TV Reviews / Previews
TV Preview: Misfits, E4
A new E4 series called Misfits you say? About a group of young delinquents doing community service? We've not been this put off a new TV series since the Bad Girls pilot. In fact, the likelihood of a good series coming from E4 is akin to that of finding a hen's tooth, or Tess Daly's soul. Imagine the disquiet and shock which consumed us when we saw the first episode of this teen-insert genre here and discovered it's actually quite good. Maybe Tess Daly has a soul after all.*
A new E4 series called Misfits you say? About a group of young delinquents doing community service? We've not been this put off a new TV series since the Bad Girls pilot. In fact, the likelihood of a good series coming from E4 is akin to that of finding a hen's tooth, or Tess Daly's soul. Imagine the disquiet and shock which consumed us when we saw the first episode of this teen-insert genre here and discovered it's actually quite good. Maybe Tess Daly has a soul after all.*
V Pilot: Why It Will Succeed, And Why It’s Doomed
Spoiler alert! Leaping lizards – cult Eighties sci-fi TV mini-series V is back on our TV screens! 26 years since I hid behind the sofa at the sight of a big-haired Jane Badler scoffing down a poor, hapless guinea pig, our favourite reptilian alien overlords are back - albeit with a slight makeover. Gone are the big hairstyles, orange jumpsuits, huge sunglasses and funny voices – the new series, which was piloted last night on US screens, is very much a creation of the post-9/11 age.
Spoiler alert! Leaping lizards – cult Eighties sci-fi TV mini-series V is back on our TV screens! 26 years since I hid behind the sofa at the sight of a big-haired Jane Badler scoffing down a poor, hapless guinea pig, our favourite reptilian alien overlords are back - albeit with a slight makeover. Gone are the big hairstyles, orange jumpsuits, huge sunglasses and funny voices – the new series, which was piloted last night on US screens, is very much a creation of the post-9/11 age.
Dancing With The Stars Loses Irvin and Dacascos. Oh Well.
Last night, Michael Irvin and Mark Dacascos were eliminated from Dancing With The Stars. We'll just give you a minute to Google Michael Irvin and Mark Dacascos so you know who they are, and then we'll continue. Ready? OK, Michael Irvin and Mark Dacascos, who are... no, wait, it's gone. We'll just Google their names again. Hang on. Oh, one's an American footballer and the other's the Iron Chef guy. Anyway, the footballer and the Iron Chef guy - whose names we have already forgotten - were kicked off Dancing With The Stars last night. That's basically the gist, more or less.
Last night, Michael Irvin and Mark Dacascos were eliminated from Dancing With The Stars. We'll just give you a minute to Google Michael Irvin and Mark Dacascos so you know who they are, and then we'll continue. Ready? OK, Michael Irvin and Mark Dacascos, who are... no, wait, it's gone. We'll just Google their names again. Hang on. Oh, one's an American footballer and the other's the Iron Chef guy. Anyway, the footballer and the Iron Chef guy - whose names we have already forgotten - were kicked off Dancing With The Stars last night. That's basically the gist, more or less.
X Factor Recap: Toodleoo, Rachel Adedeji
X Factor's Rock Night on Saturday wasn't very good for Rachel Adedeji, because it finally saw them get the boot from the show. But they didn't get the worst deal of it. No, that would be us. Because we had to watch the poxy thing. Honestly, we think 'Rock Night' might have been a typo - surely it was really called Cock Night or Suck Night or Let's Transparently Try And Make Jamie Look Better Than He Actually Is Night. Yick. Anyway, let's have a bit of an X Factor recap, shall we?
X Factor's Rock Night on Saturday wasn't very good for Rachel Adedeji, because it finally saw them get the boot from the show. But they didn't get the worst deal of it. No, that would be us. Because we had to watch the poxy thing. Honestly, we think 'Rock Night' might have been a typo - surely it was really called Cock Night or Suck Night or Let's Transparently Try And Make Jamie Look Better Than He Actually Is Night. Yick. Anyway, let's have a bit of an X Factor recap, shall we?
