Matthew Cashmore wrote: > From last weeks Private Eye - http://www.private-eye.co.uk/ > > THE BBC has announced today radical new plans to show TV programmes on > television sets. > > "While these television sets will never replace seeing your favourite > shows streamed on the internet, beamed directly to your mobile phone, or > projected onto the side of your house", said the BBC's newly-appointed > Creative Multi-Vision Platform Director of Post-Media Interface Synergy > Jeff Haircut, "we do believe that broadcasting on television sets still > plays a small role in delivery to a small niche market of viewers who > want to watch television".
>From next week's news, as far as you know: "The BBC's radical plans to show TV programmes on so-called 'television sets' has been met with almost unilateral opposition by opposition groups. "Famed spectacle-wearing spectacle Dr Coriolanus wrote a moving piece in the Daily Grot, comparing the BBC's plans to the cultural revolution in China, and accusing Jeff Haircut of being a Little Red Kook. "And the British Homeopathic League accused government boffins of watering down official research in order to hide the harmful effects of the new TV broadcasts. 'Radio waves are all fine and good, but we have many reports from our patients that these new television waves are making them feel sick, and we insist that the BBC stop these dangerous experiments with our children's health,' said the BHL's chief health experimenter Dr Debby Mengele. "Meanwhile, members of the Multi-Platform Distributors, Erstwhile Journalists and Glass Blowers Union staged a bandwidth-capping protest that effectively shut down every BBC programme except for Graham Norton's new audience participation reality show, 'Strictly Coming'. Asked to comment on future possible protests, Dr Jeremy Paxman, the union's ambassador to the BBC, just looked tired and sad." -- Frank Wales [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
