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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!

Thursday’s weedy news

16 April 2009 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

Doctor Who

Film

  • Maggies Gyllenhaal and Smith + Rhys Ifans to join Emma Thompson in Nanny McPhee sequel
  • Kristen Bell to star in You Again
  • Elisabeth Moss, Sean Combs and Rose Byrne join Russell Brand in Get Him to the Greek
  • Brotherhood‘s Blake Masters to adapt 2 Guns
  • Michael Chabon to write John Carter of Mars
  • Trailer for Lars Von Trier’s Antichrist

Turkish TV

Canadian TV

British TV

US TV

Tuesday’s American dinosaurs news

14 April 2009 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

The Daily News will be back on Thursday

Doctor Who

Film

  • William Hurt joins Robin Hood
  • Ralph Fiennes to star in Ricky Gervais’s Cemetery Junction
  • Trailer for Michael Mann’s Public Enemies
  • Trailer for Gerard Butler/Katherine Heigl’s The Ugly Truth

British TV

US TV

A few things learned from TV last week: 24, The Mentalist, Chuck, Supernatural and House

6 April 2009 Rob Buckley 4 Comments

24
Although I was generally in favour of TV companies being allowed to place products in TV shows – they really need the cash these day – I almost made a 180º turn on that after watching last Monday’s 24. Product placement is one thing, but when you have nearly two minutes of a show turned into a training video for Cisco’s WebEx digital signature system, I think we’ve gone too far.

Chuck
Yvonne Strahovski looks like a tiny little girl playing dress-up when she’s next to Tricia Helfer.

House
Even if a show is formulaic, if it knows it formula well enough then it can be very clever in how it plays with that formula.

The Mentalist
Even if a show is technically a ‘procedural’, it doesn’t actually have to follow any known police procedures. Ever.

Supernatural
Even if an episode’s concept isn’t totally original (Stranger Than Fiction, etc), you can still make a damn fine and clever episode from it, even when you’re in your fourth season.

Meme of the week: Shows you look forward to

31 March 2009 Rob Buckley 12 Comments

Last week’s meme was a bit of a disaster. Absolutely no one was interested in it.

Oops.

Oh well, let’s try something different.

Everyone has shows they like and watch, but are there ones that you actually look forward to, where you think “Oh God. I’ve got to wait a whole week until the next episode,” and then the clock ticks for the rest of the week until it’s on again.

For me, it’s Heroes and 24. How about you? Thoughts on your own blogs or in the comments below, please.