Press Gang's fifth episode A Night In consisted entirely of five characters talking in one room for 25 minutes and it was completely brilliant. Never, ever would that happen on children's telly these days. Never. Hell, I'm surprised it happened in 1989. And Steven Moffat's writing really is absolutely bloody magical - the consistent tone and ( Read more... )

1. Clearly I'm a terrible cult TV fan, as it's taken me 22 bloody years of my worthless life to finally get around to watching The Prisoner. I'm doing an episode a day (following the KTEH order) with dirtyharrington - we're doing a sort of synch-cast over IRC, which involves lots of complicated countdowns and running commentaries and such. How exactly I'm ( Read more... )

1. ( SG-1 season nine, up to 9.06. )

1. Outnumbered. Another recent BBC comedy series discovery of mine and an absolute gem that I can't believe I've been missing out on for so long. I initially wrote it off as another crappy-looking BBC1 sitcom (they're usually watered-down and rely on JOKES), especially as it was about a family and that usually means it'll be ghastly beyond belief, ( Read more... )

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I thought it was probably a good idea to make a list of all the TV series I'll be watching come the Autumn (when all the good telly starts again), mainly because there's a lot and I'm bound to forget. There's some commentary there too, if you like that sort of thing.

( I watch too much TV. )

( Legend of the Seeker - 1.08 - Denna )