Alive & Twitching

I have just got round to watching the Downton Abbey Christmas Special which, although corny, I found enjoyable and an improvement on much of the second series. However, there seemed to me to be an obvious flaw in the plot. read more »

I am currently enjoying more high quality television drama than ever before.  Admittedly not all of it is new and, regretfully, very little of it is British. read more »

Since my blog of 13th March, two of the series I was following have ended.

Boardwalk Empire continued to impress through to the end. read more »

I have been a Sky television viewer for almost 12 years. My only reason for subscribing was for the sports coverage. Initially I also included the movie channels in my package but gave these up when I joined an online DVD rental scheme. (See blog of 27th February 2008.) It has always annoyed me that I could not subscribe to Sky Sports without also having to take one of the Entertainment packages. My wife and I only use the service for watching sport and, until recently, rarely watched any of the other channels which, quite frankly, we regarded as a waste of money. But now things have changed with the advent of Sky Atlantic.  read more »

I was saddened to learn of the death, on 28th November, of the veteran actor Leslie Nielsen. read more »

A belated word on Downton Abbey.

I am not, in general, a fan of period dramas (an exception being some of the serializations of classic novels), and was therefore a little surprised that I so enjoyed the recent ITV series Downton Abbey, created and written by Julian Fellowes. read more »

Last night I watched I Am Slave, a drama on Channel 4 about slavery in Britain today. read more »

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