By Stephen Foster on July 2, 2012
I used to think that the biggest threat to the fantastic ‘Mad Men’ TV series about Madison Avenue types in the all-conquering, drinking and bonking 1960′s was the onset of hippiedom (or the bourgeois version thereof). Can you imagine Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce’s sharp-suited Don Draper (right) in bell-bottom jeans with a droopy Frank Zappa [...]
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By Stephen Foster on April 6, 2012
According to the Daily Mail it is anyway: BSkyB is paying £250,000 per episode for series five of Mad Men but audiences have slumped to 47,000 for the third episode (in stark contrast to the 355,000 it garnered on BBC digital channel BBC4 for the last series), costing Sky over £5 per viewer. Why the [...]
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By Stephen Foster on March 23, 2012
Amongst other things, obviously it was. The fifth series of Mad Men starts Sunday in the US, and probably on Sky Atlantic in the UK. I wouldn’t know because I’m a Virgin customer in the UK and don’t have Sky Atlantic. There are lots of reasons not to like BSkyB in the UK and putting [...]
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By Stephen Foster on January 9, 2012
That’s what the Mail on Sunday thinks anyway, reporting yesterday that veteran actress Joan Collins, 78, is to make an advertising comeback for Mars brand Snickers, courtesy of agency AMV BBDO presumably. Apparently Joan, whose tastes usually run to posh, likes cheap, cheerful and calorie-packed Snickers bars (although this is probably not how client and [...]
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By Stephen Foster on January 23, 2011
Executives at UK pay-TV broadcaster BSkyB, about to announce yet more stellar sales and profit figures, must be so wishing they could do away with Rupert Murdoch, 39 per cent owner News Corporation, The News of the World, Andy Coulson and all the other paraphernalia that goes with a News Corporation connection these days. Because [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics, PR | Tagged Andy Coulson, bskyb, Dustin Hoffman, hbo, home box office, news corporation, news of the world, Rupert Murdoch, sky atlantic
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