Andy Griffith died today, aged 86 at his home on Roanoke Island, North Carolina. A man who embodied the very essence of the southern gentleman, chambering and captivating audiences over a 50 year career that included stints on Broadway, in film and of course on television. It was on television Continue Reading
“Grimm” debuts second season art
With Grimm returning a little earlier than usual to the American broadcast schedule on August 13 as NBC tries to capitalise on its Olympics coverage, it makes sense that they have released the second season artwork which displays our heroes in all their dancing-on-the dark-side-of-fairytales glory. With another Lost alum Continue Reading
First impressions: “Veep”
This is one seriously funny show. Leaving aside the fact that saying this show’s name makes me feel like I am the Roadrunner about to sprint off from my hapless Foe, Wile E. Coyote one more time in a Looney Tunes cartoon – which I must hasten to add Continue Reading
Can you go back?: “Hart to Hart”
It’s one of the eternal questions isn’t it? Can you ever truly go back? I am not talking about time travel; about revving up a DeLorean and gunning it was back to 1985 or wherever you might choose to go. No, I am not talking about returning to a Continue Reading
Ann Curry exits stage left from “Today” … but not by choice
I am that rare beast of a pop culture consumer in Australia. I have watched more breakfast TV from another country – in this case, the USA – than I have likely watched Australian variants such as Sunrise, or ABC News Breakfast. It’s got nothing to do with cultural cringe, Continue Reading
Music review: “Synthetica” by Metric
The first thing that strikes you about this superlative album from 21st century Canadian rockers, Metric, is the otherworldly aura that permeates every one of its almost pop songs. (They were founded in 1998 in Toronto but their first album, Old World Underground, Where Are You Now? came in Continue Reading
RIP Nora Ephron
Enormously sad news today with news that Nora Ephron, gifted director, screen writer, playwright and author has died aged 71. Best known for cleverly written, intelligent, divinely romantic movies such as Sleepless in Seattle, When Harry Met Sally and You’ve Got Mail, Ephron passed away from pneumonia brought on acute Continue Reading
New season’s US TV shows 2012: Part 1
Another year, another crop of new shows from the USA, all competing for the hearts and mind of an ever-fracturing audience. As social media, and time-shifting (recording and then watching a show later) continue to change the way we consume new media of any kind, these up-and-coming TV programs need Continue Reading
The shiny allure of celebrity publishing
Forget torches under the sheets as we read way past our bedtime. In this celebrity-driven age, we can read by the sheer light of star power alone. While society has always been obsessed with the great names of the day, it has never been more ubiquitous than it is now, Continue Reading
First Impression: “Falling Skies” season 2 premiere
Falling Skies is back and it has been absolutely worthy the wait. Picking up just three months after Tom Mason (Noah Wylie) bravely stepped onto the aliens’ spacecraft to find out more about why they’re here, and how it affects not just the human race as a whole but his Continue Reading