Stephen Fry

What future Twitter and Television?

You can’t stalk a celebrity these days without switching on a computer and logging onto Twitter.com. All shapes and sizes are there, from Wossy, Moyles, Fry and Schofield, but will Twitter have a part to play in the future of television itself, other than to just allow the talent to self-promote themselves?
If ITV want to avoid more cock-ups on the phone vote front, they can shift all the viewer involvement to Twitter, although with the loss of income, it means instead of Ant, Dec, Philip Schofield and Chris Tarrant, all shows will be presented by the 20 something wannabees who host the god awful through the night (ironically) phone-in quiz shows still scraping the bottom of the barrel on Channel 5.
Stephen Fry is probably the most high profile Brit in the industry on Twitter, and most of the popularity in this country is down to Fry mentioning the micro-site on his blog and in various interviews.
Fair play to Stephen for embracing new technology before others, but as the presenter of QI, shoudn’t he or coudn’t he be encouraging literacy in this country with a more suitable message?
Instead of brief maximum 140 character vignettes, shouldn’t he be pioneering a social media site of MINIMUM 1000 characters, with no text spelling abbreviations?
With the Oxbridge educated Fry championing this new site, it might even send out an air bubble of an idea to the government, who in their haste to keep up with the in crowd have decided to put Twitter, Facebook and bloggin onto the school curriculum.

Fry could leave the 140 messages to the lower level of the tv industry, like anyone who appears on or watches The Jeremy Kyle Show, The Wright Stuff or The Chris Moyles Quiz Show…

oh… and by the way, sign up to twitter and follow * radiogagger *
(quite possibly the exceptionally talented brother of the exceptionally talented Lady Gaga)

Radio haha

Stephen Fry, Jack Dee and Rob Bryden will take over as hosts of  “I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue”

Sounds like the BBC have  erred on the side of caution by asking three established tv performers to fill the seat of the virtually irreplaceable Humphrey Littleton.

 Or, alternatively, the Beeb didn’t want another betting scandal on their hands like they did after announcing complete unknown Matt Smith as Dr Who back in January…

Tv on the go

Bebo (one of the the lesser known of the social networks) are producing programmes, or content as it should be called, on their website. The most recent show I’ve read about is B-box, following on from Kate Modern if memory serves me correct (I really should research these things).

When is Twitter going to start producing 140 word programmes?

Paging, sorry tweeting, Stephen Fry…

Entertwitment anyone?