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What did you watch last week (w/e December 5)?

5 December 2011 Rob Buckley 8 Comments

Time for “What did you watch last week?”, my chance to tell you what I watched last week that I haven’t already reviewed and your chance to recommend things to everyone else (and me) in case we’ve missed them.

The A-Team: Misfits, Modern Family, Happy Endings, Homeland, Suburgatory and Community.

The B-Team: Dexter, House, Rev and Ringer.

It’s at this point I have to fess up and say I really haven’t watched that much TV this week, since I was away at the weekend, the new stuff I wanted to watch I’ve already reviewed and the new stuff I didn’t want to watch – well, I didn’t watch it. Also, almost everything good is now being shown on Sundays. That’s not helpful. I might have to move this back to Fridays.

But I will say that Community was great last week (anime!) as was Homeland; Dexter is frustratingly daft and poor; and Ringer didn’t have a bad mid-season finale.

No new movies. No new books. Sorry, again. Not been doing too well, have I? Sorry.

“What did you watch last week?” is your chance to recommend to friends and fellow blog readers the TV and films that they might be missing or should avoid – and for me to do mini-reviews of everything I’ve watched. Since we live in the fabulous world of Internet catch-up services like the iPlayer and Hulu, why not tell your fellow readers what you’ve seen so they can see the good stuff they might have missed?

Monday’s “A 10 for CSI:Miami” news

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Doctor Who

Film

  • Trailer for Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie, with Zach Galifianakis, Will Ferrell and Jeff Goldblum
  • Who Benicio del Toro will be playing in Star Trek 2
  • Felicity Jones to play Charles Dickens’ The Invisible Woman
  • Trailer for The Grey, with Liam Neeson, Dermot Mulroney and James Badge Dale
  • Starship Troopers remake planned
  • Garth Marenghi‘s Matthew Holness to make feature version of A Gun For George

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Review: I Hate My Teenage Daughter (Fox) 1×1

1 December 2011 Rob Buckley 3 Comments

I Hate My Teenage Daughter

In the US: Wednesdays, 9:30pm(E/P)/8:30c, Fox

Sometimes, I feel like I’m psychic. Do you?

I’ll tell you for why. I looked at the title of this show – I Hate My Teenage Daughter. I saw what network it was on – Fox.

And I knew in an instant that watching it would feel like being slowly licked by the Creature from the Black Lagoon, assuming that the lagoon was black because it was under a sewer outlet.

And hey! Guess what! I was right.

I wonder if I can use my powers to win the lottery.

For those of you whose psychic powers aren’t as well developed as mine, let me fill you in on the plot: we have two single mothers, one of them played by Jaime Pressly from My Name is Earl. Both of them were nerds at school, but have since developed okay. But they both have pretty, popular daughters. And oh my lordy, it turns out the daughters are turning into the same sort of mean girls who made their lives a misery at High School.

Cue zero hilarity and an overwhelming desire to take a shower. Here’s a trailer – one minor character has been recast since the pilot, otherwise these are the highlights.

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Friday’s “First Day of Advent” news

1 December 2011 Rob Buckley 6 Comments

Film

Comics

British TV

  • BBC3 commissions and re-commissions series including Him & Her
  • The South Bank Show to return on Sky Arts
  • DCI Banks to get a second series [subscription required]
  • David Morrissey to star in C4 riots drama [subscription required]
  • Sue Perkins developing a comedy-drama [subscription required]

Canadian TV

  • YTV developing Dark Horse
  • Netflix acquires The Hour

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