Bond-on-Demand
Thursday, May 17th, 2007‘The name’s Branson, Richard Branson’ - Digital TV blogger’s puns now Virgin on the ridiculous
Virgin cable customers still miffed at having lost (sorry) viewing rights to high-octane series 24 can now choose to watch another popular series of heavily armed agents with gadgets blowing things up and racing against the clock in order to foil the plans of evil multinational terrorist organisations.
Virgin Media have recently secured rights to premiere the highly acclaimed and recently released Casino Royale, along with the entire official James Bond franchise as part of its TV On Demand platform, including past favourites such as Goldfinger, Thunderball and The Spy Who loved Me.
Hopefully the line-up will include an uncensored version of 1987’s The Living Daylights, aka The One where Timothy Dalton Hooks Up with the Taliban. Oddly enough, the London edition of the Financial Times has recently plastered posters all around the capital depicting Richard Branson as Che Guevara, Marxist revolutionary and activist/terrorist (delete as appropriate)…
Each Bond adventure will be available on demand for the price of £2.50 a go, with the exception of Casino Royale, which is priced at the slightly higher £3.50. Once downloaded, the films are available for the eyes of Virgin Media agents only, for up to 24 hours, after which they will self-destruct.
May 23rd, 2007 at 8:28 am
Loved the opening line of this article, more like this please. Cheers me up in the mornings!
June 29th, 2007 at 10:05 am
Thanks for the comment! One should never punderestimate the power of play-on words.