Posts Tagged ‘Twitter

BBC3 Call in Hollywood Actress, but what have India done to deserve this?

Friday, January 15th, 2010

1211_lindsay_lohan_india_4190513_fame_exc1Hollywood actress and troubled starlet, Lindsay Lohan, will investigate child trafficking in India for a BBC3 documentary (the designing intelligence that gave us Freaky Eaters, My Man Boobs and Me, and Fuck Off, I’m Fat). And no, this is not a dippy film script or Paris Hilton-style reality TV show. It’s serious stuff dontcha know. Lindsay Lohan in India will follow Lohan as she meets children forced into sweat shops and prostitution, as well as former traffickers.

In December, the 23-year-old actress spent a week in India where, according to the BBC <http://www.bbc.co.uk/tv/comingup/lindsay-lohan-in-india/> , she visited “a shelter where young girls promised domestic work for India’s burgeoning middle classes were trafficked into brothels and forced into prostitution.”

The actress also took to Twitter while abroad to share one of her “lifelong dreams” with her followers.

“Over 40 children saved so far… Within one day’s work… This is what life is about… Doing THIS is a life worth living!!!” she tweeted December 9th. “Focusing on celebrities and lies is so disconcerting, when we can be changing the world one child at a time…. hope everyone can see that.” We see that Lindsay. Why would anyone focus on celebrities, write about their travels around the world - their interest in child trafficking and prostitution - and then perhaps, lets’ say, air it on television?

Blakeway Productions (part of the 3BM Television and Ten Alps TV group) will produce the documentary as part of BBC3’s new line-up of factual and current affairs programmes.

To watch the BBC3 trailer for Lindsay Lohan in India: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pg2t1LABdU

Teens Don’t Tweet

Tuesday, July 14th, 2009

It’s official, the marketeers don’t really know what the teen market really, really wants.  In a piece of research prepared by the media business analysis department of London based, Morgan Stanley, or I should say by their 15 year old intern, this is the real world insight of what teens are into.

hip2besquareFortunately, movies and TV are fairly safe, teens like going to the movies and often go without having a specific movie in mind but choose when they get there.  It’s more about the experience and going with friends.  After age 15 however it gets expensive and a pirate DVD is a better deal.

TV wise, teens will watch a show for a season then probably nothing for weeks and prefer to watch on computers so there’s no ads.  What they do like however is viral ads for their originality and quirky humour.  The internet is king of course, except for the annoying pop-ups and banner ads, with Facebook and Google being the number one’s, though Twitter they say, is pointless.  (Phew, so it isn’t just me!) Most have it but don’t use it, preferring to text.  And as for music, they’re very reluctant to pay for it when they can download it for free.  Don’t read newspapers.

IN – anything with a touch screen, phones that connect to the internet – usually pay-as-you-go,  really BIG TV’s.  OUT – anything with wires, phones without colour screens, devices with less than 10 hour battery life.

As usual, they remain a mystery!

Don’t Hear It Here First

Thursday, May 21st, 2009

Bones posterYou thought the internet was the place to get news on up-coming productions fast and first, well, like newspapers and then radio, it used to be.  Now - you know what’s coming next, it’s Twitter.  News on the re-commissioning or otherwise of US TV shows now breaks out from the stars and producers to their Twitter followers, before studio PR’s get to draft a line.

While Fox were keeping quiet on negotiations for the two year renewal of Bones, Exec. Hart Hanson, had informed delighted fans via Twitter.  And when Castle, star Nathan Fillion heard ABC had picked-up his show, his 51,000 followers were the second to know.

Hope you’re following us on Twitter, we want you to get the news when we do, or once we’ve reported it anyways.