Proving once again that he is not just a ruggedly handsome face, although he is that and more, Nick Offerman has joined up with mademan.com to record a Public Service Announcement for Movember, a month long celebration of all things upper lip hirsute to raise funds in support of Continue Reading
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Picture this Community fans: Season 5 photos aplenty
Much like Bigfoot, alien abductions and the idea of substantial news coverage from a commercial network that doesn’t include diet tips or reports on insurance scams, you might have begun to wonder if season 5 of Community actually existed, or would find a place in NBC’s schedule. Well wonder Continue Reading
Fetch me a TARDIS-shaped cake and lots of candles! Doctor Who turns 50
2013 is a big year if you’re a Whovian, a fan of the great Time Lord himself, Doctor Who, who marks 50 years on our TV screens on November 23, just over one short week away. Of course if you’re Doctor Who himself, a Gallyfreyan who’s over 900 years old Continue Reading
The Zeitgeist Embryonic #1: 5 possibly great TV shows in the throes of development
As someone with my ear to the pop culture firmament, upon which I often hear the heavy footed shuffle of zombies, the thump-thump of alien mechanised vehicles or the light footfalls of zingy sitcom oneliners, hardly a day goes by when I don’t come across announcements about shows with Continue Reading
The Walking Dead: “Internment” (S4, E5 review)
A sad soul can kill you quicker, far quicker, than a germ can.” (John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America) ** SPOILERS AHEAD ** Steinbeck, one of the greatest novelists America has ever produced, was right on the money when he penned those words in 1962, a man Continue Reading
You are your favourite TV shows: Infographic reveals all
You know all that amazingly revelatory quizzes that pop up on Facebook with the frequency of virulent rashes or Real Housewives of … spinoffs? The ones that purport, via the answering of such deeply penetrative questions such as “Do you like grass?” and “If you could be were Neil Continue Reading
Please take some time to watch Cobie Smulders teach Grover about being courteous. Thank you!
This could quite possibly be one of the cutest Sesame Street segments I have featured on this blog to date. I mean, when you team up Cobie Smulders from How I Met Your Mother with my favourite Sesame Street regular, Grover – I still have a Grover plush toy Continue Reading
Looking forward to HBO’s Looking
Is it the gay Girls or the gay Sex and the City? HBO’s new show Looking, about three gay friends in San Francisco appropriately enough looking for love, has been compared to both shows, and it’s fair to say it probably has a little bit of each of those Continue Reading
Schlemiel! Schlimazel! Laverne and Shirley reunite on Nickolodeon’s Sam and Cat
“1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 Schlemiel! Schlimazel! Hasenpfeffer Incorporated! We’re going to do it!” With these distinctive and instantly memorable opening lines, the two Milwaukee brewery workers with big dreams of a better life, Laverne (Penny Marshall) and Shirley (Cindy Williams) would lock arms, give each Continue Reading
Hello to you, moose and squirrel: Dreamworks animation readies a new Rocky and Bullwinkle short
One of the things I remember most fondly about my childhood are the annual holidays my family and I used to take at my grandparents place in Noraville, NSW, 800km away from where my family lived near Byron Bay and a world away from the limited choices of a Continue Reading