Well...we're back today with some TV reviews...
If you missed Sci Fi's airing of season two of Doctor Who, you can now catch it on DVD. Unfortunately, the "cliffhanger" ending will have to wait until Sci Fi airs season two this summer, but there are ways of catching the Christmas episode entitled "The Runaway Bride" and I highly recommend it. One of the funnier episodes that David Tennant has been in so far, this episode has all the good qualities of the new series while still embodying the stuff that made the classic series so classic.
And speaking of the good Doctor, the spin-off known as Torchwood recently completed its first season. While I have no idea when or if or where it will air in the United States, this is a great companion series without having to know anything about Doctor Who to follow along. This is essentially a British version of The X-Files as Captain Jack Harkness leads a team of four others who investigate strange occurances. It's not a perfect "spin-off", but it is a lot of fun. With all the sex and language in it, I'd be shocked to see it air on any of the US channels that have carried Doctor Who.
24 has returned with a vengeance. We're six hours into this season and we've seen a nuclear explosion in Valencia, CA and discovered that the mysterious bad guy running things last season is Jack's brother. Yikes. Its hard to judge this show without seeing the entire season first. Last year was probably the best story-wise, with the least amount of logic gaps. This time, we're six hours in and Jack's only been off a plane from China for about 5 and a half of those. I know I'd have been spending that time sleeping.
Kidnapped finished its run online at NBC.com. Only 5 of 13 episodes aired onbroadcast TV and thankfully NBC gave the team enough notice to wrap it all up by the end. While they did wrap up the main story and told a pretty well told tale in the process, they did leave things open for future adventures of Jeremy Sisto's character (which will never come anyway). Here's hoping for a DVD release of this engaging story.
Big Day is a lot like 24 in that an entire season is the course of events of one day. here, that one day is leading towards a wedding. This funny show barely got the chance to do anything as ABC burned it off in rapid time during November & December. While I thought they aired all the episodes shot and the last episode aired had a nice "resolution" to the chaos, it turns out there are still two episodes unaired (they were scheduled to air last night, but instead ABC went with Meet The Fockers) hopefully we'll get to see just how the show ended (probably in mid-story...so maybe its best it ended where it did).
Help Me Help You marked Ted Danson's return to TV yet again. While I found this sitcom about a shrink and his group therapy patients rather funny, apparently no one else did and ABC cancelled it before it was halfway done airing the episodes they did shoot. Oh well.
That's all for today. I'm plugging away at holes in my list for the Best & Worst of 2006 in movies and hope to have it posted before the Oscars.
I'll be back soon.
Be seeing you.
1 comment:
Kidnapped was the best show on television and thanks for mentioning it in your blog. FYI - they've confirmed a DVD- we called Sony (a big group of Kidnapped fans) and it's for sure - just no release date yet.
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