They should link it to an audio-indexed version of the Kermode film rants too...

On 5/29/08, Dan Brickley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Andrew Bowden wrote:
>>> I see the film reviews are nolonger being updated on the BBC
>>> site.  Does anyone know why and will this mean that the film
>>> reviews xml feeds will no longer be updated.
>>
>> The Movies site (and it's associated section on BBCi) formally closed on
>> 6 May 2008 - they've left the archive online, however there won't be any
>> new reviews.  As such, the feeds won't get updated.
>
> The ratings DB at http://www.bbc.co.uk/movies/ (assume this is the site
> you're talking about) still seems open for business. I voted on a couple
> of movies and it increased the counter, eg. 'Average rating: 4 from 701
> votes' in
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2002/03/28/panic_room_2002_review.shtml#
>
> Will the system carry on accepting ratings indefinitely? Is there any
> way to get a movie ratings data dump out of /cgi-perl/polling/poll.pl ?
>
> Seems like a nice collection of data, even if it won't be updated.
>
> There are people pages too, even enough to play the 6 degrees of Kevin
> Bacon game, albeit on a dataset much smaller than IMDB:
>
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/gateways/star/baconkevin/
>
> If http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/catalogue_offline.shtml were back
> online, it might be fun to match up the identifiers to find other
> appearances of the same actors elsewhere in BBCland...
>
> cheers,
>
> Dan
>
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