What have you been watching this week (w/e 17th April)?

17 April 2009 Rob Buckley 12 Comments

Time once again for your television recommendations/discommendations of the week? Anything good been on? Anything bad make you want to wash your eyeballs?

Been a little bit too busy to watch much TV this week, and I’ve a bit of a backlog to work my way through, but I would say they’d better be kidding about the ending of this week’s 24 in a double/treble-bluff sort of way or else the best season of the show so far has just gone to pants. And wasn’t the ending of House this week… odd?

PS No spoilers unless you’re going to use the <spoiler> </spoiler> tags, please? Ta!

Friday’s time travel FAQ news

17 April 2009 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

Film

Theatre

British TV

  • Aiden Gillen and Keeley Hawes to star in ITV1’s Identity

US/Canadian TV

UK TV

Playing catch up: iPlayer on the Wii

16 April 2009 Rob Buckley 6 Comments

I’ve only had a Wii for five months* and the option’s been there for a year, apparently, but it’s news to me that you can watch the BBC’s iPlayer on the Wii, so I thought I’d belatedly pass the word.

I haven’t tested it yet, and it’s not as good quality as you can get on a PC, since the Wii has an old version of Flash, but all the same, much better to be able to watch it on your TV than huddled round a computer.

* Bought at my wife’s insistence, I would point out, since games consoles and working from home don’t mix unless you’re a games journalist/professional games player

Review: The Companion Chronicles 3×9 – Resistance

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Resistance (Doctor Who: The Companion Chronicles)

Polly. Everyone remember Polly?

Chances are the answer to that question is either no or "Oh yes, I remember her. I’d forgotten she was there."

Back when Doctor Who was just a kiddies show (ie the Hartnell era), Polly – together with fellow companions Ben and Dodo – were the producers’ attempts to upgrade it to a family show by introducing modern, vibrant companions that the youth of today could identify with.

Yes, Polly was the Rose Tyler of her day.

A swinging 60s kind of girl, into mini skirts, screaming a lot, using nail polisher remover to kill monsters and indulging in mildly flirtatious dialogue with cockney sailors, blonde bombshell Polly managed to survive the Hartnell era and ended up accompanying Pat Troughton on his journeys through time and space, along with new arrival Jamie McCrimmon, who joined in what was the show’s penultimate, purely historical, alien-free story.

And it’s not long after that that we join her for this surprisingly good historical set during World War 2.

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