Ted Lasso Good lord but Ted Lasso has a big heart. When it has a mind to, of course, which, granted is much of the time, although not as strongly in season 3′ first three episodes as had previously been the case. While the episodes – “Smells Like Mean Spirit”, Continue Reading
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Sci-fi streaming round-up! The Mandalorian (S3, E7-8) and Picard (S3, E9-10)
It is the end of things in these episodes from Star Trek: Picard season 3 and The Mandalorian season 3, and yet at the same time, very much not. While The Mandalorian has a clearly flagged fourth season beckoning, Picard ends its three-season run with this series of ten episodes, Continue Reading
Road to Eurovision 2023: Week 5 – Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Georgia and Greece (Semi-final 2, part 2)
What is the Eurovision Song Contest?Started way back in 1956 as a way of drawing a fractured Europe back together with the healing power of music, the Eurovision Song Contest, or Concours Eurovision de la Chanson – the contest is telecast in both English and French – is open to Continue Reading
A tiny ton of TV trailers: The Muppets Mayhem, Florida Man and Never Have I Ever (final season)
If you’ve ever read this blog on more than one occasion, and if you have I thank you (and sorry again for all the typos), then you’ll be well aware that I am a strangely ambitious soul. Despite knowing deep down that I don’t have a hope in hell of Continue Reading
They’ll figure it out, maybe: Thoughts on Unstable (season 1)
There’s a moment when you’re watching the trailer for a promising sitcom, full of wry dialogue, sparkling quips and deliciously good comic timing that you hope and pray to whatever streaming gods are out there, that the resultant program will be every bit as good as its teaser taster suggests. Continue Reading
Road to Eurovision 2023: Week 4 – Albania, Armenia, Australia, Austria and Belgium (Semi-final 2, part 1)
What is the Eurovision Song Contest?Started way back in 1956 as a way of drawing a fractured Europe back together with the healing power of music, the Eurovision Song Contest, or Concours Eurovision de la Chanson – the contest is telecast in both English and French – is open to Continue Reading
Technicolour future adventure: Character posters and teaser for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds S2
SNAPSHOTThe Strange New Worlds team is already hyping up Season Two. Co-showrunner Akiva Goldsman promises that it will be “bigger and better” than Season One, while his fellow co-showrunner Henry Alonso Myers describes it as “Season One on steroids.” Mount teases that Season Two will take “bigger swings” and explore even more genres than Season One Continue Reading
Sci-fi streaming round-up! The Mandalorian (S3, 3-6) and Picard (S3, E7-8)
The larger-than-life but intensely human stories of humanity out in the wilds of space continue in The Mandalorian season 3 and Star Trek: Picard season 3, both of which prove that whether, it’s a long, long time ago or way out in the future, that humanity will fight hard for Continue Reading
Warrior. Outcast. Rebel. Jedi. Teaser trailer introduces us to Ahsoka
SNAPSHOTA spin-off from the series The Mandalorian, taking place in the same timeframe as that series and its other interconnected spin-offs after the events of Return of the Jedi (1983). Rosario Dawson stars as Ahsoka Tano, reprising her role from The Mandalorian. The character was created for the animated series Continue Reading
Road to Eurovision 2023: Week 3 – Norway, Portugal, Serbia, Sweden and Switzerland (Semi-final 1, part 3)
What is the Eurovision Song Contest?Started way back in 1956 as a way of drawing a fractured Europe back together with the healing power of music, the Eurovision Song Contest, or Concours Eurovision de la Chanson – the contest is telecast in both English and French – is open to Continue Reading