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Robert Weedon |
Saturday 2nd
March
2013
Robert compares two documentaries about Richard III based on the same footage and asks why Channel 4 found it so difficult to make a serious documentary.
Simon Pitt |
Sunday 13th
May
2012
Simon looks at the trend in television programmes for adding in detailed jokes that require you to pause the programme to read them. And also at some missed opportunities, where he paused the TV and found nothing to read.
Simon Pitt |
Saturday 21st
April
2012
Simon looks at the recent trend for using large white text for programme titles.
Robert Weedon |
Friday 9th
March
2012
A camera floats serenely over the British countryside. Turn on the TV every night to see it.
Simon Pitt |
Wednesday 21st
December
2011
Simon looks through his childhood bookcase and considers what works in tie-in comics, and what doesn't.
Robert Weedon |
Sunday 28th
August
2011
BBC Two is about to lose 20% of their drama output! Well, screen output anyway. Robert revisits the TV trend of using fake widescreen bars as they sneak their way onto BBC Two's "original British drama" strand.
Robert Weedon |
Wednesday 23rd
March
2011
In Image Dissectors' first visual article, Simon examines why Gerry Anderson's Supermarionation productions are perhaps the greatest children's programmes ever made.
Robert Weedon |
Thursday 3rd
March
2011
Sounding a bit like a horror show for children, Robert defines an obscure term used by fans of forgotten archive television programmes, before looking at why those cobwebs are unlikely to be swept away.
Robert Weedon |
Tuesday 28th
December
2010
As BBC Two premier their new version of Whistle and I'll Come to You, Robert looks at an M.R. James adaptation that is perhaps unfairly overlooked, before seeing what he makes of the newest adaptation.
Simon Pitt |
Sunday 3rd
October
2010
Simon reviews Sky's new heavily advertised Gervais/Merchant comedy: An Idiot Abroad.
Simon Pitt |
Sunday 26th
September
2010
The world of technology sales is a confusing place for poor consumers. So why do people buy technology these days? Is it because they want the higher quality, or because they feel they should buy it. Come to that, can they even tell the difference?
Simon Pitt |
Sunday 12th
September
2010
Having bought the rights to the entire back catalogue of HBO, Sky is going after a different segment of the market. Simon looks at what Sky is up to.
Robert Weedon |
Thursday 26th
August
2010
How do you show a radio programme on television? As Radio 4 make their first Red Button television programme, Robert has a look and wonders if they've missed the point slightly.
Robert Weedon |
Monday 26th
July
2010
From Doctor Who to Doctor Watson, Steven Moffat brings us yet another Sherlock Holmes adaptation, but is it any good?
Robert Weedon |
Tuesday 29th
June
2010
Tom Hollander's new ecclesiastical sitcom Rev. is the latest sitcom about a member of the clergy, although surprisingly, the first to feature an apparently realistic vicar. Robert discusses why.
Simon Pitt |
Sunday 13th
June
2010
As the latest BBC crime drama, Luther comes to an end, Simon looks at some of the options remaining for screenwriters.
Robert Weedon |
Tuesday 8th
June
2010
The invisible wall between 'on and off camera' has been broken down in recent years. Robert examines why.
Robert Weedon |
Thursday 1st
April
2010
Robert looks over a somewhat disappointing Easter television schedule, and wonders why TV over the Easter bank holiday doesn't hold quite the same appeal as it does at Christmas.
Robert Weedon |
Saturday 20th
February
2010
Barry Gray was very talented at melody, harmony, rhapsody, and, um, symphony. But what is it about his music to Captain Scarlet that makes it so spooky? Robert investigates.
Robert Weedon |
Friday 19th
February
2010
As Eastenders celebrates its 25th anniversary by going out live, Image Dissectors discusses how it has revived a once-common TV tradition.
Simon Pitt |
Tuesday 16th
February
2010
Definitions and explanations of new media phrases. The BBC Hot Wash is the way the BBC sanitises 'talent', in an attempt to make it suitable for everyone. However, like putting your woollen jumper in the hot wash, this leaves it not fitting anyone.
