Fuck. Right. Off.
Film
Year: 2011
US TV
Happy Endings starts tonight on E4
Just a wee reminder to UK readers that the excellent, “new Friends” Happy Endings starts tonight on E4. My review of the first ep is here and my fourth-episode verdict is over here.
Definitely watch it, if only for Max. Here’s why – it’s a precis of the sixth episode, in which Max discovers one of his friends might be ‘gaycist’.
Classic TV
Lost Gems: Cover Up (1984-1985)
For years, women in TV action shows were, shall we say, ‘ornamental’. Not often given much by way of character and what they had often revolving around the hero of the show, they were there to be pretty and give the largely male audience something to look at – or to just be secretaries. The heroes? Some were rugged, admittedly, but others could be old and tired, obsese or even one-armed.
Come the 60s, women began to get something to do, thanks to the likes of Cathy Gale and Emma Peel in The Avengers and Honey West in the eponymously named Honey West. What didn’t happen for a long while was for men to become the eye candy for female viewers, the add-on to the heroine.
That took the 80s and with CBS’s Cover Up, women who had been holding out for a hero finally got what they wanted.
Thursday’s “return of the oldies” news
Film
- First clip from The Thing
- Chloe Moretz and Blake Lively in clip from Hick
British TV
- BBC picks six sitcoms to develop
- Freesat hits two million customers
Canadian TV
- William Shatner to guest on Rookie Blue
US TV
- Sons of Anarchy gets highest ratings ever
- CHiPs‘ Robert Pine to guest on Parks and Recreation
- Taxi‘s Marilu Henner to cameo on Unforgettable
- Chuck‘s Ryan McPartlin to guest on I Hate My Teenage Daughter
- JoAnna Garcia to recur on Royal Pains
- Gossip Girl promo
- Trailer for season six of Dexter
- TNT orders Scent of the Missing pilot about crime-solving dog
- House promo
- Alphas gets a second season
Question of the week: how much TV do you watch?
It’s a bit of a personal question, I know, but you’re with friends now, so hopefully you’ll feel safe answering this deceptively simple question:
How much TV do you watch?
I say deceptively simple because TV is such an elusive concept these days. Maybe you only have a TV so you can watch movies. Maybe you watch TV content but on your computer or mobile phone. So let us know what you watch and where you watch it as well.
As always, leave a comment with your answer or a link to your answer on your own blog