TV

Blog posts about product placement in TV shows.

Product placement in House of Cards

Product placement slideshow: House of Cards

After Netflix released its TV series House of Cards a lot of unsatisfied viewers vented their frustration on Twitter. Messages such as two below continue to appear on my Twitter feed: “Worst…

Mad Men inspired collection from Banana Republic

The sixth season of one of the best TV series Mad Men is scheduled to premiere on April 7, 2013, with a two-hour episode. The show’s huge popularity and critical acclaim convinced…

Yogurt Towne – a great T-shirt from Girls

The sixth episode of Girls season two was full of great outfits: e.g. Marnie’s gold dress, Hannah’s polka-dot dress, but for me the most memorable was Ray’s T-shirt with »Yogurt Towne« sign.…

Trench coat Nick and London Fog

Fifteenth episode of New Girl‘s season two had a funny gag involving Nick and a beige trench coat. A package had been mistakenly delivered to Nick’s apartment, but instead of returning it,…

Ann Taylor mentioned in Girls

Fans of Lena Dunham’s TV series Girls will remember that Marnie used to work as an assistant in a New York art gallery. Unfortunately she was fired from the gallery in the…

New beer in New Girl

Do you know which beer is present in almost every episode of TV series New Girl It’s a strange beer in bottles with a red label. It’s called Heisler beer. Heisler beer…

iPad in Modern Family: Welcome to the Year 2025

Fans of American sit-com Modern Family know that Phil Dunphy is a big iPad fan. He’s got it for his birthday two years ago and he also mentioned it in the thirds season…

Another Threadless T-shirt in Modern Family

Are you familiar with the US brand Threadless? Threadless is a t-shirt company started out as a high school project in 2000. It’s basically an online community of artists and an e-commerce…

Ford Fusion got a role in New Girl

As I mentioned in previous blog posts American TV series New Girl is not known for product placement. On the contrary: product placement has been practically non-existent. But in the fifth episode…

CIA using Skype in Homeland

Those familiar with the American TV series Homeland will know that CIA usually uses some sort of safe lines for communication between its HQ and their agents. Well, at least in the…