The Importance of Missing Football

One of the less satisfying aspects of this blog in its previous incarnation was my attempt to record a diary of every programme I was watching on the telly.  Not every flick of the thumb during regular channel hopping sessions as I would work my way through the multitudinous offering of the Sky World package, of course.  Instead, the main programmes that I had tuned into were devotedly recorded (well, I wasn’t even that devoted to be honest) and early diarising even

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Tags: Dallas Cowboys, Doctor Who, Euro-2008, Heroes, Importance of Being Earnest, Jack-Dee, Journeyman, Lead-Balloon, NFL, Penelope Keith, Studio-60

Here’s To The Winners
Week 33 and we’re almost back in the land of normality after our break but it’s now time to fill in those much-missed Show of the Week awards.� The last gong was figuratively handed out in Week 28 when Cape Wrath won but I still have all the 6 remaining episodes of that one left to watch… can anyone tell me if it will be worth it?� So, moving on, in Week 29 I think that the nod will have to go to a timeshifted, one-off drama that had been begging to be watched for weeks before

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Tags: Cape-Wrath, General, Mark-Gattiss, Studio-60, Top-Gear, Worst-Journey

Keep Smilin’

The awkwardly titled Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip began its first and only season on More4, its UK debut, just before the Other Viewer and I left for our annual vacation.� When we returned on Monday night, we found our Sky+ planner with a meagre 7% free, so we sat down in our jet-lagged state to enjoy this new import and free up some much needed recording space.� Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip is a drama series about the production of a fictional comedy variety show

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Tags: Aaron-Sorkin, Bradley-Whitford, Matthew-Perry, Modern Drama, More4, Network, Studio-60

Cape of Some Hope

I was struggling to arrive at a Show Of The Week (TM) for a while back there. Throughout week 28 I had been idly channel hopping and keeping up with the backlog on the Sky planner (Andrew Marr’s history of the Thatcher years was a bit of an eye opener… I really should have kept a closer eye on current affairs back then) but all the surfing was without any great sense of direction. The downside was that I was once more drawn into Big Brother where “fake week” was in full swing

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Tags: Andrew-Marr, Big-Brother, Cape-Wrath, Courtney-Cox, David-Morrisey, Deathly-Hallows, Dirt, General, Harry-Potter, Matthew-Perry, Meadowlands, Order-of-the-Phoenix, Studio-60