Penguin Books is offering a 5-part podcast of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, read by the great Geoffrey Palmer, beginning today. The podcast is available in an enhanced format for iTunes and iPods with colour screens.

For a trial period, BBC News is opening its archives to the UK public, with an invitation to “to download the clips, watch them, and use them to create something unique.” !

The BBC briefly ran a promotional trailer composed of an animated digital face composed of hundreds of faces that provoked such a disturbing reaction that it has been withdrawn.

Court TV begins broadcasting Law and Order: Trial By Jury this weekend, including one episode, “Eros in the Upper Eighties”, not transmitted by NBC.

Surely I am not the first person to draw a parallel between Fred Dalton Thompson’s Arthur Branch and Foghorn Leghorn.