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Normally, around this time of year, I'd be putting out copious reviews of all the US season finales. This year, I haven't, although a few escaped earlier in the year and at the end of last year. There's a list of reasons why I haven't done so many this time around:
With the writers' strike messing with everything, most of the series haven't been at their best, so it might be wrong to judge them too harshly
I didn't realise some series had ended
Some series had ended permanently so there was no point
There's a great big backlog of episodes that we haven't watched yet
I've been busy
So no Scrubs, My Name is Earl, House, Moonlight, Aliens in America, Eli Stone, et al, coverage this year, I'm afraid. Lost is still to come next week, I think. But, after the break, I'll give abbreviated rundowns on 30 Rock, Smallville, CSI, CSI: Miami, Numb3rs, Gossip Girl and Supernatural.
I know it's a bit late, but I was away over the weekend and didn't have the time to string together a review until now.
So why am I bothering? Well, there's the fact that BBC3 jessied around the schedules again so there was no Torchwood finale to laugh at (although, given James Marsters was on Smallville this week as well, I'm not sure the TV set could have taken the resulting Marsters overload if it had been).
But I also wanted to sing you a song. It's from that wonderful comedy show Absolutely, which should be coming out on DVD any minute now. It goes like this:
I'm clever, so terribly clever So clever, so terribly clever…
The Daily News will return on Monday 18th August, assuming there is any news. It's summer!
What do you think the German version of Sunday's UK v Germany Top Gear challenge will look like? Do you think they filmed different challenges?
Had I been paying proper attention, I'd have noticed that Stephen Moyer, who plays the seemingly friendly vampire in True Blood, also played the seemingly friendly vampire best pal of Jack Davenport in Ultraviolet
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