Mr. Strange is played by that guy from Coupling with the mad hair. He's such a cutie and nice to see him doing something similar but different. Silly at times, interesting and gruesome at others - like a gothic version of the X-Files.
"Giraffes On The Move: Joanna Lumley joins the Kenya Wildlife Service as they attempt to capture and relocate a herd of endangered giraffes in Africa's Great Rift Valley."
I want to be Joanna Lumley when I grow up.
I love BBC's Countryfile. They do try to be fair, but it's clear that the producers are sensible people. Today's programme showed how the pheasant shooting industry is becoming greedy and wicked in raising and releasing millions of pheasants simply for sport shooters. While they insist (as these people do) that they are "saving" the countryside, they are in fact fucking it up by releasing too many pheasants and then killing so many that they aren't eaten, but simply buried or burnt.
They also showed how a farmer in Wales is diversifying by learning to butcher his own meat and selling direct to consumers, making a third more profit in the meantime (and providing local produce for local people). Fantastic - I wish we had more livestock farms nearby, but farming here is almost entirely arable.
Interesting, though, in a small country like Britain, we know more about farming and the issues that concern the food we eat. When I lived in the states, I rarely saw farms, never knew and farmers or heard any of the issues they face. Here, I'm related to farmers and see and hear about them all the time...
I love David Attenborough. He's got meerkats standing on his shoulder.
I hate David Attenborough. He's got meerkats standing on his shoulder and I want one.
David Attenborough's Life of Mammals is so very wonderful.
"Ricky!"
I don't know why, but I am completely obsessed with the goings on of these people. And if you don't want to be counting the fingers you haven't got, I suggest you don't be dissing Eastenders.
Latest episode was very exciting, even though I knew what was going to happen due to the bastard TV Soap Mags spilling the beans on their covers every week.
BBC One 4 days a week.
"Bliss, bliss and heaven... it was gorgeousness and gorgeosity made flesh...Oh, it was wonder of wonders... And then, a bird of like rarest spun heavenmetal, or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now... "
A Clockwork Orange homepage and a Nadsat dictionary (the slang used in the film)
"Pressure - not as easy as it looks. "
Another one back for a second series is BBC Two's The Office. Ricky Gervais plays the hilarious pointy-haired boss every Monday night.
" Frank Herbert's Dune is a three-part, four-and-a-half-hour television adaptation of the author's bestselling science fiction novel, telling a more complete version of the Dune saga than David Lynch's 1984 cinema film."
Uh, yeah. 'cause David Lynch's version is incomprehensible. This one is pretty good and fairly recent (2000). Quite exciting and the effects are good, tho' the lighting is a bit over the top sometimes. A bit long to watch in one go (or even two), and as always, it helps if you've read the book.
"I really thought I’d gone to his house, you know, to heal our spiritual divide. But it turns out I was just gagging for a shag. Those two are so similar. "
The hilarious Friends look-alike returns for another season on BBC Two. Alike, but different.
"You are my wife now! Want to buy some pegs, Dave?"
A local show for local people, the wacked out residents of Royston Vasey are back on BBC Two.
