I was able to watch a late night episode of the Simpson’s last night and it was an interesting one; “Sweets & Sour Marge.”
This episode has Homer trying to break a world’s record and, after attempts to do so by himself fail, he convinces the town of Springfield to …

One of my all time favourite comedy shows has got to be Friends. No scratch that - it IS my all time favourite programme. Full stop!
I have only just recently gotten around to buying the complete ten series on dvd, even though it’s a few years ago now since …

Long before Little Britain came about, David Walliams and Matt Lucas were still playing around in strange costumes and silly wigs. Rather than a sketch show, Rock Profile is instead a spoof interview series with real life presenter Jamie Theakston posing as the interviewer to a host of world …

Comediennes Jo Brand, and the lesser known Jo Scanlan and Vicki Pepperdine bring us a satirical look at the day to day workings of a modern NHS hospital.
It’s a strange show to first get into, using mainly ad-libbed dialogue and some camera work you’d expect from the likes …

Mainstream female comics are few and far between. Certainly, there’s more than a few going strong amongst notable comedy groups and the likes of Victoria Wood, Julie Walters, Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders have all brought us some downright fine entertainment over the years, but since Dawn and Jennifer …

Julia Davis might have outraged, insulted and appalled with the first series of her critically acclaimed comedy “Nighty Night”, but with its second outing, she pushes the boundaries even further. Although, not always for the better.
The second series picks up sometime after the close of the first. Jill …

A highly regarded writer on the hunt for inspiration, a pair of teenage sweethearts wrapped up in an alleged alien abduction, a UFO obsessed local weirdo and a man in black with a striking resemblance to Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek. All of this might make for a rather complicated …

Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Outcast is a very disappointing episode of the series that was supposed to be an episode that explored homosexuality and an alien culture’s desire to “change” those members of the population that exhibit such “unnatural” feelings, however the means in which this …

Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ethics is really a very enjoyable and thoughtful episode that effectively explores two sensitive topics and presents both sides of each topic equally: assisted suicide and testing experimental procedures on patients that, in one case, is willing, and the other case, too injured …

The League have never shirked away from indulging in their own style of humour, their sometimes subtle, and sometimes not, nods to their favourite bits and pieces of popular culture, but with this special they are finally let loose to explore their ideas more so than ever before.
It’s …

The Alias Smith and Jones Season 1 DVD set is a book-like presentation with lovely photography and artwork. The ‘book’ slides into the cover box, giving it that book-like feel.
The ‘book’ itself opens up to display the DVDs. Unfortunately, they chose to put two DVDs on each …

Star Trek: The Next Generation - Skin of Evil is an enjoyable episode that features a rarity on a Star Trek show: the death of a main character. Now, granted, the only reason this main character died is because the person wanted to leave the show, but the writers …

Star Trek: The Next Generation - Conspiracy is an episode that came late in season one and, while enjoyable and certainly commendable for doing something quite different from standard Star Trek fare, has a few glaring plot holes here and there that make the story a little less enjoyable …

Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Neutral Zone is the final episode of season one and is an episode that I have mixed feelings about. On one hand, I find the storyline of the Enterprise coming across a space capsule containing cryogenically-frozen humans from the twentieth-century intriguing and …

Star Trek: The Next Generation - Contagion is one of season two’s more exciting outings and the reason I enjoy this episode so much is because it tells the story of a long-dead civilization that utilized remarkable technology and it is generally accepted that this civilization used such technology …

Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Chase is an episode from the sixth season that is really very fast-paced. It does not slow down for much, as the title suggests! In this episode, Picard’s archaeology professor comes on board and invites him along on an exciting journey, but …

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? 10th Anniversary Special - Night Eleven was perhaps my favorite night of the eleven night special run of the iconic show. There are a few reasons why I consider this to be one of the anniversary’s best shows. First of all, I would …

Star Trek: The Next Generation - Symbiosis is one of the blander episodes from the first season and only a mildly interesting Prime Directive story. I also feel that the dialogue at times is a little awkward and forced, like during the conversation of Lt. Yar and Acting Ensign …

