Author Archives: Christine

Although wacky and certainly “out-there”, I enjoyed The Mighty Boosh and found it to be entertaining. It was definitely something that you would describe as being best watched while on drugs, but it still found its moments to be not … Continue reading →

“Blink and you’re dead. They are fast. Faster than you can believe. Don’t turn your back. Don’t look away. And don’t blink.” The Doctor’s words in “Blink” seem to resonate with BBC4’s The Thick of It, a program which requires … Continue reading →

Interesting quote in here from Paul Feig, who you may know as the creator of Freaks and Geeks and director of Bridesmaids, and who is creating a mock-talk show comedy with American hosts for Sky Atlantic after it got rejected … Continue reading →

Anyone else think The Mighty Boosh seem really familiar? Old Gregg is a YouTube hit from a few years ago which most of my friends have seen, though none of us had any context. Very bizarre. And very similar to … Continue reading →

I was really intrigued by “The Promise,” both in content and because of what Prof. Becker mentioned about complaints on the program’s ideology. Without having seen the entire series – and with a few gaps in our viewing of the first … Continue reading →

Here’s a chunk of what we missed from The Promise. http://youtu.be/A35ik5HmlXk

The Director General of the BBC is stepping down after the Olympics.

After all the hullabaloo with Skins on MTV in the United States, I was expecting the original British version to really shock me, considering that regulation of racy content in the UK is much more lax (though oddly much more … Continue reading →

So I went back and revisited the Skins episodes to refresh my memory and I was left with the same impressions. The series resembles more of an HBO or Showtime type of program in terms of some of the content … Continue reading →

Some bits of news: BBC’s The Voice and ITV’s Britain’s Got Talent are in a scheduling battle, premiering on the same night and likely overlapping a time slot (BBC source: “”It is disappointing they chose to launch Britain’s Got Talent … Continue reading →

I found this interesting article from The Philadelphia Inquirer about NBC potentially dropping the ball by not picking up Downton Abbey to run on the network. Unfortunately, it only really sort of grazes over everything, beginning a few interesting threads … Continue reading →

Channel 4 is starting a new channel, called 4Seven (no, really. Cool logo, at least). It will play shows from the previous week that got a lot of buzz, but one journalist doesn’t think it will work, because people will … Continue reading →

The seventh series of Skins next year will be its last.

Issues of class apparently even affect acting jobs in British TV, as the actor who plays the footman Thomas on Downton Abbey has complained that “posh” actors have an easier road on TV than working-class ones.

As a tie-in with a new reality show about diverse members of a British town trying to  get along (a show which has gotten at least one dreadful review), Channel 4 asked British people to tweet single words that define … Continue reading →