Faith is back! I mean Eliza Dushku! I mean Tru! What a surprise. I caught a promo that the new season of Tru Calling begins tonight on Sky One at 9pm. I thought Tru Calling was like Jake 2.0 or Firefly or Space: Above & Beyond, sadly a one season wonder. No, a second season [...]
I just watched the last episode of season three of The L Word (yes, we’re behind in the UK). To make sure it was indeed the last episode, I went online to find out. I did a search, and Showtime’s site came up first, so I clicked through only to be told: We at Showtime [...]
So it’s pretty clear that I love The OC, despite its geography flaws. But c’mon — The OC is simply Melrose Place further south in Southern California. And I loved Melrose Place. I loved it so much that it turned out to be the single most popular thing I ever did when I worked in [...]
Two letters from Sky this week. The first was to tell me that oops, they’ve failed to bill me and apparently all other Sky HD customers for any Sky services at all for July. Cool, that’s £56 saved Well, Sky’s not that generous. They’ll clawback most of that next month, the letter told me. They [...]
It’s been about two weeks since I’ve gotten Sky HD. I wasn’t super thrilled with the picture quality at first, but I’ve since been fully converted. When people in the US would talk about HD, it sounded miraculous. In part, I think that’s because the NTSC standard is lower quality than PAL (see PAL vs [...]
I upgraded my old Sky+ box ages ago. The warranty had expired, and plenty of people (along with magazines) had documented how to do it. I pulled the old hard drive, put in a bigger one and never looked back. Eventually, I’m sure I’ll do the same with my Sky HD box. After all, 160GB [...]
At last, I’ve got Sky HD. The install happened on Saturday, and now I’m enjoying glorious pictures. Well, nicer ones with the occasional wow factor. Here’s the rundown on how things work and are going so far. Let’s start outdoors, with the disk upgrade: Hanging off the disk is the new “octo” LNB. That’s octo [...]
OK, I’ve accepted the fact that it takes hours for characters in the OC to drive from Newport Beach to Laguna Beach, when they are only 10 minutes apart. I’ve suspended disbelief over the piers in Newport Beach bearing no relation to reality. I’ve learned that one can apparently walk from Pelican Hills where the [...]
After last night’s post on Battlestar Galactica alternatives, I finished up by watching the latest episode here. Read no more, if you’re behind. Read on if you want to know more about Billy’s interesting twist on last night’s show.
Marshall Simmonds emailed me that Battlestar Galactica just ended in the US. We’re about mid-way through season three here in the UK. I wasn’t sure we’d actually flow from the Pegasus turning up at the end of season two into more episodes and so thought about doing this post then, for others in the UK [...]