I know. You’re thinking to yourself how on earth did I choose just five – five I tell you! Just five – TV shows to be deemed the favourites in a year where you couldn’t move for high quality sitcoms and dramas? How did I have the guts to Continue Reading
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“Thunderbirds” fall silent: goodbye Gerry Anderson
Sad news today that Gerry Anderson, 83, legendary creator of Thunderbirds, died in his sleep overnight in the UK, after suffering from dementia for the last couple of years. Using a process called “Supermarionation”, he was also responsible for groundbreaking shows like Captain Scarlett and Joe 90, as well Continue Reading
Merry Christmas to all … and to all a good night (of TV/music/cinema/reading)
Merry Christmas everyone! I have had a wonderful year writing what feels like a million and one enthusiastic posts about pop culture and as I permit myself to relax a little (from blogging at least) while I race around the east coast of Australia visiting family for Christmas, I want Continue Reading
“Miranda” comes over all Christmassy: series 3 kicks off Boxing Day
Miranda is back people with a big, bold, funny Christmas special! OK it’s on Boxing Day (9pm BBC One, UK) and it’s not so much a festive-themed episode as simply scheduled around Christmas but it does mean the return of Miranda and the gang absent Clive (James Holmes, for Continue Reading
On the 12th day of Christmas … I pondered the enduring popularity of “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens
It would be a rare person indeed who hasn’t read, seen, or even listened to, a version of Charles Dickens’ classic novel A Christmas Carol, which has remained wildly popular ever since its publication on 19 December, 1943, and which shows no sign of slipping off the zeitgeist radar any Continue Reading
On the 11th day of Christmas … I found TV shows and movies I love rendered in LEGO
Let’s hear it for tenuous links to Christmas! Yes I am basing the inclusion of the following highly imaginative recreations of TV shows and movies in LEGO on the fact that it is (a) Christmas and (b) it was at this very festive time that I was often given Continue Reading
On the 10th day of Christmas … I watched the ghosts of TV shows past
I love retro TV. Much as I adore curling on the couch and watching the latest episode of New Girl, Once Upon a Time or The Walking Dead, there is something comforting, and in the case of the shows that have stood the test of time (I discovered sadly Continue Reading
Sneak peek! The darkness and light of A&E’s “Bates Motel”
This is one seriously creepy, but monumentally intriguing, trailer. Frankly I don’t think A & E could have improved on this teaser for their new Psycho-prequel series, Bates Motel – from Lost‘s Carlton Cuse and Friday Night Lights‘ Kerry Ehrin – which they are at pains to point out is Continue Reading
On the 8th day of Christmas … I decorated my tree with pop culture ornaments
Given the nature of this blog, which doesn’t exactly hide its cathode ray light under a Scooby Doo patterned-bushel, you have probably quite likely surmised, and you would be right, that I am more than a little obsessed with, and in love with, pop culture. While I don’t do Continue Reading
On the 6th day of Christmas … I watched “A Moody Christmas” (review)
A Moody Christmas is about as perfect as television gets. It has been widely hailed, and rightly so, as one of the best series of the year in Australia, or for that matter anywhere, its six episodes a pitch perfect blend of humour and drama that captures the idiosyncrasies Continue Reading