What have you been watching this week (w/e 24 July)?

I think you know what I’m asking, by now.

This week, I caught up via the S4C web site with the first episode of the new series of Caerdydd – only five more to go. Perplexed by recasting of Adam and Siwan Morris’s new/old hairstyle, but enjoying its bleak moodiness and the dumbness of Natasha.

Keep forgetting what happened in previous week’s Royal Pains/Burn Notice, but I’d say Burn Notice is probably having its best season so far, while Royal Pains is proving the deserved hit of the summer. Burn Notice is really shaking up the formula for the better this year. I also have minimal recollection of this week’s Top Gear but I definitely remember laughing a lot.

Dragons’ Den is becoming quite fluffy this series. I think the ending of this week’s episode was probably the loveliest of all the series so far, with Peter Jones being ever so nice, and wasn’t that woman from Sutherland desperately impressive and clever?

The second episode of the second series of Leverage was basically just an advert for MMA fights, which even to my martial arts-loving heart, was way too much. The con was moderately cleverer than normal, was still too telegraphed to really be a surprise. And it’s interesting how Christian Kane’s character has been downgraded from ‘absolutely indestructible and incredible’ in the pilot to just ‘a pretty good fighter’ over the last two series.

I’ve still got Dark Blue and the last episode of Valentine to watch, as well as lots of Samantha Who?. Wish me luck then tell us all what you’ve been watching.

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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