I mentioned Elvenquest earlier in the week. Now the plot is clearer:
We’d love you to join us for Elvenquest, a brand new sitcom exploring the funny side of the eternal struggle against the forces of evil. Elvenquest is a cross between Lord Of The Rings and Galaxy Quest, with a bit of ‘Crystal Maze‘ thrown in for good measure.
There you go then. All explained. Anyone going to go (dates, etc on the previous entry)?
Pay attention, UK readers: this may be about a Canadian show, but it’s going to be on FX (aka “The channel that gets all the good stuff but no one can get and no one watches”) in the UK soon, so it affects you now.
The Border is Canada’s good TV programme. An atypically conservative take on world affairs, it’s a look at terrorism, crime, international relations, spies and other nefarious activities, all set to the backdrop of Canada’s Immigration and Customs Security (ICS) agency. It does what 24 and Spooks does – except better and with a smaller cast.
So popular did it prove when it aired during the American writers’ strike last January that it was re-commissioned for a second season while it was still airing, and a third one is on its way soon.
But since most of y’all won’t be watching it for a while, I’ll continue talking about it after the jump – and specifically, the second season finale.
In the US: Tuesdays, 9/8c, ABC
In the UK: E4, some time this year probably
It has to be said that Scrubs hasn’t been what it was for some time. Originally, a comedy show about doctors that also looked at the more human side of having to cope with people who are ill and dying, over its last few seasons, it’s become something of a cartoon, in which reality has been shoved aside in favour of silliness and cartoon-like behaviour.
The strangeness of Scrubs is that it was an ABC Studios production for NBC, a network that didn’t really seem to know what to do with the programme anyway, seeming at times almost to have forgotten the show existed.
But after NBC dropped it with a literal, medieval fanfare finale last season, ABC picked it up and has decided to run with it. Will the change in management help bring Scrubs back to its former glory for its probably final season, or like a giant oil tanker, will it prove impossible to turn back on course at this late stage?
Has it really been nearly a year since The Condemned? Time, once again, has flown. Oh dear.
Yet already, we have a sequel to that story which first gave us the pairing of the Sixth Doctor with Charley. Also written by Eddie Robson, The Condemned was a modern day tale set in Manchester that tried to be gritty and urban and was really very good.
Which is what makes The Raincloud Man something of a disappointment. While The Condemned was quite tense and managed to throw aside some of the usual conventions of Doctor Who stories, this is a semi-comedic affair that although by no means bad, really isn’t as big or as clever – or even as funny – as it thinks it is.
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