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Royal Pains
Royal Pains is a US medical comedy drama series that currently airs on Channel 7 in Australia late on Sunday and Monday nights. It’s a pity it is tucked away in this spot as I find it very entertaining and it may be missing a much wider audience. The background story to the series is [...]
Continue reading...Upstairs Downstairs 2010
Thursday, December 29, 2011
The 2010 version of Upstairs Downstairs recently aired on Australian television. This is of course an update of the classic series from the 1970’s that ran for 5 years. The links to the original series are that the new episodes take place in the same house, 165 Eaton Place and the new owners Sir Hallam [...]
Continue reading...Skins Season 5
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Skins Season 5 Episode 2 – Rich This was a really good episode of Skins, it had a bit of everything, humour, a good story, half hearted romance and great acting from the kids. Where do they keep finding the talent for this series? Skins Season 5, so far, seems to be a lot less [...]
Continue reading...The Return of Two and Half Men
Monday, September 26, 2011
Nice to Meet You, Walden Schmidt The long awaited return of Two and a Half Men went to air last week, almost simultaneously in the USA and Australia. In the USA Charlie Sheen went up against his old show with The Comedy Central Roast of Charlie Sheen going to air at the same time. But [...]
Continue reading...Crownies
Sunday, July 31, 2011
Crownies ABC1 Thursdays, ABC2 Fridays The ABC‘s new drama series Crownies is causing quite a stir. It is a series about the Crown Prosecution Service and focuses mainly on five young ridiculously attractive solicitors. Most of the stir on the ABC boards is due to the amount of focus on sex. All of the female [...]
Continue reading...Al Murray the Pub Landlord
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Comedian Al Murray plays the character of a British pub landlord, most famously in two TV series Time Gentlemen Please and Happy Hour. They were both shown on Australian TV some time ago, but were tucked away late at night and suffered the wrath of Australian TV scheduling, being moved around to different times, different [...]
Continue reading...The Kennedys Sundays ABC1
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
The U.S. mini series The Kennedys finished on ABC1 this week. It aired over the last four weeks and included some great performances from all of the lead actors and some great insight on modern history for those of us that were too young to know and were not born in the USA. Greg Kinnear [...]
Continue reading...Body of Lies Sunday 12th June Go
Monday, June 13, 2011
Body of Lies aired on Go Channel in Australia on Sunday 12th June. I must have missed the promotion for this film when it was released and it must have been released here, as two of Australia‘s favourite sons in the acting game were featured, Russell Crowe and Vince Colisomo. But I must admit that [...]
Continue reading...Later with Jools Holland 26th May
Monday, May 30, 2011
Cyndi Lauper, John Legend, Ray Davies… I made the mistake of tuning in a little late for Later this week, damn the ABC for moving it to Thursday nights. I must set up my PVR to record it automatically, so I don’t miss any of the show again. I think I probably missed the first [...]
Continue reading...Later with Jools Holland 19th May
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Duane Eddy, Cee Lo Green, Steve Miller Band A great Episode of Later with Jools Holland was shown on Thursday night on ABC2. I am pretty sure these episodes are new to Australia, but were recorded in 2010 in the U.K. I’m sorry to see the show moved to this late spot (10:45) on a [...]
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Sunday, January 8, 2012
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