LocateTV Blog

Regular users of the site may have noticed that we sometimes suffer a speed problem. Generally search results are returned in less than a second, but occasionally they can take much much longer. Obviously we would like to apologise for any inconvenience this causes. The development team are focused on resolving this issue which is [...]

The pedants amongst us are going to love this - we have added a change log page to locatetv.com, recording daily changes and developments to the site.

Actually, it is nice to see how the LocateTV team are ironing out the bugs and glitches spotted by our pivate beta testers. It’s a case of you tell [...]

‘Blog of the Week’, you ask? Yes, our blog now has a ‘feature’ (whoop). Now that we’re in private beta, we’re collaborating with other TV, film and tech bloggers and posters in order to get feedback about exactly what they think about, and want from, the site as it moves towards launch. Our whole idea [...]

Just to clear up any confusion from yesterday’s post - in all my enthusiastic naivity I failed to realise that Rob May and Rob Fisher are both working on LocateTV… as the hero of certain recently released film would put it, D’oh.
Transparency is very important to us, so I wanted to flag that up. [...]

So the private beta feedback is flooding in - much of it extremely positive, thank goodness! - but also, as we suspected, one of the main issues concerns the range of our data: the listings and DVD/online download info on TV shows, films and actors which is currently covered by our database. It took us [...]

So this is our first proper week with LocateTV in private beta – I like to imagine those password-holders across the web like smiling children elbowing their way through the gates of Wonka’s factory, waving aloft their golden tickets… Maybe a touch hubristic there, but you get my point.
The event last week has made us [...]

Picture the scene: eight of the UK’s coolest TV and film bloggers, four of us from LocateTV, M&S chocolate mini-rolls, a bunch of computers, a lot of raucous debate and discussion (and thankfully a lot of enthusiasm), all rounding up with dinner and alcohol (and more raucous debate and discussion) in a restaurant in Soho.

Yes, [...]