Tuesday 6 December 2011

TV

Dave's One Night Stand
3x03 Reginald D Hunter
An American, an Aussie and a German walk into a Scottish theatre...
The Radio Times slagged off Hunter's stand-up (I was going to link to that, but they seem to have removed the review from their website), but I thought it was very good, and Henning Wehn was much better here than when he turned up on QI the other week.

Death in Paradise
1x06 Episode 6
[Watch it (again) in HD on iPlayer.]

Happy Endings
1x04 Mein Coming Out
Completely random late night viewing. It was fine.

How I Met Your Mother
7x05 Field Trip
[Watch it (again) on 4oD.]

Music

Imaginaerum by Nightwish
The new Nightwish album, released here yesterday, which also forms the soundtrack to a forthcoming film. Apparently it's met with "universal critical acclaim", and I can see where they're coming from: this is everything you'd expect and want from a new Nightwish record, and probably a little more too.

Articles

CATS 1, KIDS 0 by Helen Killer (from regretsy)
and
Why @PayPal is wrong regarding @Regretsy, according to their own policies. by greengeekgirl (from geek girl)
PayPal have demanded a group who raised money to provide Christmas toys for poor & disadvantaged children return all of that money. PayPal will still keep all of the transaction fees, though. And because the person in charge argued about it, they've frozen her personal account through which she does regular business.
And all of this is against PayPal's own policies.
(PayPal have since apologised -- well, sort of -- and are "working" to resolve the situation.)

Jeremy Clarkson, The One Show and the most complained about BBC shows by William Gallagher
(from Radio Times)
As complaints about Clarkson's One Show comments reach a silly level, RT finds out how it compares to other recent BBC controversies.

A daily dose of sci-fi - Day 23

It's party-time!
Which sci-fi character are you going to dress-up as?

No one. Does that count? I guess not.


Because I'm really lazy and really, really don't care.


Read about a daily dose of sci-fi, with links to the rest of the series, here.