Doctor Who
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Sometimes, I begin to wonder if there are any new ideas left or whether everything is simply a variant of something else. Sitting watching the first episode of Mental, Fox’s new psychiatry-based drama, I had the déjà vus an awful lot. And I’m not talking about the naked men.
Wow. Okay, one obviously saccharine moment, but when Hugh Laurie does upset, he really moves you, doesn’t he?
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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.
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