Always struggling between whether to review TV seasons at calendar year-end or summer season-end, but inspired by the awesome finales of Lost and Battlestar Galactica, I’ve decided to talk about the shows I loved, and not-so-loved this season (no comment, however, on shows I dropped ages ago — that means you: Bionic Woman, Dirty Sexy…
Tag: How I Met Your Mother
2007: The Year on Screen
Pardon the grandiose title of this post, but as the year comes to a close, I like to take a look back at high points (and maybe a few lows) at the movies and on TV. The Silver Screen This year was a pretty average year for me at the movies. I watched about 30…
Fall TV 2007 Pt. 1 – Returning Shows
Everyone starts with the new shows, but since I watched the old shows first, that’s where I’m going to begin: Heroes I’m assuming you all watched the return of last year’s hot new show, so let’s get to it. I’m still not convinced that Hiro’s time-trip back to feudal Japan isn’t a premature shark-jumping, but…
Alvin’s 50 Favourite Shows
Welcome to my 100th post. To honour this auspicious milestone, I’ve decided to do what many web sites seem to be doing — come up with my top 50 TV shows of all time (I started with 100, but it was just too much — and even with 50, I hope you’ll stick with me)….
2007 Season Finales
Another television season has ended, and on some cliffs we’ve been left hanging–but nothing to make me crave next season. Alias, Battlestar, Lost, X-Files, and even Friends was always good for some major game-changing in the last episode, but this year’s shows aren’t quite stringing me along for next fall. Heroes – “How To Stop…
Five memorable TV moments from 2006
I’m sure by now you have watched or read some kind of 2006 retrospective: maybe a top 10 list of movies or books or tv shows. I’ve seen a few, and tried to come up with a few myself. At the movies, this was another lacklustre year for me. I didn’t really see a lot…
Are we Friends again?
After Friends went off the air, producers of the spin-off Joey kept reminding us that Joey was not going to be another Friends. That was unfortunate, because Friends was one of my all-time favourite shows, but Joey not so much. Two shows debuted this season (one in the fall and one in January) which are…
2005: The Year on TV
Let’s face it. The new fall season is a dud. They’ve cancelled shows that I was watching (like Just Legal and Threshold) and kept on inferior ones (like Invasion, Surface, Ghost Whisperer) that I wouldn’t want to watch unless you paid me (and I ain’t seen no cheques in the mail yet!). However, calendar year-end…
Inside my DVR
Once people find out that I watch more than 5 hours of TV per week, they are often surprised and want to know what kind of shows I watch. Well, the simplest way is to look inside the little machine that feeds my TV fancy. Here’s a tally of the shows that I record, and…
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