What are ITV playing at?

Okay, tonight was the big Merseyside derby… the F.A. Cup replay between Liverpool and Everton at Goodison Park.  ITV have won the rights to show live matches this year.  So the game goes on: 0-0 at half time, 0-0 at full time, 0-0 at half time in extra time and still 0-0 with just two minutes left.  THEN THEY TAKE AN ADVERT BREAK BEFORE THE GAME ENDS DURING WHICH, EVERTON SCORE THE ONLY GOAL.  Forget Jonathan Ross, Russell Brand or even Carol Thatcher… ITV – sack the lot of them!  Just to add insult

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Tags: Coverage, Everton, FA-Cup, ITV, Liverpool

Do want eggs with that?

An inexplicable absence of series two of Dexter on DVD here in Region 2, combined with the fact that I completely failed to realise that the obsure channel, FX, had picked up the initial UK broadcast rights (along with my reluctance to illegally download these things) means that last Thursday’s debut on ITV1 was the first chance I had got to see whether the “difficult second album” was going to live up the joyful first outing for everyone’s new favourite serial killer.

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Tags: dexter, Doakes, It's Alive, ITV, Laguerta, Masuka, Serial Killer, Showtime

Gary and Alan Preside.

The early evening TV schedules are packed to bursting with football at the moment.  Not surprising given that the biennial soccer festival that is either the World Cup or, in this case, the Euro Championships are here.  Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ll know that none of the home nations have qualified and, unlike the last time such a thing occurred, we can’t even pretend to Irish to give us a team to follow.  So, we

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Tags: Austria, BBC, England, Euro-2008, Football, HD, ITV, Soccer, Spain, Switzerland, World-Cup

Anyone for a Catfight?

So, what is that intangible “something” about Primeval that leads me to both love it and hate it at the same time? Series Two came to an end at the weekend with the 13th installment of dino-fun and I have to acknowledge that the second set of seven episodes were a distinct step up from the first six. For every positive that I find there is a niggly little piece of the puzzle that doesn’t quite fit….

• It is refreshing to see escapist drama on primetime Saturdays, following in the footsteps of Doctor Who’s recent

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Tags: Dinosaur, Doctor Who, Hannah-Spearitt, ITV, Primeval

Christmas Review #6 of 12

I love J.K Rowling. She is an exceptionally gifted person with passion, wit and humility and I don’t begrudge her a single penny of her alleged fortune. I’ve never met her or corresponded with her or have any kind of relationship with her, other than that I’ve bought seven of her books, seen the occasional clip of footage on the news or magazine programmes and watched the “Year In The Life” documentary that was on over Christmas. As this blog tends to be focussed on things

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Tags: A Year In The Life, Beedle The Bard, Deathly-Hallows, Harry-Potter, ITV, JK Rowling

Broad Shoulders

Way back in the dark ages, over two years ago if you’re counting, the very first post on Fazzinchi.co.uk was not about Doctor Who, sci-fi, or the latest American import show. It was, in fact, about cricket. My sports-related blogging has been somewhat lacking of late but what better time to resurrect the past-time? The big sporting question of the weekend is choosing what to watch at 5pm on Saturday afternoon. On ITV, the English rugby team are begining the defence of their

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Tags: BBC1, England, Euro-2008, Football, India, Israel, ITV, Rugby-World-Cup, SkySports, Sport, USA