What have you been watching this week (w/e 17 July)?

17 July 2009 Rob Buckley TMINE 3 Comments

Fess up. With so much rain pouring down, you must have been watching TV at some point. But what did you watch and was it any good?

I’ve a bit of a backlog, but I’ve been watching a few things, some of which I’ve now reviewed. I’ve yet to watch Jerry Bruckheimer’s Dark Blue but I’m sure I’ll get round to it later today – ditto Burn Notice and episode two of 10 Things I Hate About You. I’ve also got the start of the fourth season of LA Ink in the queue for lovely wife, since she loves Kat von D, but I’ll probably skip that.

Royal Pains from last night was pretty good – good development for all the characters and some good interplay between them. Episode 2 of Warehouse 13 was a lot better than episode one, but still left a few things to be desired. Hung seemed to jump off into pastures new, away from gender politics per se, in favour of general economic issues. I have a suspicion it’s going to end up unclassifiable at this rate.

Dragons’ Den was back on top form, and surprisingly funny and laid back. And Top Gear wasn’t bad at all, as per usual.

What about yourselves?

As always, no spoilers unless you’re going to use the <spoiler> </spoiler> tags, please

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    I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.

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