Launching in September 1964 as a companion program to The Magilla Gorilla Show, The Peter Potamus Show is, like many of the Hanna-Barbera animated shows, a vehicle for multiple characters to get their moment in the Saturday morning TV sun. While early promotional materials listed the program as Peter Potamus Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #6: Flora Cash, Gabrielle Aplin, Laleh, Sigrid, Gena Rose Bruce
You don’t need me to tell you, but I kind of will anyway (such is the nature of the blogging beast) that life is complicated. And messy. And hard to figure out at times. Sure, you’re bright and will likely muddle your way through like we all do, but it Continue Reading
Respect is coming: Elmo urges Game of Thrones’ Tyrion and Cersei to treat each other well
SNAPSHOT Respect brings us together, and if anyone can convince Game of Thrones’s Cersei and Tyrion to get along, a familiar furry red friend might just be the one. (synopsis via Laughing Squid) Oh, the fun they must have had with this one! The latest marriage of Sesame Street, which Continue Reading
Book review: The Shining Wall by Melissa Ferguson
If you look around at any given moment, on a world of towering buildings, fast trains and everything available at the touch of a button or a quick walk into a store bursting with products, it’s tempting to think that it’s all inviolably permanent. We have enough dystopian literature around Continue Reading
HBO Backstories: Creators talk about Barry, Game of Thrones and Insecure
For many TV or streaming viewers, seeing the finished show is enough; there’s no need to peek behind the curtain and see what led to their fully-formed, and hopefully, entertaining creation. But there are those of us, and I count myself among them, who like to find out what was Continue Reading
Star Trek Discovery: “Such Sweet Sorrow Part 2” (S2, E14 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND A WHOLE WORLD OF EPIC PAIN AND INSPIRATION … Hang onto your hats, people, for in the finale of Star Trek: Discovery season 2, we are going into sentience-saving battle! That much we knew after last week’s brilliantly-told first instalment of the two-part finale but watching Continue Reading
Not quite Disney princesses but Mickey Mouse and the Simpsons now have a lot more in common
Nothing says warm and family-friendly like The Simpsons right? They’re practically neighbours to all that is pure and wholesome, and well, Disney-esque; OK possibly not, but with Disney’s acquisition of 21st Century Fox done and dusted, with Tinkerbell’s glitter dust naturally, they do now share the same owner as Buzz Continue Reading
Easter festival #2: Yogi the Easter Bear
Yogi Bear, as we all know thanks to his constant recitation of the self-ascribed fact, is “smarter than the average bear.” But Yogi, who first made his appearance as an extra on The Huckleberry Hound Show in 1958, is not always as smart as he claims to be, at least Continue Reading
Easter festival #2: Easter Parade
Love has a great many homes in popular culture – chart-topping songs, poems, TV dramas and sitcoms, books of all genres; honestly, we could happily go on and on and on, so romantically omnipresent is love wherever you turn. But perhaps its most natural home, and the one in which Continue Reading
Friendship is a trip: Wine Country explores friends, wine and weekends away
SNAPSHOTIn honor of Rebecca’s (Rachel Dratch) 50th birthday, Abby (Amy Poehler) plans a scenic Napa getaway with their best, longtime friends. Workaholic Catherine (Ana Gasteyer), post-op Val (Paula Pell), homebody Jenny (Emily Spivey), and weary mom Naomi (Maya Rudolph) are equally sold on the chance to relax and reconnect. Yet Continue Reading