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
Competitions

Review: Primeval – Shadow of the Jaguar

Primeval: Shadow of the Jaguar

Pay close attention, gentle reader. At the end of this, there’s going to be a competition – a first for this ‘ere blog – in which you’re going to be able to win an actual real thing that you can own and that will arrive through the post, rather than through a Superpoke on Facebook.

But first, a question. Who do you think a novel based on Primeval would be aimed at? I ask this because I have a copy of the first in Titan’s new range of Primeval novels and I’m slightly curious as to the thinking process behind it.

Primeval is something of a family show, going out on Saturdays, nice ‘n’ early in the evening. Yet, Shadow of the Jaguar is definitely not something you should be giving to the kiddies.

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