October 2008
4 posts
More watching....
Sunday viewing:
NASCAR and Formula 1: lots of motorsport!
Cracking Up: devastating personal account by Alaistair Campbell (former Number 10 press secretary) of his nervous breakdown in the 1980s. Really troubling, really revealing, impossible not to admire someone for being willing to bare their soul like that.
Stephen Fry in America: decent enough travelogue of the 50 states of the US, but...
Watching ...
Documentary night last night:
The American Future - a History: nothing particularly new to anyone who knows their United States (Depression, Dustbowl, the expansion west, the Hoover Dam) but Schama knits it into a very relevant narrative connected to climate change, oil, and the current elections.
Watching the Russians: Stella Rimmington is not exactly the most natural front-of-TV presenter, but...
Buying
Spooks Season 6
Hadn’t meant to buy this. Or rather, meant to wait until it comes down form the £40 RRP in 2-3 months time and goes on sale for Christmas.
But turns out that Woolworths are selling it for almost half price anyway, so it seemed almost rude not to take advantage.
Not sure this season was all that good to be honest - the one long storyline got a little complex and wearing,...
Whoops ...
… no posts in weeks. Must do better.
Which is not the same thing as saying that I will do better, you understand!
September 2008
7 posts
Watching
‘How to be a Good President’ - BBC4 (via Virgin ‘catch up’). Nothing strikingly original for anyone who knows US politics, but good archive fotage. Must pumped for FDR as the ultimate best of the 20th century. Harry Evans for Teddy because of the National Parks … and Doug Hurd for George Bush the first? Wow. Weird.
Law and Order: Criminal Intent - new series: all...
Watching
Tonight: Dexter. One of the best shows on TV.
And CSI: Miami, one of the worst, but good for cleansing the brain of all intelligent thought.
Last night’s ‘President Hollywood’ on BBC4 was good, not least for the multiple clips of ‘The West Wing’ - still one of the best shows on TV ever.
Kredit Krunch Kremes →
Food
Frankie and Benny’s - potato skins and bacon cheese burger + fries
Way too many Peronis. Really - way too many.
Watching
GP2 spring race and F1 Grand Prix
NASCAR
That’s it, no ‘regular’ shows.
Humph
Lovely tribute evening to Humphrey Lyttelton, including the filming of the final I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue at the Lowry Centre’s Lyric Theatre in Salford.
Genuinely sad to lose him: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00ddwcy
Watching
Final Tri-Nations match (NZ v Austalia) - All Blacks win!
F1 Monza qualifying. Wet; and bad for Lewis
GP2 - entertaining as Monza dries
Maestro - Su Perkins rocks
Mock the Week - great fun