Amazon will “ramp up” Prime Video ads in 2025: Ugh, in a further recreation of cable TV, we’re likely to be subjected to yet more ads, including in the middle of shows, from Amazon’s paid service.
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2024-10-04
2024-09-22
Criminal Investigative Analysis: Part 1 of 4 of a Law Enforcement Bulletin article I found when looking up whether the Behavioural Analysis Unit from “Criminal Minds” was real - it is, but what they do is usually rather different.
2024-08-11: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds - a newer Star Trek series seemingly modelled on TNG
2024-07-03: A new Channel 4 documentary asks us 'Can AI steal your vote?'
2024-06-21: 📺 Watched Clarkson’s Farm. A show so fantastical that, at times, it makes Jeremy Clarkson look …
2024-06-01: 📺 Watched Beyond Paradise season 1 and 2. This is ‘Death in Paradise’, fully UK edition. …
2024-05-27: 🎭 Excitedly awaiting ‘Standing at the Sky’s Edge’, which claims to be ‘the …
2024-05-16: Watch a new city block of Pompeii get unearthed in a new BBC documentary
2024-05-09: Rewatching Westworld in the AI-infused year 2024
2024-04-23: 📺 Watched season 13 of Death In Paradise. More (mostly) light-hearted murder in the sun. I guessed …
2024-04-05: 📺 Watched season 21 of of Dragon’s Den. BBC ‘Business Thursday’ hit our household …
2024-03-31: 📺 Watched The Power. This is the TV adaptation of Naomi Alderman’s justly-famous book of the …
2024-03-20: 📺 Watched Black Mirror season 6. Despite the fact that I’m not sure my nerves need shattering …
2024-03-20: GB News breaks TV broadcast regulations once again
2024-02-15: Learned a new phase last week: stinge-watching. It’s the opposite of binge-watching. …
2024-02-14: 📺 Watching The Apprentice - season 18. It’s sometimes reassuring when things stay the same - …
2024-02-03: 📺 Watched season 6 of The Crown. This is the final season of this “is it fact or …
2024-02-03: 📺 Watched season 2 of The Traitors (UK version). Exactly the same setup as in the first season, but …
2024-01-13: 📺 Started the mammoth mission of watching all available ‘classic’ Doctor Who episodes, …
2024-01-13: Mr Bates vs The Post Office tells the story of one of Britain's 'worst miscarriages of justice'
2023-12-11: Maryam Moshiri falls victim to the same self-inflicted disaster that I’m sure all of us remote …
2023-10-08: 📺 Watched Jury Duty. Caved into the show that almost every American I know seems to be talking …
2023-08-28: Experiencing the Dream Machine
2023-06-07: 📺 Watched season 8 of Brooklyn 99. Released in 2021, the final season of the surprisingly funny …
2023-05-31: 📺 Watched Star Trek: Picard season 2 and 3. Dwelling here only on season 3: if you grew up in the …