One of my favourite shows on television, the greatly underrated and woefully under-appreciated comedy gem Cougar Town is going to back on our screens soon and very soon! With an appearance by star Courtney Cox’s old Friends co-star Matthew Perry (following Cox’s stint on Perry’s now defunct sitcom Go On) and Continue Reading
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The Walking Dead: “Live Bait” (S4, E6 review)
*SPOILERS AHEAD (and walkers … and an emotional catharsis …redemption … and more walkers)* “When my girls were born, that’s when I figured out what it was to be a man. You know, a real man. You protect ’em, keep ’em safe, you just try to make them stronger Continue Reading
Doctor Who turns 50: Night of the Doctor webisode
It’s hard to know how to react when you hear that one of the defining TV shows of your childhood/youth is being brought to life after a reasonably lengthy period out of production. Part of you sings with the angels, thrilled that you’ll be able to see characters you Continue Reading
Parks and Recreation’s Nick Offerman’s mo’ is the star of a Flashdance-soundtracked show
Proving once again that he is not just a ruggedly handsome face, although he is that and more, Nick Offerman has joined up with mademan.com to record a Public Service Announcement for Movember, a month long celebration of all things upper lip hirsute to raise funds in support of Continue Reading
Picture this Community fans: Season 5 photos aplenty
Much like Bigfoot, alien abductions and the idea of substantial news coverage from a commercial network that doesn’t include diet tips or reports on insurance scams, you might have begun to wonder if season 5 of Community actually existed, or would find a place in NBC’s schedule. Well wonder Continue Reading
Fetch me a TARDIS-shaped cake and lots of candles! Doctor Who turns 50
2013 is a big year if you’re a Whovian, a fan of the great Time Lord himself, Doctor Who, who marks 50 years on our TV screens on November 23, just over one short week away. Of course if you’re Doctor Who himself, a Gallyfreyan who’s over 900 years old Continue Reading
The Zeitgeist Embryonic #1: 5 possibly great TV shows in the throes of development
As someone with my ear to the pop culture firmament, upon which I often hear the heavy footed shuffle of zombies, the thump-thump of alien mechanised vehicles or the light footfalls of zingy sitcom oneliners, hardly a day goes by when I don’t come across announcements about shows with Continue Reading
The Walking Dead: “Internment” (S4, E5 review)
A sad soul can kill you quicker, far quicker, than a germ can.” (John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America) ** SPOILERS AHEAD ** Steinbeck, one of the greatest novelists America has ever produced, was right on the money when he penned those words in 1962, a man Continue Reading
You are your favourite TV shows: Infographic reveals all
You know all that amazingly revelatory quizzes that pop up on Facebook with the frequency of virulent rashes or Real Housewives of … spinoffs? The ones that purport, via the answering of such deeply penetrative questions such as “Do you like grass?” and “If you could be were Neil Continue Reading
Please take some time to watch Cobie Smulders teach Grover about being courteous. Thank you!
This could quite possibly be one of the cutest Sesame Street segments I have featured on this blog to date. I mean, when you team up Cobie Smulders from How I Met Your Mother with my favourite Sesame Street regular, Grover – I still have a Grover plush toy Continue Reading