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Wierdy, Beardy Goings On

“Through The Looking Glass” brought to an end the third series of Lost and we know that there are just three years left to run… half way through. In fact, that’s a bit of a fib because each of the next three series will consist of only 16 episodes each, so in effect we’re 69 episodes down with 48 to go and well over half way to finding out all the secrets of the Island and its inhabitants. I won’t even attempt to summarise where we are at the moment in terms of the storyline as there is simply way too much going on (a quick visit to (more…)

Whose Boat Is It Then?

The twenty first week of the year came up trumps for some top quality viewing, which was for the best considering the terrible weather we’ve been having that’s forcing everyone indoors. The eighth week of The Apprentice was a bit of a weak affair relative to the rest of the series but still managed some great “reality” moments with Jadine finally being fired. I’m tempted to go into more detail on these episodes but I could do no better than (in fact, I couldn’t do anywhere near as well (more…)

Guilty or Not Guilty

There was only one programme worthy of winning the highly sought Show of the Week award this time around.  The two-part series finale of Battletstar Galactica was a scorcher.  The conclusion of Gaius Baltar’s trial was handled brilliantly and a slightly unusual use of “All Along The Watchtower” led to the revealing of four of the five final Cylons.  However, Even that couldn’t prepare you for the conclusion.  A full, spoiler laden review will follow.  Elsewhere, Saturday night was notable (more…)

Reach For The Stars

The Cricket World Cup came alive this week as the Super 8 stages of the tournament came to a close. Up until now it has meandered along with some uninspring and one-sided encounters usually involving Australia dismissing all before them with an unstoppable flourish. However, in a thoroughly irrelevant match because both sides had already been eliminated, between West Indies and England, we got to see 600 runs, 19 wickets and a near-as you can get to a last ball finish. If the whole competition had been just half this good it would (more…)

Ashes to Ashes? 

Here we are again, another week of viewing draws to a close and there were loads of goodies on offer. The highlight of them all must have been the conclusion to Life on Mars that I wrote about earlier in the week. As a previous winner of the prestigious Show-Of-The-Week award, it is, of course, exempt from winning again but I am sorely tempted to re-write the rules to allow LoM an unprecidented second win. Elsewhere we saw the return of Paul Whitehouse and Harry Enfield in a (more…)

Lost Three Times

I think that a few episodes have passed since Lost last got a mention round these parts, so time for a quick catch up on the latest three.  In The Man From Tallahassee we saw a Locke flashback to another encounter with his conman father, Anthony Cooper.  This time he was attempting to marry into a rich family and Locke was out to stop him.  The encounter ended with a dramatic fall from the eighth floor of a high rise, the accident that caused John’s paralysis.  I’m not sure (more…)