Heroes is back and so are Wendy & Lisa

22 September 2008 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Well, Heroes is back tonight in the US – we in the UK will officially have to wait until next Monday before the Beeb starts to air season three, thus creating a whole new usage of the word “simulcast’ that we previously hadn’t been aware of.

Anyway, in preparation for that magic moment, I thought I’d give you a couple of vids from the show’s composers, Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman, who back in the day were Wendy & Lisa. After working with Prince for a while, they went solo and released a few albums before heading off into the world of film and TV score composition, notably doing the music for Toys and Dangerous Minds. So here are a few 80s music vids of theirs. Enjoy the hair.

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Monday’s award-winning news

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Review: No Heroics 1×1

19 September 2008 Rob Buckley 15 Comments

No Heroics

In the UK: Thursdays, 10.30pm, ITV2

There’s something that baffles me about the British. Whenever Hollywood produces a comedy where Hugh Grant turns up, being all self-effacing and a bit of a klutz and lacking in confidence compared to those powerful, strident American types who are all into self-improvement and “being all you can be”*, we get on our high horses and whinge about ‘clueless bloody Americans’.

Then we go and produce half a dozen ‘comedies’ where we live down to the same stereotype. Do we have no pride? Must we really think the worst of ourselves? Must we really hate people who are, ooh, I don’t know, good at things?

Case in point: ITV2’s No Heroics. It’s British! It’s about superheroes! Yey! So they spend all their time down the pub grumbling about how crap they are and being complete dorks.

Oh, FFS.

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Friday’s product placement news

19 September 2008 Rob Buckley 5 Comments

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