On Friday morning, YouTube visitors logged on to a radically different looking website. No longer is YouTube to be a random surfing experience, bouncing from one random video to the next, but rather an emphasis has been placed on video ‘channels’. While the randomness of YouTube isn’t going away entirely, YouTube users are being guided [...]

TV isn’t going anywhere, but the way that it is to be distributed and the way viewers engage with it is changing radically. Credit Suisse Analyst Stefan Anninger has forecast a 200,000 subscriber loss for the US pay television market, while also claiming that youth are revolting against expensive channel packages. Anninger suggests that young [...]

It’s all good and well for us as viewers (and me as a TV blogger) to talk about the future of television resting with IPTV and provide anecdotal evidence of our viewing habits shifting, but it’s another thing to do as All The Presidents Men taught us and follow the money. Now, it’s obvious to [...]

With the Emmy Awards kicking off very shortly, I thought I’d throw out into the great vastness of the Internet a few of my own predictions, along with assumptions on who will likely walk away with the award. It’s worth considering with TV award shows that many of the people voting don’t actually watch the [...]

Rumours have been building in recent months that Apple are set to move in a big way into television. There’s been talk of some sort of partnership with Samsung, Steve Jobs wanting to ‘revolutionise television’ prior to the publication of an authorised biography next year (and before he moves beyond this mortal coil), and then [...]

Following on from rumours that Fox International are set to launch a channel in Australia comes a significant number of job ads placed this morning to staff up. The advertisements mention a general entertainment channel, so I’d assume this may see a relaunch of the FX brand in Australia.  Let the speculation begin! * * [...]

An article has cropped up on TV blog TV Tonight this morning about a pilot that the Chaser have recorded for Seven. There is a bit of extra information floating around about this. It doesn’t seem to be a Chaser project, but rather just something that some of the guys from the Chaser are involved [...]

Pop culture fan conventions are getting bigger in size and attendee numbers every year in Australia. While both have their share of comic book writers, anime voice actors, and obscure/cult sci-fi/fantasy actors, there is a gradual increase of mainstream talent. One of the bigger conventions is Supanova, who this year are bringing out guests like [...]

Don’t get too excited by some of the headlines floating around today. Two & A Half Men has not been cancelled. It’s more in a limbo state. Following comments made by Charlie Sheen this morning about the showrunner of the sitcom, Chuck Lorre, Warner Bros have announced that this current season of the show is [...]