2011 - A Year In General

Best Show (UK): Game Of Thrones. Technically, it is a UK show in some ways and it became one of the most exciting things on television all year.Worst Show (UK): This Is Jinsy. It tried to be quirky and off beat and pretty much failed.Best Show (US): True Blood. Season 4 certainly took the series to some interesting new heights.Worst Show (US): The Cape. No wonder this superhero was put down before he could take flight.Best Villain: Does Constance...

Read More

Misfits - Season 3 Review

Warning: Spoilers alert! You know the drill - you lose a big character, you hopefully can add a new one that will go down a treat. I think after eight weeks it was safe to assume that while Nathan might have left, Rudy more or less filled the void rather nicely.Vegas Baby: This eight minute little scene pretty much shows us how Nathan actually left the show and it's a nice way of actually writing him out of the mix.Episode 1: It's the debut of Rudy...

Read More

Soap Discussion - December 2011

Okay, not the last blog for 2011 but the last soap related one for this year at the very least.Coronation Street: Well, this has been a better month than most. Still not loving the whole Peter/Carla affair or the increasingly pained rivalry between Tina and Kirsty but the rest has been good. Trust Tracy of all people to use a miscarriage to drive a further wedge between Steve and Becky and also trust this show to use a wedding between Sophie and...

Read More

Long Live The Queen

And here's my last TV jumble blog of 2011. Only three more blogs and we'll be in 2012.American Horror Story: Yeah, I still have a lot more to go with this series but this mid series episode was interesting enough. It was nice (and a little overdue) to get a backstory for Larry and Tate's hatred for Constance seems pretty understandable. Fascinating as she is, Constance is not an easy person to like at all. I also liked the scheming with Moira to...

Read More

Skins - Season 6 Cast Pictures/First Trailer

And here are some more cast pics of the sixth series of Skins, including one of the new guy.Alex (Sam Jackson): The latest member of the group and he's an openly gay character. We'll see him making out with a pirate in one episode.Alo (Will Merrit): Last season his immaturity nearly cost his family everything but this year, it looks like he's beginning to grow up.Franky (Dakota Blue Richards): The trailer for the new series sees Franky lashing out...

Read More