SNAPSHOT Exiled from their home planet, alien heroes Zan and Jayna must navigate life as teens on Earth at South Metropolis High School, where they’re even bigger outsiders than the typical awkward young adults. Under the watchful eye of Superman, the brother and sister pull monitor duty at the Hall Continue Reading
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“I feel the need … the need for …” the cast of Sesame Street to recite famous movie quotes
I love the Muppets so much that frankly they couldn’t recite the telephone book (well the online version anyway), naturally with their trademark whit and whimsy and I would more than happily sit their in rapt attention until they were good and done. Vanity Fair, in a moment of inspired Continue Reading
Star Trek Discovery: “Brother” (S2, E1 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND QUIPPY QUIPS, RED STARS AND A SPECTACULAR CASE OF FATALITY-INDUCING ARROGANCE Balancing exposition and a fast-moving narrative is always a tricky undertaking but “Brother”, the first episode of the second season of Star Trek: Discovery managed it with aplomb in a story that had thrills & Continue Reading
Come and get it! Promo trailer for Kimmy Schmidt’s final episodes
SNAPSHOT In the final episodes, Netflix teases that Kimmy will have to choose between helping her friends and helping herself. Part 2 of season four also includes an hourlong “Sliding Doors” episode, inspired by the 1998 Gwyneth Paltrow movie of the same name that explores how the characters lives might Continue Reading
It’s time to NOT put on make-up: The Muppet Show without the muppets
SNAPSHOT A little bit of fun by the crew recorded at the end of the first series/season of The Muppet Show in 1976…The crew/cast includes Peter Harris, Richard Holloway, Jim O’Donnell, Brian Grant, Steve Springford, Jerry Hoare, Phil Hawkes, Gerry Elms, John Rook, Martin Baker, Sue Boyers, Francis Essex, Dennis Continue Reading
Dare to Dream with this Eurovision 2019 update: Logo + interval acts
You may be asking yourself right now – “Did we not just witness Israel’s fabulously-funky Netta win the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest? How we can be closer to 2019’s event than the one just gone?” Time, my friends, time and it’s already racing ahead to May this year when the Continue Reading
Winter has well and truly come: Game of Thrones evocative S8 teaser trailer
Winter has well and truly come in Game of Thrones in the gripping teaser trailer. In the evocative, and let’s be honest, creepy crypts beneath Winterfell, which will be one of the first places to feel the icy touch of the White Walkers and their leader, the Night King, we Continue Reading
Finally watched … the return season of Murphy Brown
Can you ever really go back? It’s an existentially-loaded question which confronts anyone who tries to return to something, somewhere or someone they once loved, and it’s one which doesn’t always have the happiest of answers following in its wake. One arena in which this particularly-loaded nostalgia-laden query has been Continue Reading
Forget the warm-and-fuzzies – Dalek Who is here
Once the things that pretty much everyone loves about Doctor Who is how human he/she is, a pretty impressive achievement for a Galifreyan with two hearts who may be a sworn protector of humanity and their home planet Earth but who most certainly doesn’t come from there. But what if, Continue Reading
One summer can change everything: Stranger Things season 3
It’s been a while coming but now we have a poster for Stranger Things season 3, an ominous tagline, a teaser date annoucement video (complete with a hidden message in all its cryptic glory) and a release date! What we don’t know is why Will Byers (Noah Schnapp) looks so Continue Reading