Should Have Watched This Ages Ago�

Well, I’ve been a little slack at updating this site of late… I think it’s down to a combination of work (which is unusually busy) and the longer days of our glorious (ahem!) British summer that has resulted in less PC-time at home.� So much so that I haven’t even reviewed the final episode of Doctor Who yet, shame on me (or may be that’s shame on them for introducing Dobby The House Elf into Who folklore).� Also, sitting in my ever-growing inbox of “Reviews Pending” I have

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Tags: Brothers-and-Sisters, Doctor Who, General, Heroes, Jeckyl, Live-Earth, Longford, My-Name-Is-Earl, Site News, Talk-To-Me, The-New-Adventures-of-Old-Christine, The-Thick-Of-It, True-Dare-Kiss

Retrospective Review #1 of 5

I’ve never watched The Thick Of It before and so this seasonal special was my first introduction to the murky world of these spin doctors and politicos. I caught a few minutes of the repeat viewing while channel hopping last night, so thought now was as good a time as any to post a review. The programme had very strong echoes of The Office, with its faux documentary style and handicam work but perhaps better comparissons would be drawn with Yes, Minister, which told a

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Tags: BBC4, Chris-Langham, Comedy, Commander-In-Chief, George-Bush, Sir-Humphrey, The-Office, The-Thick-Of-It, West-Wing, Yes-Minister

Saul Tigh And Uncle Albert, Seperated At Birth

Another week passes by and some good things were on offer to the common or garden couch-potato despite the fact that I had a couple of TV-free days. Waking the Dead continued strongly but is now going up against ITV’s remarkably similar sounding Trial and Retirbution, take your pick but I’m sticking with the former. I also had a chance to catch up with some older stuff from the Sky Planner and so have finally seen the end of The State Within (woo-hoo!). A couple of repeats

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Tags: Battlestar Galactica, General, Gerry-Robinson, Random-Quest, The-State-Within, The-Thick-Of-It, Trial-And-Retribution, Waking-The-Dead