34 posts tagged “promotion”

I wonder if Vox is fixing its problems. I have been trying all morning to get the compose screen up, and here it is, after a couple of hours (as opposed to days). The only problem is, two hours on, the inspiration for writing the post has kind of left.
   Let’s see what I’ve put up lately that I had an intention to mention: how about this guy in a Chevy Camaro Transformer costume? Watch on: there’s a bit of a surprise. (Thanks to Tanya for this one.)

I assume this is México from the cars on sale, which includes several Chevrolet-badged Daewoos from Korea.
   Meanwhile, this was an oddity from a few days back. I would have loved to have commented on this site, but putting an ad (it’s the scenic view) in front of the comment box (which did not disappear even after you clicked on it) is not smart:

Ad over comment box

   Mind you, they are not alone in having fumbles. Our Lucire site had some problems, thanks to a cars.com ad that messed up our layout:

Cars ad forcing wider column

Cars ad forcing wider column (widened ad)

Looks like I finally got in to compose on Vox after an hour. I’ve tried proxy servers, and the site is slow through there, too.
   The latest series, starting next week, of Alarm für Cobra 11: die Autobahnpolizei looks really good. First up is a compilation of TV promos on RTL:

Not that I will get to see it down here in Neuseeland. Those lucky Germans.

I watched an episode of Leverage on a Chinese site, along with some promos, yesterday. It looks OK, but the best way to describe it is Hustle-lite. It’s not bad: apparently, the creators wanted to re-create some of the heist shows of the ’70s (shows? I can only think of Switch) and came up with this idea: an honest man leads a team of four reformed crooks to help innocent people get back what is rightfully theirs. Apart from having a “client”, the show is not unlike Hustle, with a bit of It Takes a Thief thrown in. (Summary, however: Hustle is better.)
   The surprise was seeing Jekyll’s Gina Bellman as the lead actress opposite Timothy Hutton. Bellman is a New Zealand-born actress, and it surprises me that not more mention is made of her—especially when we are so ready to champion other programmes and movies with an even more tenuous connection with this country. (It’s a bit like how Andrew Niccol is treated here.) Here is a promo for the show with Bellman and Hutton, which illustrates that they are quite humorous people away from their acting:

Good to know that the final season of Bro’ Town is getting a bit of an ad push with outdoor advertising:

Bro’ Town last season posters

Better than having interviewers asking him exactly the same questions every time, Sir Roger Moore markets his own book, My Word Is My Bond, in 2008.

I posted this last week but didn’t do a blog entry: a promo for the second series of Ashes to Ashes, which begins on the 21st at 9 p.m. on BBC One. It’s rather well made (it’s not from clips of the show, but especially filmed), and I didn’t recognize Chris (Marshall Lancaster) with his new hairdo!

With all the US Life on Mars stuff I haven’t kept up with another favourite show, Alarm für Cobra 11: die Autobahnpolizei. The latest series started March 5, and Tom Beck seems to have relaxed into his role as Erdogan Atalay’s sidekick. Below is RTL’s promo from February previewing the new series.

[Cross-posted from Lucire] Renault has launched a campaign for the Laguna 3 with former Manchester United football player Eric Cantona, using humour and targeting the internet as well as conventional media.
   Called Le rencontre (The Encounter), the commercial is irreverent but manages to show the Laguna in a quality light. (Continued at Lucire.)

Here’s a dose of retro: a Ford promotion featuring 1960s concept cars and the styling of the 1965 Mustang. The Mustang part is in the second half.
   It’s interesting to see what Dearborn thought was practical in the ’60s, and the station wagon concept, the Aurora, does have some ideas in seating that are familiar today. But it was the Mustang II show car and ’65 Mustang segment that interested me.