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Dear readers, the good thing about awards season is that there are finally some decent movies to watch. Not that there is anything wrong with people/objects being blown to bits (on movie screen people not in real life) and let’s face it, that is what summer blockbusters are all about. But there are only so [...]
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Dear readers, I stopped watching House a while back. And as I’ve stated time and time again, the only bad thing that came out of it was no Hugh Laurie on weekly basis. This morning I was perusing the news and saw that Hugh won the Music Man of the Year award at the GQ [...]
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Dear readers, there haven’t been many British shows of note during the summer. Unless you of course count Celebrity Big Brother as interesting telly. But there are a few interesting shows out at the moment – 2 sitcoms, 2 crime dramas and Doc Martin returns for the fifth season so check out this short recap [...]
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Dear readers, today is first day of September which obviously means before you know it is time for fall premieres. Before the promo for new season of House would have me doing jumpy claps, now I’m like – meh! I can’t believe I haven’t watched House in what… 3 years now? And by the looks [...]
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Dear readers, September is just around the corner. It still might be hot and sunny but to me September means end of summer. So I thought to do a little recap of some of the stuff that was consistently good and consistently bad during this summer TV season. It is worth noting that this summer [...]
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Dears readers, do you know it’s been 30 years (30!!!) since Only Fools and Horses first aired? I was aware I grew up with this stuff but 30 years! To celebrate the occasion Gold is running a competition where you get a chance to stay at Del Boy’s humble abode at Nelson Mandela house in [...]
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Image: HBO.com Dear readers, when I wrote the word extras just now I burst into a fit of giggles because I remembered that episode of Extras with Daniel Radcliffe. If you think I’m mental (and rightly so I might add) check it out and tell me this is not funny. But I digress. It seems [...]
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Image: Syfy.com Dear readers, have you seen Alphas? I had the chance to check it out (before I got sucked into a backlog of series that I haven’t had the chance to see since my holiday) and I quite liked it. It is about a team of people who have special superhuman abilities [...]
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Kitteh approves Dear readers, one book genre that I could never get into is fantasy. Of course I’ve read Tolkien when I was in primary school but then again who didn’t? Given there can be plenty of blood and gore in fantasy novels but the minute the author starts harping on about son of…, daughter [...]
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Dear readers, I have admitted a while back to being a documentary tart. It means I will watch any documentary regardless of the subject. Even if it is bad. When it comes to books I’m the same way – I can read almost anything. Even if the book is really (REALLY!) bad I will not [...]
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Dear readers, I’ll preface this by saying I do watch True Blood for its storylines. Not all of them natch. Most of them. But let’s be honest – there is plenty of eye candy too and that’s big part of the lure, no? So when I’m not concentrating hard on the storylines I notice these [...]
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Dear readers, I know, I know you must think I’m mad. After all it’s still July. But September will be here before you know it. So let’s take a look at some of the pilots that look interesting and might be worth checking out come fall. Do remember though that these are still in pilot [...]
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Image: Starz.com Dear readers, I didn’t have much time to watch any of the shows last week. So I’m terribly behind on almost everything (on a side note I know I was complaining a few weeks ago there is nothing to watch but now all of a sudden I have trouble keeping up. Which although [...]
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Dear readers, I guess they call this type of trailer a teaser for a reason… because we can’t really see much of anything new. However just like with Fincher, Christopher Nolan could shoot a big steaming pile of poo and I’d still watch it. Once. But before you start to think I’m off my rocker [...]
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Dear readers, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows trailer was released yesterday. And well it does look fun, no? Of course I love Noomi Rapace and Rober Downey Jr but where (WHERE?) is uncle Steve?! Is that him in one scene? I think I heard his voice but I might be mistaken. Also to look [...]
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Dear readers, have you seen Torchwood Miracle Day over the weekend? What did you think? To get negative stuff out of the way – I will admit I find it a bit sad only Gwen and Captain Jack Harkness (or as he shall be known from now on Captain Jack Bollocks, LOVE that!) remain from [...]
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Dear readers, have you been watching True Blood? I will preface this by saying it usually does take me a few episodes to get into True Blood again. Dunno is it because the break between the seasons is long or because each episode is an hour but yes it does take me a few episodes [...]
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Dear readers, last week Royal Pains started. And I like me some Royal Pains, you already know that. But with the latest addition of Suits and Necessary Roughness (which I both like) in my mind at least USA Network totally rules the summer programming. I wasn’t even aware the network existed until the Starter Wife [...]
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Dear readers, Mission Impossible 4 Ghost Protocol trailer was released yesterday. And I’m embarrassed to admit I kinda fancy seeing it. It looks all snazzy and slick and shit and I can even ignore the fact it has Tom Cruise in it. Because let’s face it – when was the last time Tom Cruise was [...]
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Dear readers, summer shows are back with vengeance. Thank heavens! For a moment there I thought I’d have to read or get some fresh air or something. Ah I’m only joking – I’ve been out with the dog at 6:00am this morning and if you are stumped for something to read can I recommend the [...]
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Dear readers, I miss me some Royal Pains. When you think about it is a perfect summer show – wonderful location, light and frothy story lines, pretty cast who wear nice to look at clothes – what’s there not to like? Luckily Royal Pains returns next week (the season premieres on June 29th in case [...]
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Dear readers, it’s so hot where I am at I cannot muster much energy to sit at the keyboard (I had the best intentions to see Falling Skies, but I’ve just haven’t gotten around to it yet). So I’ll just leave you with the last Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part trailer. But you’ve [...]
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Image: Chris Large/AMC Dear readers, I have shared my enthusiasm for the Killing. And I liked the pilot and thought it had promise. But by fourth or fifth episode the show started to drag on and not make much sense at.all. No, I didn’t make a list why some of the things didn’t make sense [...]
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Dear readers, down below you can find the new trailer for David Fincher’s version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. It looks slick. And dark obviously. But it does make me wonder whether The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo will go under Fincher’s definition of “movies” or “films” (you can find his quote towards [...]
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Dear readers, if you are pondering what to watch on daily basis here is a selection of British shows that are returning/premiering this month. Unfortunately the list is not huge. Fortunately Idris Elba is back, so yay for that! Luther If you haven’t seen the first series of Luther I would urge you to catch [...]
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