Tag: Television

16 posts

QI, c’mon BBC, share a little

While I miss my coworkers from Dublin, Irish breakfasts, and the Dropping Well... what I miss most from Ireland is getting the full breadth for BBC programming. Sure, as with US programming,…

I hate flashback episodes

Tonight I watched three hours of television, and two hours of it were in reverse.  It seems more and more TV writers are using the flashback episode as crutch. By flashback episode…

Painkiller Jane: Dud

SciFi Channel: you owe me an hour. Here's the elevator pitch: take the cheerleader from Heroes, stick her in a shadowy government agency like Sydney from Alias and have them hunt super…

Woo woo!

My current gaming addiction is Gears of War (GOW)... spent almost 4 hours playing it with friends last night (yes, Paula is out of town... aren't you clever to figure that out).…

Now that’s entertainment!

I love this show!  Are you watching it yet? No?  Go, right now, set your TiVo.  Don't worry, I'll wait right here. What are you waiting for?  Shoo!

Must not see TV: Heist

Paula and I always love a good caper movie, so when we saw the ads for Heist on TV we thought, hey, looks like a fun diversion.  We were only able to…

TV worth watching: House

This is why House is the best medical show on TV... period: There are few shows I must watch, four total, in fact.  House (aka House, M.D.) is at the top of the short…

Technology that works

My DirecTV TiVo died a month or two ago so I went out and bought a new one (well… it was a shelf model but works great).  The old unit I just…

You see Theo…

In the 70’s I used to listen to my dad’s Bill Cosby albums, in the 80’s I used to watch the Cosby show and in the 90’s I cringed when Bill Cosby…

Thank the tech gods

I know I could be considered a complete MS lackey (something about MS paying me has a bit of an influence in that) but I must confess... I really love my TiVo…

This would have saved me a ton of time…

I was up until 10:30 last night fast-forwarding through football just to get to the commercials.  If I had only known that MSN Video would have put all the commercials up on their web…

I don’t get it

If you want to watch the Olympics, you watch it on one of the NBC stations (which includes MSNBC). Now, if you're on the web and you tune to MSN Video, guess…

Screw you guys… I’m going home

Did you ever want to have a South Park character of your very own? Well try the South Park Studios Create a Character. See if you can make one that looks just…