Month: June 2008

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Preview: Do Not Disturb

24 June 2008 Rob Buckley 8 Comments

In the US: Fox, Wednesdays, 9.30pm ET/PT. Starts September 10th

There is a strange astral body that orbits the Fox network in the US. It’s called the "Galactic Ball of Sitcom Suckiness". It purges any Fox sitcom of even the slightest trace of comedy and makes you wish for the cold release of death as you watch it.

Look at Back To You or Til Death. They’re just awful. Even The Loop, which almost managed to achieve single-camera escape velocity in its first season, got pulled back into purgatory for its second.

Now we have Do Not Disturb, which while initially sounding like a comedy about an intrepid working party looking at the small print of the Lisbon Treaty, is actually set in a hotel. Starring Jerry O’Connell (Jerry Maguire, Sliders, Carpoolers), one of the funny ones from The Class and no one else of real interest, it is exactly the same as every other offensively poor Fox sitcom you’ve ever seen.

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Tuesday’s cake availability news

24 June 2008 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

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Look who it is in Doctor Who on Saturday

23 June 2008 Rob Buckley 3 Comments

Looks like Monday is going to be official Doctor Who day at TMINE from now on, judging by today’s posts. Here then is a new trailer for Saturday’s episode. It does contain a great big juicy FO spoiler, but you’ll have to avoid watching BBC1 for the rest of the week to avoid missing it, so you might as well watch anyway. Warning: may not be playable in the US.

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Review: Doctor Who – Assassin in the Limelight

23 June 2008 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Big Finish - Assassin in the Limelight

It’s a bit hard to know what to say about this one other than, "Ho, hum, another Sixth Doctor and Evelyn story."

To a certain extent, that’s because the Sixth Doctor and Evelyn stories seem to have fallen into a rut of late. The Doctor and Evelyn (who’s a history professor, you know) land in the past somewhere. They find something oddly out of sync with local history. They discover a boogly woogly thing is responsible. They fix it in a non-threatening, slightly slow and old manner while bickering in an old people "out on a day trip from a rest home" sort of way. The end.

Come on guys. Get your verve back. You had it once.

Unfortunately, Assassin in the Limelight follows closely in this rut since it employs a previous rut co-habittee’s villain (or is it villains?) – Leslie Phillips’s Dr Robert Knox, last seen being mean to the slow-witted David Tennant in Medicinal Purposes. The Doctor and Evelyn’s mission this time: stop John Wilkes Booth from being assassinated. (Ed: shurley shome mishtake?)

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