TV

  Well the 64th Primetime Emmy Awards, held Sunday US time at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles have been and gone and left a lot of people, including me, scratching their heads. It’s not an unusual reaction to the Emmys, indeed any awards show, who sometimes award the right Continue Reading

  The US Fall TV Season is upon us, inspiring delight – hooray new shows and episodes of established shows we adore! – and panic – I am still watching the last season of more shows than I can count … sorry Glee! – but it is here nonetheless, and Continue Reading

  Everyone’s favourite New Girl, Jess, is back but it’s not just any same old same old. Shaking off the temptation to simply trot more of what worked so well – once the producers got over their mid debut season quality wobble and found their groove –  the show is Continue Reading

  If you recall, devoted watchers of ABC’s breakout fantasy hit, Once Upon a Time ended season 1 with the surprise undoing of the curse that had transformed all the fairytale characters we know and love into denizens of our gritty every day world where, as the narration ominously intoned, Continue Reading

  I love Anderson Cooper. Not simply because he is a fine dish of a man; but also because he’s a top notch reporter with the ability to get to the heart of a story, and a versatile enough journalist that he can even host his own day time chat Continue Reading

  It’s been well touted that the final season of Fringe will largely take place in 2036, when the mysterious Observers, who have been present throughout the series, and share a predilection to play god, and do more than just look on benignly, are in control. Their rule is the Continue Reading

  When I first heard that the opening episode of the new Doctor Who season was going to be about his long time enemies the Daleks, my heart sank a little. It’s not that the Daleks aren’t scary, remorseless, and one of the most nightmarish baddies to emerge from a Continue Reading

  As I have made abundantly clear in posts past, the idea of zombies in general scare the proverbial out of me, and I have, until now, with the exception of the brilliantly crafted 28 Days Later and its sequel, 28 Weeks Later, avoided the undead like, well, the plague. Continue Reading

  Elementary is part of the crop of new Fall TV shows due to launch on US TV. Following in the footsteps of the contemporary British re-imagining of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock, starring Benedict Cumberbatch as the titular detective, and the Sherlock movies starring Robert Downey Jr Continue Reading