Dancing With The Stars Loses Teenage Witch, Other Chap
If you were Melissa Joan Hart, you'd probably want to be known for something other than Sabrina The Teenage Witch. So good for Melissa Joan Hart. She's finally exorcised the witch. Now, whenever people think of her, they won't think of all the things that defined her hit show - like the creepy talking cat, her weirdly sexual aunt and the fact that appeared to still be attending high school in her mid-thirties - they'll think of her as the woman who once came eighth in a middling season of Dancing With The Stars. Unless Louie Vito gets remembered for that instead. He came eighth on Dancing With The Stars last night, too.
If you were Melissa Joan Hart, you'd probably want to be known for something other than Sabrina The Teenage Witch. So good for Melissa Joan Hart. She's finally exorcised the witch. Now, whenever people think of her, they won't think of all the things that defined her hit show - like the creepy talking cat, her weirdly sexual aunt and the fact that appeared to still be attending high school in her mid-thirties - they'll think of her as the woman who once came eighth in a middling season of Dancing With The Stars. Unless Louie Vito gets remembered for that instead. He came eighth on Dancing With The Stars last night, too.
Kate Gosselin Promises Us That We’re The Only One Suffering
Did you watch the 'You Ask, Kate Answers' Jon & Kate Plus 8 special last night? What's that? You didn't? Because Jon & Kate Plus 8 generally makes you quite angry? And just the thought of Kate Gosselin getting an hour of television to carp on about herself makes you hatch wicked revenge plots against humanity? Well fine. You missed out on Kate Gosselin's promise that her children weren't suffering. And you missed out on Kate Gosselin's claim that she wants to be a film star. And you missed out on us stabbing ourselves in the thigh with a pair of scissors so we'd have something less painful to concentrate on.
Did you watch the 'You Ask, Kate Answers' Jon & Kate Plus 8 special last night? What's that? You didn't? Because Jon & Kate Plus 8 generally makes you quite angry? And just the thought of Kate Gosselin getting an hour of television to carp on about herself makes you hatch wicked revenge plots against humanity? Well fine. You missed out on Kate Gosselin's promise that her children weren't suffering. And you missed out on Kate Gosselin's claim that she wants to be a film star. And you missed out on us stabbing ourselves in the thigh with a pair of scissors so we'd have something less painful to concentrate on.
X Factor Recap: Oh, Bye Then Miss Frank
Time for us to recap X Factor - the show so preposterous that it makes 2012 look like a low-budget Scandinavian arthouse film about lesbians. As you probably saw last night Miss Frank became the latest contestant to leave X Factor. And it was a shock - specifically because the British public had the chance to forget about Danyl Johnson forever, and they blew it. Idiots. Anyway, Saturday's X Factor was Big Band night, which is historically the least unbearable show of the series. So let's have a little recap, shall we?
Time for us to recap X Factor - the show so preposterous that it makes 2012 look like a low-budget Scandinavian arthouse film about lesbians. As you probably saw last night Miss Frank became the latest contestant to leave X Factor. And it was a shock - specifically because the British public had the chance to forget about Danyl Johnson forever, and they blew it. Idiots. Anyway, Saturday's X Factor was Big Band night, which is historically the least unbearable show of the series. So let's have a little recap, shall we?
24: Season 7 – DVD Review
In 24, Jack Bauer has managed to successfully battle presidential assassinations, nuclear bombs and wild cougars over the years - but latter seasons have left audiences less than gripped. Season 7 sets to bring back what made the show unmissable - and it's the best season so far.
In 24, Jack Bauer has managed to successfully battle presidential assassinations, nuclear bombs and wild cougars over the years - but latter seasons have left audiences less than gripped. Season 7 sets to bring back what made the show unmissable - and it's the best season so far.
