Back in 1983 (eek!), Yellow Pages had a famous advert in the UK featuring the attempts of one (fictional) JR Hartley to locate a copy of his own out-of-print book, Fly Fishing.
So popular was it that someone actually ended up writing Fly Fishing by JR Hartley.
Well, Yellow Pages, nearly 30 years on, has released an updated version for the iPhone generation. I’m not sure it works unless you know about the original, but it’s lovely once you do.
Belgian TV channel Prime is currently promoting its range of American TV shows with this lovely little collection of lovely little versions of all its shows. How fun.
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It’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. Since we live in the fabulous world of Internet catch-up services like the iPlayer and Hulu, why not tell your fellow readers what you’ve seen so they can see the good stuff they might have missed?
As usual, a simple recommendation to watch Cougar Town, Michel Roux’s Service, 30 Rock, Top Gear and The Daily Show – watch them, they’re good, but I’ve not got a lot to say about them than that.
As usual, I’ve also got a slight backlog: last night’s Archer; last night’s Community; this week’s Episodes; and last night’s 30 Rock.
But other than that, after the jump, mini-reviews of last week’s Archer, this week’s Being Human and Chuck, last week’s Community, last week’s Episodes, and this week’s Fairly Legal, Portlandia, Royal Pains, Shameless, Southland, Spartacus: Gods of the Arena and Working Class
Continue reading “What have you been watching this week (w/e February 4)?”
I gave up watching CSI over a year ago. I just wasn’t involved by the characters any more. But I think I might still be watching if Grissom was on it. Miraculously, he was on it for a couple of minutes last night in a slight tear-jerky scene with Sara and his mom, so to save you the trouble of watching the whole thing, just for that scene, here it is on YouTube, you lucky people.
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