I got hold of the six episodes of this Australian tv series last year, and never got around to watching them before the fire. I just did, and aside from finding parts hilarious (I don't usually laugh out loud to any great extent, and did here ( Read more... )

I finally got around to starting to read the four available books of George R.R. Martin's A Song Of Ice And Fire, after owning copies of the books for, in one case, a decade, and after getting another person to read them at my suggestion. While this has a little to do with the start of the TV adaptation of Game Of Thrones, I really have been ( Read more... )

Still a corker of a story and well worth watching. The original three Quatermass serials paved the way for Doctor Who, and there's a direct line to the Third Doctor in particular.

Just testing out crossposting -- I'm one of those now on Dreamwidth. No, I'm not departing LJ ( Read more... )

Empire Magazine has revealed its list of the 50 Greatest TV Shows ever . (I'm surprised that the list skews so much to US shows, given that Empire is a British magazine. Many notable shows are missing from the list while several series that aren't so notable are on there -- there's no need for the Trek triple-header, for example. And Band Of ( Read more... )

Pushing Daisies has been canceled. The ratings basically continued to tank, unfortunately. There might be a comic that will wrap things up, and creator Bryan Fuller has a movie pitch in mind, but for now, it's thirteen and out for season 2.

There's been talk of Fuller returning to an executive producer spot on Heroes, which could certainly use ( Read more... )

I think I'm paying for my sins over the past couple of weeks, because I'm utterly thrashed. I'm also not eating at all well -- a very distinct lack of thought in terms of any sort of meal planning ( Read more... )

So. Just watched the US pilot for Life On Mars, as written by David E. Kelley and directed by former West Wing linchpin Thomas Schlamme. Jason O'Mara steps in as Sam Tyler, with Colm Meany as Gene Hunt, and Los Angeles in place of Manchester, and 1972 rather than 1973 for some reason ( Read more... )

...mmm, the smell of melting asphalt. I loves it, I does ( Read more... )

Watching The Supersizers Go... is making me feel so much better about my wonky diet, although I should make better efforts to sort that out even if I am including vegetables and fresh fruit when I can. I'm certainly unlikely to be eating fried squirrel a la Darwin, though I admit I wouldn't mind a good old fashioned fish and chip dinner right ( Read more... )