Who are the people who come up with these ideas? Why not International Turn Off Rubbish TV Week allowing the following to happen:

Axe ‘Desperate Housewives’ so that we need not cringe at how the mighty Nathan Fillion has fallen,
Replace the Hallmark channel with a ‘Scrubs’ channel,
Endorse Tuathal’s proposals for remedying the soap reality TV show […]

Season 3 of the only show two mates of mine have grown to like, having initially disliked, both of whom are usually steely in their determination to judge on first impressions, returns on Monday night to RTE 2. Good escapist fun, a great line up of cameos, ‘Entourage’ has a similarly important role of bringing […]

One of the most charming programmes on TV at the moment, ‘Pushing Daisies‘ makes its debut on UK TV tonight. The premise is intriguing - a man, Ned, with the gift of offering a minute of life to the deceased, but importantly only a minute as otherwise there can be dire consequences. These rules and […]

Based on a public vote, Empire has compiled a list of the 50 greatest TV shows of all time. I’ve flicked through the Top 10 and largely agree though it’s a case of wait and see before I can confidently agree to the inclusion of ‘Lost’ in any such list. It seems I have missed […]

The year in film to date marked a true highpoint around Oscar time and now has lulled into a world where ‘Meet the Spartans’ topped the US box office in the past few weeks. In the midst of any tacograph of creativity there is usually some talent worth watching but in an age of as […]

I’ve seen the first episode of this and remain yet to be convinced. The show has done pretty well Stateside, has been given a second series and has the always reliable Peter Krause on narrator/leading man duties and Donald Sutherland in the standard ’seasoned Hollywood actor turns to TV’ manouevere so popular of late. The […]

The science behind being a red head as well as the prejudices and nigh on racism towards read heads is up for discussion in ‘Rua’, the TG4 documentary examining the world of gingers, Wednesday at 9.30.
Looks interesting. And I have to ask how is there always an academic available to discuss however random a topic you may […]

The blog awards are done and dusted and Susie has a list of the winners. Irish Election where I and Tuathal have been known to blog won best political blog. Many thanks to people for that.

So in a retort to his girlfriends claim that she was engaged in ‘relations’ with Matt Damon, Jimmy Kimmel has assembled quite the cast to reveal that he has been busy with a close friend of Matt’s. This video enabled me write the above headline but I didn’t enjoy it as much as Sarah Silverman’s, […]

Was there ever any doubt? You can watch each of the Eurosong performances through Real Player on the RTE website here. As soon as some good quality clips emerge I will post them here on the blog. We’ve battled against the cringeworthiness of the Eurovision in recent years - beating them not really being a […]