I've just watched the Swedish and British versions of Firewall (Brandvägg), after the crime novel by Henning Mankell, back to back. And I must say, strange as it feels to have people speaking English while pretending to be Swedish, and walking or driving around in our local landscape, it felt almost as strange to have a lot of Stockholm actors ( Read more... )

I LOVE BRITISH TELLY.

( Well, spoilers, obviously )

( No big spoilers but I'll cut anyway )

I've just watched Einstein and Eddington. It was beautiful. Don't miss it if you get a chance to see it. Not only is the subject matter of great interest, but the film itself is wonderful. Something that could have been quite dry and dull is here utterly captivating.

This is British telly when it's at its best. *sigh*

Occasioned by the 45th birthday of Doctor Who, the BBC has been digging in its archives, and found some cool stuff pertaining to the series, which they have now put up on the internets. First of the old documents is a BBC report on Science Fiction from 1962, which is actually pretty interesting to read, if you like SF. (No knowledge of or interest ( Read more... )

Yay! The Great Moff got a Hugo for Blink!

Well-deserved, too.

I'm watching Due South, and just got to the fourth season, where Ray suddenly turns blond and everything turns kind of strange. And the strangeness, it took me a while to realize what it was.

No, not the suddenly apparent homoeroticism.

The new-and-improved Ray is a cylon. He is Leoben. (But younger.)

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Also watching The Avengers, series 4, ( Read more... )

It's summer ( Read more... )

m_nivalis reported that Being Human is being picked up for at least six more episodes, that will air sometime next year.

And snowgrouse reported that Sky is going to do a remake of Blake's 7.

I'm excited about both, but slightly apprehensive about the latter one. I told acropetal just the other day that I would love to see a remake of Blake's 7, but then I was thinking of ( Read more... )

When I kept a diary in England, in my youth, I used to write it in Swedish, and then make code names for all the people I wrote about, so that no-one wouldn't be able to pick out their names if they found it and had a peep. I had completely forgotten about that when I started keeping this LJ. And then I saw kassie_opia doing it, and thought, "hey..." Because ( Read more... )