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Review: CSI: Miami 6.1

27 September 2007 Rob Buckley 7 Comments

CSI Miami

In the US: Mondays, 10pm, CBS

In the UK: Five, Five US, Living, etc, whenever they get round to it

Characters re-cast: 0

Major characters gotten rid of: 0

Major new characters: 0.5

Format change percentage: 15%

New relatives: 1

Behold the Carusobot. All hail the Carusobot. It has returned. It stands at odd angles. It delivers bad lines slowly and oddly. It stands still and expects the whole world to move around it.

It is a miracle of modern science.

Compared to last season’s opener, which was a true idiot fest, albeit an extremely glossy action-packed piece of rubbish, CSI: Miami‘s sixth season opener was far more subdued and nowhere near as stupid. That’s not to say it wasn’t stupid at all, because it clearly was. It’s just lost a certain je ne sais quoi, a certain CSI: Miami-ish quality.

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Thursday’s “one man can make a difference” news

27 September 2007 Rob Buckley 7 Comments

Knight Rider

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British TV

  • GMTV fined £2m over phone line scandal
  • Decided not to watch ITV1? Now you can decide not to watch it again an hour later: Michael Grade is considering ITV1+1
  • Channel 4 ratings at 15-year low

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Review: Heroes 2×1

26 September 2007 Rob Buckley 6 Comments

Heroes

In the US: Mondays, 9/8c, NBC

In the UK: BBC2, very soon

Characters re-cast: 0

Major characters gotten rid of: Some are MIA, some are KIA

Major new characters: Three so far

Format change percentage: 20%

Number of odd faces in mirrors: 1

If humans were to live the dream while evolving through the eye of a needle into the rainbow blue sunset of Thomas Hardy’s pleasure dome… Sorry, I’ve been listening to the Heroes voiceover again.

Yes, it’s back. The breakout series of last year, a tale of everyday folk becoming superheroic and not being sure, necessarily, that they like it, is back again to frustrate, tease, annoy and excite, four months on. Or should that be 400 years off?

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Wednesday’s uninspiring headline news

26 September 2007 Rob Buckley 17 Comments

Film

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  • Kidnapped‘s Timothy Hutton to star in TNT pilot Leverage
  • Stargate: Atlantis star sued by agency
  • Nashville pulled in favour of K-Ville
  • John From Cincinnati moves to Friday Night Lights
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Tuesday’s eruptive news

25 September 2007 Rob Buckley 4 Comments

Up Pompeii

Doctor Who

  • David Tennant and Catherine Tate take Peter Capaldi, Tracey Childs and Phil Davis over to Rome for a week’s filming for the new series [spoilers]

Film

  • Jessica Biel to be the Justice League‘s Wonder Woman?
  • The Rock to play either hero or villain in Shazam!
  • Die Hard director John McTiernan sent to prison for four months for lying to the Feds

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