I have written often of my enduring love affair with Sesame Street, a magical TV program that is as funny as it is clever and educational. Central to the show from the beginning were the wonderful Muppet characters that, despite warnings from child psychologists in the late 1960s that Continue Reading
New season’s US TV shows 2012: Part 2
Yes more exciting enticing shows and as always it brings up the great question of life – is sleep really necessary? I mean, really? After all, I am already way behind on number of shows and barely keeping up with a number of others and so I do wonder just Continue Reading
Sneak peek: “Glee” season 4 posters released
I will admit it. I am tad behind viewing the last of Glee’s season 3 episodes. It’s not from a lack of enthusiasm at all, but rather the clamour of so many shows baying for my attention. But I have a feeling that these new posters, just released to Continue Reading
Movie review: “Total Recall”
The first thing anyone needs walking into a fast-moving action-saturated movie like this is a suspension of belief so large and weighty you need a cherry picker to hoist it into the cinema seat next to you. Once that’s done, Total Recall, directed by Underworld’s Len Wiseman, and based Continue Reading
Fox on NBC and an NBC alum on FOX
Never have two news releases prompted so much fun with a headline. Well for this blog at least. On Monday, it was announced that one of the most loved stars in the world, Michael J Fox who has found fame on both the small and big screens is returning Continue Reading
Sonic Bliss #13: My favourite songs of the week
Time for another dive into the pools of musical goodness and see who has been creating beautiful music in the last little while. So sit back, strap on the headphones – memo to self: must get the ginormous ones so large that if they fell from my ears whole Continue Reading
“Husbands” season 2 premieres
Husbands is that rare beast of a sitcom. It is a side-splittingly funny satire, replete with more pop culture references that an attendee at Comic-Con, which also manages to be a political call to action for equality, all without being preachy or overly earnest. How does it manage this Continue Reading
Sneak peek: “Falling Skies”, final episode season 2
We have almost reached the final episode of season 2 and all I can say is that ten episodes go by so fast! But my haven’t the team behind Falling Skies used them well this season. The 2nd Mass. have successfully traversed the eastern seaboard of the USA, from Continue Reading
Saying goodbye to: “Eureka”
Eureka‘s final episode, which I watched with great reluctance purely because I simply didn’t want to say goodbye to such a clever, warm hearted show – you know the idea; if you haven’t watched the episode then has the show really ended? Alas it has – ended on a Continue Reading
Sitcoms: Not dead folks … just different
With a record 29 sitcoms being pitched for this year’s US fall TV pilot season, such as Go On and The Mindy Project, you could be excused for wondering why anyone would suggest that the sitcom is in terminal decline? But it wasn’t that long ago that commentators were Continue Reading