Welsh TV

I hate you Sky+ – Caerdydd’s back and you didn’t tell me!

Caerdydd - Series Four

A while ago, I mentioned the virtues of Sky+. ‘Series link’ was one of those virtues – press the magic green button when you have an item selected in the TV planner and it’ll record the entire series for you.

Except, apparently, if it’s a new series. I’ve been scouring the listings for a while now but completely failed to notice that series four of Caerdydd has been running for five weeks now! Five weeks! And Sky+, despite that series link having been set up for series three, has been ignoring series four completely. Damn you Sky+!

Anyway, thanks to the miracle of the Internet, we can catch up through the S4C web site, although there’s only four days left to watch the first episode before it disappears. I heartily encourage you all to watch it right now if you’re not because it’s ace. You can get Welsh or English subtitles online, so don’t you be a-worrying you won’t understand what’s going on.

Incidentally, I have Dylan over at shitclic.blogspot.com to thank for this information – go visit him, too, because he’s a very kind and useful person!

Hey Rob. Love the site – I log on regularly to get my daily fix for TV news and reviews. I noticed you were an avid fan of the popular Welsh soap-drama “Caerdydd” on S4C last year… and surprised you haven’t mentioned the third series currently shown on Sundays at 9pm (repeated with onscreen subtitles for our English friends 😉 on Thursdays at 10.30pm. Check out the great new mini-website www.s4c-caerdydd.co.uk… oh, and my tv blog in the lingo of heaven as noted!

Cheers/Hwyl fawr!

Dylan

See? Kind and useful.

Just as a quick reminder, here’s how series three ended. And for all you Torchwood lovers, here’s Ianto Jones (aka Gareth David-Lloyd) when he appeared on the show opposite Siwan Morris.

The CarusometerA Carusometer rating of 2

Series finale: Torchwood – Children of Earth

Ladies and gentlemen, we have a first. Some thought it impossible, like finding a news outlet that hasn’t mentioned Michael Jackson once in the last week. Some thought it could never happen.

But it has. An episode of Torchwood got a 0 on the Carusometer. It was really, really good.

After the break, let’s discuss how this could have happened and the whole series in spoilery detail: you have been warned, those of you who haven’t watched it yet.

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Monday’s E4-ing Erica news

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British TV

  • ITV to charge for Britain’s Got Talent clips
  • Four HD channels to launch on Virgin Media
  • Sci Fi acquires Warehouse 13
  • E4 acquires How I Met Your Mother and Being Erica to air in October

US TV

US TV

Review: Warehouse 13 1×1

Warehouse 13

In the US: Tuesdays, 9/8c, SyFy

Let’s play a game: guess the TV series. I give you some clues, you have to guess the show.

Clue 1: A top-secret government organisation has a mission to capture strange artefacts

What do you reckon? Torchwood?

Okay. Clue 2: Two government agents – one intuitive male, one rational and methodical female – investigate the paranormal

Hmm. The X-Files?

Clue 3: A man and a woman, together with an older guy, have to store away dangerous supernatural objects to protect the world.

Friday The 13th: The Series?

No, in fact, all the clues were for the same show: Warehouse 13, SyFy’s new “‘The X-Files meets Raiders of the Lost Ark meets Moonlighting‘ meets Torchwood meets Friday The 13th meets Eureka meets The Dresden Files meets The Middleman” series.

Do I need to mention it’s a little bit derivative?

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Wednesday’s rejuvenated Caruso news

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