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Television

Futurama’s good news

Sci-fi TV show Futurama is to return.

Read the full article ⍾ SciFi 10 June 2009 0 comments

Battlestar Galactica: my problem now is to disengage

I haven’t been watching much TV lately — as in for most of 2008, and now into 2009. There are several reasons: I don’t want to watch too much — I have plenty of things to do in my life; I don’t need TV as a time-filler. Since I discovered audio and video podcasts I’ve [...]

Read the full article ⍾ Television 11 January 2009 0 comments

Veronica Mars on Vibe

Deb was home sick the other day, and spent the afternoon watching TV. That’s how I caught what happened to be the first episode of Veronica Mars on Vibe. I’ve seen many mentions by US-based friends and colleagues of this show, all saying how good it was, so I downed tools for the hour and [...]

Read the full article ⍾ Television 6 March 2008 0 comments

Saving Grace disappears; hooray for videocasts

About a month ago a new show popped up on TV3: Saving Grace. Wikipedia tells us: The plot focuses on Grace Hanadarko (Hunter), a chain smoking, binge drinking, promiscuous, adulterous, lying Oklahoma City police officer. Despite her many failings and her upbringing in a dysfunctional family, Grace is portrayed as a basically good person with [...]

Read the full article ⍾ Television 13 November 2007 1 comment

Throng launches web 2.0 TV listings

I don’t watch much TV these days: video podcasts and DVDs fill the ‘gap’ very nicely. Besides, I just don’t have time. But if I want to know what’s on, new website Throng is offering an easy way to find out: …throng.co.nz has today launched a world-first web 2.0 television listings format. In development for [...]

Read the full article ⍾ Television 26 September 2007 0 comments

Stargate S8 musings (spoilers)

Spoilers below. Be warned. I like watching Sci-Fi on TV, and have long enjoyed Stargate SG1. After seeing most of the first 7 series on TV I gradually bought the DVD sets. Then about a year ago I bought Season 8. Somehow between being busy and temporarily going ‘off’ Stargate I hadn’t got around to [...]

Read the full article ⍾ SciFi 18 July 2007 0 comments

From nights gone by

I’d forgotten about the ‘Goodnight Kiwi‘, the animation that used to play when TV 2 stopped broadcasting each night at about midnight. And I’m not sure if the good old milk bottle still exists anywhere in New Zealand either. The days seem long past when TV wasn’t 24 hours a day, when there were only [...]

Read the full article ⍾ Television 7 November 2006 0 comments

The women on TV

I’ve spent the whole day watching episodes from Season Two of Battlestar Galactica. I don’t know how I managed to forget how gripping it is, how moving, and what a well-told story. And, it manages to include women in meaningful roles, with serious storylines of their own. In general TV it seems the era of [...]

Read the full article ⍾ Television 15 October 2006 5 comments

Half a million for a prop

As a kid I watched Star Trek (The Original Series) and loved it. I’m still very fond of the various Star Trek series and sci-fi in general. This year is the 40th anniversary of Star Trek and with no new series in production it seems they decided to auction off a whole lot of props. [...]

Read the full article ⍾ SciFi 10 October 2006 0 comments

Enjoying good friends

The upside of the current dearth of decent programmes on TV is that I’ve turned to my collection of DVDs for entertainment. In the last couple of weeks I’ve been reacquainting myself with random episodes of Xena and Voyager, and finally making a start on Season 5 of Babylon 5. Ahhhh. The fun of Xena: [...]

Read the full article ⍾ SciFi 23 September 2006 0 comments

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