To be fair these highly imaginative and generally well-executed fan love letters to shows present and past aren’t strictly speaking parodies as much as they are homages to much loved series. But still they are parodies of a kind, since in their reverence for the show they are saluting, Continue Reading
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Stop. Go. Stop. GO! “Arrested Development” resumes its glorious dysfunctionality
It’s not long now my familial dysfunction-loving friends! Soon and very soon, Arrested Development, cancelled six years ago by the Fox network at the end of season 3 when the dysfunctional Bluth family finally came apart in spectacularly chaotic fashion, will make its much-welcome way back into our viewing Continue Reading
“The Big Bang Theory”: ‘The Closure Alternative’ – who mourns the cancelled TV series?
We’ve all been there haven’t we? We find a new engaging clever drama, or a side-splitingly funny comedy on TV, watch an episode or two, decide it’s worth committing to on a regular basis only to have it unceremoniously yanked from the schedule without little to no notice because Continue Reading
News and views from the amazing world of “Warehouse 13”
Our countdown to Warehouse 13 gracing our archive-chasing-deprived screens once more is down to just one gloriously short week. Tick … tock … tick … tock … you get the idea … Anyway, to tide you over till season 4.5 kicks off – strictly speaking it kind of has Continue Reading
First impressions: “Defiance”
Once more to the apocalypse, dear friends, once more! I am not sure that Shakespeare had an alien-terraformed Earth in mind when he penned almost those words in Henry V all those centuries ago, but they seem apt in the face of another TV series set in a not-too-distant Continue Reading
Road to Eurovision: week 2 – Ukraine, The Netherlands, Montenegro, Lithuania, Belarus
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 open Continue Reading
Behold the Eurovision 2013 anthem: Music fit for a “Dancing Queen”
I think it’s fairly safe to say that if you were to offer a dyed-in-the-wool ABBA fan three wishes, their first wish, which likely would be repeated three times anyway with ever-increasing levels of breathless excitement, would be the reformation of the iconic 70s pop supergroup. Speculation that the Continue Reading
Road to Eurovision 2013: Week 1 – Austria, Estonia, Slovenia, Croatia, Denmark, Russia
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 open Continue Reading
Love sure can be funny: My 5 favourite sitcom couples (part 1)
I have always loved sitcoms (“situation comedies”). There’s something about these 22 minute comedic explorations of life in a particular place that charmed me from the get-go of my TV viewing life. While there were usually multiple characters living out their online-filled lives, all the truly great sitcoms, and Continue Reading
Get ready to light up with David Iserson’s book “Firecracker”
BOOK SYNOPSIS (via Goodreads): Being Astrid Krieger is absolutely all it’s cracked up to be. She lives in a rocket ship in the backyard of her parents’ estate. She was kicked out of the elite Bristol Academy and she’s intent on her own special kind of revenge to whomever Continue Reading