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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.
Robert Weedon |
Monday 6th
August
2012
As John Inverdale annoys Robert with a throwaway quip, Image Dissectors take a look at the music of the 2012 Olympics...so far.
Robert Weedon |
Sunday 6th
May
2012
In their second visual article, Image Dissectors examine aspect ratios on film and television with the aid of some biscuits.
Robert Weedon |
Friday 9th
March
2012
A camera floats serenely over the British countryside. Turn on the TV every night to see it.
Robert Weedon |
Wednesday 2nd
November
2011
In this article, Robert claims that if you don't have a Wikipedia article, you probably aren't very important, wonders why more people don't pay editors to write their biographies and asks where Richard Briers went to school.
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 |
Monday 28th
February
2011
As Colin Firth and The King's Speech clean up the film awards, Robert looks back to Firth's much earlier, but similarly afflicted first leading role in the 1987 film A Month in the Country.
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.
Robert Weedon |
Wednesday 29th
September
2010
Having had his article promoted to 'Featured Article' standard, Robert discusses what happened when Sherlock Holmes Baffled faced its toughest challenge yet - the Wikipedia front page.
Robert Weedon |
Tuesday 28th
September
2010
In the first of two articles, Robert discusses how to write a Wikipedia 'Featured Article', and why there aren't more of them about.
Robert Weedon |
Wednesday 22nd
September
2010
Robert reviews one of Radio 4's hidden gems.
Robert Weedon |
Wednesday 1st
September
2010
As the Today programme dismisses the idea of having its own theme tune, Robert discusses why unlike TV, serious radio doesn't tend to have news themes, before looking at some examples from other national radio stations.
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 |
Tuesday 27th
July
2010
As EON's Bond series hits another stumbling block, Robert wonders if the real Bond villain might be bad luck.
Robert Weedon |
Monday 26th
July
2010
As part of a budget reduction at the Department of Culture Media and Sport, Jeremy Hunt has decided to close the UK Film Council. Image Dissectors looks at what this might mean.
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.
Robert Weedon |
Wednesday 16th
June
2010
When a news story breaks these days, Twitter seems to be journalists' first port of call. Robert dissects why.
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 |
Tuesday 18th
May
2010
After 5 months of intense speculation, hype, and more speculation, the 2010 General Election came and went. But what did the media make of it?
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.
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 24th
December
2009
Christmas carols are always heralded as an integral part of the season. However, with increasing secularisation and a suspicion of anything Victorian or traditional, how much longer will they survive? Robert looks at the annual service from King's College, Cambridge, and then, like a hooded harbringer of misery, discusses the future.
Robert Weedon |
Wednesday 16th
December
2009
Despite the increase of musical branding on the visual medium of television, on UK national radio, the opposite seems to be happening. Robert speculates about what's happening, and for nostalgia's sake looks at some old station musical themes.
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?
Robert Weedon |
Friday 13th
November
2009
Robert reviews ITV1's latest drama series, and surprisingly, he likes it.
Robert Weedon |
Monday 5th
October
2009
As an England match is shown for the first time exclusively on the internet, Robert discusses the implications of sport over the web.
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.
Robert Weedon |
Saturday 22nd
August
2009
Robert examines the current BBFC ratings system and wonders if its categories are really useful. Warning: contains thematic elements.
Robert Weedon |
Friday 7th
August
2009
News Corporation to charge for online newspaper access.
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 2nd
August
2009
Robert writes an inconclusive little introduction to a planned series of articles on British films, and highlights the influence of three of the big names in British cinema.
Robert Weedon |
Sunday 19th
July
2009
Robert has a go at writing an incomprehensive little guide to watching films at home on television, and concludes that you probably shouldn't bother.
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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