What a cracking week the industry has in store for us next week, and can I add it’s about time! Television viewing has become so dire lately I have taken to reading books again!!
It starts with return of our favourite presenter and guest show host, finally back on our screens after his… ahem…extended Christmas break in Friday Night With Jonathan Ross showing on Friday 23 January, BBC One at 10.35pm.
Unfortunately his first guest will not be Andrew Sachs which I think would be a much better way of drawing a line under the whole ‘Sachsgate’ episode rather than trying to pretend we have all forgotten about it. Instead we will be seeing him chatting to meglamaniac dwarf Tom Cruise, sweat machine Lee Evans and the lovely Stephen Fry with music from Franz Ferdinand. No gorgeous girls for him to leer over or guests that may lead him into controversy. Shame!
Lost – Series 5, Sky 1, Sunday 25 January 9pm
Lost returns on Sunday 25 January, arriving in the nick of time to rescue us from our post-Christmas slump.
The penultimate series begins with an episode titled ‘Because You Left‘ – intriguing as usual, would that be referring to Ben or Locke or indeed any of the other characters in the show?
I haven’t noticed any catch-up shows advertised as yet though. These are always helpful because the storylines are so complex and convoluted (especially with the flash-back, flash-forward thingy) that I can’t always remember were we are at when a new series begins.
The big difference this time is that the main objective of the Oceanic 6 (and Benjamin Linus) is to return to the Island – not escape from it, but is that just because they want to help rescue the other survivors or because they realise the Island is where they belong?
Oh, and is Locke REALLY dead?!!!
2 comments so far
1 Alan Crawford // Jan 20, 2009 at 5:17 pm
Good post. I agree about how dire TV has been recently, its about time Jonathan Ross was back on! Can’t wait to see what he’ll say about it, he’s been pretty honest about his actions since. Lost has ‘lost’ its way a little imo.
2 Pay TV // Feb 11, 2009 at 12:20 am
I find it odd, that when most people spend the majority of their time at home (Christmas/New years) most shows on TV is just crap.