In case you missed John Barrowman on Jonathan’s Ross’s show last night, he brought along a clip of Captain Jack’s return to Doctor Who in Utopia, later in the series. It’s been YouTubed already so click and play if you want to spoil it for yourself.
Year: 2007
Ten most insane TV shows ever?
Some enterprising people have put together a list of the 10 most insane (US) TV shows in history. They are
- Manimal
- Alf
- Mr. Ed
- Cop Rock
- Out of This World
- Dinosaurs
- Mork and Mindy
- Small Wonder
- Herman’s Head
- Homeboys in Outer Space
Confession: The only one of those I haven’t seen is Homeboys in Outer Space; apparently, the acquisitions teams for British TV channels have some standards, just very, very low ones.
But you’ll notice that all 10 are US shows. Anyone want to nominate some British shows or even some shows from farther afield?
How about the follow-up to Treasure Hunt, Interceptor, in which various contestants ran around the countryside chased by a muscle shirt-clad man in a cape who’s armed with a laser? I’m sure Robert Popper would like to nominate Gyles Brandreth-hosted melding of talent show and game show, Star Quality, in which lucky winners got to demonstrate their ‘talent’. And if Cop Rock gets into the US list, then surely The Ritz and The Continental, delightful tales of gangsters who sing the songs of Cole Porter, need to be in there? Then there was the A Stab in the Dark debacle on Channel 4, Touch the Truck and the forthcoming “Wank Week” to look forward to. Such a potentially long list…
Over to you, then, my friends. Any nominations?
US TV
Season finales: Smallville, Supernatural, CSI
Those season finales are coming thick and fast now.
Unlike certain shows I could mention that don’t really do the cliffhanger thing, every season of Smallville ends on a cataclysmic series of deaths, destruction, revelations, and plot wrap-ups. This season was no different.
Despite being one of the strongest, creatively, since the show began, there has been a certain meandering quality to it, with plots laboured past their natural death point, minor reset buttons pushed and so on. I won’t tell you how many of the major cast ‘die’ – they’ll be back, you know they will – but it’s rather a lot and if one in particular doesn’t come back, well, I don’t think there’ll be much point watching next year for its final season.
Explanations, when they do come, are pretty far-fetched, but hey, it’s a comic book – what you going do about it? Superman fans, however, will be delighted by the arrival of at least two characters from the comic books, one expected, and one me am expecting, too (there’s a clue for you), although the origins of both have changed. And there is the possibility that something might finally have changed. Permanently. No going back on it this time.
Tension: 9/10 (1/10 really because we all know a giant magic reset button will be in the next episode, because there always is)
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US TV
Season finales: Smallville, Supernatural, CSI
Those season finales are coming thick and fast now.
Unlike certain shows I could mention that don’t really do the cliffhanger thing, every season of Smallville ends on a cataclysmic series of deaths, destruction, revelations, and plot wrap-ups. This season was no different.
Despite being one of the strongest, creatively, since the show began, there has been a certain meandering quality to it, with plots laboured past their natural death point, minor reset buttons pushed and so on. I won’t tell you how many of the major cast ‘die’ – they’ll be back, you know they will – but it’s rather a lot and if one in particular doesn’t come back, well, I don’t think there’ll be much point watching next year for its final season.
Explanations, when they do come, are pretty far-fetched, but hey, it’s a comic book – what you going do about it? Superman fans, however, will be delighted by the arrival of at least two characters from the comic books, one expected, and one me am expecting, too (there’s a clue for you), although the origins of both have changed. And there is the possibility that something might finally have changed. Permanently. No going back on it this time.
Tension: 9/10 (1/10 really because we all know a giant magic reset button will be in the next episode, because there always is)
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News
Fox’s new shows for the Fall
No embedded vids, because Fox is a bit backward and has stuck them all in its showreel thing, but it’s time to look at that network’s new shows for the Fall season.
I’m going to do my usual and skip the reality shows, because they’re not interesting, although I would just like you all to rush over to the Anchorwoman page to gasp in awe at the airbrushing on Lauren Jones’ picture.
So first up, because I’m feeling alphabetical today and there are a lot of shows to get through (Fox kills them all very quickly so needs a big stock to work with), is Back To You, starring Frasier Crane – sorry Kelsey Grammer – and Patricia Heaton, about a couple of news anchors (hmm, is this Fox’s programming trend: news anchors?) who reunite after a decade apart. Also features Fred Willard from Anchorman. Boy is he getting typecast.