28 Thursday Feb 2008
Posted in culture, humour, television
From this BBC News article, here is a list of the top 25 put-downs in TV history, as chosen by the Radio Times magazine.
I think there must be lots of much better ones, though I did especially like Carla’s and Patsy’s . . .
17 Sunday Feb 2008
Posted in books & writing, films, food & drink, friends, language, life stuff, retail therapy, television
I came across this old post from last year on Letters Home the other day. Oh how I wish everyone had a ‘recent comments’ widget for people just passing through or for when I’m just having a quick look around a few blogs without using my feedreader. In fact, I probably would have just read the comment to this post on my feedreader without clicking on the post itself. But seeing it on ian’s sidebar I clicked on the comment and saw the original post. Anyhoodle … it was all about things ian misses from the places he used to live after having moved on to somewhere else.
Like ian, I’ve lived in a few different places since leaving my birthplace Winnipeg, Canada (aka Winterpeg) at age 25. Since then I’ve lived in Toronto, Bristol in England, and Salamanca & Seville in Spain. Here is my list of things I miss …
19 Saturday Jan 2008
Posted in media, miscellany, television
Have just started watching series one … it’s very good!
The Wire was recommended awhile back and last week I saw the first series DVD on Amazon for a good price, so I decided to try it out. Very impressed. I love the grittiness of it, that the actors all look like real people … and I totally l-u-r-v-e the groovy cool soundtrack.
Compared to Anne Tyler’s Baltimore, it’s quite unrecognisable.
09 Wednesday Jan 2008
Posted in media, television
~ note to nursemyra … this is my idea of eyecandy ~
The first episode of the fourth series was on TV last night and it was fabulous. The writing is as sharp as ever and I didn’t actually miss the three characters that ‘resigned’ at the end of last season. In fact, I think they had probably run their course and a shake-up like this was what the series needed for it to stay fresh.
Funny how hearing the theme music come on made me realise how much I’d been missing this programme. I got all nostalgic, especially as it was my first foray back into television watching last February, after about 15 years.
No spoilers please! 🙂
28 Friday Dec 2007
Posted in media, religion, television, video
I’ve spoken here before about my West Wing addiction…
Have recently finished all seven series and am now rewatching them to use as a teaching tool with a couple of my students, which means I have to come up with questions for each episode. Today I got up to episode 3 in series 2 and loved this scene so much I wanted to use it on a debate forum on h2g2 … and hey, there it was on Youtube. And now here it is for you. 🙂
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