TV

  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

  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

  *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

  SNAPSHOT A playful cat teaches Elmo all about cats. “Play like a Cat” is one of two episodes made in an exciting collaboration with Sesame Street. (synopsis via Laughing Squid) I am a cat person; specifically a Simon’s Cat person. And I am also, if you’ve been paying attention Continue Reading

  So the big question as we are await the start of The Walking Dead season 7 in three months time  is … Who shot JR? Wait, wait, no … wrong decade and wrong show … BUT essentially the same dynamic – yes I have found a way to link Continue Reading

  Aliens huh? Nothing better to do it seems than spent eons crossing countless galaxy so they can invade Earth, enslave us and do with us as they will. It’s happened time and time again, fictionally at least, and you couldn’t be blamed for wondering if there is anything really Continue Reading

  We are officially in the new Golden Glut of TV. Yes I know I am supposed to say “golden age” and yes it is in many ways, but when your cable PVR and Netflix (and in Australia) Stan are crying out for viewing attention to the point where you Continue Reading

  *SPOILERS AHEAD … AND GUNSHOTS, MISTIMED TEENAGE PASSION AND A FEMALE ABBIE WITH MORE STREET SMARTS THAN YOUR THE AVERAGE BEAR* Let’s hear it for the new Wayward Pines cardio programme! With life in the prettiest apocalypse ever – make no mistake, old-fashioned US town notwithstanding, that humanity has Continue Reading

  On a scale of things you really don’t want happening to you late in life, when the kids are grown, you finally have the time to pursue your passions and work is close to being a distant memory, having your partner leave you for someone else would have to rank Continue Reading

  I have loved Scooby Doo since the first time I set sight on the snack-loving goofy Great Dane and his four human mystery-solving cohorts. There was, and still is, something inestimably wonderful about the inherent silliness of the premise, and all its many recurring jokes from the “And I Continue Reading