by Nick | Oct 31, 2023 | Audience, Content, Media Research
It’s Autumn which only means one thing – Married At First Sight (MAFS) UK on E4. Whilst undeniably entertaining, MAFS crystallises a point about dating and life made by Oliver Burkeman in his book Four Thousand Weeks. That point is that people should be more...
by Nick | Oct 18, 2023 | Media Research, Social Media
When Big Brother launched last century it was totally new and authentic. Contestants had no idea that Big Brother would pull in huge audiences, and acted accordingly: some contestants were comfortingly humdrum feeding chickens and reading books; and some, like Nasty...
by The Hook Team | Sep 21, 2023 | Kids Media, Teen & Youth
As promised, following last week’s non- animated and animated iconic female leads we have the male leads. All of us at Hook Towers have collaboratively put these lists together in response to The Guardian’s top 50 kids’ shows to binge over the...
by The Hook Team | Sep 11, 2023 | Kids Media, Teen & Youth
As promised, following our recent post and in response to The Guardian’s top 50 kids’ shows to binge over the summer… we have the non-animated male leads. A lot of tough choices and some disagreements here at Hook Towers… especially over The...
by The Hook Team | Aug 24, 2023 | Kids Media, Media Research, Teen & Youth, Uncategorized
The Guardian came out with its top 50 kids’ shows to binge to coincide with Summer last week. We thought it would add to the fun, to think of some of the iconic kids characters we’ve researched over the years and give some reasons why. This week we’re starting off...