» Torchwood: Sleeper
Hmm. I’m not entirely sure what to make of this week’s offering- I’m afraid you’ll have to bear with me for a bit whilst I scuttle around in the hope of formulating an opinion.
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Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
» Torchwood: Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
A second series of Torchwood was not a forgone conclusion. Although it drew a regular audience on BBC3, the show’s first incarnation failed to achieve widespread acclaim (its BAFTA for “Least Whistle-able Theme Tune” notwithstanding). Instead of settling in, Torchwood’s second run is tasked with playing to strengths not always exploited in the original.
Saturday, January 19, 2008
» The Good Old Days? - Road Safety (Part 1; Think Once, Think Twice...Think Don't Drive Your Car on the Pavement)
Welcome, readers, to another of my irregular columns. This one allows me to tackle my interest in social history, as it's clear to me that, to really understand a country, you should make some effort to learn about the day-to-day concerns of its citizens over the past century. In the case of Britain, we have a goldmine of information produced by successive governments, firmly entrenching our tradition of being told NOT TO BE SILLY by the Ministry of Information (MoI) during the Second World War, and the Central Office of Information (COI) after the war. This entry deals with road safety, a subject often used by detractors to claim that the UK government is over-cautious with British drivers. I'll be interested to know if they continue to hold that opinion if a relative of theirs is killed or maimed on the roads (this hasn't happened to me, incidentally). Anyway, read on and wonder how the hell anyone managed to survive in an era of deadly glass windscreens and drivers gladly having 'one for the road'. Shudder...
Thursday, January 10, 2008
» Doctor Who - Voyage Of The Damned
And so to the annual Doctor Who Christmas special, which this year stars Kylie Minogue as a waitress aboard the doomed blah blah blah. If you've seen any kind of magazine at all since November, you're probably familiar with the basic premise. The recently completed third series had it's highs and all-new barrel-scraping lows, meaning less that there was a great burden of expectation on this episode, more that a bunch of desperate people were willing it to be any good at all, something which it duly fails at, no matter how valiant or spectacular the attempt.
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
» I hear you're a racist now, Father...
I've linked to Reuters' 'The Good, The Bad and The Ugly' before, and thought this mistake was too amusing not to feature on NTS. What amazes me is that at least one reader thought Reuters would publish this intentionally...
Wednesday, January 2, 2008
» Oh, GEORGE!
I love reviews of things that give away more about the reviewer than the thing they're reviewing. Such is the case with this DVD review of Series 1 of George and Mildred.
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