Or at Channel4.com, but you need a 'RealOne Superpass Europe' though. And the feed is delayed by 10mins. Though frankly, I fail to see why anyone would want to watch. Except, as someone said earlier, to see if he's dead yet. What a waste of space the guy is.
LOL @ golfers taking shots at the perspex box from the tower bridge. The papers have revealed this all as a sham anyway, for starters, the box isn't actually over the Thames at all is it. And he's also been communicating with his girlfriend on the ground.
I just don't get it. It was billed as an amazing stunt from today's Houdini. He's gonna be completely sealed in a box - no communication, no food for 44 days and 44 nights above the Thames.
It's not over the Thames. He's quite clearly communicating with people. He had the entertainment of cleaners wiping the perspex free of egg.
The people on the ground can't see very much - they see the box, they see very little of what he's doing. So you'd think the live camera shot would prove his stunt as amazing. Not if he's underneath the sheet "shielding" him from the sun - he could be eating. Not if he's hiding himself going to the toilet - he could be eating, on the mobile, having a fag, anything. If he's "asleep" on the ground (which, incidentally, is not see through), he could be taking concealed food from underneath the floor and eating it without us seeing. He is, after all, rather good at slight of hand.
With both This Morning and GMTV going LIVE to the perspex box today, I take it their is no problem with anyone just taking a camera and filming this "spectacle". Handy I suppose being just up the road from the London Studios.
Not sure how much C4 & Sky spent in acquiring the rights to this but they were probably robbed. You really can't help feeling that C4 got the worst deal out of it, with them showing Blaine entering the box tonight, 3 days later when Sky and even the ITV News Channel showed it on the night.
I am curious as to how the ITV NC has managed to get away with that, to be honest.
The rights to the televising of the stunt are owned by Sky One and Channel 4. Full stop.
The BBC couldn't turn up at a Sky Sports contracted footie match, broadcast it live and say "hey, it's a free country". It doesn't work like that.
News organisations can justify things as being "in the public interest" or newsworthy items, but really... I don't think David Blaine fits into that category. Hillsborough is one example, I think, when access rights were just ignored. Some England goals were shown on Sky News and ITV before the BBC put them out, causing a fuss, but leading Sky/ITV to say "sorry, we think this is more news than sport".
If anyone had been watching the News Channel (a newsworthy event in itself) then I'm not sure how easily ITV could've wriggled their way out of it.
Oh and another thing, this quote from the great man himself, prior to going into the box :
"I have not had time to reflect on my own truths in many years. I think pain is easiest to avoid by filling the days with distractions - I wish to remove everything to search for a truth. Therefore, I will have no food, no sex, no phones, no books, no music, no television, no privacy and no other stimulus. It will be a public isolation that I will have to endure by adapting and surviving as an animal on instinct."
If he's meant to have no stimulus, why is he waving and chatting to people on the ground and scribbling in his journal. Frankly the box is not high enough, nor is it over the Thames, or the preferred option of in it.
And to see Uri Gellar complaining on GMTV that their was no police on standby to protect David was just laughable. I don't think Eamon was taking him seriously at all. I mean just how do we want our police occupied ? Preventing burglaries and assaults or standing guard over some nutter who has decided it is his destiny to dangle in a perspex box ?
The rights to the televising of the stunt are owned by Sky One and Channel 4. Full stop.
The BBC couldn't turn up at a Sky Sports contracted footie match, broadcast it live and say "hey, it's a free country". It doesn't work like that.
But this is a slightly different case. It's a stunt neither taking place on private property nor to which any entrance fees are payable (mainly because there isn't an entrance). It's a guy suspended in a box on public land on what remains a public right of way.
Therefore, the BBC, ITV, and for that matter the individual recording it on his camcorder must surely have every right to do so - it would be perfectly legal at any other time, and the area hasn't magically become the property of David Blaine, Sky and Channel 4 just because this stunt is happening.
I can understand bidding for rights to talk to David Blaine before and after, but really any broadcaster who paid for the rights just to broadcast footage of him in the box needs their head read - they surely allready had a statutory right to do it for free!
did anyone see Today With Des & Mel today? Towards the right of the screen, by Mel, u could see David in his box! Is that a real window, or a projection?
