24th November — After a week that saw Friends Reunited and Myspace and trending, and Twitter started fleeting… Here’s the latest Raven, delivering 10 talking points across #media, #tech #marketing and the #environment. Up this week: Disney gets cocky, kid, Netflix’s Gambit pays off, while they invent TV, the pandemic pressures Hollywood, Deepfake…

Doctor Who’s latest event reviewed — We’re tripping the dark fantastic with the Time Lord Victorious. Here’s our first dip into the arc with *a few mild spoilers* We were a fan of Time Lord Victorious (TLV) as soon as it was announced — when it was little more than a dusted-off title, and a picture…

In October, we dipped into this Arrow’s Frightfest, the second digital edition of the year thanks to the horror of you-know-what. Of all the film festivals, horror probably suffers most from losing the shared experience that is cinema. It’s painful to watch many of these films not already snaffled by…

6th November — Here’s the latest Raven, delivering 10 talking points across #media, #tech #marketing and the #environment. Up this week: A new leaf for book sales, a monster in my kitchen, the rise of the fake commute, Paypal makes crypto less cryptic, once upon an App in Hollywood (or two), ghosts can’t…

21st October — Finally, Raven Series 3 arrives. I was waiting for Medium to change its logo. Warning, B and C words follow, alongside these hot topics… Netflix rises and falls, Disney pioneers streaming, Bond dodges his duty, McClane’s still having a bad day, John Lewis gets it right again, Big Tech scrutiny…

A Jokerside review — A new age of Multi-Doctor stories is upon us. We take a look at the first of Big Finish’s Tenth Doctor temporal mash-ups. Mild spoilers ahead. The UK’s Rule of Six shows no sign of denting multi-Doctor stories. As with many aspects of the Who universe, the meeting of Doctors…

“Reliving the adverts, so you can’t forget them” — my annual round-up of UK advertising candy, 2019 edition. “IT WAS THE 1ST OF NOVEMBER AND BARELY HAD THE CRYPT DOORS SEALED AFTER HALLOWEEN…” It’s just as well media hawks were salivating at the prospect of this year’s ad line up…