US TV

CSI: Miami – Horatio meets his match

Horatio does science

WTF! Not just one but four Horatio Caines in a crime lab doing girly science stuff! What can be going on? He hasn’t stepped foot in a lab full of chemicals in seven seasons – and CSI: Miami has only been on for six. How can this be? Well, it was continuity week this week and as well as bringing back a whole load of old plot threads and guest characters, they’ve clearly decided to remind us all that David Caruso can face other inanimate objects square on – and that Horatio’s supposed to have a degree in chemistry or something normally only fit for liberal nerds, not real conservative American heroes.

Actually quite an interesting episode this week I thought, not just for that cartload of continuity, but for having the most obviously deconstructable feminist/anti-feminist sub-text featuring ex-Showgirls star Elizabeth Berkley.

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US TV

CSI: Miami – Horatio meets his match

Horatio does science

WTF! Not just one but four Horatio Caines in a crime lab doing girly science stuff! What can be going on? He hasn’t stepped foot in a lab full of chemicals in seven seasons – and CSI: Miami has only been on for six. How can this be? Well, it was continuity week this week and as well as bringing back a whole load of old plot threads and guest characters, they’ve clearly decided to remind us all that David Caruso can face other inanimate objects square on – and that Horatio’s supposed to have a degree in chemistry or something normally only fit for liberal nerds, not real conservative American heroes.

Actually quite an interesting episode this week I thought, not just for that cartload of continuity, but for having the most obviously deconstructable feminist/anti-feminist sub-text featuring ex-Showgirls star Elizabeth Berkley.

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EastEnders meets the Jackson 5

Do you sometimes feel like you don’t understand the world anymore? Like everything you knew has been turned upside down? No? Then you obviously haven’t seen this trailer for Ricky and Bianca’s return to EastEnders.

I do feel like Jesus has deserted me in this moment, leaving the world harsh and cold behind him. Then come back and stuck a candy cane in my ear for no readily apparent reason.

Thursday’s “Bill and Ted… not!” news

Doctor Who

Film

British TV

US TV

  • ABC unveils new sitcoms, including Molly Ringwald vehicle Brenda Hampton and Roman’s Empire/Never Better remakes
  • NBC unveils Fall schedule, including Lipstick Jungle, Friday Night Lights, 30 Rock, a spin-off from The Office and the last season of ER
  • CSI/Two and a Half Men writers swap will lead to Cybill parody?
  • Britney to return to HIMYM?
  • A long interview with Ronald D Moore about BSG season four et al
  • Ridley and Tony Scott to adapt Ken Follett’s The Pillars of the Earth thanks to Oprah