America's Proud Egypt Moment
The journalistic establishment was aghast when Murdoch tried to buy New York magazine in the 1970s, the Times of London and Sunday Times in the 1980s, and The Wall Street Journal four years ago. In each case, the billionaire prevailed.
Murdoch's latest target is total control of British Sky Broadcasting, which would enable him to tighten his grip on the U.K.'s media machinery.
Controversy swirls around Rupert Murdoch like a cloud, from thunderclaps of overheated rhetoric at Fox News to the phone-hacking scandal at News of the World. But the 79-year-old mogul has a way of getting what he wants.
Related story on The Daily Beast: America's Proud Egypt Moment
The journalistic establishment was aghast when Murdoch tried to buy New York magazine in the 1970s, the Times of London and Sunday Times in the 1980s, and The Wall Street Journal four years ago. In each case, the billionaire prevailed.
Murdoch's latest target is total control of British Sky Broadcasting, which would enable him to tighten his grip on the U.K.'s media machinery.
- 2/2/2011
- by Howard Kurtz
- The Daily Beast
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