This week, Ali Larter has been killing zombies. Well, somebody has to, and she’s even signed up for more zombie-killing. That’s altruistic of her, don’t you think?
Have you seen Ali Larter acting randomly? If so, let us know and we’ll tell everyone about it in "Random Acts of Ali Larter"
Film
British TV
US TV
In the US: Mondays, 10/9c , CBS
In the UK: Oh, the usual places. You know, Five, Five USA, Living – them lot
CSI: Miami, as we all know, is science fiction. It’s set in a distant future, where impossible science allows us to solve improbable, futuristic crimes with undreamt of techniques, and where a robot called Caruso (aka the Carusobot) is allowed to run a crack crime fighting team of scientist-cops.
Yet for the opening episode of this eighth season of CSI: Miami, in which the (not very) brain damaged scientist-cop Eric Delko is close to death and begins to hallucinate, we find ourselves cast backwards in time to the dim and distant past of 1997 where we discover how this crime-fighting team was assembled and the most important fact of all – how the Carusobot got its Shades of Justice.
It’s a strange world, this 1997. Strange, in the sense that it’s exactly how the real world is in 2009. Suddenly, the technology’s the same as our technology, the crimes are the same as our crimes, police officers work in police stations that actually look like normal police stations, and there are procedures that almost correspond to normal police procedures. How can this be? Is CSI: Miami really set in some alternative reality where 1997 is our 2009, and our 2009 is 2021? It’s a hard one to fathom.
But the strangest thing of all is this: in 1997, the Carusobot was still able to act like a real person.
I don’t mean to be funny, but can I ask you a simple question:
What’s your favourite comedy show?
What makes you laugh out loud, it’s so funny? It can be an old show, a new show or a show you’re in, for all I know. Good starting points are The Day Today, The IT Crowd and Gavin & Stacey, I feel (although the latter is technically a dramedy or comedy-drama, but I’m don’t really care, since it makes me laugh). I myself am also very partial to the first series of Look Around You.
But how about you?
As always, leave a comment with your answer or a link to your answer on your own blog.
In the US: Mondays, 8pm, NBC
In the UK: BBC2, the end of the year/start of next year
Well, as ‘please watch us again’ titles go, Redemption could hardly be bettered – and that’s what the latest volume of Heroes is called. Last season was something of a disaster creatively – at least volume 3, since volume 4 was pretty much a return to season one form – with the show haemorraging viewers for most of its run as a result.
So here we are again at the start of a season. As per usual, there are big hopes for the show. As per usual, it’s written by Tim Kring.
Oh bugger.
But actually, for a Tim Kring script, it’s really not that bad. In fact, in a whole lot of ways it was very, very good. But like Father Ted’s Ford Cortina, it seems that all the slight tapping on the bodywork hasn’t yet quite managed to get the show into shape.
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