Everything old is new yet again and this time it’s all happening way off the map in outer space. In fact, no one exactly sure where it will be happening – well the characters anyway. That’s right avid spacefarers (which includes yours truly), Lost in Space, which didn’t exactly Continue Reading
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Was it all Ab Fab? What happened when Saunders met Lumley
It’s easy to assume when you see two actors together such as, oh I don’t know, let’s say for argument’s sake, Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley, that they’ve always enjoyed brilliant on-screen chemistry and off-screen friendship. But in this delightful clip from The Graham Norton Show, promoting the new Continue Reading
David Attenborough meets Pokémon Go and it’s as perfect as you imagine
Hula hoops. YoYos. Care Bears. The final episode of M*A*S*H. Writing symphonies when you’re 16 and … wait that was Felix Mendhelsson only … poor example, moving on … The point is, and I do have one, is that humanity loves a shared experience, something that our modern digital Continue Reading
Fangs for the apocalypse: Van Helsing awakes in a world ruled by vampires
SNAPSHOT Van Helsing is set in a world dominated and controlled by vampires. Vanessa Helsing is the last hope for survival, as she unknowingly awakens to discover she has a unique blood composition that makes her not only immune to vampires, but with the ability to turn a vampire Continue Reading
Wayward Pines: “Bedtime Story” (S2, E10 review)
*SPOILERS AHEAD … AND THE END OF THE WORLD … AGAIN (SORT OF)* REM may have felt fine about the end of the world but not so much the morally-challenged folk of Wayward Pines who suddenly found just slightly less than half their number surplus to requirements. Yup, the Continue Reading
Smile! Bert and Grover are so hip they’re taking Instagram selfies
If you ever doubted how cool Bert and Grover are, and seriously why would you do such a horrible thing, then be sceptical no more. As it turns out, two of the mainstays of TV’s Sesame Street are very much to the social media groove, particularly that very funky Continue Reading
Hilarious! Blooper/sizzle reels from Orphan Black, Game of Thrones, iZombie
What I love most about blooper reels, especially the ones from shows that are normally Deadly Serious – in many cases, quite literally! – is that they give you delicious insight into the people making the shows. Characters who are usually the very epitome of angst and gravitas are Continue Reading
Star Trek Discovery: A bold new take on a long-running journey
We’re boldly going into space yet again. But don’t go looking for Kirk, Picard, Janeway or Sisko to show you the way. In the next television instalment in Gene Roddenberry’s idealistic vision of a spacefaring future free from war, discrimination and want – although as Deep Space Nine showed Continue Reading
Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life
There are very few things these days that get me as excited as a kid at Christmas but the imminent arrival of four new episodes of the Gilmore Girls, one of my favourite TV shows ever, penned no less than by the creator and chief scribe (not including season Continue Reading
Wayward Pines: “Walcott Prep” (S2, E9 review)
*SPOILERS AHEAD … AS WELL AS OVERLY INTIMATE MOTHERS DAY CELEBRATIONS, NOT ENOUGH JUICE IN THE TANK AND ABBIE-FREE HOLIDAYS* It was back to the classics this week in Wayward Pines, nominated as the town most likely to be consumed by vengeful evolutionary anomalies by 10/10 apocalypse survivors, Continue Reading