*** SPOILERS AHEAD (and possibly aliens … ya never know) *** After the big bang, All aliens! All action! All intrigue! Even a creepy baby! look of the first two season 3 episodes, “On Thin Ice” and Collateral Damage”, Falling Skies took a giant narrative chill pill for episode three Continue Reading
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Time to slip … or not … “Under the Dome” (new trailer)
The apocalypse is upon us once again and this time there isn’t an alien, zombie or electricity-sucking nanite to be seen. No, this time the enemy is a transparent, practically-invisible impervious dome-shaped membrane that drops without warning, and a great deal of bloodshed and severed limbs, over the small Continue Reading
TV review: Season 3 premiere of “Falling Skies” – ‘On Thin Ice’/’Collateral Damage’
* Spoilers ahead * “That’s President Tom Mason to you young man!” To be fear that is probably the last thing you will ever hear a very self-effacing Tom Mason (Noah Wylie) ever say, but the fact remains that in the seven, highly eventful months since last we saw Continue Reading
Miranda Hart as Doctor Who? Such fun!
No sooner had Matt Smith announced his intention to leave the role of Doctor Who after this year’s 50th Anniversary special, which airs in November and also features his predecessor as the lone remaining time lord, David Tennant, that speculation about who would replace him zoomed straight into hyperdrive. Continue Reading
“Hart To Hart” remade: Adam Scott and Amy Poehler paid homage to the ’80s TV icon
SNAPSHOT Hart to Hart is an American television series, starring Robert Wagner and Stefanie Powers as Jonathan and Jennifer Hart, a wealthy couple who moonlight as amateur detectives. The series was created by writer Sidney Sheldon and produced by Aaron Spelling and Leonard Goldberg. It ran from 1979 to Continue Reading
Fear your enemy: “Falling Skies” returns!
WHEN SEASON 3 OPENS … When “Falling Skies” season 3 begins, seven months have passed since the 2nd Mass arrived in Charleston, and Tom (Noah Wyle) is the new President, but he’s also still out there fighting with the resistance. His decision to have the rebel skitters fight alongside Continue Reading
It’s time to watch the Muppets again … “That Puppet Game Show” announced
More Muppets in a brand new fun-filled format? Yes please! News that Disney-owned The Jim Henson Company is working closely with the BBC on a brand new show, That Puppet Game Show, to be shown on BBC1, sent a madcap shiver of excitement through my Muppet-loving veins. Consisting of Continue Reading
TV review: “The Revolution” season 1 finale, ‘The Dark Tower’
*SPOILERS AHEAD* Now this is how you stage a finale. Power plays, shifting alliances, plot twists, explosions (some bigger than others; or at least with the potential to be), fist fights, gun fights, relationships broken, relationships rebuilt … and death. Lots and lots of death. It had everything you Continue Reading
Where is the love? 5 shows I have inadvertently neglected … and how I plan to remedy that
It is often said nowadays that we live in a new, glorious golden age of television. And to a large extent that is true with television increasingly the medium where gifted storytellers choose to tell their stories in preference to movies, many of which tend to be relying on Continue Reading
Everything “Breaking Bad” must come to an end
SNAPSHOT Breaking Bad is the story of Walter White (Bryan Cranston), a struggling high school chemistry teacher who is diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer at the beginning of the series. He turns to a life of crime, producing and selling methamphetamine with a former student, Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul), Continue Reading