Last night the Christian Aid week TV advert premiered. Here it is if you haven’t seen it:
This is the blurb from their website:
This year’s Christian Aid Week advert highlights the work we do in helping people prepare for the worst. You can’t stop a hurricane, but you can help save lives by funding stronger buildings [...]
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I haven’t had a chance to watch any of The Passion from the BBC yet, and while I have heard a couple of grumbles about Biblical and theological accuracy most of the comments I have heard have been very positive. Andrew Graystone on EvangelismUK sums up reviews from across the press:
Daily Express - Page 15 - [...]
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Rob points out that:
The Passion, which wil be screened on BBC1 from Palm Sunday looks to be another good quality broadcast which could give opportunity for a lot of discussion and chat about Jesus.
For ides for how this could be used look on the Churches’ Media Council website.
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Having had some time off this week I randomly came across Leave Us Kids Alone on BBC 3, and I have loved watching it. The gist of it is that 12 older teenagers are given three weeks to create and run their own school, from scratch. They are given a group of 12 year olds [...]
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Saturday 3:00pm has traditionally been football time in the United Kingdom. But this weekend, of all the premier league fixtures only Aston Villa v West Ham is a that traditional time. Manchester United v Wigan is on Saturday lunchtime, and the other eight games are on Sunday.
Some have suggested that [...]
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A judge has branded The Jeremy Kyle Show “a form of human bear-baiting” at a court case in Manchester. The judge said the daytime telly was “trash” and existed to “titillate bored members of the public with nothing better to do”.
He made the comments while sentencing one of the show’s guests, who head-butted his [...]
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My father-in-law, and boss, is called David, and I try to wind him up by calling him Dave or Big Dave. But following this news that TV channel UKTV G2, which shows random cult comedy and game shows aimed at young men, is to be rebranded Dave, he is quite proud of being Dave. Especially, [...]
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Kid Nation has it’s first airing today and it certainly looks slightly off the wall. The concept of the experiment sounds really interesting, but the young people seem young, and the implication is that there isn’t much supervision, but then again how much supervision is there in other reality style programmes that involve children. [...]
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I have been enjoying watching an episode of the West Wing tonight as I catch up on the blog world. I find it thoroughly relaxing to watch. Hannah has a great post on the West Wing here, go check it out.
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Loads of people blogging from America seem to be talking about Britain’s Got Talent, but as someone in the UK I don’t really know anyone who is watching it. Anyhow Marko has posted two ‘Moments of beauty’ that are well worth watching. Check out part 1, and part 2.
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