This was a night for great surprises. Great big shiny, gaudy, oddly-sung prizes in Dracula-esque outfits no less. And frankly I was wholly unprepared for them. That may sound like an odd thing to say when I have spent week upon glitter-saturated week listening to, thinking about and pontificating Continue Reading
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Done and dusted: Eurovision 2013 Semi-Final #1 review
This was the year that the gulf between what happens in the studio, and what happens under the bright lights, wind machines and pyrotechnic curtains of the main Eurovision stage, grew to abyss-like proportions (an abyss albeit decked out in shiny LED screens and surrounding by thousands of glowing Continue Reading
It’s official! Australia loves Eurovision
It’s hard to say if it is due to Australia’s welcome embrace of all the nationalities that make up the countries competing in The Eurovision Song Contest or simply our love of the quirky or the unusual, but something about this event has captured Australia’s attention, and quite possibly Continue Reading
The glorious new trailer for “Arrested Development”
Can we ever have too much of the Bluths? Michael Bluth (Jason Batemen) may answer with a hearty “YES!” since he appears to have moved to Phoenix to escape his family, as he promised to do right throughout the show’s original three season run. Let’s hope he figures out Continue Reading
It’s the end of the show as I know it: My long overdue thoughts on the end of “Fringe”
The end of Fringe in January this year with the almost perfectly-executed double episodes “Liberty” and “Enemy of the State” was, as it is for any series I have grown to love, a gut-wrenchingly sad moment for me. Leavened somewhat by the almost flawless way that the show’s producers Continue Reading
Road to Eurovision: Big 6 reviewed – UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy and Sweden
WHAT IS THE EUROVISION SONG CONTEST? Started way back in 1956 as a way to draw 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 Continue Reading
Eurovision news roundup: what’s happening in Malmo
We’re so close to this year’s Eurovision Song Contest – the first semi-final takes place on Tuesday 14 May – that you can almost taste the herrings, smell the brännvin, and your chances of being blinded by glittery costumes in close proximity, especially Latvia’s luminously sparkly outfits, grows ever Continue Reading
All-singing, all-dancing, lip-reading “The Walking Dead”
Who said zombies can’t dance? Or sing? Or hell, learn a simple line of dialogue? Oh right, just about everyone. Well fear not because by the magic of one fan’s brilliance, they have learnt to sing, dance and trade witty oneliners with the survivors who spent their days trying Continue Reading
Waiting for the … POP! 5 TV shows I love that are on the bubble
It’s that time of year again folks! The end of the ratings year with a million-and-one, or perhaps it just feels like that, shows throwing up their season finales for our viewing pleasure like there is no tomorrow. Sadly for many shows that’s exactly what it will be like. While Continue Reading
Save “Community”! The campaign to rescue a sitcom
Community, NBC’s beleaguered sitcom, much beloved of critics and a hardcore group of fans (including naturally yours truly), is in peril once again. Not that, truth be told, it has ever not been in trouble, spending almost its entire four year run perched precariously atop what is known as Continue Reading