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TV Show Round Up: Royal Rumble 2013 Preview

“Ladies and Gentleman, it is now time for the Royal Rumble! Earlier today the 30 participants who entered, drew numbers at random. In just a few moments the individuals who drew number one and number two will be in the Royal Rumble and every two minutes thereafter another individual will enter the ring according to the number he drew. Remember, ...

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TV Show Round Up: Survivor: Fans vs Goats

Survivor:  Caramoan The 26th season of Survivor starts in February and the cast has now been fully revealed.  They’re doing a repeat of the Fans vs Favourites set up.  Well, officially, they are.  In actuality, we seem to be getting Fans vs Goats. ‘Goats’ in Survivor are the contestants that are so terrible/unlikable/mentally-unhinged that a smart, dominant player purposefully doesn’t ...

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TV Show Round Up: Homeland Season Two, The Walking Dead Season Three

Homeland – Season Two – The Smile A friend of mine recently inquired about the show Homeland which recently returned to air after cleaning up at this season’s Emmy awards.  “Is it worth watching?”  I couldn’t give him a straight answer.  It’s a great show but its perpetually one episode away from collapsing into 24 levels of silliness.  I’m talking ...

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TV Show Round Up: Lost is eight years old

“They took maaah boy!!!” Sure it went for about two seasons too long and Abrams couldn’t stick the ending but it was still one hell of a ride and I still remember being absolutely mesmerized by that cracking first season.  The agonizing wait for every new episode.  The excited speculation in the office about the latest mystery.  Polar bears, man.  ...

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TV Show Round Up: Survivor: Philippines, The West Wing Season Two

Survivor: Philippines My favourite reality tv show of all time Survivor is back for its 25th season with Survivor: Philippines.  The producers had some work to do after their previous season Survivor: One World fizzled badly with a cast too heavily stacked with pawns, introverts and idiots.  The winner, a woman named Kim, comfortably outplayed her opponents and strolled to ...

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TV Show Round Up: The Newsroom

The Newsroom – S01E02 – Newsnight 2.0 Its one of the worst hours of television I have ever seen. There are plenty of tv shows on the air that are knowingly awful.  Or at least they’re designed to be purposefully low brow, silly, frivolous or shallow.  But few things are more awkward than watching a tv show as sanctimonious and ...

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TV Show Round Up: Dumb, Drunk & Racist, The Newsroom

Dumb, Drunk & Racist “Initially the show was called “Dumb, Drunk or Racist” and you only had to be one or the other. We changed the name to all three after visiting Queensland.” – Joe Hildebrand This ABC2 program opens with a narration from host Joe Hildebrand who explains that in Indian call centres, staff are taught that the average ...

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