rollerboogie on the creative processes behind Doctor Who v. Torchwood.
Hint: one is awesome; the other is not. And this from a girl who loved Captain Jack.

Saturday night, people are coming round mine. In the meantime, 'The Runaway Bride' is on the iPlayer. I think I'll watch it before bed, actually. Why not, really?

NYT on the spin-off: “Torchwood” is a world I wouldn’t mind seeing erased.

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Last night, I had one of those experiences that confirmed I'm not in, ahem, Kansas any more. Namely, Making Your Mind Up 2007, a call-in programme by which the television audience chooses which act will represent the UK in the Eurovision Song Contest. The whole thing is such an exercise in camp absurdity (or, at times, just plain absurdity: witness ( Read more... )

I'm kind of in love with Skins right now.
It's like The OC crossed with Footballers Wives: dysfunctional, drug-taking teenagers in absurdly contemporary, soap operatic plots that involve stealing one's ex-girlfriend's new boyfriend's phone and using it to send pictures of his sister naked to his entire address book (you took the photos, obvs). Of ( Read more... )

This is totally dorky and meta, but I am weirdly psyched about the Edit Journal Privacy feature that just got announced. I've revised my relationship to 'blogging' over the years, and there was probably stuff posted publicly that I would have preferred not be. Still, there was all the work of changing the individual entries -- which would also ( Read more... )

Has there ever been a more miserable 80 minutes of television than This Life Plus Ten?!
It was so much worse than I expected. So much worse.

:(

I watched the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show tonight.

For the clothes, of course.
My friend Greg, who does a line called Godspeed the Well-Dressed Man, worked on the models' costumes -- such as they were -- for the past six months, so I wanted to see his handicraft in action ( Read more... )

Who else would say the following but Tim Gunn?
The last thing that any of us would want would be for her to be harboring all these bad feelings and then after it’s all over, saying, ‘Point of order. J’accuse.’ That would have been a horrible, messy disaster.
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Have you seen this show?
It is nothing short of incredible.

Oh, and the new JT record?
It's half awesome, half drivel.
Shame.