Friends don’t let Friends use Windows 95

Remember Windows 95? Actually, some of you here are probably too young to. Blimey, that’s depressing…

Stay on target, Rob. Anyway, “revolution” that it was (it was mostly 32-bit and everything. Ooh), it was still a bit tricky to use.

Fortunately, that nice Matthew Perry and Jennifer Aniston made a lovely little training video, some time between seasons one and two of Friends, to help everyone adjust. Part one’s below; their credibility is somewhere else, probably trapped under Ricky Gervais’s.

UK TV

Review: Doctor Who – 3×6 – The Lazarus Experiment

The Lazarus Experiment

As the wise sage Yazz once said, the only way is up. So it was with the latest episode of Doctor Who, The Lazarus Experiment. After the dismal piece of genetic mutation that was Evolution of the Daleks, we have a hybrid we can all be pretty proud of, a nearly 100% successful amalgam of old Who, new Who, The Quatermass Experiment and – ooh – MacGyver.

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Friday’s pre-Bank Holiday weekend news

Doctor Who

  • There’s going to be a treat at the end of The Lazarus Experiment. Something that appears to involve John Simm

Film

  • Pierce Brosnan is likely to start soon on a sequel to The Thomas Crowne Affair called The Topkapi Affair
  • Maybe Jessical Biel was too buff. Liv Tyler is Betty Ross in The Incredible Hulk

Music

Australian TV

British TV

  • Bummed you can’t watch CSB’s pirate reality TV show Pirate Master? Don’t worry, Sky One’s just bought the rights [subscription required]

US TV

The Heroes Dilemma: a request for help

This is for those of you already watching Heroes: I need help. My wife hasn’t seen any episodes of Heroes, despite the exhortations of me and my brother-in-law, who also loves it.

They’re sitting there, waiting to be watched, but currently unloved.

Now, if I show her the first episode, she’s going to be bored, because it’s not great, at least not relative to the other episodes. And then she’ll never watch any of the other episodes ever.

But I can’t show her a really top-quality episode to hook her because that’ll ruin all the surprises and won’t make much sense.

So what should I do? Any suggestions?