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Encouraged by Mr Reid‘s remarks, The Goddess and I watched the second and third episodes of The Sarah Connor Chronicles the other week. The promising story threads – like the possibility of Summer Glau’s cyborg growing a heart a la T2, and the ticking clock of Sarah Connor’s terminal cancer – were a little undone …
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The Sarah Connor Chronicles premiere on New Zild televisions tonight. No pressure or anything, Mr Friedman but those long gaps between posts had better be worth it.(I’ll have to record it as I’ll be explaining to Mr Tripuraneni the cultural subleties of using paper-scissors-rock to make critical editing decisions.) (Failing that, thanks to my Writer’s …
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Over in the States, David Simon‘s The Wire has come to an end. With reactions ranging from TeeVee‘s conscious avoidance (understandable – when someone tells me I must see, I absolutely shall not) to the WGGB‘s solemn last call, I can’t wait for it to get here. Once I’ve seen Season 3 onwards, of course. (I think Season 3 …
Despite the promise of The Street‘s pilot, subsequent eps have disappointed. I thought their About Schmidt-ep with Jim Broadbent was a blip but when it was followed by The Crucible-ep with Neil Dudgeon, and Timothy Spall’s Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?-ep, we cried uncle. Four episodes into the season might be overly generous and forgiving …
Some of you may have been wondering if you’ve stumbled onto a wannabe-homegrown-Teevee site rather than the wannabe-homegrown-johnaugust.com I aspire to. Well, I could say that sing – It’s my party And I’ll cry if I want to Cry if I want to Cry if I want to – but I’m in one of my …
Those TV nuggets were, of course, hiding on the VCR. Jimmy McGovern‘s The Street is an excellent example of an involving drama that shows fully-realised individuals and their complex, interconnected relationships with their loved ones and the wider community. Such material may be grist for the soap opera mill, but in the hands of Mr …
It’s pretty quiet on the box at the moment. The last few months were very pleasantly crowded with: Desperate Housewives (Mon) Law & Order: Criminal Intent (Mon) Medium (Mon) Extras (Mon) The Closer (Wed) Law & Order (Wed) Studio 60 on Sunset Strip (Thur) Kingdom (Sat) Doctor Who (Sun) Most of them have finished now …
The latest Herald Time Out had a write up about an upcoming homemade drama, The Cult. Besides my usual grizzling about the complete lack of any mention of writers, something struck me about the large cast: where are the brothers or sisters? Here’s a screen-grab: Okay, there’s maybe a sister at the far right, peering …
And what have I got to say for my reading and viewing for 2008? 147 books, comics and scripts were picked up and read, all bar 19 right through, with the most memorable being: Pamela Douglas‘ Writing the TV Drama Series, Mark Haddon‘s A Spot of Bother and Ruth L Ozeki‘s My Year of Meat; …
