Posted in TV on Jan 8th, 2005
Wow! It looks like a new season of MI-5 has started. It had been so long, I just assumed it was cancelled. I’d almost removed it from my TiVo season pass. I never know when to safely remove things from my season pass. I assume I can get rid of The Agency, Boomtown, Dead Like [...]
So, TiVo recorded Gilmore Girls for me last night. And, that’s good because I feel like Gilmore Girls is one of the few really good shows on right now (although I am sort of getting into Lost). The thing is, I get it off of satellite, and there was a crazy amount of rain here [...]
Posted in TV on Oct 15th, 2004
Man, Jon Stewart went on Crossfire and took the whole show to task with both guns blazing. Samples: BEGALA: Well, it’s because, see, we’re a debate show. STEWART: No, no, no, no, that would be great. To do a debate would be great. But that’s like saying pro wrestling is a show about athletic competition. [...]
Posted in TV on Sep 30th, 2004
Why is it so? [A] ground-breaking TV series with the enigmatic Professor Julius Sumner Miller – ran on the ABC from 1963 to 1986. Professor Miller’s infectious enthusiasm for physics delighted, educated and entertained generations of Australians, most of whom have at some point asked each other ‘Why is it so?’ in the characteristic Julius [...]
Posted in TV on Jun 28th, 2004
So, a while ago, I heard about a failed TV pilot starring Jack Black called Heat Vision and Jack Well, it turns out Andy has a copy, and he’s seeded a bittorrent of it. I’ve been trying to download the 300+ MB file for over an hour now. I’m only 13% through. I hear it’s [...]
Posted in TV on Apr 10th, 2004
Why on earth did I ever like the show Electra Woman and Dyna Girl when I was a kid? I mean I know kids have something like zero taste in this kind of stuff, but WOW that show was bad. Seriously, seriously, seriously bad. TV Land was running episodes, so naturally I TiVo’d it in [...]
Why did nobody tell me that TV Land was running episodes of Shazam!? I mean I told you all about my interest back in April of 2002. I tell you sometimes I think nobody but comment spammers really reads these pages. Truthfully, I didn’t remember mentioning it myself. I knew I’d done an entry about [...]
Posted in TV on Oct 27th, 2003
I’ve had Brian Green’s book, The Elegant Universe for about a year now. So far, I have not found time to read it. I very much want to read it, but I am lame. Enter TV, with a 3 Part Nova Special: This would-be revolution goes by the name of string theory, the most musical [...]
Posted in TV on Oct 22nd, 2003
Is there anything worse than a show that used to be a shining beacon of light now reduced to a phlegm stain? I used to love the West Wing. From time to time, there would be moments that would give me chills, and every week, there was something that made the weeks wait worth while. [...]
Posted in TV on Sep 29th, 2003
I was hoping I was going to like Rob Lowe’s new show, The Lyon’s Den. For entirely baseless reasons, I was hoping it would be as smartly written as West Wing. But, it’s just a silly soap opera. Are there any good new shows this season?