Monthly Archives: January 2010
Caprican Sub Culture
Thanks to The Thumbcast‘s Iain Hepburn for drawing my attention to this blog post by SFX columnist Jayne Nelson. I’ve only seen the pilot episode so far, but I really like what I’ve seen of the Battlestar Galactica spin-off Caprica. … Continue reading
Filed under Current and recent TV shows, Stuff
Saturday Stuff – Elmo Meets Ricky Gervais
Two TV giants, together on screen for the first time. One is a big-mouthed, squeaky-voiced muppet with an annoying laugh… the other is Elmo from Sesame Street. Ricky Gervais sings Elmo a lullaby about the letter ‘N’: N is for… … Continue reading
Liberate Yourself A Blake’s 7 Teleport Bracelet
Regular readers will know (from posts such as this and this and, ahem, this) that Blake’s 7 is the Choob’s all-time favourite TV show. I have also been known to spend silly amounts of cash on geek-related replicas and limited edition … Continue reading
Filed under Classic TV, Comics, Stuff
BBC Winter Olympics Trailer Deserves A Medal
More share options The trailer for the BBC’s coverage of the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics is a thing of beauty. The music, incidentally, is the intro to Michael Bublé‘s version of the song Cry Me A River.
Tuesday Is Theme Tunes Day – The Fall Guy
The Fall Guy was, of course, what Lee Majors did next, after the phenomenally successful Six Million Dollar Man came to an end. In his new show, he starred as Colt Seavers, a Hollywood stuntman who uses his movie-making skills … Continue reading
Filed under Classic TV, Tuesday Is Theme Tunes Day, TV Themes
The Monday Movie: The Sword In The Stone
When I was wee, you never saw any of Disney’s classic animated films on TV. There were only three TV channels in the UK until I was 13. And the home video boom didn’t really take off until I was … Continue reading
Filed under Movies, The Monday Movie
A Word From our Sponsors… Lego
“But he turned into an anti-kipper ballistic missile…” I couldn’t help noticing the other night that the nostalgic trend of classic vintage adverts being dusted off and rerun seems to be gathering pace. We’ve already seen the old Milky Way and Accurist … Continue reading
Filed under A Word From our Sponsors, Classic TV
