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Top five shows that shouldn’t have been cancelled

Well it’s Friday for me and that means two things, I can sleep in tomorrow (but I won’t) and it’s time for the Friday top five.
Every once and a while I am reminded that it is show business, not show friends.  Production companies are increasingly not your friend.  They package stuff and tell you that [...]

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Men in Trees cancelled

Apparently when you change timeslots six times, and put a show on two unexplained hiatuses with no information forthcoming about its return it doesn’t help the ratings!?
I’m shocked by this revelation in television programming 101.  Who would have thought that by making a show extraordinarily hard to actually see it would lead to poor ratings [...]

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Now I can be a big damn hero

I can’t believe that I haven’t bragged blogged about this already. I’m trying to break out of the “every second post is about what I’ve got” angle because frankly I got a lot of stuff and I’m frequently embarrassed about it when I think about the world and its problems.
However…

This is pretty [...]

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Stargate Atlantis: stale characters

I’ve complained in the past that whilst I recognise that Stargate Atlantis is technically good as in it looks good, has special effects that don’t look like key chain kung fu guy did them and some interesting concepts. But I still found it boring and couldn’t quite say why that is.
It did occur to [...]

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The falcon and the firefly

Much to my surprise it was a tie between Jack Bauer and Jason Bourne. I thought Jack would burn Bourne but then again I really love the Bourne films so I’m pretty happy with the results.
Now, there’s been a little controversy over the top ten spaceships list and the omission of the Star Wars [...]

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Top ten fictional space ships

Well it’s finally here, my top ten fictional space ships list which you will never ever agree with because it is only ten ships and there’s no way I’ve included your favourite!!!
The rules were also that I could only choose one ship from a series:

Serenity (Firefly/Serenity)

It was really hard to pick this over the Enterprise [...]

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