Holding Out For a Hero

A trip to the cinema (”Hot Fuzz”) for the first time in about the space of a year for the Other Viewer and I this week, along with sitting down to watch a sci-fi movie classic (”Fifth Element) made me once again consider expanding the remit of Fazzinchi.co.uk to include an occasional series of reviews of non-TV related entertainment such as movies, books, and very occasional theatre trips.� Still debating the concept at the moment though.� Back on the box, it was another entertaining

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Tags: 24, Battlestar Galactica, Fifth-Element, General, Heroes, Hot-Fuzz, Hypochondria, Life-On-Mars, Prison-Break, Waking-The-Dead

More Desperate Than Usual

Well, England winning the Commonwealth Bank Cricket tournament after having odds way outside of “100-1 against” just two weeks ago was probably the most surprising thing I’ve seen on TV in ages and it was certainly a highlight of the week for me.� In typical England supporter mode, I now find myself being ridiculously optimistic about the forthcoming World Cup and, if they win that, I may even grant them my prestigious “Show-Of-The-Week” award… but not this time.� I have also

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Tags: 24, Charlie-Brooker, Cricket, Desperate-Housewives, General, Lost, Prison-Break, Top-Gear

Not…. The Family

So, we’re getting to meet more of Jack’s family now. It’s generally a sign that the people behind the camera are running out of ideas when we have to be burdened with various bloodties of the main characters to string out the stories a little and add a little more angst to proceedings… as if thwarting conspiracies, overthrowing presidents and preventing global catastophes wasn’t enough to contend with.� Anyway, here we are, six hours in to day six and we’re re-introduced to the

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Tags: 24, Doctor-Romano, Donald-Sutherland, Jack-Bauer, James-Cromwell, Modern Drama, Paul-McCrane, SkyOne

Five Days A Week

January is done and dusted and so is Week Five of the viewing year. Shows aplenty were on course to be watched but a unforseen problem meant that viewing was somewhat limited. Regardless of this though, there was enough on offer to keep me occupied. The week began with a four-episode binge of Five Days (proof that “Great drama from the BBC” is not just a cathphrase) and a couple of installments of Waking The Dead. The week ended with yet another double header of

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Tags: 24, Deal-Or-No-Deal, Five-Days, General, Gerry-Robinson, Superbowl, Waking-The-Dead, West-Wing

Whoops, Apocalypse!

Okay, so Stephen Merchant isn’t playing any further role in 24… much to my disappointment. It was only a cameo after all. However, it’s still worth tuning in to the adventures of Jack and his ticking clock, if it’s OTT death and destruction that floats your boat.� It was another double-header week on SkyOne as they tried to catch up with the US broadcasts to encourage folk to stop downloading it with their current favourite BitTorrent supplier.� Hour three (8:00am to 9:00am) was

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Tags: 24, CTU, Curtis, Jack-Bauer, Modern Drama, Nuclear-Bomb, SkyOne

Car Crash TV (headline shamelessly stolen from Radio Times)

A week in which the paucity of my viewing from Monday to Saturday was more than made up for in a Sunday marathon of shows that culminated in a nuclear device being exploded in Los Angeles… and I thought I was going to have nothing to write about. The fourth week of 2007 saw me enjoy (for want of a better word) a couple of cup ties in the football and catch up with some old stuff that has been sitting idle for a while (This Life +10 and a couple of documentaries,

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Tags: 24, Battlestar Galactica, Blog-Wars, Commander-In-Chief, ER, General, Parallel-Worlds, This-Life, Top-Gear, Waking-The-Dead