Month: January 2010

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Question of the week: what will you be watching this year?

6 January 2010 Rob Buckley 7 Comments

Quite a simple question of the week to start things off this year:

What will you be watching in 2010?

Are you looking forward to a new show (Human Target) or the return of an old show (Doctor Who)? Will you be giving up any programmes (FlashForward) or returning to watch an old favourite after a lull (Lost)? Will you forgo TV in favour of the Internet, DVDs or the cinema? Or do you, ambitiously, have a TV New Year’s Resolution?

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

US TV

Review: Heroes 4×12-4×13 – Upon This Rock/Let it Bleed

6 January 2010 Rob Buckley 4 Comments

Heroes 4x12-4x13

In the US: Monday 4th January, 8pm, NBC
In the UK: Some time in April on BBC2 by my reckoning

So it’s back after the Christmas break. It’s got a special two-hour premiere to launch itself back into everyone’s hearts, before returning to its 9pm time slot next week. House isn’t on (although the Fiesta Super Bowl is for the second half).

Surely the producers and writers are going to give us two hours of kick-arse goodness designed to make us all want to watch the rest of the season. There’ll be effects, great use of characters, coolness aplenty. It’ll zip past in no time and the ratings will go through the roof.

No. Wait. It’s another dull two-parter where not much really happens. Sigh.

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Review: Doctor Who – 128 – The Eternal Summer

6 January 2010 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

Eternal-Summer-cover.jpgTime for part two of the Fifth Doctor and Nyssa Stockbridge trilogy that Big Finish has been running. As you may recall from the 1980s (chances are – probably not), Stockbridge featured heavily in the DWM comic strip and – surprise, surprise, given the company’s motto is “No piece of continuity knowingly left unmined” – Big Finish has decided to set three Fifth Doctor stories in Stockbridge of the past, present and future.

Episode one, The Castle of Fear, ended on a cliffhanger and episode two, The Eternal Summer, more or less carries right on – except it doesn’t.

The Doctor wakes up in a boarding house in Stockbridge, all things right with the world, except he’s not sure how he got there or where Nyssa is. How did he escape that cliffhanger? And who will be the bad guy this time?

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