TV

Blog posts about product placement in TV shows.

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…

Astronaut screams for nine minutes

During the second episode of the sixth season of The Big Bang Theory Howard mentioned to his wife Bernadette that he got some issues with the two colleagues on the International Space…

Whale belt from New Girl

Regular viewers of American comedy TV series New Girl will know that basically there is not product placement in the show. Zooey Deschanel has been wearing her own Oliver Peoples glasses and…

Elementary battle: iPhone vs Nokia Lumia 800

Elementaryis an American TV series that premiered on CBS on September 27, 2012. It’s a modern version of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes detective stories and is set in New York. It…

Zooey’s glasses from New Girl, season 1

In October 2011 I published blog post on Zooey’s glasses from New Girl What brand of glasses is Zooey wearing in New Girl? Zooey is of course Zooey Deschanel and New Girl…

Can this elephant T-shirt become a cult item?

The question above is rhetorical, I know. But one certain T-shirt has now appeared in one hit TV show and one fairly successful Hollywood movie. Ladies and gentlemen, meet the Nerdy Elephant…

Lovely Megan

Brands&Films has been covering Mad Men very closely, mainly from the product placement point of view. But the series isn’t interesting just from that aspect, but also as a character study, relationship…

It could be better: Oreo in Modern Family

Last week I read an article in AdAge about Oreo‘s collaboration with the producers of American sit com Modern Family. It says: The producers at ABC’s “Modern Family” have cooked up a…

Reddit on The Big Bang Theory

One of the main characteristics of hugely popular American sitcom The Big Bang Theory are Sheldon Cooper’s T-shirts. In every episode we can see him wearing at least one T-shirt with some…

Siri stars in The Big Bang Theory

The last episode (S05E14) of American sitcom The Big Bang Theory involved one of the best product placements in the recent months: iPhone 4S’ feature Siri. It was beautifully integrated as one…

Would you like to have a Mad Men inspired wrist watch?

After one-year hiatus the fifth season of American TV series Mad Men will start on 25th March. Before the premiere we would be able to see numerous promotional activities, from the American…

Cooperation between Urban Outfitters and Modern Family

In the last episode of Modern Family the Dunphy family welcomed an interesting guest. Kenneth is Phil and Claire’s former neighbor, who lived next door some 10 years ago. Back then he…

iPad mentioned in Modern Family

In the eight episode (S03E08) of American sit-com Modern Family each adult member of all three families had to tell which one thing he or she would take if the house were…