Robert Weedon |
Monday 8th
February
2010
So what's the secret of Top Gear's success? Apart from the cars, the presenters and everything else, it could be this effect.
Robert Weedon |
Sunday 7th
February
2010
Robert looks at Anglia Television and the importance of the lost genre of regional ITV documentaries, before examining a particularly fine example from 1975.
Robert Weedon |
Monday 1st
February
2010
In readiness of the 2012 digital switch over, Teletext and Ceefax are winding down their services. Robert has a brief flick through their history, or at least he will when the page selector goes round its cycle.
Robert Weedon |
Sunday 24th
January
2010
Robert looks on as crime and medicine series spin themselves into oblivion.
Robert Weedon |
Wednesday 13th
January
2010
With so-called 'channel surfing' becoming the ghost behind the wardrobe of programme makers, Robert looks into why they're concerned, and questions whether their fear is justified.
Robert Weedon |
Thursday 26th
November
2009
ITV is to buy Disney's 25% stake in GMTV for 22.25 million, therefore making the breakfast television channel a wholly-owned subsiduary of ITV. Image Dissectors discusses what this might mean.
Robert Weedon |
Wednesday 25th
November
2009
With Christmas only a month away, Robert speculates about what television we can look forward to in the forthcoming festive season, and wonders why we all look forward to it anyway.
Robert Weedon |
Monday 23rd
November
2009
HD is rolling out across the country, but only to a select few. Which future television event will persuade people to make the switch to High Definition?
Simon Pitt |
Saturday 14th
November
2009
You can't open a newspaper these day without reading a rant about the BBC. With the BBC releasing their expenses, and journalists struggling to find something to complain about, Simon examines why everyone seems to hate the BBC.
Robert Weedon |
Friday 13th
November
2009
Robert reviews ITV1's latest drama series, and surprisingly, he likes it.
Simon Pitt |
Wednesday 11th
November
2009
According to the media, getting video On Demand wherever and whenever you want it is pretty much the most exciting thing to ever happen. But is On Demand all it's cracked up to be? If it is, why isn't everyone doing it, and if it isn't, why not? As the BBC turn off their Real Player streams and move to iPlayer for all TV and Radio, Simon looks at just how popular iPlayer is and examines why it hasn't set the world alight as much as everyone wishes.
Robert Weedon |
Wednesday 23rd
September
2009
Robert highlights the recent rise in the fake 2.35:1 letterbox on television.
Robert Weedon |
Sunday 20th
September
2009
Robert discusses some of the implications of the government's decision to allow product placement on British commercial television.
Simon Pitt |
Sunday 23rd
August
2009
Simon considers what purposes television has, and ponders some of the reasons why it fails to achieve these purposes.
Simon Pitt |
Saturday 22nd
August
2009
Simon examines what programmes we've all been watching, what this says about our viewing habits, and considers whose fault lazy programming is.
Robert Weedon |
Monday 3rd
August
2009
Nothing to do with the film production company, in this article, Robert bemoans the lack of originality in new programme names, and the rise of the "Working Title title".
Robert Weedon |
Sunday 12th
July
2009
ITV, once an admired rival to the BBC, is now floundering in a swimming pool of its own effluence. With the recent cancellation of the South Bank Show, and several expensive drama series, Robert discusses why.
Robert Weedon |
Wednesday 6th
May
2009
Robert Weedon discusses the Last Night of the Proms, and in particular the increasing televisual tyranny that are the BBC Proms in the Parks.
Robert Weedon |
Tuesday 5th
May
2009
In this article, Robert Weedon praises the BBC's Music, Sport and Religious programming outside broadcast teams, while complaining about some less well filmed live events.
Robert Weedon |
Sunday 3rd
May
2009
It may seem an odd thing to be misty eyed about, but the BBC Video ident used between 1990-1997 is a logo which hasn't dated or been bettered by any of the subsequent logos used by the corporation. Robert Weedon dissects why.
Robert Weedon |
Sunday 26th
April
2009
In this article, Robert Weedon suggests why television was never quite as good as you remember, before completely contradicting himself by going off on a rant about how ITV used to be much better in the old days.
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