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
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My brief tumultuous love afford with The Voice
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
“Fringe” returns for a fifth and final season
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
The return of “Arrested Development”
Arrested Development, a clever, literate sitcom created by Mitchell Hurwitz which featured the dysfunctional travails of the once wealthy Bluth family and ran from 2003-2006 is back from the dead! It was a critical darling from the moment it was broadcast into peoples’ living rooms, but alas, though it was Continue Reading
“Falling Skies” is back soon!
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
New TV: “Randling”
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
“Sanctuary” – a hearty slice of urban fantasy
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
“Modern Family” steps it up another notch
It’s doubtful I could love this show any more than I do already. The sitcom by the talented Christopher Lloyd and Steve Levitan is a fresh and non-sentimental take on the traditional family sitcom that hasn’t shied from tackling all sorts of controversial subjects. The most recent episode I saw Continue Reading
Dr Who season 7 trailer bows
Season 7 is nigh. We know this because a glitzy, gee-whiz trailer has landed in cyberspace and it is enormously impressive and promises some great stories. If the writers can live up to the promise of this fast-moving trailer studded with shots of cyborgs in the Wild West, Nefertiti on Continue Reading
Golden age of TV anxiety
It’s often been said of late that we are in a new golden age of TV. According to the good folks at Wikipedia, the first golden age of TV was from the late 1940s to early 1960s when live dramas, many of them garnering both critical acclaim and solid viewer Continue Reading