Month: November 2011
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Winning the race for status, losing the race for the industry
Have you seen the YouTube video yet where a man is chasing his dog, chasing deer in Richmond Park? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GRSbr0EYYU. The nation seems divided over whether it is funny or not, but it gives me the excuse to talk about a deer related subject which has lessons for our business. Let’s talk about Elks. Robert…
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Does TV stop violence and what’s your prediction for 2020?
Penelope Keith says that young people bash up old people because families don’t sit round watching sit coms together in the way that they used to. Really she did say that.. in an interview reported in the Daily Mail : http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2061599/Penelope-Keith-blasts-youth-cult-TV.html. In Keith’s heyday people had to watch what was on the TV whether they…
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End the “Over-Cap”
I was watching a show last night about the Reunion of Fry and Laurie : Two national treasures according to the narrator. We’d Sky-plussed it ages ago and finally got round to watching it. We were looking forward to it. I got about half an hour in and then gave up. For the first twenty-two…