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2009 Eurovision Liveblog
Yes, I know I’m a wee bit rubbish, making all these promises I can’t keep about posting regularly again, and then…not doing it. Blame my dissertation. You could blame me, I suppose, but since I blame my dissertation for everything, it’s easier to just cut out the middleman. However, consider this my version of standing on [...]
Continue reading...Dr. Horrible: The Conclusion
21. July 2008 Posted by Marcia
Now that it’s all over, let’s talk some more about Dr. Horrible. First thing’s first. I’ve got to eat some crow. After Act I, I said, “Unlike a full Whedon series, this episode doesn’t offer a dollop of angst on top of the fantasy pie. Everyone is just there to have fun.” Lawdy, was I wrong. [...]
Continue reading...Blogging Along With Dr. Horrible
16. July 2008 Posted by Marcia
Right, then. Let’s talk Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog. It’s fairly certain that no 13-minute Internet video has ever received quite so many blog inches in the history of the Internet, and I was as guilty as anyone of hyperbole and over-excitement. In theory, it sounded like, quite possibly, the greatest thing ever. So how did it [...]
Continue reading...What Horrible News
14. July 2008 Posted by Marcia
Sure, I’m on summer holiday, but tomorrow I’ll be setting my alarm clock and getting up at the painfully early hour of 8:00. What could inspire me to inflict such suffering on myself? Only Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, of course, The first episode premieres at 8:00 am here in the UK, and will be shown [...]
Continue reading...Shameless Promotion
9. June 2008 Posted by Marcia
The PV writers are a diverse bunch, with careers ranging from novelist to journalist to scriptwriter to whatever it is that Plattie does. Well, Fergus has just added another title to his resume: music video director. Check out this ditty from Scottish comedy rock act The Plimptons, produced and directed by our own Fergus Mitchell and [...]
Continue reading...Liveblogging Eurovision
24. May 2008 Posted by Marcia
It’s that time of year again. Dust off your gold lamé suit, pour yourself one hell of a stiff drink and carefully readjust your irony meter — it’s Eurovision time! Fergus and I have been training for this by watching early 80s music videos while listening to overly earnest progressive rock and Swedish pop music, and [...]
Continue reading...Seeing in Eurovision
22. May 2008 Posted by Marcia
Today, the web is abuzz with news of the latest American Idol winner (or as abuzz as one can be about a topic very few people seem to care about), but here at PV, we’re looking ahead to the true talent contest of the year: Eurovision. Yes, this Saturday, the countries of Europe pit their [...]
Continue reading...Doing Anything on the BBC
20. March 2008 Posted by Marcia
I’m not sure that anyone does a cheesy reality show quite like the British. Sure, the US may have mastered such competitive fare as Survivor or The Amazing Race, but when we want some tongue-in-cheek fun, we know which nation to turn to for inspiration. After all, the nation that gave us Pop Idol and [...]
Continue reading...If Only Life Was a Musical…
I have often bemoaned the fact that rarely, if ever, do people in real life break out into song and dance the way they do in a musical. I am convinced there would be much more harmony in this world if we occasionally took the time to link arms and bust out some Rockette-style kicks. Apparently, [...]
Continue reading...The BBC Looks For Its One and Only
24. January 2008 Posted by Plattie
When Marcia asked me to watch and review the BBC’s latest Saturday evening entertainment offering, The One and Only, I was fairly sure I was in for another relentlessly dull, cringingly awkward cheese-fest in the Strictly Come Dancing tradition. But, I was only half right. Cheesy? Yes. Cringingly awkward? Oh my yes. But relentlessly dull? [...]
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16. May 2009 Posted by Marcia
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