Ten Reasons Gossip Girl is Awesome

The Humphrey Loft: image by flickr user dumbonyc

So the long cold winter is over. On Sunday, the temperature reached 31 degrees, and I spent the day at the beach.

Which means one thing: the television drought is over.

Oh, sure, the most wonderful show on television, Chuck, is not due to return til March (Have a Heart, [...]

Sorry, Australia

This is what happens when I try to watch Southpark online

A few months ago, I was struck by a strange urge: I wanted to watch the teen drama “Roswell”.  Oh, I know, I shouldn’t admit it, but I felt inexplicably compelled to relive the odd period in my life during which I watched [...]

An Open Letter to TV Execs

So I’m heading to DC in a few months for a few months.   There are many things I’m excited about, but one of the most exciting is that I’ll have access to regionally-restricted digital content. Which brings me to the point I have been forgetting to make for ages: region restrictions are now totally [...]

Chuck

Sorry again for the lack of blogging.  I’ve been terrible.

But I want to talk to you today about something really, really important: Chuck.

Chuck is absolutely my favourite TV show at the moment, which is a rather large call, given that it trumps Gossip Girl.  But it is.  It’s a wonderfully constructed show, with impressive characterisation and, [...]

Penny versus Peggy

A few weeks ago, my brother Joel returned from China, excited to tell me about a new show he had watched while he was away, The Big Band Theory.  “You’d love it,” he said.  “It’s about geeks!”

While the presence of geeks is usually a fair indication that a TV show will be to my liking, Joel [...]