(courtesy IMDb (c) Ludo Studio) Article via Liz Giuffre , Senior Lecturer in Communication, University of Technology Sydney via The Conversation There is nothing like a wedding episode. Bluey’s first 28-minute special, “The Sign”, was the ultimate wedding television. Full of family, and family-friendly, the wedding between Bluey’s godmother Frisky Continue Reading
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Road to Eurovision 2024: Week 7 – The Big 6 – France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden, UK (Grand final)
What is the Eurovision Song Contest?Started way back in 1956 as a way of drawing a fractured Europe back together with the healing power of music, the Eurovision Song Contest, or Concours Eurovision de la Chanson – the contest is telecast in both English and French – is open to Continue Reading
Sitcom review double: Loot (S2, E1-5) and Not Dead Yet (S2, E1-5)
LOOT (S2, E1-5) It’s a pretty much a given that Maya Rudolph can do no wrong and with stellar writing back her and surrounded by a very talented ensemble cast, she’s one of those performers who is a comedic delight in just about every way possible. In Loot season one Continue Reading
The world deserves a better ending: Thoughts on Fallout
(courtesy IMP Awards) Apocalypses are not generally laugh-out-loud affairs, what with all the death, destruction, end of civilisation hanging over everything and such, and Fallout, based on the role-playing video game of the same name, is not, for the most part an exception. Set roughly two hundred or so years Continue Reading
Road to Eurovision 2024: Week 6 – Malta, Netherlands, Norway, San Marino, Switzerland (Semi final 2, part 3) + Eurovision stage revealed!
What is the Eurovision Song Contest?Started way back in 1956 as a way of drawing a fractured Europe back together with the healing power of music, the Eurovision Song Contest, or Concours Eurovision de la Chanson – the contest is telecast in both English and French – is open to Continue Reading
Star Trek: Discovery S5 review: Episodes 3 (“Jinaal”) and 4 (“Face the Strange”)
(courtesy IMP Awards) EPISODE 3: “Jinaal” While treasure hunts are lots of fun and give a competitively frenetic sheen to birthday parties and even weekends away with friends, they’re not the most efficient way to find things. But then, a party host is not trying to fill a streaming season’s Continue Reading
Road to Eurovision 2024: Week 5 – Denmark, Estonia, Georgia, Greece and Latvia (Semi final 2, part 2)
What is the Eurovision Song Contest?Started way back in 1956 as a way of drawing a fractured Europe back together with the healing power of music, the Eurovision Song Contest, or Concours Eurovision de la Chanson – the contest is telecast in both English and French – is open to Continue Reading
Road to Eurovision 2024: Week 4 – Albania, Armenia, Austria, Belgium, Czechia (Semi final 2, part 1)
What is the Eurovision Song Contest?Started way back in 1956 as a way of drawing a fractured Europe back together with the healing power of music, the Eurovision Song Contest, or Concours Eurovision de la Chanson – the contest is telecast in both English and French – is open to Continue Reading
The beginning of farewell … Star Trek: Discovery S5, E1-2 review
(courtesy IMP Awards) Star Trek: Discovery has always been about people and the connections they forge in building a better, more just galactic society. That might seem self evident since surely that is true of all iterations of a franchise that has held sway in the hearts and minds of Continue Reading
Road to Eurovision 2024: Week 3 – Poland, Portugal, Serbia, Slovenia, Ukraine (Semi final 1, part 3)
What is the Eurovision Song Contest?Started way back in 1956 as a way of drawing a fractured Europe back together with the healing power of music, the Eurovision Song Contest, or Concours Eurovision de la Chanson – the contest is telecast in both English and French – is open to Continue Reading