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ABC has potential winner in Forever

One of the joys of watching an awful lot of television is that every now and again you get blindsided by a show that you have no expectations for and yet is thoroughly entertaining. Such is the case with Forever, the new ABC drama that stars Ioan Gruffudd, Alana de [...]

By | August 27th, 2014|0 Comments

Yes Minister: The best British comedy ever

Yes Minister and the follow up Yes Prime Minister are the focus of this week’s Throwback Thursday with the combined 38 episodes available on Hulu Plus. Comedy is a rather subjective matter and what tickles the old funny bone varies from person to person, but for me this is the [...]

By | July 17th, 2014|0 Comments

Bosch is a pleasant surprise

Original shows are now the name of the game for services such as Amazon Prime, Hulu Plus and Netflix with the latter about to release the second season of a House of Cards on Friday. However this past Thursday Amazon stole something of a march on their rival when they [...]

By | February 10th, 2014|0 Comments

House of Cards: Time to watch the original

The second season of the US version of a House of Cards will premiere on Friday when Netflix makes available the 13 episodes for streaming. As good as the first season was, and it was quite excellent, if you haven’t watched the original UK version then I urge you to [...]

By | February 8th, 2014|0 Comments

The Bridge – Scandinavian original is superb

I am, it has to be said, having difficulty coming up with the words to describe the original Scandinavian version of The Bridge after completing the 10 episodes of Season One available on Hulu and Hulu Plus. Complete and utter brilliance and very, very European is about the best I [...]

By | February 2nd, 2014|0 Comments

Binge watch alert: Scandinavian ‘The Bridge’ on Hulu

  Fans of the recent high quality output in television shows from Scandinavia should take note that Bron, the original Swedish-Danish production that was remade into The Bridge on FX, has now been made available for streaming on Hulu. Sofia Helin and Kim Bodina play Swedish detective Saga Noren and [...]

By | January 15th, 2014|0 Comments

Watching Doctor Who

The now traditional Christmas Doctor Who show brought Matt Smith’s reign as the 11th Doctor to a close wrapping up a number of previous plot points and introducing Peter Capaldi as the next version of the character. I’m somewhat in the minority when it comes to this most recent vintage [...]

By | January 5th, 2014|0 Comments

‘Zen’ and the art of fine drama

Charisma and presence are hard to define.  So too is the chemistry between actors; it’s one of those things that you know when you see it. I mention this because I happened to watch the BBC show Zen over the past couple of days. On reflection, if ever I was [...]

By | January 4th, 2014|0 Comments

Pauline Collins plays ‘The Ambassador’

Pauline Collins is one of those actresses that seem to have been around forever. Now 73 years old, Collins has appeared at regular intervals on the small screen since 1971 when the BBC worldwide hit Upstairs, Downstairs made her a star. Probably best known here for the title role in [...]

By | December 23rd, 2013|0 Comments

‘New Tricks’ is the best show you haven’t seen!

I’ve been a huge fan of Hulu since it first became available a number of years ago. The ability to watch multiple episodes of shows, in some cases whole seasons of quality television, gives the viewer wonderful freedom and the price – free – can’t be beat. While I have [...]

By | December 17th, 2013|0 Comments

TV Tech

It was the fall of 2007, I was entering the last year of a graduate program and, as students often do, I was living frugally to say the least.  Up until that point I had been living in a fool’s paradise, gobbling up all the free cable (included in rent) [...]

By | October 15th, 2013|0 Comments