''The London square is filled with Saltires and men in kilts as they enjoy the sun"
And yet another treat. I hope they didn't forget the Factor 100 on those pasty legs; wouldn't want them turning iñto crackling after a couple of minutes exposure to strong light.
There are two major reasons for the golden age of US TV.
First, technology, especially editing tools, has made it possible to make movie-quality television series on a TV budget and schedule.
Second, the rise of cable and carriage fees. In the US, cable providers pay carriage fees to carry channels. This allows small channels like AMC and FX to invest in creating original content knowing that they will be rewarded financially if they succeed.
Compare and contrast with the UK, where Sky have a monopoly. This lets them control carriage fees and keep them artificially low, disincentivising pay TV channels from creating original scripted content.
Thankfully, developments in technology are slowly disrupting Sky's monopoly. For example, BT is offering all the non-Sky channels at a fraction of the cost of Sky, while paying the channels more than Sky's dismal carriage fees. Over time, this should open up the market.
Sky is completely aware their market dominance is being challenge and their response is to try and create original scripted content, plus hugely overpaying for any international content they can get their hands on. Their attempts at creating original content have all failed. Sky has a notoriously awful track-record at creating scripted TV series, with only Dream Team having any impact.
The Times is totally behind the curve. Bar a couple of news changes during the day - what appears in print is on the site all day.
They're just catching up with actually tweeting their own stories FFS;
The Mail is the best at it - then the DT - then Times.
The DT does uber opinion - I can quite easily refresh 6x a day and find something new to read - great sticky strategy and cheap as chips given its all opinion
Damian Thompson @holysmoke Incredible traffic for Tim Stanley on the Clintons – 5K shares blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/timstanle
lol. Yes, I know. Trounced by Tim "haircut" Stanley. However I have only been doing this for about three months, and I did get 4K shares for my Muslim T-shirt thingy:
What's clear is that the Telegraph is now very aggressively pursuing digital opinionating, and is arguably beating the Guardian at their "own game" (given that the Guardian has been studiously doing this for years longer). Look at Comment is Free today: nothing remotely close to the share figures "we" are getting on the Telegraph, as of this evening.
It simply means the english should get off their arses and get their own national anthem leaving GSTQ as the UK one.
I don't care.
You. Don't. Boo. The. Queen.
stop being such a ninny, her Maj would just give a raised eyebrow and move on. Think of it as the Prussian national anthem Heil Dir Im Siegerkranz - same tune.
stop being such a ninny, her Maj would just give a raised eyebrow and move on. Think of it as the Prussian national anthem Heil Dir Im Siegerkranz - same tune.
It simply means the english should get off their arses and get their own national anthem leaving GSTQ as the UK one.
I don't care.
You. Don't. Boo. The. Queen.
stop being such a ninny, her Maj would just give a raised eyebrow and move on. Think of it as the Prussian national anthem Heil Dir Im Siegerkranz - same tune.
Sky is completely aware their market dominance is being challenge and their response is to try and create original scripted content, plus hugely overpaying for any international content they can get their hands on. Their attempts at creating original content have all failed. Sky has a notoriously awful track-record at creating scripted TV series, with only Dream Team having any impact.
Some enterprising tv company should have rustled up a Scottish studio audience and a worm on support for independence, just to test the '90 minute nationalist' thesis.
It simply means the english should get off their arses and get their own national anthem leaving GSTQ as the UK one.
I don't care.
You. Don't. Boo. The. Queen.
stop being such a ninny, her Maj would just give a raised eyebrow and move on. Think of it as the Prussian national anthem Heil Dir Im Siegerkranz - same tune.
The joys of the interthingy, it's like having a betamax video recorder when everyone else is on iPhones. It happens because my darling wife stuck a stack of security software on my PC which keeps changing my search engine to US sites. So every time it does a security sweep ( 20.00 today ) it shuts down the PC for half an hour and I get to see the states. I get results which take me from full anglo saxon blue rage to laughs as I try to figure out why Manchester is suddenly Manchester by the Sea. I'll fix all the search tomorrow morning as usual.
It simply means the english should get off their arses and get their own national anthem leaving GSTQ as the UK one.
I don't care.
You. Don't. Boo. The. Queen.
stop being such a ninny, her Maj would just give a raised eyebrow and move on. Think of it as the Prussian national anthem Heil Dir Im Siegerkranz - same tune.
The joys of the interthingy, it's like having a betamax video recorder when everyone else is on iPhones. It happens because my darling wife stuck a stack of security software on my PC which keeps changing my search engine to US sites. So every time it does a security sweep ( 20.00 today ) it shuts down the PC for half an hour and I get to see the states. I get results which take me from full anglo saxon blue rage to laughs as I try to figure out why Manchester is suddenly Manchester by the Sea. I'll fix all the search tomorrow morning as usual.
It simply means the english should get off their arses and get their own national anthem leaving GSTQ as the UK one.
I don't care.
You. Don't. Boo. The. Queen.
stop being such a ninny, her Maj would just give a raised eyebrow and move on. Think of it as the Prussian national anthem Heil Dir Im Siegerkranz - same tune.
The joys of the interthingy, it's like having a betamax video recorder when everyone else is on iPhones. It happens because my darling wife stuck a stack of security software on my PC which keeps changing my search engine to US sites. So every time it does a security sweep ( 20.00 today ) it shuts down the PC for half an hour and I get to see the states. I get results which take me from full anglo saxon blue rage to laughs as I try to figure out why Manchester is suddenly Manchester by the Sea. I'll fix all the search tomorrow morning as usual.
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''The London square is filled with Saltires and men in kilts as they enjoy the sun"
And yet another treat. I hope they didn't forget the Factor 100 on those pasty legs; wouldn't want them turning iñto crackling after a couple of minutes exposure to strong light.
First, technology, especially editing tools, has made it possible to make movie-quality television series on a TV budget and schedule.
Second, the rise of cable and carriage fees. In the US, cable providers pay carriage fees to carry channels. This allows small channels like AMC and FX to invest in creating original content knowing that they will be rewarded financially if they succeed.
Compare and contrast with the UK, where Sky have a monopoly. This lets them control carriage fees and keep them artificially low, disincentivising pay TV channels from creating original scripted content.
Thankfully, developments in technology are slowly disrupting Sky's monopoly. For example, BT is offering all the non-Sky channels at a fraction of the cost of Sky, while paying the channels more than Sky's dismal carriage fees. Over time, this should open up the market.
Sky is completely aware their market dominance is being challenge and their response is to try and create original scripted content, plus hugely overpaying for any international content they can get their hands on. Their attempts at creating original content have all failed. Sky has a notoriously awful track-record at creating scripted TV series, with only Dream Team having any impact.
Scottist.
Bruce's seat looks wobbly even if he doesn't retire.
They're just catching up with actually tweeting their own stories FFS;
The Mail is the best at it - then the DT - then Times.
The DT does uber opinion - I can quite easily refresh 6x a day and find something new to read - great sticky strategy and cheap as chips given its all opinion
http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=heil+dir+im+siegerkranz&docid=5064446124229516&mid=6F642C72F42C74A0E3186F642C72F42C74A0E318&view=detail