Saturday 28 July 2012

Articles

Christopher Nolan’s goodbye letter to the Batman franchise
(from Batman-News.com)
Taken from The Art and Making of The Dark Knight Trilogy.


Plus various articles on the Olympics...

Media reaction to London 2012 Olympic opening ceremony
(from BBC News)
A summary of media reaction from at home and abroad. I particularly like the Washington Post's thoughts:
If the opening ceremonies of the London Games sometimes seemed like the world's biggest inside joke, the message from Britain resonated loud and clear: We may not always be your cup of tea, but you know - and so often love - our culture nonetheless.


NBC's opening ceremony mess: the top six cringeworthy moments
by Paul Harris (from the Guardian)
Sounds like the US coverage of the Olympics opening ceremony was offensively bad. Here are the low-lights.


Olympics ceremony: 27m UK viewers watched opening
(from BBC News)
The UK's TV audience for the Olympic opening ceremony peaked at 26.9m... The average viewing figure for Friday's four-hour show was 22.4m, making it the UK's 13th most watched programme ever.

The programme also had an 82% share - almost twice that of the previous high for an Olympic opening ceremony, in Barcelona in 1992.


Opening ceremony a celebration -- of protest and dissent
by Alex Wolff (from London 2012 at SI.com)
A good piece by a US journalist on what the ceremony really represented.

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