Year: 2009

After last week’s thought-provoking, tear-inducing meme, time I think for a thought-provoking, tear-inducing meme:

Who’s your favourite romantic TV couple?

A lot to choose from here: the Doctor and Rose? Jack and Ianto? Spike and Lynda? Maddie and David? Serena and Dan? Carrie and Big? Vince and Penny? Dempsey and Makepeace? CJ and Danny? Adama and Laura? Steed and Mrs Peel?

So many and I’ve barely scratched the surface. But who are your favourites?

As always, leave a comment with your answer or a link to your answer on your own blog.

Work calls today, so I’ll be doing a full rundown of ABC’s new shows tomorrow (complete with vids, as usual). But HBO doesn’t submit itself to this upfronts thing (not having advertisers to worry about) so I can do its shows piecemeal.

This one’s called Hung and it’s about a guy with… Well, you can guess. A bit hard-up on his luck, he decides to use his amazing dimensions to make money as a male escort.

Years ago in high school, Ray Drecker (Thomas Jane) was athletic, popular and destined for success. Now, as a high-school teacher and basketball coach, he’s underpaid, uninsured, and embittered that his wife of 20 years (Anne Heche) has left him for her dermatologist. After a fire damages the rundown Detroit home he inherited from his parents, Ray’s fortunes reach an all-time low when his twin children, who had been living with him, move in with their mom and her clean-freak hubby. Lonely, run-down and at wit’s end, Ray attends a local self-help class whose mantra is to identify a personal “winning tool” to market for financial success. After a not-so-fulfilling encounter with a fellow attendee – an ex-flame and would-be poet named Tanya (Jane Adams) – Ray has a “eureka” moment. With the help of Tanya, Ray resolves to take advantage of his greatest asset, in hopes of changing his fortunes in a big way.