Year: 2010

US TV

What have you been watching this week (w/e October 22)?

22 October 2010 Rob Buckley 3 Comments

Southland

Here’s “What have you been watching this week?” your chance to recommend to friends and fellow blog readers the TV that they might be missing or should avoid – and for me to do mini-reviews of everything I’ve watched this week.

After the jump, The Apprentice, Being Erica, Better With You, Chuck, Community, Cougar Town, Dexter, Hellcats, Help, My House is Falling Down, Life Unexpected, Mad Men, Modern Family, No Ordinary Family, Running Wilde, Smallville, Southland, and Stargate Universe.

Can you work out which one I’m going to drop from my viewing list? I’ll give you a clue – it’s definitely not this one:

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Sitting Tennant

Friday’s Sitting Tennant (week 38, 2010)

22 October 2010 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Erin C's Sitting Tennant

Rullsenberg's Sitting Tennant

Sister Chastity's Sitting Tennant

Toby's Sitting Tennant

Sunday’s approaching fast so David Tennant’s got his hats out. Sort of. Well, it’s almost a theme, isn’t it? Ish.

  1. Erin C: 285
  2. Sister Chastity: 265
  3. Rullsenberg: 255
  4. Toby: 180
  5. Rachel: 90
  6. Sabine: 65
  7. Karen: 35
  8. dreamer-easy: 30
  9. Dawn: 10
  10. kellyann06: 5

Don’t forget Tuesday’s caption competition!

Got a picture of David Tennant sitting, lying down or in some indeterminate state in between? Then leave a link to it below or email me and if it’s judged suitable, it will appear in the “Sitting Tennant” gallery. Don’t forget to include your name in the filename so I don’t get mixed up about who sent it to me.

The best pic in the stash each week will appear on Monday and get ten points; the runners up will appear on Friday (one per person who sends one in) and get five points.

You can also enter the witty and amusing captions league table by commenting on Monday’s Sitting Tennant photo, the best caption getting 10 points, everyone who contributes getting five points.

Friday’s “BBC Hobbits” news

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Series finale: Rubicon

21 October 2010 Rob Buckley 9 Comments

Truxton Spengler in Rubicon

In the US: Sunday 17th October, AMC
In the UK: Acquired by BBC4. Will air 2010/early 2011

I’ve more or less stopped doing these full-season reviews of TV shows, on the general grounds they take time and effort, and I’m quite lazy – plus there’s always What Have You Been Watching? on Fridays to do brief reviews.

But the first season of Rubicon, I think, is quite an instructive piece of TV, and what with it coming to BBC4 soon, I thought I’d go over some of the things that make it interesting and worth watching, and what it teaches us about US television production.

I’ll avoid spoilering anyone who has yet to see it because they’re waiting for it on BBC4.

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