The goofy but intelligent sitcom, which began its ascendancy a few years back with the underrated Raising Hope, and continued moving on up with last year’s breakout hit, New Girl, has climbed a little higher up the mountain with new comedy Ben and Kate. Centred around titular siblings Ben Continue Reading
Movie review: “Ruby Sparks”
Ruby Sparks, a clever indie-style romantic comedy from writer and actress Zoe Kazan, looks and feels much like the events that you imagine would take place once the luminous shine of “… and they lived happily ever off” has worn off in a fairytale. Not that the world that Continue Reading
Cats are TV addicts too
Meow! I love cats. LOVE THEM. And it appears so do the good and creative folk who have produced many of our most loved TV shows down through the years. Cats have either fronted their own shows such as Top Cat or Snagglepuss from Hanna-Barbera. Or been Continue Reading
New song from Loreen, winner of this year’s Eurovision Song Contest
Yes the woman who won this year’s Eurovision song contest and could well be Kate Bush’s long lost Swedish cousin, is readying an album for launch, Heal, which is scheduled to drop on October 24. In the meantime, we have a new single, “Crying Out Your Name” Continue Reading
Just one more episode of “Battlestar Galactica”
We’ve all been there. Well at least the TV obsessives among us. You unwrap a shiny new DVD box set, swearing to yourself you will only watch one, at most two episodes, and find yourself hours later still sitting on the couch wondering where the time went. I still Continue Reading
Season return: “New Girl” (season 2)
New Girl has debuted its sophomore season and it is as fresh and funny as ever. While Jess (Zooey Deschanel) is still very much the focus of the show, the ensemble vibe that increasingly defined the show in the second half of season 1 is back stronger than ever, Continue Reading
ABBA news: Agnetha’s back!
Once an ABBA fan, always an ABBA fan. It’s a truism that I fought for years for some reason but have come to embrace wholeheartedly as I have realised that you can take a boy quite a way from the 1970s and his ABBA obsession but you can’t take Continue Reading
Ellen DeGeneres honoured with Mark Twain Prize for American Prize
Ellen DeGeneres, who began her showbiz career as a stand up comedian in her native New Orleans with wholly unique, and very funny, observations on the minutiae of everyday life, and now hosts the biggest chat show on day time TV, has added another string to her bow with Continue Reading
First impressions: Revolution
Revolution, the new show by J J Abrams, the TV wunderkind who has so far dazzled us with Lost, Fringe and Alias, and somewhat disappointed us with Alcatraz (and Lost – let’s be honest the ending was, um, you know, not great) has arrived after much fanfare. And surprise, surprise, Continue Reading
Adele is happy to let the “Skyfall” on her
I am a reent convert to the Bond franchise it has to be said, and much of my new found enthusiasm for Bond, James Bond, has much to do with the actor now playing him, Daniel Craig. Lest you think it is a physical attraction only, I will acknowledge Continue Reading