I don’t make it a habit watching shows designed for pre-teens. But my daughter will occasionally watch the show ICarly and I have to admit it is a pretty good show.
The series features a young girl, Carly, and her friends who have a hit internet show. Each episode consists …

Last night’s re-run of the show Family Guy was and OK episode but not a great one. The episode; entitled “It Takes a Village Idiot” has Lois running for mayor against Adam West because she has concerns about him being too corrupt for the job.
The lead-in to the election …

I watched a re-run of The Simpson’s yesterday, Brawl in the Family, and wasn’t very impressed with it.
The episode starts out with the Republican Party doing something evil and trying to destroy the environment, which leads to acid rain and, since the family is stuck indoors without TV, they …

Well, that episode of “That 70s Show” was pretty decent; Eric’s Burger Job.
Basically, the episode has Eric getting a job at “Fatso Burger” working as a cashier and doing other crappy jobs around the restaurant. He does it to prove to Red he’s responsible and, even though he hates …

Our infant daughter took a while to fall asleep last night so I ended up sitting up with her and watched the late episode of The Simpson’s. It happened to be the one entitled “Barting Over.”
This one was somewhat funny. Bart discovers he made a commercial when he was …

I had to get ready for bed so I missed part of the Ghost Hunters episode “Spirits on the Water” last night. But, from what I saw, it was somewhat interesting.
The TAPS team was asked to investigate two separate ships that were supposedly haunted. The first one turned out …

When I saw the Ghost Hunters episode “I am Not Guilty” was going to visit Dr. Mudd’s house (the doctor who worked on John Wilkes Booth after he assassinated Lincoln), I thought I would get yet another episode that had potential based on the stories surrounding the building but …

Well, the Ghost Hunters episode I watched last night, Haunted Asylum, was an OK episode but definitely not one of the best ones I have seen.
They are asked to visit an asylum in West Virginia and walk around the place looking for spirits that are supposedly there.
First, Jason and …

I was watching Ghost Hunters last night and got to see a more recent episode I haven’t seen before; Ghostly Conversation.
This one was somewhat interesting because they got to visit a really fancy hotel that was supposedly haunted by the princess that once owned it and frequented it; likely …

Star Trek: The Next Generation - Shades of Gray is the final episode of season two and while season two offered up some terrifically entertaining episodes like “Q Who”, “Elementary, Dear Data”, “Contagion” and “The Measure of a Man”, this is unfortunately not an episode that resides with the …

My wife and I watched a season one episode of Law & Order Criminal Intent last night; Enemy Within, that turned out to be a decent episode.
This is, of course, one of the first episodes of the series and involves Goren and Eames having to investigate an arson at …

Last night was an OK Family Guy episode “No Chris Left Behind” but, it also wasn’t one of the better episodes in the series.
This one has Lois and Brian discovering Chris has been forced to learn from history text books written in 1948. During Lois’ protest to the school …

Last night was probably the third time I’ve seen the Simpson’s episode “The Parent Rap” and it is funnier each and every time.
The episode is essentially a spoof of our legal system and judges who spend their time thinking up creative punishments to get in the news than actually …

I don’t watch That 70s Show all that often any more but did catch a re-run of it yesterday afternoon that was pretty darn funny; “Sunday, Bloody Sunday.”
Kitty, Red and Eric have Red’s mom (played by Happy Days veteran Marion Ross) over for dinner. And, since her and Kitty …

Drop Dead Diva is a new TV series on the Lifetime channel. It comes on at 9 p.m. eastern time on Sundays. I was skeptical about this show because it’s on Lifetime, and Lifetime is one of those channels that provides TV movies and shows that are a tad …

Alias Smith and Jones: The Legacy of Charlie O’Rourke is the final episode of season one, and it features a superb actress in Joan Hackett. Also in the cast are Billy Green Bush in the title role of Charlie O’Rourke and J.D. Cannon, who makes his second appearance …

