TV Guide

Survivor: South Pacific – Season 23 – “Double Agent” *contains spoilers for episode eight’s eviction* The latest season of Survivor has really hit its stride with the eighth episode as the two tribes head into a merger and with several players on the show now carrying pretty compelling stories leading into the final few episodes.  Of the two returning players, ...

Terra Nova -104 “What Remains” I am trying really hard to like Terra Nova, Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park meets Avatar tv show but after four episodes I am pretty close to throwing in the towel.  My god…the writing.  It hurts my brain. Whats been surprising about Terra Nova which showed signs of promise in its pilot is that after two ...

Terra Nova One of the lasting legacies of JJ Abram’s show Lost is that it reversed a trend from the early 2000s that saw free-to-air America television networks being dominated by reality tv shows.  Reality tv programming was cheap to produce and easy to make – it wasn’t reliant on the consistency or quality of a group of writers to ...

You can count me amongst the hoards of admirers of Idris Elba’s performance in the The Wire as crime lord Stringer Bell who found his portrayal of a Baltimore drug dealer so convincing that I had no idea he was actually British. It wasn’t until someone put me onto the BBC crime drama Luther that I got to see him ...

The Killing In the pilot episode, The Killing came across as a smart, sharply written crime drama that had a similar look and feel to the popular Girl With A Dragon Tattoo series.  The show was based on a popular Danish cop drama although I’m not sure how true to the source material it is.  The concept of having a ...

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During the Easter Break I had a chance to check out a bunch of a new tv shows.  I’m normally pretty conservative with my viewing habits and stick with what I know.  I don’t really try out new shows all that often.  I have a laundry list of classic shows that I know I should watch one day that I ...

Q&A Anyone who’s kept up with The FAT Website over the years will know that one of my favourite forms of television entertainment is politics.  Modern day politics is all about sound bytes, spectacle, name-calling and muck raking.  Whether its Silvio Burlusconi having bunga bunga parties, Donald Trump running for the White House or Muammar Gaddafi giving a speech under ...

Here’s what I’ve been watching on the telly this week: Jeopardy: IBM Watson Episodes I normally never watch the game show Jeopardy but I was drawn in by their recent IBM Watson series.  You might recall about ten years ago when IBM created a computer named Deep Blue that played a series of chess games against the grand master Gary ...

Glee – Season 2 I only just found time to finish watching the two most recent episodes of Glee (Sectionals & Christmas) but now that I have a bit of downtime because I’m on Flood Break I’ve been able to catch up. I dug both episodes and they rounded out the first half of this season nicely.  I’ve timed this ...