Japan, the land of the rising sun, is where we find this weeks instalment of Danger 5 has taken us. Following the downing of US planes by a long-believed dead pilot, the Colonel sends the Danger 5 team out to find out what’s going on, to locate Japan (which has gone missing) and to, of [...]
READ MOREDanger 5 – Lizard Soldiers of The Third Reich
Of the six episodes of the series, this is probably my least favourite. And yet, it is still pretty charming and funny in Danger 5′s deliciously offbeat way. This week Nazi collaborating dinosaurs are making their presence known. The Colonel dispatches the team to discover the truth behind the threat and, should Hitler make himself [...]
READ MOREDanger 5 – “I Danced For Hitler”
There are some TV shows you want to give a pass to just because they’re trying something different. TV is a medium that thrives on mediocrity, so any show that strives to achieve something of ambition deserves a certain amount of adulation regardless of how successful it is. Danger 5 falls into this category. Thankfully, [...]
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Waking up to Ten’s Breakfast
What the hell was that? Late yesterday, Ten issued a media release to let the world know that Ten had decided to go early in launching their new Breakfast show. It had been expected to launch this morning Monday, but with the dramatic announcement by Kevin Rudd yesterday that he was resigning as Foreign Affairs [...]
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Outland – A faltering step in the right direction
[Laugh Track blogger Matt Smith weighs in with his thoughts on the new ABC1 sitcom Outland] There’s nothing particularly subtle about Outland, a new series which premiered its first episode on ABC1. If I say that it’s about a group of gay, science fiction geeks, you can probably join the dots on what you’re going to [...]
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The Straits: Beautiful One Day, Perfect The Next?
The Straits owes a great deal to the mode of storytelling established by HBO. It was the US cable giant that brought the essence of independent film to the small screen with its quirky and post-modernistic approaches to traditional (and well-worn?) formats. The influence of HBO can now be felt across the multitude of high [...]
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Taking a gander at the new-look ‘Today’
Channel 9 today unveiled the new set/graphics for their Today program with mixed results. The show is now being produced out of a much larger studio, meaning the show can employ a much larger set. But, is bigger necessarily always better? There’s something that can be said for intimacy on the small screen. The Good [...]
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In Review: Quickflix
Available Platforms: Quickflix Website, Playstation 3, Sony Bravia TV’s and Bluray players. Accessed: Playstation 3. The Service Quickflix, a mail delivery DVD rental service, has recently launched an online streaming service for connected televisions. For a monthly subscription charge, customers can access an all you can eat library of movies. In an interview with me, [...]
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In Review: LG Smart TV Upgrader
Friends don’t let friends buy the LG Smart TV Upgrader. With Smart TV’s all the rage and a number of folks not in the market to buy a new TV, a Smart TV upgrade box like the LG Smart TV Upgrader, Boxee, Agora, Roku, Apple TV, etc may be a perfectly fine stop-gap measure. Those with [...]
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The White Noise Top 10 TV Shows of 2011
It’s that time of the year for a good End of Year list. There have been a few amazing shows to have gotten a run in 2011. I’ll admit that this list is pretty subjective to where my head is at today in 2011. There are just too many shows to really consider for a [...]
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