Numberslut!
Also, I've been trawling for Firefly in the UK stuff, and while not specific, this is interesting for general US-shows-in-the-UK stuff.
Can't any one of your damn little Scooby club at least try to remember that I hate you all?
Spike ,'Get It Done'
All Ogle, No Cash -- It's Not Just Annoying, It's Un-American
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Am-Chau Yarkona - Mar 20, 2003 4:00:47 am PST #2442 of 9843
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
Jim - Mar 20, 2003 4:08:23 am PST #2443 of 9843
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
Boomtown is 10-o-clock Tuesdays C5, Am-Chau.
Megan E. - Mar 20, 2003 4:11:23 am PST #2444 of 9843
I like Boomtown a lot. It disappeared off Canadian tv for a while after Christmas, so I thought it had been cancelled, but it's back with avengence now.
Am-Chau Yarkona - Mar 20, 2003 4:19:23 am PST #2445 of 9843
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
Boomtown is 10-o-clock Tuesdays C5, Am-Chau.
scribbles note, wonders if video recorder can be hijacked for *another* night
Angus G - Mar 20, 2003 5:48:03 am PST #2446 of 9843
Roguish Laird
I quite enjoy Boomtown, but the other night they had this absolutely dire episode where Fearless kept having hallucinations of this friend whose life he'd failed to save in (I presume) the Gulf War (the first one, obv.), who kept popping up to remind him that life was worth living, never put off until tomorrow what you can do today, etc. etc., and even worse, his appearances were introduced each time by a soulful, bluesy trumpet motif. I wanted to throw up. For all its alleged innovativeness, it can be a really hacky show.
askye - Mar 20, 2003 7:15:39 am PST #2447 of 9843
Thrive to spite them
Boomtown was on hiatus for much of the winter when NBC ran the miniseries Kingpin. We just had two new episodes.
Dana - Mar 20, 2003 7:31:36 am PST #2448 of 9843
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
For all its alleged innovativeness, it can be a really hacky show.
Yeah, this is true. But I find when the hackiness gets too high, the acting and the relationships between the characters pull me through. And god knows there's not a lot of competition on TV these days for programs that actually require a little thought.
Angus G - Mar 20, 2003 7:34:21 am PST #2449 of 9843
Roguish Laird
Oh yeah, I still like it. It's just that when it started we got this whole orgy of hyperbole about how it was the most innovative and brilliant TV show ever.
Angus G - Mar 20, 2003 7:38:24 am PST #2450 of 9843
Roguish Laird
Cereal: Australian TV critics are strange. There seems to be a comfortable consensus that US TV is a priori not as good as British TV (which is quite wrong), but there are also a handful of US series that are routinely overpraised here: The West Wing, Frasier, Six Feet Under (well, that one's routinely overpraised everywhere, but you get the picture). Even The Practice was still getting good reviews here years after it had been consigned to joke status in the US.
evil jimi - Mar 20, 2003 7:48:52 am PST #2451 of 9843
Lurching from one disaster to the next.
In all honesty, I find Boomtown dull. Sure, it is taking a different look at how cop shows are structured but ultimately, it's still full of cliches and the same old same old.
I am looking forward to seeing The Shield, however.