LocateTV Blog

KillerStartups have included LocateTV as one of their 30+ daily profiles of innovative web 2.0 companies that are lighting up the internet. The idea behind the website is to present a score-and-a-half of flourishing new companies and invite their readers to vote for the one that they think will be ‘killer’. We’re up against some […]

If you’re in the minority of web users who use Google’s eponymous Gmail service, you’ll perhaps be better positioned to understand why LocateTV exists. Let me explain.
For years, managing your email online followed a very traditional format. Whether you were a user of Hotmail, Yahoo or AOL – each service had only a few […]

One of my few memories of pre-school involves me being unjustly dismissed to the cloakroom as punishment for saying that I was bored. I have no idea what this was intended to achieve but two decades later, I’ve become an armchair anarchist - it just goes to show, doesn’t it?
The reason I mention such a […]

If you are not regularly reading the LocateTV change log…well, there’s no hope is there. I’m not trying to upset, but if you’re not keeping up to date with the latest fixes and improvements available for finding out when your favourite programmes, films and actors are next on TV, you’re not really putting in the […]

Although the belief that Al Gore claimed he invented the Internet may simply be a modern urban legend, Read/Write/Web fill us in on the ex-Presidential hopeful’s latest initiative that could indeed earn him to right to genuinely make such ambitious claims with regards to Internet TV.
Current.com, founded by John Hyatt and Al Gore and […]

Never let it be said that LocateTV users are a predicatble lot. A quick look at the most common TV shows, films and actors that you’re searching for on the site throws up some interesting surprises.
The TV programmes are pretty standard, with the current top five searches today being The Office, Heroes, House, Scrubs and […]

As outdated as it may be, there is still a whiff of censure around those of us who love technology, new media, TV and film - let alone a combination of the above.
There is still some low-level media pressure that makes us feel that if we were truly beautiful and popular people we would spend […]

It seems our post last week on the illegal downloading of TV episodes and movies was even more timely than we thought.
On Friday, Guardian Unlimited declared that the Federation Against Copyright Theft (Fact) and the Gloucestershire Police had collaborated to close the UK-based TV Links, one of the most popular pirate entertainment download sites on […]

Our coveted weely award has previously gone to blogs and forums dedicated to TV in general, genres and individual shows, so it’s time we acknowledged the great work being done out there on behalf of our favourite actors.
Daniel Craig is a man in the prime of his career (and indeed his looks). The success […]

So, it has begun. Emperor George Lucas has begun work on a Star Wars TV spin-off. Having wrung every possible ounce out of the film franchise, Lucas is creating a whole new series that stands alone from the iconic movies. CrunchGear quotes the man himself:

This of course means a whole new range of spin-off toys, […]