The BBC say that this week’s episode of Sherlock will see him face to face with Moriarty. So far Gatiss and Moffat have done a good job so I hope they don’t make a mess of this.
Entries Tagged as 'TV'
No hugging and no learning
August 2nd, 2010 · 3 Comments · Life
Interesting story at Chortle about the Americans’ attempts to re-make The IT Crowd.
Three years ago they made a pilot which was a bit like the failed attempt at doing Red Dwarf – sticking slavishly to the original script, keeping one member of the UK cast – but now they are going for it again, keeping [...]
A Study in Pink
July 26th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Life
As soon as I got home from work today I fired up iPlayer on the TV and watched the BBC’s new Sherlock programme, and now I have to join in with the general consensus that it is very good indeed. It went down very well here, playing to a mixed audience of me (read all [...]
Tags: Sherlock Holmes·TV
Sherlock
July 25th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Life
I am a little bit of a fan of Sherlock Holmes. Not totally obsessive – only a couple of the boxes I am packing are full of Holmes-related books, and I have only visited the set of the Granada series once. OK, so I used to have a Sherlock Holmes tea towel and like to [...]
Tags: Sherlock Holmes·TV
Cold turkey
July 5th, 2010 · 14 Comments · Life
After a coupl eof weeks of football, cuminating in two days of extremely exciting quarter-finals, it has been a bit strange to have no World Cup games to watch today. The TV hasn’t even been turned on today. Really looking forward to the semis now.
Tags: Football·TV·World Cup 2010
It’s all kicked off
June 12th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Life
The World Cup has started at last.
I watched the pre-tournament concert on TV on Thursday night, which was a bit disappointing. Instead of showing it live, the BBC showed edited highlights, but their idea of a highlight is not necessarily mine. For example, Amadou & Mariam were on the bill but didn’t feature at all [...]
Tags: Football·TV·World Cup 2010·World music
Desperate Russian Housewives
June 2nd, 2010 · 6 Comments · Technology
This is an interesting FoI request – about what domain names the BBC has registered to it.
Along with the long list of expected domains, like www.bbcbrasil.com, www.bbcspanish.com and www.bbctrust.org there are a few amusing ones like www.desperaterussianhousewives.co.uk and www.brightonbam.co.uk
Watching telly
June 1st, 2010 · No Comments · Technology
I had a bit of a surprise yesterday. Jayne came home with a new TV.
Only the other day I realised that I was possibly the only person I knew who was persisting with a CRT television, and now I don’t have that distinction as we have one of those plasma jobbies.
Tags: Brookmyre·Gadgets·TV·World Cup 2010·Zombies
Later with the House
May 14th, 2010 · No Comments · Life, Music
I watched Tuesday’s Later with Jools Holland this evening (still available on iPlayer). Good performances from LCD Soundsystem and Kelis. I thought Crowded House were a bit subdued, but I am still finding it hard to adjust to them without Paul Hester behind the drums. Also I was terminally distracted by Neil Finn’s ill-advised moustache [...]
Tags: TV
Will Britain get its ‘Perot moment’ tomorrow night?
May 5th, 2010 · No Comments · Politics, Technology
I think it was back in 1996 that I was watching the US election results on TV and early in the evening the amazing news came in that one state had gone to Ross Perot. The studio pundits were practically exploding and saying how this might affect the outcome and how the face of American [...]
I like the look of the display on it anyway,...
