1. TV departed – my list of Eight Reasons You Should be Downloading the First Season of “The Middleman” is live at Fantasy Magazine. Because if my weekly gibberings haven’t convinced you, then by god, a numbered list will!
2. TV present – I think weekends on the SciFi channel are designed to sap my will to live. The fact that I watched Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves WILLINGLY, THREE TIMES rather than watch the SciFi channel is proof of how bad the SciFi movies are; when I can’t sit through something, you know it’s bad news. The TiVo descriptions are like poetry, though. And by “poetry”, I mean “the poem Joey from third grade wrote about how he would use his pet dragon to burn up his little sister, and suddenly the teacher decided it was time for recess and sent Joey to the nurse”.
3. TV forthcoming – I will, of course, be following every episode of Eleventh Hour (for the four episodes I suspect will air before they can it). I will be reporting on it here. I need some kind of ASCII shorthand for “googly eye”, but otherwise I’m rarin’ to go on this one. Sewell, dude, you knew this day would come.
(Fun fact: I’ve written more about Rufus Sewell in this blog than I have about any other actor. That’s really bizarre to me, because if you ask me to give you a list of my favorite actors, he’s on it, but I’d probably give you a list of twenty guys and then I’d call you later and be like, “Oh! And Rufus Sewell. And that guy who played Roe in Band of Brothers. And Jim Boadbent.”)
4. High on that list would be Julian Rhind-Tutt, who I do like as an actor, but whose name I would put on the list regardless, because HIS NAME IS JULIAN RHIND-TUTT. This actually counts as TV, too, since he was on “Keen Eddie”, which I watched for all thirteen episodes until they canned it. This also means I got to hate Sienna Miller before it was cool to hate her.
5. Which reminds me, I’m ripe for disliking another “blonde and winning” TV lady! Marley Shelton, I’m looking at you.
