Radiation by Fiona Rae

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Radiation: Television hell

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  • JP Hansen,

    LOL. I unfortunately caught a couple of minutes waiting for Conchords to start. Thankfully it only took the Conchs about 2 minutes to shake me from my catatonic state. Shit - THAT is a funny show.

    Very very 'kiwi' too, I'm quite surprised the americans audience actually gets it.

    Cannot wait for the rest of the season (and the next one too). The Figwit doco last week was also excellent.

    Waitakere • Since Nov 2006 • 206 posts Report Reply

  • Keith Ng,

    ...and, fanboys, Ellen Muth is going to be at Armaggedon.

    So. Jealous.

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 543 posts Report Reply

  • Craig Ranapia,

    fanboys, Ellen Muth is going to be at Armaggedon.

    OK, I'd pay her good money to tell me to 'fuck off' (which she did rather a lot during Dead Like Me's two seasons) - just because I'm orally masochistic, and she's so good at the passive-aggressive whine.

    But the Armageddon guest I'd really like to meet is Elisabeth Röhm - seriously cool recurring character in the first two seasons of Angel. But what I'd really like to ask her was whether I'm the only one who thinks her departure from Law and Order was the weirdest teleivison outing ever.

    North Shore, Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 12370 posts Report Reply

  • Craig Ranapia,

    Very very 'kiwi' too, I'm quite surprised the americans audience actually gets it.

    Well, the reviews I've seen have been pretty mixed. Then again, I don't get Entourage and wish I could give back Curb Your Enthusiasm.

    Oh, and am I the only person for whom the impossible happened while watching The Tudors? I'm bored watching Jonathan Rhys Meyers dry hump everything in a skirt that isn't Sam Neil. Even beginning to wish he'd put on a buttoned up shirt now and then.

    North Shore, Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 12370 posts Report Reply

  • InternationalObserver,

    But what I'd really like to ask her was whether I'm the only one who thinks her departure from Law and Order was the weirdest television outing ever.

    Well, it was sudden, but the only thing weird about it was the off-hand, casual way it was slam dunked into the final scene! I must check back issues of Lesbian Times to see if the actor is gay herself. Maybe this was some sort of personal statement she wanted to make as her swansong? According to Wiki she was engaged to a man for two years (but never married) and seemingly prefers to ride horses four times a week.

    Oh, and am I the only person who thinks Radiation is the weirdest blog ever on PAS? I mean really, it's Wednesday so here are the Wednesday listing highlights? Is this some sort of quota fulfilment in order to keep the free MySKY Fiona??

    ;-)

    Since Jun 2007 • 909 posts Report Reply

  • Joanna,

    Okay, I know I'm supposed to have watched the Conchords, but Skins is seriously awesome. I mean, sure that's because I'm in love with Sid who is a cross between Milhouse and Ron Weasley, but this week's episode that dealt with Cass's eating disorder was a beautiful thing. And yes, I shouldn't say 'beautiful' in relation to an eating disorder, and yes, it may have been a slight glamourisation, the way that she floated around, but it just felt so much more real than so many other shows - it wasn't all "oh gosh, I hate myself when I look in the mirror" but more a display of how she feels around food, and when she explained the way she does it to Sid, how she slips under the radar so easily, it just made me cry and cry. Yeah.

    Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 746 posts Report Reply

  • 3410,

    Spot on, Fiona! I just kept wondering "how much was this funded for, and how much did it actually cost to make?". Oh, well.

    Anyone else laughing themselves silly over Drawn Together?

    Auckland • Since Jan 2007 • 2618 posts Report Reply

  • Danielle,

    Well, the reviews I've seen have been pretty mixed.

    Metacritic gives it a 68 - 'generally favorable reviews'.

    I've asked some American fans about all the NZ in-jokes - mostly, they just fly right over their heads, but they still like the show.

    Charo World. Cuchi-cuchi!… • Since Nov 2006 • 3828 posts Report Reply

  • Craig Ranapia,

    I've asked some American fans about all the NZ in-jokes - mostly, they just fly right over their heads, but they still like the show.

    At the risk of sounding really pretentious, I think the way to the universal is through the specific. TFoTC is resonating with people, because there will always be gawky hetero lifemates in the world. Just as I don't love 30 Rock for all the SNL in-jokes, but because we're all worked in places that seem like badly run lunatic asylums where the inmates were always in charge.

    North Shore, Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 12370 posts Report Reply

  • JP Hansen,

    Speaking of 30 Rock, did you catch the 3 News Emmy report saying it had picked up an award even though it 'bombed in New Zealand'.

    Argh.

    Waitakere • Since Nov 2006 • 206 posts Report Reply

  • samuel walker,

    I'm bored watching Jonathan Rhys Meyers dry hump everything

    just wait till you see the begining of episode ten.......

    Since Nov 2006 • 203 posts Report Reply

  • Danielle,

    even though it 'bombed in New Zealand

    Yes, because showing three episodes of a show and then abruptly yanking it is 'bombing'. Not 'completely cocking up by not letting it build a decent audience', or anything. (See also: Arrested Development, which I finally just borrowed on DVD instead of searching fruitlessly for it on TV3.) Bah to you, TV3! BAH!

    Charo World. Cuchi-cuchi!… • Since Nov 2006 • 3828 posts Report Reply

  • Mark Graham,

    An back to the point at hand...who lets Geoff Murphy do this to us? His last movie was tragic - and built on a great premise. The opening gag on Backpackers was embarassing, the dialogue (again for a New Zealand comedy) pathetic. Fuck it, NZers have wit. Why can't more professional comedic writers find it? Even if they have to copy good stuff from overseas?

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 218 posts Report Reply

  • Hadyn Green,

    I think FotC are doing better than the reviews say. I mean it was quoted on ESPN the other day.

    Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 2090 posts Report Reply

  • Richard Kyle,

    Talking of comedy ...the skit of is America ready for a women pres modelled on sex in the city on last night's daily show ...had me weeping in a good way and followed by an interview with Alan Greenspan on the free market...

    Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 19 posts Report Reply

  • Heather Gaye,

    I'm bored watching Jonathan Rhys Meyers dry hump everything in a skirt that isn't Sam Neil. Even beginning to wish he'd put on a buttoned up shirt now and then.

    OMG, ME TOO! (lol, wtf, etc) And I was so excited at the start of the series...
    That Kristen Holden-Reid's a lovely sight though, although I'm still quite perplexed about my emerging preference for redheads.

    Oh, slightly off-topic: I saw The Real Thing at the Silo theatre last week, and Claire Chitham was brilliant, totally stole the show. I mean - Aurora's one thing, but I'm really impressed that someone can avoid being typecast after a character as...*coff*distinctive..as Waverley.

    Morningside • Since Nov 2006 • 533 posts Report Reply

  • Craig Ranapia,

    OK, I'm going to commit blasphemy and admit it took a while for Outrageous Fortune to grow on me. Like most people (I suspect), I'm a lot less willing to give comedy a second chance than drama. having said that, I caught up up with The Insider's Guide to Happiness on DVD (after raves from people I don't dismiss as tasteless retards), because I couldn't get past the pretentious, incoherent first episode first time around.

    North Shore, Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 12370 posts Report Reply

  • Craig Ranapia,

    Oh, slightly off-topic: I saw The Real Thing at the Silo theatre last week, and Claire Chitham was brilliant, totally stole the show.

    Good on her - Tom Stopard is the kind of playwright where the actors really have to be playing attention. As we're unlikely to ever see
    The Coast of Utopia
    staged professionally in New Zealand (three long plays, huge cast, technically elaborate and not exactly bums-on-seat subject matter), it's nice to see one of his more accessible plays getting done, and done well from the sound of it.

    North Shore, Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 12370 posts Report Reply

  • Kebabette,

    Yes yes 3410 - Drawn together is such filthy good fun.
    Blackpool however - that was some appalling sub-Dennis Potter nonsense.
    Laughed our way through "Sex inspectors" last night.

    Shopping list:
    Outrageous Fortune
    Project Runway
    Adios Sopranos
    Doctor Who (but not loving the Daleks by numbers of the Manhattan episode)
    any Top Gear they care to fling our way

    Stephen Fry doco on manic depression. on Prime at 11.25pm Sunday looks good.

    Christchurch • Since Feb 2007 • 221 posts Report Reply

  • Jeremy Andrew,

    Stephen Fry doco on manic depression. on Prime at 11.25pm Sunday looks good.

    No it looks really, really, amazing good.


    Actually on second thoughts it looks awful, piece of crap really.


    OTOH, i think it should be a rivetting piece of documentary art.


    Or not.


    ...

    Hamiltron - City of the F… • Since Nov 2006 • 900 posts Report Reply

  • Robyn Gallagher,

    Stephen Fry doco on manic depression. on Prime at 11.25pm Sunday looks good.

    Oh, I've seen that and it is a good one. Carrie Fisher makes an appearance, and this seems to reassure the lovely Stephen that he may be crazy but he's not that crazy.

    And just when it looks like being bipolar might be an awesome state to get into if you're a wonderful creative person, he meets a couple of ordinary people whose lives have been damaged by their condition.

    Since Nov 2006 • 1946 posts Report Reply

  • FletcherB,

    Blackpool however - that was some appalling sub-Dennis Potter nonsense.

    Sub-Dennis Potter ? Absolutely...

    But he's dead, theres no more Dennis Potter coming along.... so anything even vaugely resembling it is bloody welcome I say. I really enjoyed Blackpool.

    West Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 893 posts Report Reply

  • Paul Rowe,

    which she did rather a lot during Dead Like Me's two seasons

    Are you telling me there are only two seasons of Dead Like Me? Nooooooo...my favourite programme on telly by far.

    That Drawn together is seriously weird, and weirded me out when I happened into it. Trying to describe it to colleagues at work was quite a task.


    Oh, and let me put in a plug for The Mighty Boosh on C4. Was screening just as I left the UK and the Gorilla Hell episode was fan-tas-tic. I think they screened it quite early in the evening too.

    Lake Roxburgh, Central Ot… • Since Nov 2006 • 574 posts Report Reply

  • Fiona Rae,

    Oh, and am I the only person who thinks Radiation is the weirdest blog ever on PAS? I mean really, it's Wednesday so here are the Wednesday listing highlights? Is this some sort of quota fulfilment in order to keep the free MySKY Fiona??

    Sadly, nothing so Machiavellian. Unfortunately, real life, in other words, my job, keeps getting in the way of blogging and given the amount of reading I do around TV shows, the new format – with links – was supposed to be an attempt to somehow segue the two things, although it hasn't really worked out like that. I've just been tardy lately and I realise the links were a bit late. Must do better ...

    I'm taking it as a compliment that you describe the blog as the weirdest. Nice!

    Point Chevalier • Since Nov 2006 • 34 posts Report Reply

  • Robyn Gallagher,

    I've just been tardy lately and I realise the links were a bit late.

    I kind of like that even if the blog posts are a bit late, the telly fiends among us can fill in the gaps with our own picks.

    Oh, and let me put in a plug for The Mighty Boosh on C4.

    The Mighty Boosh is brilliant! If you like absurdist comedy, a bit of music and apes, then the Boosh will tickle you in the right places. Also, Vince Noir is so hot.

    Since Nov 2006 • 1946 posts Report Reply

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