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I’ve always found TV advertising to be a very interesting from of media. TV ads have to be short, they have to grab your attention and they have to fulfil a very specific function. There are literally thousands of ads on our TVs which just coast along fulfilling their marketing function while adding very little [...]

If you’re a child of the 90s and you enjoyed that most wonderful of childhood pastimes – watching TV – then revel in this collection of the hunkiest hunks from the era of flannel shirts and curtain haircuts. Zack Morris – Saved By the Bell Not only was Zack Morris the star of his basketball [...]

TV shows often face a period of uncertainty when they first air. They put a pilot together and put it out into the TV universe for the audience to judge, hate or love and producers to decipher whether that reaction means they should invest significant amounts of money into the project or not. Once the [...]

Okay, so what’s better than sun, sea and the Australian sunshine? Sun, sea, the Australian sunshine and some decent COMEDY of course! There are some pretty big names making an appearance at this year’s Sydney comedy festival, so if you’re in town over the next couple of days, here’s who we think you should take [...]

Another thoroughly rousing episode of one of the greatest book to TV show adaptations ever made. Having read the books, I must say that I admire HBO’s ambition; it must have taken some serious courage to sign off on the show after reading the A Song of Ice and Fire (ASIF) series. The thought of [...]

Game of Thrones is a very particular kind of monster. It is as lavishly funded as the Lannisters and just as prettily put together. Like several shows before it (The Sopranos, The Wire, Mad Men), it is primarily concerned with power – who wields it and how and why they do so – and ever more [...]

There are some brilliant TV programmes and films coming up this month but here are some highlights… Film The Avengers – Out Now We have just recently reviewed this film and you can read it all about it here. If you like superhero films, this is an absolute must, it is an epic film! American [...]

As someone who, admittedly, is more of a casual observer of the Apprentice than a die-hard one, a whole blog post about the merits of the show might seem like a stretch too far. Indeed, after a few seconds of logical thought, I decided that it probably was. However, still feeling compulsed to write about [...]

Holy merciful goodness. This episode brought back all of the cruelty and violence of Westeros with an almighty crash. If “What is Dead May Never Die” established the importance the various factions place on loyalty and how power accumulates, “Garden of Bones” was the unspeakable unleashing of that power. That said, the show could well [...]

Before we get started, fyi UK readers-slash-viewers: this week’s episode is based on a US reality show called I Shouldn’t Be Alive, which to me sounds like a reality show about the misbegotten life of a clone mutant. It’s a silly potentially-dangerous-situations re-enactment/talking heads thing, and yet another reality TV parody, which as CultJar points [...]