Ladies and gentleman of the blogosphere I have finally found my breakout sitcom of the new season! The Crazy Ones, by TV maestro David E. Kelley (Boston Legal, Ally McBeal), is that almost elusively perfect blend of snappy, not a syllable wasted clever writing, spot on comic timing, and Continue Reading
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Hurrahs all around! Parks and Recreation turns 100 … and Community gets an air date!
My how time in Pawnee flies! Seems it was just yesterday a wide-eyed, optimistic and highly spirited young lady by the name of Leslie Knope (Amy Poehler) was thrilled to be the deputy director of the Parks and Recreation department of this idiosyncratic city in Indiana, dream of turning Continue Reading
The Walking Dead: “Infected” (S4, E2 review)
*SOME SPOILERS AHEAD (and walkers too, no doubt)* The Walking Dead‘s “bubble o’ bliss and happiness”, never a robust creature to begin with, has well and truly burst in “Infected”. Again. Granted not completely this time, but it is leaking like a disaffected political party member at election time, Continue Reading
Hart to Hart reunion … hosted by Amy Poehler and Adam Scott
You may think there’s not much to get excited about at 3 in the morning and you’d be right (save for the obvious … and by that I mean sleep thank you) unless a bout of insomnia leads you to trawl Twitter for a while and you come across Continue Reading
Let’s have some fun, yes fun, with The Walking Dead
OK I get it. Desperately fighting for your life in the midst of a zombie apocalypse is not exactly a whole lotta fun. If you’ve not scrabbling to get away from ravenous chompers, you’re keeping one eye cocked on your fellow humans, who may or may not have your Continue Reading
The Muppets go all (Lady) Gaga in new TV special
I have no idea how I missed this most unique of connections since I am a fan of both The Muppets and Lady Gaga but it appears the two doyens of the zeitgeist have been BFFs for quite some time now. According to eonline.com, who announced that Lady Gaga Continue Reading
TV review: “Orange is the New Black” (pilot episode)
Right so Orange is the New Black is one series that I am quite late to the party to by virtue of Australia being criminally Netflix-less and no one wanting make up for that terrible reality by buying the show a ticket on that fast track express mode of Continue Reading
TV Reviews: The Goldbergs (pilot) and Hello Ladies (pilot)
THE GOLDBERGS It’s one thing to see a long ago period of history portrayed on television where you have no direct links and no real emotional connection, and another entirely to watch a decade you lived through (yes all of it) come to life again. But The Goldbergs, a Continue Reading
Tom Hanks and Sandra Bullock trip the light fantastic … on a Big set of piano keys
Oh happy piano key tap dancing days! Two of my favourite actors in the whole world, Tom Hanks and Sandra Bullock – as opposed to the intergalactic ones but that’s a matter for another post entirely – appeared together on the October 12 edition of The Jonathan Ross Show in Continue Reading
The Walking Dead: “30 Days Without an Accident” (S4, E1 review)
* minor spoilers ahead * Picture this if you will. It’s a bright, sunny day, the birds are softlly chirping (no, they really are; the one thing that can outfly the undead it seems) and one Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln), former Ricktator, now gentleman farmer splashes his face with Continue Reading