I really should thank Scav for posting this on his LiveJournal. New Blackadder! Well, we can at least hope… March 27, 2005 Baldrick! The BBC’s plotting to revive us Ben Dowell The BBC has a cunning plan. Senior executives are hoping to bring back the hit comedy Blackadder, possibly as early as the autumn. TheyContinue reading “On new Blackadder”
Category Archives: Television
On Tonight's Boston Legal
The best episode of Boston Legal yet. Tonight took Alan Shore to Texas to take up a death penalty case. As the episode unfolded, as Shore made his appeal to the Texas High Court, as the inmate headed to receive the lethal injection, the laissez-faire attitude of previous episodes all but evaporated. This was aContinue reading “On Tonight's Boston Legal”
On Kelsey Grammer's Second Act
F. Scott Fitzgerald said that there are no second acts in American lives. Kelsey Grammer is one of the great actors of our time. Frasier is one of the great television programs of all time. Unfortunately, Kelsey Grammer’s second act blows chunks. FOX debuted tonight Kelsey Grammer Presents: The Sketch Show. Half an hour ofContinue reading “On Kelsey Grammer's Second Act”
On House
From an article in today’s Raleigh’s News & Observer entitled “Fox’s bitter medicine man a hit”– Hugh Laurie was quite likely the last person anyone imagined would star in Fox’s hit medical series “House.” Creator David Shore loved Laurie’s British sketch show “A Bit of Fry and Laurie,” but couldn’t imagine that anyone best knownContinue reading “On House”
Denny Crane!
About the only thing I watch on television these days is Boston Legal. Part stems from my loyalty to The Practice for so many years. Part stems from my love of the cast–James Spader, William Shatner, and now Candice Bergen (who is still pretty damn attractive). I realized a few weeks ago that in StarContinue reading “Denny Crane!”
On the Differences between The Practice and Boston Legal
At times the past few weeks watching Boston Legal I’ve wondered if the Crane, Poole, and Schmidt we’ve seen this year has any connection to the Crane, Poole, and Schmidt we saw last year in the final episodes of The Practice. Beyond the cosmetic changes–the office looks nothing the same–and the personnel changes–the feeling IContinue reading “On the Differences between The Practice and Boston Legal”
Wisdom from the Elizabethean Age
Let us today recall the famous pronouncement of Queen Elizabeth I’s religious advisor, Lord Melchett–“As private parts to the gods are we! They play with us for their sport!” Fitting, really. Sums up life nicely.
LateLine
I stopped by Best Buy this afternoon before work to see what new DVDs had come out, and saw on the shelf the DVD collection of LateLine, Al Franken’s sitcom about a late night television news program. Like most viewers, I saw not a single episode of the show when it was originally broadcast. IContinue reading “LateLine”
The Practice – The Series Finale
The Practice, a show I’ve loved watching since its second season, went out with a whimper, not a bang. Knowing that some of the characters will carry on next season–in Fleet Street, the Alan Shore-centered legal drama, and the untitled sitcom featuring Ellenor Frutt–tempers the disappointment, but only some of the disappointment. Spoilers, obviously.
On Last Son of Krypton
Yesterday the animated Superman pilot, “Last Son of Krypton,” came out on DVD, and I picked it up at Wal-Mart for something like eight or nine dollars. I never really followed the animated Superman, catching an episode here, an episode there, over the course of its run, so the only extended visit I paid toContinue reading “On Last Son of Krypton”