TV

You have to hand it to the gang at Community. They are the most creative, innovative team in the TV industry. Not content with staying within standard sitcom boundaries, or even reality’s boundaries for that matter, they are constantly coming up with clever ways to tell a story and they’re Continue Reading

It’s the modern pop culture equivalent of the gathering up of the dead during the Black Death in the Middle Ages. Once a year all the major US TV networks gather in New York for what is called “upfront season” to announce which shows have survived the brutal contest for Continue Reading

One of the fun games my house mate and I love to play at this time of year – the preceding phrase is laced with so much sarcasm that small puppies and kittens may die if they come too close to it – is whether our favourite US TV shows Continue Reading

Ever since Netflix moved into the business of producing original content, they have become more and more like a pop culture Santa. On their latest trip down the TV show-giving chimney, it’s been announced that they’ve been talking to CBS about resurrecting the critically-mourned, but ratings-starved cult favourite Jericho, which Continue Reading

I still have no idea how it happened. One minute I am watching hours and hours of scripted drama, glorying in the skill of the writers and actors that produce quality entertainment like Mad Men, Community, and Once Upon a Time… and the next? Why all of a sudden, as Continue Reading

After much nail-biting, which may have occurred in multiple dimensions depending on the day, and which version of me was doing the worrying, it’s been confirmed by a number of sites that Fringe will be back for a final 13 episodes. There was uncertainty about whether this would happen, so Continue Reading

Shows that focus on an apocalypse of one sort or another are all the rage at the moment – literally in the case of the runaway hit show, The Walking Dead, which features zombies with the usual anger management issues – and I have become as enamoured of them like Continue Reading

I like nothing more than watching a new TV show that is intelligent, full of fun, and has entertainment woven deeply into its DNA. (OK it is possible I like cheesecake and trips to New York a little more but for the purposes of this review, erudite, funny TV shows Continue Reading

One of the big trends in the current television year has been the emergence of urban fantasy, once the preserve of geeks and anime addicts, into mainstream programming. Shows like Once Upon a Time and Grimm (which shall be reviewed in greater depth in an upcoming article on this blog) Continue Reading