The list of winners from this year’s British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) awards.

John Graham-Cumming became to so used to going without television for 12 months at home, that he almost didn’t notice the TVs in the hotels he stayed at.
The real revelation came when I was staying in a hotel and for the first time ever simply didn’t switch the hotel TV on. I knew that [...]

Did last Christmas seem to pass you by, barely registering its presence? Agnostic has been analysing a number of indications pointing to a growing loss of interest in Christmas, and has found, among other things, a decline in the number of special Christmas TV shows in recent years.
So as with the “dissing on ugly [...]

The rise of so-called “passive entertainment”, television, books, and radio for instance, has been linked to increasing levels of obesity, as has – I dare say – office and other forms of sedentary work.
Televisions have been widespread for barely 60 years. Radios, for less than a century. Books, for perhaps half a millennium. Sure, [...]

Jerry Mander’s book “Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television” – which was written in 1977 – has been re-published online.
What’s the matter with our modern, technologically based society anyway? Why isn’t it more satisfying? Why do so many of us now feel that some vague something hounds us and diminishes us and makes [...]

TV is proving to be an important driver of social change in developing nations.
In our collective enthusiasm for whiz-bang new social-networking tools like Twitter and Facebook, the implications of this next television age – from lower birthrates among poor women to decreased corruption to higher school enrollment rates – have largely gone overlooked despite [...]

The complete collection of logos from British science fiction show Dr Who, from 1963 up to the most recent logo which has just been unveiled.

I’d have thought being on the same page in terms of having children, outlook, and whether it will be necessary to agree to disagree over personal values would take precedence – by a considerable margin – over the location of TVs at home, but the question is up there with the best of them:
Will [...]

Subliminal messages or advertising, micro snippets featuring a word or image that are inserted into a TV show or movie, and that are registered by the subconscious mind rather than being seen directly, apparently have more impact if they leave the viewer frightened or anxious.
An experiment by British researchers has found that even though [...]

News to me, but long running US sitcom “The Simpsons” is about to be broadcast in Africa for the first time – Africa’s a big place, I’d have thought it would have shown somewhere there by now – and to mark the occasion the family has been given an “African makeover”…
Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa [...]