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Review: Ashes to Ashes 1×5

7 March 2008 Rob Buckley 7 Comments

 

Well, folks, I did say there was going to be a chance I did episode by episode reviews of Ashes to Ashes and here I am, not doing a review of the fifth episode of Ashes to Ashes. Sorry, I had to go pick my wife up from the station midway through and I haven’t watched the end of it yet.

More to the point, I’ve had every chance to but I haven’t. I haven’t felt motivated. Last night’s seemed quite well written, like the writer (who also wrote last week’s) knew what he was doing. I just didn’t really enjoy it, right up until the moment I turned off the telly.

I’m trying to work out what the problem is with Ashes to Ashes. Why is it just not very interesting?

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Glen A Larson: what’s the next hot remake?

7 March 2008 Rob Buckley 3 Comments

Glen A Larson was the king of 1980s action series. He created Magnum, Knight Rider, Battlestar Galactica, The Fall Guy, and Buck Rogers in the 25th Century as well as less well known shows such as The Highwayman, Manimal and Automan.

Recently, he’s become all the rage again with a rather good remake of Battlestar Galactica now about to enter its fourth season and Knight Rider having been made into a TV movie that will probably be a series in the Fall.

So, what do you reckon should (or will) be the next remake on the cards – because you know there will be one? Magnum‘s been in development as a movie for ages. Do you reckon it will emerge into the light first? Or will it be something else? And who do you think should star in it? Or how should it be altered for the new millennium, if at all?

Friday’s Peruvian comedy news

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Thursday’s bite and pillage news

6 March 2008 Rob Buckley 3 Comments

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  • Eidos to release Doctor Who game for PS2, DS
  • Who’s in the Dalek casing? (spoiler alert)

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Season finale: Terminator – The Sarah Connor Chronicles

5 March 2008 Rob Buckley 3 Comments

 

The thing about the writers’ strike is that shows are ending before their naturally allotted time.

Sometimes, the show runners prepared for it and the series ended on a relative high (for example, Heroes).

Sometimes, the show runners were unprepared for it and the series just stopped (for example, Las Vegas, Bionic Woman), although that usually coincided with the series being cancelled (cf Las Vegas, Bionic Woman).

And sometimes the show runners were prepared for it and the show tried to go out on a high, but failed. I’m thinking of Terminator – The Sarah Connor Chronicles here.

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