Is this the future of TV?
Upstaged ticks all the boxes by being innovative in its use of multi-platform programming. Firstly it builds an online community through its web site, where they can have their say and vote on what will happen on the TV show. Then people can watch the show on BBC Three. Then if they really want more they can 'press the red button' and get extra live footage. I've heard a lot recently about the future of broadcasting, and multi-platform entertainment is a very dominant theme.
But is this what's its going to be like?!
It seems when the idea for this show was thought up they got to the point when they realised it would work across platforms and forgot about the rest of the programming making process, like the bit where you try and make it good. This programme is embarrassingly poor. I saw one the other day. There were no more than 20 people in front of the stage watching the live show, which included a comedy act that wasn't funny and a singer/dancer that could do neither. I also noticed that the charts logging online viewers votes did not have a scale to show if there had been four votes or four thousand. I suspect it was nearer the former.
I really hope that this is an experiment that is not continued. Before going all '360 degree commissioning' on us, please programme makers, get your priorities sorted and make the programmes good enough to work on just one platform first of all.
Friday, March 21, 2008
Monday, March 17, 2008
Petition Launched for Cathays Cemetery's Decaying Chapels
The history of Cardiff can be read through the engraved epitaphs spread throughout it, but Cathays Cemetery lies unnoticed and forgotten by most of us.
After decades of neglect the two chapels at the entrance to the 19th century cemetery are now a fenced off eyesore, where once they provided a grand welcome to the quiet retreat just outside the little, but growing, town of Cardiff.
A group from the welsh capital, The Friends of Cathays Cemetery, want the two chapels to be brought back to their former glory from their current crumbling state. They've set up a petition to try and encourage Cardiff Council to repair and maintain the grade 2 listed chapels.
Cathays Cemetery itself is one of the biggest cemeteries in the UK and was built in 1859, when Cardiff was just a small town.
Buried in the grounds are a number of characters from Cardiff relatively short history, including boxer 'Fearless' Jim Driscoll, who reportedly missed a world title fight because of a previous commitment to visit some nuns, Ernest Thompson, who pioneered hot air balloons during the first world war, as well as many of the men who helped established Cardiff as the biggest exporter of coal in the world.
A similarly historic cemetery in Bristol was featured on the BBC's Restoration programme, but no one has noticed the fact that Cardiff's biggest cemetery is decaying. The buildings are two twin chapels, one Church in Wales, the other for denominations such as methodists.
To give your support to the decaying funeral chapels sign the petition set up by the Friends of Cathays Cemetery. There are also guides of the cemetery aimed at visitors who want to walk around and find out a little of the history buried in the 110 acres site.
After decades of neglect the two chapels at the entrance to the 19th century cemetery are now a fenced off eyesore, where once they provided a grand welcome to the quiet retreat just outside the little, but growing, town of Cardiff.
A group from the welsh capital, The Friends of Cathays Cemetery, want the two chapels to be brought back to their former glory from their current crumbling state. They've set up a petition to try and encourage Cardiff Council to repair and maintain the grade 2 listed chapels.
Cathays Cemetery itself is one of the biggest cemeteries in the UK and was built in 1859, when Cardiff was just a small town.
Buried in the grounds are a number of characters from Cardiff relatively short history, including boxer 'Fearless' Jim Driscoll, who reportedly missed a world title fight because of a previous commitment to visit some nuns, Ernest Thompson, who pioneered hot air balloons during the first world war, as well as many of the men who helped established Cardiff as the biggest exporter of coal in the world.
A similarly historic cemetery in Bristol was featured on the BBC's Restoration programme, but no one has noticed the fact that Cardiff's biggest cemetery is decaying. The buildings are two twin chapels, one Church in Wales, the other for denominations such as methodists.
To give your support to the decaying funeral chapels sign the petition set up by the Friends of Cathays Cemetery. There are also guides of the cemetery aimed at visitors who want to walk around and find out a little of the history buried in the 110 acres site.
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