Yesterday, one of our public broadcasting channels here in Germany started to show the new tv series Around the World in 80 Days, starring David Tennant as Phileas Fogg, Ibrahim Koma as Passepartout and Leonie Benesch as Abigail Fix (who in addition to being a woman here isn't a detective set on arresting Fogg for suspecting him as a bank robber, ( Read more... )

A Norwegian-language series, consisting of two seasons so far, produced by a Danish company, with Adam Price (creator of Borgen) as executive producer, up at Netflix. I'm tempted to nickname it Norse Mythology: The High School AU.

I liked the first season better than the second; each consists of six episodes, is set in the fictional Norwegian town ( Read more... )

So let me get this straight: during the recent local elections in Great Britain, all parties with a pro Brexit agenda promoted by their leadership - The Tories, Labour and Ukip, and isn't that a combination that should never have happened - suffered heavy losses, while the parties with a clear pro-Remain, anti-Brexit attitude like the Lib Dems and ( Read more... )

Well, first of all: there is such a LOT of it ( Read more... )

So, with bimo lobbying for Nip/Tuck, rozk advertisting Gray's Anatomy and shezan during her last visit raving about House, it was just a question of time before I gave in and watched a doctor show for the first time since eons. (I think the last one was in the early 90s, the one with Martin Shaw?). As it turns out, the one I went for was House, which I'll freely ( Read more... )