http://www.tvequals.com Your source for TV news, reviews, and more... Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:29:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.tvequals.com/2008/04/16/weird-wonderful-world-british-broadcasting-part-four/ http://www.tvequals.com/2008/04/16/weird-wonderful-world-british-broadcasting-part-four/#comments Wed, 16 Apr 2008 19:29:00 +0000 Matthew http://www.tvequals.com/2008/04/16/weird-wonderful-world-british-broadcasting-part-four/ Continuing my series about how TV works in the UK and what makes it different to US TV. In Part One, Part Two and Part Three, I charted the development of UK broadcast TV up the point where we had five analogue broadcast channels: BBC One; BBC Two; ITV; Channel 4; and Channel 5. Part [...]]]> http://www.tvequals.com/2008/04/16/weird-wonderful-world-british-broadcasting-part-four/feed/ 0 http://www.tvequals.com/2008/04/14/review-doctor-who-voyage-of-the-damned/ http://www.tvequals.com/2008/04/14/review-doctor-who-voyage-of-the-damned/#comments Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:30:30 +0000 Matthew http://www.tvequals.com/2008/04/14/review-doctor-who-voyage-of-the-damned/ (Also doubling as a short piece on Christmas TV in the UK) Episode zero? Episode zero?? It must be an odd thing, from a US perspective, Christmas TV in the UK. On Christmas Day, virtually everywhere shuts down and people stay at home, digesting their Christmas dinner and watching the TV. In times gone by, [...]]]> http://www.tvequals.com/2008/04/14/review-doctor-who-voyage-of-the-damned/feed/ 2 http://www.tvequals.com/2008/04/11/weird-wonderful-world-british-broadcasting-part-three/ http://www.tvequals.com/2008/04/11/weird-wonderful-world-british-broadcasting-part-three/#comments Fri, 11 Apr 2008 07:39:33 +0000 Matthew http://www.tvequals.com/2008/04/11/weird-wonderful-world-british-broadcasting-part-three/ Continuing my series about how TV works in the UK and what makes it different to US TV. Part One dealt with the BBC and Part Two with commercial television, now I’m going to rush through the years as broadcast TV got a little more complicated. Part Three – adding more channels, from the 1960s [...]]]> http://www.tvequals.com/2008/04/11/weird-wonderful-world-british-broadcasting-part-three/feed/ 2 http://www.tvequals.com/2008/04/08/my-sarah-jane/ http://www.tvequals.com/2008/04/08/my-sarah-jane/#comments Wed, 09 Apr 2008 06:27:58 +0000 Matthew http://www.tvequals.com/2008/04/08/my-sarah-jane/ Back when I was five or six years old, I got to meet Sarah Jane Smith. It was the local summer festival and I got in a queue of kids, with my ten pence in my hand and instructions to give it to her when I got to the head of the queue. When I [...]]]> http://www.tvequals.com/2008/04/08/my-sarah-jane/feed/ 1 http://www.tvequals.com/2008/04/06/weird-wonderful-world-british-broadcasting-part-two/ http://www.tvequals.com/2008/04/06/weird-wonderful-world-british-broadcasting-part-two/#comments Sun, 06 Apr 2008 23:07:45 +0000 Matthew http://www.tvequals.com/2008/04/06/weird-wonderful-world-british-broadcasting-part-two/ Continuing my series about how TV works in the UK and what makes it different to US TV. In Part One, we learned about the establishment of the BBC, which is funded by a compulsory licence fee and, until 1955, had a complete monopoly on television in the UK. However, in 1955, ITV was established [...]]]> http://www.tvequals.com/2008/04/06/weird-wonderful-world-british-broadcasting-part-two/feed/ 2 http://www.tvequals.com/2008/04/06/exploring-british-tv-torchwood-connection-part-one/ http://www.tvequals.com/2008/04/06/exploring-british-tv-torchwood-connection-part-one/#comments Sun, 06 Apr 2008 07:31:10 +0000 Matthew http://www.tvequals.com/2008/04/06/exploring-british-tv-torchwood-connection-part-one/ Before I start, I should say that Daemon’s TV contributor David has already written about his favourite British shows. I probably won’t be overlapping with shows he’s covered, so check out his posts on Only Fools and Horses, The Royle Family, Man vs Wild, The Mighty Boosh, Sharpe, Life on Mars and Coronation Street. Also, [...]]]> http://www.tvequals.com/2008/04/06/exploring-british-tv-torchwood-connection-part-one/feed/ 1 http://www.tvequals.com/2008/04/05/weird-wonderful-world-british-broadcasting-part-one/ http://www.tvequals.com/2008/04/05/weird-wonderful-world-british-broadcasting-part-one/#comments Sat, 05 Apr 2008 19:28:07 +0000 Matthew http://www.tvequals.com/2008/04/05/weird-wonderful-world-british-broadcasting-part-one/ Hello, I’m Matthew and I’m mainly going to be writing about Doctor Who (which starts its fourth series here in the UK tonight) and also about some of the many British TV programmes which are relatively unknown in the US, but which are worth investigating. To complement these posts, however, I’ve also written a six-part [...]]]> http://www.tvequals.com/2008/04/05/weird-wonderful-world-british-broadcasting-part-one/feed/ 6 http://www.tvequals.com/2008/01/17/doctor-who-guide-matthew/ http://www.tvequals.com/2008/01/17/doctor-who-guide-matthew/#comments Fri, 18 Jan 2008 04:52:24 +0000 Matthew http://www.tvequals.com/2008/01/17/doctor-who-guide-matthew/ [Editor's note: One of Daemon's TV readers, Matthew, wrote this Guide to all three series of DOCTOR WHO after I mentioned yesterday that I just started watching series one. (He is also one of the people that convinced me to give Doctor Who a chance) It is so complete without spoiling anything that I couldn't [...]]]> http://www.tvequals.com/2008/01/17/doctor-who-guide-matthew/feed/ 4