Alias Smith and Jones: Never Trust an Honest Man is not one of my big favorites, though I am happy that our two adorable ex-outlaws, Hannibal Heyes (Pete Duel) and Kid Curry (Ben Murphy), are together again, as it should be. The main thrust is that while traveling …

One of my favorite episodes, Alias Smith and Jones: Journey from San Juan, is a show I never get bored watching. From beginning to end, I enjoy the scenes. Nothing about it tires me, not even after seeing it numerous times over the years. It’s well …

There’s added enjoyment to Alias Smith and Jones: The Root of It All and that comes from the main guest star of the episode. Judy Carne, perhaps best known from Laugh-In and being the first wife of Burt Reynolds, appears here as Leslie O’Hara. However, it’s Carne’s …

Alias Smith and Jones: The Fifth Victim is one of my favorite episodes from this TV series. The premise is that Heyes and Curry, using their alter egos of Joshua Smith and Thaddeus Jones, end up in a poker game where, one by one, the players end up …

Sadly, Alias Smith and Jones: The Man Who Murdered Himself is another show were Hannibal Heyes goes one way and Kid Curry another. It’s all to earn some money, but aside from the opening and the ending, the two partners are on separate track in this first season …

Alias Smith and Jones: Stagecoach Seven is one of my favorite episodes for this hit ABC western series. One of the reasons for that is that Randolph Mantooth (Johnny Gage on Emergency!) guest stars as Dan Loomis. Actually, the cast is really very good in this show …

Alias Smith and Jones: A Fistful of Diamonds is a fun little outing for this western series starring Pete Duel as Hannibal Heyes and Ben Murphy as Kid Curry. This one has the two outlaws who are trying to go straight so that they can earn an amnesty …

Alias Smith and Jones: Return to Devil’s Hole continues the pattern in this first season of separating the two stars of this comical western series. They are together only at the beginning and at the end. As I’ve said before, that’s not a pattern I enjoy or …

Alias Smith and Jones: The Great Shell Game is really nicely done. As I said in my last review for the prior episode, however, it’s a show where the two stars, Pete Duel and Ben Murphy, are separated. In fact, they don’t have a single scene together. …

Alias Smith and Jones: The Girl in Boxcar #3 has some drama and poignancy to it, and while I enjoy it, it also is the first show that has Hannibal Heyes (Pete Duel) and Kid Curry (Ben Murphy) apart for much of the time. This serves to allow …

Alias Smith and Jones: Wrong Train to Brimstone is an important show for the series in that it’s the very first time we meet the character of Harry Briscoe as played with wit and brilliance by J.D. Cannon. Cannon is probably best known for being Sam McCloud’s boss …

Alias Smith and Jones: Exit from Wickenburg is a fun entry for the second regular episode of this western starring Pete Duel and Ben Murphy as outlaws Hannibal Heyes and Kid Curry. In this show, they become saloon managers after catching cheats in a card game. Susan …

Alias Smith and Jones: The McCreedy Bust, the second episode of this series, sets up a recurring character in Big Mac McCreedy, played by the robust and highly entertaining Burl Ives. The character comes back repeatedly throughout this western show. He’s a delight because he’s crafty, and …

Alias Smith and Jones is a lighthearted western that was very much like the theatrical super film, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, which I also loved. In the TV show, Pete Duel is Paul Newman; that is, Hannibal Heyes is the equivalent to Butch Cassidy. That makes …

Star Trek: The Next Generation - Q Who? is a season two episode and is, I feel, one of the series’ best episodes and one of the greatest Star Trek episodes ever made. What makes this episode so enjoyable? Well, for one, it conveys the dangers of the unknown …

Star Trek: The Next Generation - Peak Performance is an episode in season two that involves war games being played out in order for Starfleet to prepare for what it believes to be an impending Borg invasion based on the events in an earlier episode, “Q Who”. The Enterprise …