tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59231949816430026862024-03-13T10:21:06.827+00:00Rev/ViewsRev/Viewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09804033271271816142noreply@blogger.comBlogger556125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5923194981643002686.post-62140675070776006252011-11-05T11:28:00.000+00:002011-11-05T11:28:26.647+00:00The Final UpdateI've had a good long think about this over recent times and changes in circumstances along with an alteration in my personal priorities has made it pretty hard to keep focused on updating here on this blog. I'm just not 'feeling' it any more, I enjoy television and I love sharing it, but writing about it 2-3 times a week just isn't happening for me and that's not enough content to keep a Rev/Viewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09804033271271816142noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5923194981643002686.post-53094525014879254002011-10-12T09:20:00.000+01:002011-10-12T09:20:18.909+01:00Homeland - "Pilot"
I finally got around to watching the pilot episode for Showtime's new drama/thriller series Homeland. The show centers around Carrie Mathison/Anderson (Claire Danes), a CIA officer who suspects that the army Sergeant recently rescued from Iraq, one Nicolas Brody (Damien Lewis) has been turned during his eight year captivity and is planning an attack on US soil. The series has been greenlitRev/Viewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09804033271271816142noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5923194981643002686.post-49449896992759816432011-10-08T10:00:00.000+01:002011-10-08T10:00:02.979+01:00The One Man Star Wars Trilogy- Cardiff: 28th SeptemberAs a child I still fondly recall afternoons spent at my paternal Grandparent's home watching Star Wars: A New Hope on VHS. I was captivated by the combination of fun dialog, mystery, excitement, "magic" (The Force), space ships, the cool Han Solo, the mysterious Ben Kenobi and the terrifying Lord Darth Vader. It was a film that dominated my childhood - along with the David Jason&Rev/Viewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09804033271271816142noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5923194981643002686.post-8780655023085977872011-10-03T10:18:00.004+01:002011-10-03T10:27:27.957+01:00Arrested Development - Return to small and big screen confirmed!Normally I don't update twice in a day, sometimes I don't update twice in a week (oops). However once I read about this I just had to post about it.
Arrested Development's return has been confirmed with a 9 or 10 episode mini-series followed by a movie. How great is that? One of the finest sitcoms of all time (and the finest sitcom of the last decade) returning to us! I'mRev/Viewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09804033271271816142noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5923194981643002686.post-18846839695853148772011-10-03T09:34:00.001+01:002011-10-03T09:35:01.098+01:00Doctor Who - "The Wedding of River Song"Whelp, that's another series over and done with for Doctor Who and while I land firmly in the 'bored with Alex Kingston/River Song/Melody Pond' camp (mostly because of Kingston's performance lacking any consistency or likability) I do have to say that it was pretty darn good.
The Doctor has decided that running away is enough and it's time to die, but instead of picking up where we Rev/Viewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09804033271271816142noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5923194981643002686.post-11440879001194584262011-10-02T15:25:00.010+01:002011-10-02T16:25:48.545+01:00SpongeBob Squarepants, Season 1Dear Blog reading world - Hello!I hope you are doing well. I know I am and that's at least partly because of one certain TV show, the one show that will pick up my mood when I am down with its absurd humour and brilliant cast:SpongeBob Squarepants first graced the Nickelodeon TV screen in 1999 and will during its current 8th season become the longest running show of all time for Nick. It has a Daturahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15031230913163221657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5923194981643002686.post-35350978722388027232011-09-28T11:05:00.001+01:002011-10-01T09:12:35.188+01:00Doctor Who - "Closing Time"
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I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I missed out on reviewing the previous episode - I'm still gradually getting back into the swing of writing (and tweeting). I intended to write about 'The God Complex' anyway, but the impact of last weeks 'Closing Time' has washed away most of my thoughts on the episode. I'll leave 'The God Complex' with nothing more than, it was pretty Rev/Viewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09804033271271816142noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5923194981643002686.post-10187225336605620552011-09-17T08:21:00.000+01:002011-09-17T08:21:20.660+01:00Doctor Who - "The Girl Who Waited"
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Just as "Night Terrors" was the injection of good old Doctor Who monster fun the series needed, "The Girl Who Waited" is the character driven episode that both Karen Gillian and Amy Pond were waiting for.
