Simon Perry: Schemes, dreams & trivia

Ricky Gervais has hit the big time. HBO, the US cableTV-content powerhouse best known for quality TV shows like The Sopranos, has signed a deal to show Gervais’s new show, Extras, in the US. In the process propelling him to mega-fame.
Showing in the UK on BBC this Summer (and on filesharing network the day after), […]

Looking for something to get your adrenaline levels up?
This re-mastered 1976 film short by Claude Lelouch will do the job.
A driver, a low slung camera and a Ferrari 275 GTB.
It starts is the wide Parisian boulevard and gets more intense as he skips to the other side of the road when his way is […]

Following the announcement last week from BBC Technology (BBCT) about Siemens being their preferred bidder, ie the one they want to purchase them, the union BECTU has carried out a ballot. 207 of the voting BECTU members said they were in favour of strike action against 40 who said no - giving 83.8% voting in […]

Following Dawn Airey, current MD of Sky, ruling herself out as Chief Exec at UK Channel 4, attention has passed to Peter Fincham who is currently at TalkbackThames.
What makes it interesting is that he was executive producer of the visionary comedy show by Christopher Morris, Brass Eye. This caused a huge, unnecessary, but typical fuss […]

Broadcast magazine is reporting that Celador, creator of Who want to be a Millionaire, have lost a court case over the Indonesian version at the High Court.
Arief International, who successfully produced and ran the show 2001-2003, claimed he had an ‘evergreen’ arrangement, ie it would continue to be renewed if he increased the license fee […]

“People want to see reality on TV, rather than yet more reality TV.” Bob Geldof, co-founder of Ten Alps
Spot on Bob.

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The much discussed new Michael Moore film, Fahrenheit 9/11, that is big news because Disney will not allow its Miramax production arm to release in the US will, according to Reuters, get a UK release as independent distributor Optimum Releasing owns the UK rights.
Some might think that Optimum Releasing is cashing in on the controversy […]

I went to an excellent Royal Television Society (RTS) London centre event last week organised by Margot Green. It covered the means of raising finance for TV productions and in particular advertiser funded programming or AFP in TV biz speak.
When one of the speakers, Natalie Tydeman from Freemantle, was introducing her company she touched […]

Sky One is to broadcast a new TV show where three people are tricked into believing that they have won the lottery and become millionaires. After five days they’ll be told the truth - and I imagine will be emotionally crushed for significantly longer as they try to pick up the pieces of their lives […]

Watching a piece on TV, Jake La Mota popped up, giving a great quote“I was sitting there, with one of my wives”Fairly relaxed approach to marriage.

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