The Intrepid Cow!

At first, I wondered how patrons got up there. Then I noticed that the right hind leg was an elevator! And the utters were puffing out steam!

I'm grateful that I was not tempted enough by Primeval to ever try it. I loves me some bad SciFi, but the conversation here would lead me to believe it isn't bad enough to be entertaining.

Well, it can be. Comes and goes. They're not good on gender issues particularly (although Abby has apparently learned to wear more than just underpants in the house, yay), and their UK is rather white (although a new cast member is a woman of Middle Eastern descent), and the plot logic is close to Swiss cheese. But they have so much fun with the dinosaurs and mammoths and other critters.

And Rex is adorable. Also in series 3 they introduce these two really cute critters, sort of like badger/ferret things.

And sometimes the story works. And Helen and Lester are both consistently entertaining, in their respective Evil Mastermind and Skeevy Politician ways.

Pushing Daisies: I was NOT satisfied by the ending, but that is because I pine for the piners and therefore apparently ship Olive/Ned.

I appreciated the effort they put into wrapping up as much they could, though -- it was thoughtful closure for the characters and respectful of the fans.

(Would have preferred to have the stuff planned for the next season, though. Ned's father! Olive, dealing with learning about Ned's special power! And you know that Chuck would have separation problems with her aunts when they weren't on tour! And so on!)

I loved, though, that we got a CGI sweeping tour of the places we've been on the show, which made me choke up as much as the actual goodbyes -- and that we got a very last shot of Digby running through the flowers.

Yup, Theo is me. I think they made a valiant effort scrounging together odds and ends of footage and gave us about as much closure as was possible.

But DAMNIT, next season would have been so good!

Primeval has been cancelled:

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Well, that makes sense in the way that making a Big Screen version of the show didn't.

Season 4 of Torchwood likely a go - depending on how this summer's mini does.

I really hope Children of Earth goes well, not only because I like the show, but because I want them to be rewarded for thinking through the airing schedule and DVD release. It seems like and anti-piracy plan, but in a positive way.

From the Primeval article: "High-quality drama remains a key part of the ITV schedule although our current focus is on post-watershed productions,"

Which watershed? What does that even mean?