Thoughts from a Bafta nominated Podcaster, Blogger, Writer and Commentator.
Tony Hall, the BBC Director General on ‘credit squeezing’, where television programs reduce the size of the end credits to shoehorn in a trailer for the next program: Yes. Well, we’re changing it. It’s the curtain call. You want to make sure that the creative team get their proper bow. So we have got a new way of doing it, starting right away.” Now to deal with the voiceover interrupting the middle 8 of the Doctor Who theme.
The monetary value isn’t going away, but Facebook Credits, the social network’s universal currency of the last year or two, is being transferred into the local currency of the users. That’s probably a good thing. Facebook need to decide where to focus their energies on, and I don’t think the answer was a new currency and a 30% rake. The answer is mobile. I’d expect the investment to carry on with the Facebook Home project and lots of iteration.
Brilliant mash-up / spoof / alternate universe video of the opening and closing credits for the modern (Ron Moore helmed) Battlestar Galactica in the style of the Glen A. Larson Galactica. There’s a lot of in-jokes hiding in this one, especially in the end credits, and I’d hazard a guess the author is from the UK, or at least familiar with our Brit TV Sci-Fi (and Scottish comedy double acts).
