Slashdot Mirror
Gaming TV Goes Legit On The BBC
In a bid to prove that a television show besides X-Play can talk cogently about gaming, the BBC has offered a television show to the creators of online gaming zine Consolevania. GameDailyBiz has a plethora of details about Consolevania, which is well worth checking out before their BBC show, videoGaiden, takes off. From the most recent episode: "An uncensored and hilarious review of Leisure Suit Larry is followed by a darkly offensive Hitler Dreamcast makeover segment, a dance sequence, a poignant riff on MMORPG gaming and quite certainly the greatest parody of Nu-School journalism ever distributed via Bittorrent. The final sketch alone is worth the massive download."
I can hear the crickets chirping....
The original submitter doesn't make it clear that the show is only on BBC 2 Scotland, so the only way most non-UK people outside Scotland can see it is if they've got Sky Digital satellite and tune to channel 960...but how many people will do that?! Never mind, that only a minority of UK people have Sky Digital anyway...
I'm not sure a local Scottish TV programme not on the two "main" terrestrial channels (BBC 1 or ITV 1) warrants a Slashdot story! Hey, we'll be seeing stories about UK Channel 5's "The Gadget Show" next (which I guess is just about the only UK national terrestrial TV show regularly covering anything remotely technical [and, yes, it's mostly just boys toys on it, not much about computing]). And, yes, I know about "Click Online", but that's tucked away on BBC News 24, so barely gets an audience.