The Loquacious Limey

According to our friends at Variety, ‘Trust Me’s steady and inexorable slide towards already overdue cancellation continues apace. In this – only its second week on the air – it lost 65% of the lead-in audience from ‘The Closer’, reaching only a laughable 1.9m viewers.
With the exception of all ‘Reality’ TV, which any sane being [...]

I didn’t think it was possible to find anything positive to say about ‘Trust Me,’ the crass intellectual insult perpetrated by TNT that I wrote about recently. But I was misinformed – There’s some great news: The audience hated it!
Despite being handed 6.4m viewers from the preceding, intelligent show ["The Closer"] only 1.3-million stayed to [...]

Within a few days of arriving in this wonderful country it became sadly apparent that American TV was all about money. Not intellect, education or [heaven forbid?!] entertainment; Just money. How much advertising can be crammed into every frame of a show without the viewers collapsing in a sensory coma?
The subtlety of this widespread and [...]

NBC Direct, the “free” service from NBC that lets you download full episodes of shows like The Office, 30 Rock, Las Vegas, Biggest Loser and more, has opened on NBC’s main site.
Currently in that annoying cop-out known as “Beta,” and originally scheduled to open last month, the new video service lets you download NBC shows [...]