TV

“Hi, my name is Andrew and I am old enough to have lived through the 1970s!” “Hi Andrew.” “You may think that makes me ridiculously old, and the way my body is behaving lately I feel that way sometimes, but growing up back in the age of bell bottoms, and Continue Reading

I know we have all said it at one time or another, usually after a shockingly hard day out in the trenches of the real world, that it would be great to live in a scripted TV program (this excludes reality programs clearly since they are so, well, real). All Continue Reading

The news I had been expecting but hoped would never be announced, has lobbed its most unwelcome way into my despairing inbox. (After the renewal of Community was almost fatally tarnished by the removal of Mark Harmon as show runner.) Sanctuary, one of the most imaginative, clever and well-realised shows Continue Reading

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