Kelsey Grammar plays a news anchor who return to his old job after being big time. He discovers he's a father, with the mother being his old co-host. Whose played by the wife from unfunny 'Everyone love Raymond'. Hilarity ensues. If you like to see Frasier as less pompous, more arrogant 'man about town', and a run of unfunny, easy jokes ( ( Read more... )

The central idea of Reaper is that some poor little rich kid's father sold his soul to the devil, and in return the kid must collect lost and escaped souls. It's like a teenaged comedy version of Brimstone (which was one of the best modern fantasy shows on TV for my money). Hilarity ensues as the Reaper collects souls in a variety of offbeat and ( Read more... )

Chuck is the name of Anna Friel's character in the aforementioned Pushing Daisies. However, in this new TV show, this Chuck is a nerd, who accidentally has the entire CIA database downloaded into his head via an email sent by an old Stanford University friend ( Read more... )

Passable new "comedy" light-drama on TV here, about a guy who bring dead people back to life by touching them. He uses his powers to find out how they died, and then sends them back to the afterlife again ( Read more... )

... things go badly ( Read more... )

From the nation that brought us the Jimmy Dean Sausage and Choc Chip Pancake on a stick (http://www.junkfoodblog.com/2006/07/jimmy-dean-chocolate-chip-pancakes.html), and aerosol cheese (Read more... )

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/manchester/6981558.stmRead more... )

In an article about editing Wiki pages from the CIA, the press-spook said ( Read more... )

I've written about Kenny Ritchie in the past. The latest news is that once again his conviction has been over turned as unsafe by US Court of Appeals. They made the same decision 2 and a half years ago, but the prosecution appealed, and the US Supreme Court ruled that the Appeal might not have been procedurally correct, so Kenny stayed on Death ( Read more... )

Sheesh Kebab: An exasperated exhalation, with lettuce and mint sauce in pita.
(http://www.tongs.org.uk/wiki.pl?SheeshKebab)

After arguing with my colleague about what 'sheesh' meant (mild expression of disgust and exasperation versus 'new slang/surfer' meaning of 'cool',