After the Doctor,Amy and Rory decide to spend some time on 'the second best holiday destination in the universe' (because the first one is too tourist-y) Amy Rev/Viewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09804033271271816142noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5923194981643002686.post-62370805417760326282011-09-14T10:00:00.004+01:002011-09-14T10:00:09.224+01:00Futurama - Season SixStanding as the longest season of Futurama so far, with a whale sized serving of twenty six episodes it's rather difficult to review the entire of the sixth season without missing out some elements, however I'm going to do my best by looking at the high points and low points of the season.
I have to be honest, around the first two episodes of the show I was left thinking 'Maybe they shouldn't Rev/Viewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09804033271271816142noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5923194981643002686.post-27364470641484273132011-09-10T09:17:00.001+01:002011-09-10T09:17:54.212+01:00Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place - Season 1
Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place (later known as Two Guys and a Girl) is one of those shows that has for a long time seemed rather bipolar in my research about it. Some people rave about it as being one of the best shows they've ever seen, but many others tend towards 'It's good, but not amazing'. This is quite evident when you look at the ratings on IMDB (7.7/10) vs TV.com (9.1/Rev/Viewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09804033271271816142noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5923194981643002686.post-61797233582687527922011-09-05T08:40:00.000+01:002011-09-05T08:40:00.812+01:00Doctor Who - "Night Terrors"
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Last week's episode "Let's Kill Hitler" was not my favourite cup of Doctor tea, in fact it was the latest in a run of episodes that I've found to be substandard (everything since "The Doctor's Wife" I've found to be kind of sucky if you're interested), in fact I was reaching the point where I was getting tired of The Silence and River Song, well more tired than usual.
Rev/Viewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09804033271271816142noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5923194981643002686.post-41051583924792679312011-08-29T10:00:00.004+01:002011-08-29T10:00:08.756+01:00Unfinished pilot script - Tempest/Leagues: Underwater Steampunk Science FictionA while ago I wrote a pilot script for a science fiction series. Well, more a Steampunk series. The concept was Firefly crossed with Steampunk set underwater in a society that lives entirely in the oceans of the Earth (the surface rendered uninhabitable by an unknown catastrophe.
It's sort of space travel/privateers/smugglers set underwater in the future. The working titleRev/Viewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09804033271271816142noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5923194981643002686.post-17616429183600904922011-08-28T09:28:00.004+01:002011-08-28T09:30:25.467+01:00Doctor Who - "Let's Kill Hitler"
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I'm writing the first paragraph for this prior to watching the episode. This is because I'm not entirely certain that 'Let's Kill Hitler' is going to be a classic piece that I'll recall fondly for the years to come. The previous half series of Doctor Who was a wildly inefficient piece that paled compared to the series before it. There was a great deal Rev/Viewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09804033271271816142noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5923194981643002686.post-13859548543758501422011-08-26T08:06:00.000+01:002011-08-26T08:06:09.438+01:00"A Bit of Fry and Laurie"I don't like sketch shows, it's a personal preference - I like shows with an ongoing narrative that builds on previous stories or character experiences. That's one of the things which frustrates me about many sitcoms from the 70s to 90s and it's also what frustrates me about Big Bang Theory (and it's poor butchered older uncle Two and a Half Men) - the philosophy that 'at the end of the Rev/Viewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09804033271271816142noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5923194981643002686.post-86861459151512145642011-08-24T08:15:00.000+01:002011-08-24T08:15:12.827+01:00Fall Approaches!Just in case you were wondering if I'd done the old classic blog 'I'm back' -> 'Can't think of anything to write' start/stop thing that does happen. Don't worry (as if you were worrying that is!) Things got a little messed up with the delay to internet access here and I ended up getting back online a scant week before my wedding.
Well the dust is settled, I'm just back from the Rev/Viewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09804033271271816142noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5923194981643002686.post-69297318552352413442011-08-11T20:34:00.001+01:002011-08-11T20:35:38.525+01:00Community: The Sophomore Season
Sometimes I feel that my watching of television is an endless quest to find replacement shows for old favourites. I've tried out shows like Boardwalk Empire and Treme to replace The Wire and Southlands to replace The Shield and each time I've only found middling success. However, Community has filled one hole - the one left be the ending of first Seinfeld and later Arrested Rev/Viewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09804033271271816142noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5923194981643002686.post-68118112403492320362011-08-08T18:16:00.000+01:002011-08-08T18:16:17.811+01:00Back for another one of those block watching treats!Television, TeeVee, TV ah how I've missed you my longtime companion.
