Singer to direct Battlestar, kittens die

posted by Tom on 22.09.2009, under Movies, TV
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Disturbing news for every right-thinking geek here, as Bryan Singer looks set to direct a big-screen ‘reboot’ of Battlestar Galactica, set to screen in 2011. Aside from the fact that if there was ever a word that gave me an insatiable desire to drown kittens then ‘reboot’ is it, this enrages me (and apparently a whole lot of other angry internet men) for two reasons:

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A Tale of Two Sitcoms

posted by Tom on 21.09.2009, under TV
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Funny how things balance out, isn’t it? For every yin there’s a yang; for every tin of Branston baked beans there’s a tin of those 3p ones you pick up at Lidl that resemble pebbly baby dragon shit; and for every new episode of the almighty Peep Show there’s an episode of How Not To Live Your Life on BBC Three.

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Stay Frosty: Generation Kill wordthinks

posted by Tom on 21.09.2009, under TV
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Maybe somewhat out of date this one, having first screened on FX in January, but I recently rewatched it on DVD, and it’s definitely worth tossing out a few hundred words. Why? Because Generation Kill is hands-down one of the finest television dramas of recent years. Yeah, you heard me. It’s up there with The Wire.

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