An epic week for television
It's that time of year again where some of my old favourite tv shows come back on! Plus we get some new tv shows to watch too!
Some shows i'm especially lookigng forward to are Fringe and Criminal minds.. Both of which ended their previous seasons with some stellar cliffhangers! I blogged about Fringe in an earlier blog post and draw some parallells (funny if you've watched Fringe) to a series of books I've read, read it here.
In Criminal minds, Tim Curry played an awesome role in the series final, it was great to see a world class actor perform and I can't wait to see him in the new season that started screening today.
Just started on Monday was HBO's new show Boardwalk Empire. I don't know what it is about HBO but they have put out some really awesome TV shows.. Sopranos, The Wire, True Blood to name a few, Boardwalk Empire stars Steve Buscemi, screenwritten and produced by Terence Winter (Sopranos) and the first episode was directed by Martin Scorsese. Boardwalk Empire is set in 1920 Atlantic City at the dawn of proabition in America. In typical HBO style it really doesn't leave much to the imagination, nudity, gore and the acting was beautiful. Go and watch it.
To list some of the shows that are coming back this week, in no particular order of preference:
- House
- Criminal Minds
- Bones
- The Big Bang Theory
- 30 Rock
- Greys Anatomy
- The Office (US)
- Fringe
- Smallville
Next week starting again is:
- The Simpsons
- Family Guy
- Stargate Universe
How do i keep track of all of these shows and when they screen?
I use a free TV Calandar hosted by a UK based web development company called Pogdesign, it pulls data for hundreds of TV shows that you can include in your filter, set your timezone and get the local screening times - check it out:
That's about all for now... off to watch some tv shows...
Peace!
Midichlorian Rhapsody
Just a quick update - I saw this video and had to post it because it's great!
Peace!
Fringe & The Entire and the Rose
About half an hour ago I finished watching season 2 of the TV show Fringe. I started watching season 1 just over a week ago and got completely hooked – I’ve been watching them every night after work for the past week!
As we got deeper into the thick of Fringe and the parallel world situation arose, I was reminded of a series of science fiction books I read last year by Kay Kenyon titled “The Entire and the Rose”.
There is a lot of similarity between the two: only one world can exist, protecting the knowledge of how to move between, inter-worldly wars and characters learning to live in a foreign universe. (there are probably a lot more than this but these spring to mind immediately)
For those fans of Fringe, take a look into the Kay Kenyon books I mentioned, the first one is called “Bright of the Sky” – conversely, if you’re a fan of The Entire and the Rose and have not already seen Fringe, take a look at it.
Meanwhile I’m looking forward to season 3 of Fringe starting next month.
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