LocateTV Blog

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, [...]

Some of you may remember one of the key moments that led to the creation of LocateTV: our lovely paragliding developer Colin seeing a motorbike clip on the net and trying to find exactly where and when he could see the TV programme it came from - a long and arduous process in that [...]

Celebrity is the new royalty, and actors are the emperors of them all. Film actors often sweep us away with their romance, intensity and excitement; who didn’t fall in love with Jack Sparrow, man, woman or child? And TV regulars can feel as familiar and accessible as old friends, living out their dramas in [...]

LocateTV is a beautiful marriage of TV and technology. From the most up-to-date data aggregation and region-specific search software, to clean, focused web design and content-sharing widgets embeddable with a simple piece of code, we think that it’s a prime example of how the ancient art of entertainment can be enhanced by the tools of [...]

One of the ways in which we’re delighted to see web users embracing LocateTV in public beta is the uptake of embeds by fan sites based around specific shows and actors. We’ve always seen the embeds as a great strength of LocateTV, allowing bloggers and site owners to share content with their readers, be it [...]

Specialised TV and film search is certainly a growth market. With so much TV and film content out there and so many ways of watching it, it’s no wonder that companies are spotting an opportunity to help people navigate all the offerings to easily and quickly find what they want to watch.
But amongst all the [...]

The increase in people watching TV and film online is old and hackneyed news by now, but that doesn’t make it any less true. Jeffro 2pt0 has been blogging about whether the LocateTV team would team up with Joost, the upshot of which is: it’s not a priority with all the larger providers we have [...]

Our developer Pete has obviously had a busy and stressful day, because he just sent me a calculation about how much Star Trek is on TV within the current broadcast window. Watching for 12 hours every day, it would take 12 days, 1 hour and 28 minutes to watch, a pretty daunting - or exciting [...]

Happy Public Beta Day, TV and film fans everywhere. As promised, everyone can now find out when and where a programme, film or actor is next showing on TV, online and DVD, specific to their region. LocateTV’s search is smart, the speed is much improved and the redesigned embeds are up and running so users [...]

Are you using LocateTV to find back-to-back episodes of Little House On The Prairie, making a bad week at work seem that bit more bearable? Searching for old Tom Cruise movies so you can remember how innocently iconic he was all his pre-Scientology, pre-patriarch 80s splendour?
If the feedback from our private beta testers is anything [...]