Fancy giving Channel 4’s new on-demand service a whirl? It’s in beta now, but you can still download the 4oD app and give it a try before it goes live on Wednesday, if you want. Subject to technical limitations, of course.
Year: 2006
More Preacher details
More news on HBO’s Preacher. Amongst other things of note, the new Preacher series is going to recreate the individual issues of the Preacher comic as faithfully as possible. The writer, Mark Steven Johnson, also comments on the now-cancelled movie:
“Well, Preacher is 70-something issues,” he said. “There was going to be a movie made of Preacher a while ago, and I read the script, and it broke my heart. Because I’m like, ‘Oh, it’s not a two-hour movie. Preacher’s six years—six dedicated years of the most incredible stuff you’ve ever seen in your whole life. So I always thought HBO was the only way to do that.”
US TV
Review: Big Day
In the US: Tuesdays, 9/8c, ABC
In the UK: ITV2 at some point
Weddings can be tricky things, can’t they? I don’t know how yours went – or if yours went at all – but mine had a few not-so-smooth moments, even though we chose to outsource the entire process to Las Vegas to make things easier.
Now some bright spark has come up with the idea of 24 meets a comedy wedding. Yes, an entire season of shows that follow a wedding day in real-time. Feel the tension, the adrenaline, the nerves, all without having to go through the process yourself.
Wouldn’t it be good if it was funny as well?
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Review: My Boys 1×01-1×02
In the US: TBS, Tuesdays, 10/9c
In the UK: Not acquired. No, siree.
Let me warn you in advance: I’m not going to be sitting through this to episode five. Or three. I’m just not going to bother watching any more of this than the first two episodes. Call me lazy. Call me slack. The simple fact is that life’s too short to be watching re-runs.
Okay, this is actually a brand new show, in which Jordana Spiro plays a Chicago-based sports reporter who’s down on dating luck. The trouble is, the show’s not exactly bringing anything new to the table. In fact, I think if a single new thing were to appear on the show, it would start coughing and keel over, as My Boys‘ immune system kicked in and tried to overpower the obviously foreign body.
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Review: Scrubs 6×01
In the US: Thursdays, NBC, 9/8c
In the UK: In the usual places
Characters re-cast: 0
Major characters gotten rid of: 0
Major new characters: Maybe 1
Format change percentage: 10%
Number of babies due: 3
Here we are again. Six seasons of Scrubs. It’s comedy, but in a hospital. As per usual, it’s kind of hard to review a long-running comedy, since ultimately the only thing that’s important is whether you laugh or not. Scrubs still raises a reasonable number of laughs, but there’s a slightly bitter taste to the whole thing thanks to a “Braffisation” of the show.