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Not that I’m randomly fishing for more entries in the Tuesday “weird old title sequence” slot, but:

What’s your favourite TV title sequence?

Something imaginative like Dexter‘s? Something impressively mood-setting like Touching Evil‘s? Something clever like Chuck or Penn and Teller’s Bullshit? Note, it doesn’t have to have a great theme tune, as well, just be a good title sequence.

I’m not sure I have a fave, but I do like The IT Crowd‘s, The Champions’ just makes me smile a lot, and Dexter‘s probably is the cleverest, even if the theme’s not that great. You?

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

Blimey. I’ve hardly been back five minutes when I’m off again. This time I’m off to Norfolk, where I hear that have the Internet and I have an iPhone anyway, so who knows if I’ll be blogging while I’m away. But in the meantime, I’ve left you with RoboRob, your automated blogging friend, who’ll leave you with daily content. For some reason, though, he doesn’t work Bank Holiday Mondays either, which is a bit odd for a robot, but what can you do.

See you back here with the Daily News on Monday 7th, and hopefully I’ll drop by before then as well. TTFN!

Tele: seen much this week or has it all been a bit too rubbish?

This week, I’ve caught the first two eps of the new season of Mad Men – I won’t bother with a full review, only to say it’s better than the second season so far, which is an indicator of how good it is.

Leverage was pretty good this week, with the advent of a mirror-image team of grifters to fight against. Maybe a little less comedic than usual and a little bit more serious at times, but still good viewing. I’m also watching the Wallanders at a snail’s pace, but The African was really very good – clearly they get better as time goes on.

Otherwise, that’s it, since I’ve still got to catch up with 10 Things I Hate About You, Psych and Dark Blue. Oh yes, and I’ve been introducing my mother-in-law to The Wire. She’s loving it.

Don’t forget the new series of The Fixer starts on the 1st September on ITV1.

As always, no spoilers unless you’re going to use the <spoiler> </spoiler> tags, please

As the title says, this week’s meme asks a simple question, given that the new season starts in a little over a week on some US networks:

What show are you looking forward to the most this Autumn/Fall?

You’ve obviously got all the returning shows as well as the new shows (you can see synopses of these over in my Fall 2009 category, if you want) from both sides of the Atlantic. Which one are you anticipating the most? Mah, for me it’s Heroes for some reason: you?

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

The weather’s been kind of good, lots of people have been away on holiday, but just in case you’ve caught something good this week, why not everyone know below?

I’ve been playing catch-up on Royal Pains, Leverage, Burn Notice, Dark Blue and a number of other shows this week – fingers crossed, Mad Men and Dexter this afternoon, and I might even get on to watching all of Defying Gravity as well at some point. Royal Pains is starting to branch out a bit thanks to the addition of a new character, but given it is essentially summer viewing, ‘hots up’ – while puntastic – probably isn’t the right word – more like . Burn Notice was interesting, but the horrors committed against Irish accents with the last episode made it slightly unwatchable at times.

Leverage had quite a nifty, outright comedic episode set in a private school that was good to watch, but the others didn’t leave much of an impression. Dark Blue continues to be almost very good, but continues to be spoilt by Dermot Fluffyhair and an inability to ever cross the dark edge it would like us all to think it was approaching, only look over it a bit and ho hum a lot.

How’s about you guys?

UPDATE: I should have mentioned that I also saw the first episode of the fourth season of Psych. Slightly disappointing, and I feel like I’ve missed an episode, judging by the arrival of Shawn’s unseen new girlfriend. Not desperately funny, but there was a really good joke about The Mentalist and Cary Elwes was fun as a master art thief (of sorts). And will they ever go anywhere with the Shawn/Juliet saga? At least there are hints this episode.

UPDATE 2: And I left off 10 Things I Hate About You, which is still okay, but is lightweight and only a 10th as good as the movie. Nice to see they’re not teasing out the relationships forever, and the dad is turning out to be more interesting than previously suspected, too.

As always, no spoilers unless you’re going to use the <spoiler> </spoiler> tags, please