Ah… this poor, neglected blog o’ mine.  I simply have not been inspired to write anything here lately. It’s not for lack of watching TV because my Sky planner and DVD shelves remain full of watched and unwatched material waiting for a rainy day. Having said that, even the rainy days, of which we have endured plenty, aren’t motivating me either. Promises have been broken previously when I have vowed to regale you with

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Tags: America, BBC1, HD, New-York, Stephen-Fry

Children’s telly on weekdays is a mystery to me. I tuned in to my annual dose of CBBC this afternoon: the reason, of course, was not to be bombarded with a cerebral overload of “yoof tv” or whatever they call it these days. Heaven forbid. Voluntarily selecting a channel where the presenters seem to be in a drug-induced state of faux happiness while spouting inanities at glove puppets between programmes full of

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Tags: Blue-Peter, CBBC, Doctor Who, Elizabeth Sladen, Grange Hill, Sarah-Jane-Adventures, Sontaran

Spent the evening yesterday watching “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” primarily as the Other Viewer and mine’s tribute to the recently deceased Paul Newman but partly because we just needed a movie to which we could curl up, drink a few beers and unwind after a busy week. The gentler pace of those of old movies never fails to impress me…. Butch and Sundance riding over the plains in a sweeping shot that lasts

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Tags: bbc hd, Butch Cassidy, Doctor Who, Gavin-and-Stacey, Paul Newman, Sundance Kid, Trial of a Time Lord

It’s gonna be an amazing day at the Ryder cup… it’s one of those must see sporting events that translate so well onto television.  Sky’s coverage has been pretty good (as usual) and the commentary team seem to be so involved that it’s infectious. The US are currently 9-7 up over Europe and here’s the line-up for today’s singles matches (tee off times in BST) and, for what it’s worth, a prediction from me…….

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Tags: 2008, Cup, Europe, Golf, Preview, Ryder, Sky, Sports, USA

After a short break for the summer, I am returning to the blogging world.  With a bit of luck there’ll be some decent programmes on TV worth writing about. There’ll be a DVD review of Dexter series one, and TV reviews of House of Saddam and the start of Spooks: Code 9 to come.  For now though, there are only two things on telly, the Olympics and Big Brother.  I’ll leave the Olympic coverage until after the medals have been counted

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Tags: 9, Big-Brother, Channel-4, Darnell, E4, Kat, Lisa, Mikey, Mo, Nicole, Rachel, Rex, Sara

Blog Life is so much easier when you’re not trying to take screencaps with your cameraphone to upload on Flickr so that you can include pretty images in your posts.  Back when I decided to write about Journey’s End au naturelle, as it were, I promised I would go back and add in the pictures later. However, the experience has left me liberated.  Blogs afterall, are about words not pictures, so I have decided that here at Fazzinchi Towers we’re

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Tags: Big-Brother, Channel-4, Dale, Darnell, Davina-McCall, Endemol, Heaven, Hell, Lisa, Luke, Maysoon, Mo, Rachel, Rex, Sarah, Stu