Needless to say, at times life gets in the way of ones passions, writing became a real difficulty, then an obligation, then finally a chore. At this point I knew it was time to take something of a break.
I hope it's done me a little good and I do feel energised sitting here in the mess that will eventually become my new Rev/Viewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09804033271271816142noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5923194981643002686.post-14418831134480101382011-06-05T13:08:00.000+01:002011-06-05T13:08:16.303+01:00Pending Return: TBCNothing to get to excited about at this time, but I'm estimating my return to blogging about TV will be coming before August. I also have a co-writer lined up who will be picking up one post a week (film reviews) to help share the load. So that's good news.
In short, I have most certainly not, not, walked away from writing here. No sir!
In TV related thoughts, not that Rev/Viewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09804033271271816142noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5923194981643002686.post-22805847822839773392011-04-27T21:16:00.000+01:002011-04-27T21:16:28.824+01:00Recent SilenceIn case you're wondering why things have been quiet here for a while. My PC is completely totalled and my laptop has a severely cracked screen. Until I manage to get these repaired I won't be able to update.
Unfortunately finances are too tight to afford a new PC/Laptop so I can't say when things will resume. I suspect it will be sometime in the summer.
Until then, hang tight Rev/Viewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09804033271271816142noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5923194981643002686.post-44232532860067326702011-01-24T09:34:00.000+00:002011-01-24T09:34:16.828+00:00Red Dwarf 2012
Will I ever get tired of this logo?
It's slightly old news at this point - but I thought I'd write a little about what I've read on Red Dwarf's return to the small screen, something which has become official at this point after Craig Charles let it slip on Real Radio last week.
From what I've gathered we're looking at a return of the core cast - sans Kochanski and with Holly played by someone Rev/Viewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09804033271271816142noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5923194981643002686.post-38923322268659872452011-01-04T23:49:00.001+00:002011-01-04T23:49:12.768+00:00Misery Bear - Day OffAt the moment, I feel like this little guy.
But at least he's funny. :)Rev/Viewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09804033271271816142noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5923194981643002686.post-81046206894929273172010-12-20T21:00:00.000+00:002010-12-20T21:00:04.293+00:00Christmas BreakAs you might have gathered, I've had to go on an early Christmas hiatus due to an increase in workload and some other more serious personal issues that I've had to concentrate on. As this isn't a forum for problems in my life I'm going to leave it at that and just say I'll be back soon with a review of the Doctor Who Christmas Special!
Till then have a great holiday!Rev/Viewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09804033271271816142noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5923194981643002686.post-49721689223117030272010-12-05T12:00:00.003+00:002010-12-05T14:39:36.178+00:00Community: The First Season ReviewSpoilers, I've come to the conclusion that NBC's half hour sitcom Community was at the very least the best new comedy show of 2009 and it's possible that it was the best sitcom of that particular year. The show completely caught me by surprise last Autumn with just how good it was and most recently I caught up with the entire season in a marathon weekend session that solidified the shows place Rev/Viewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09804033271271816142noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5923194981643002686.post-27365390886737294312010-11-28T19:42:00.004+00:002010-11-28T21:26:16.309+00:00Justified: The Complete First SeasonBased on Elmore Leonard's written work, Justified revolves around the US Marshal Rayland Givens. Rayland is the lead character in the books 'Pronto', 'Riding the Rap', the short story 'Fire in the Hole' and is best described as a cowboy sheriff thrust into the modern age. Timothy Olyphant stars as Rayland in Justified, bringing the character to life with a great deal of ease; as Timothy is, of Rev/Viewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09804033271271816142noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5923194981643002686.post-87411150104654796922010-11-17T10:00:00.001+00:002010-11-17T10:00:08.228+00:00DVDs in Review: Chuck: The Complete Third SeasonChuck is one of those shows that I'm glad is around, in part because it's nice to have a light-hearted, semi-serious spy show on the air and in part because Adam Baldwin should always be on our screens as some angry individual with barely contained violence inside him. John Casey isn't as great as Jayne Cobb, but he'll do in a pinch (hey, they both share the same initials!)The third season picksRev/Viewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09804033271271816142noreply@blogger.com0