Terra Nova One of the lasting legacies of JJ Abram’s show Lost is that it reversed a trend from the early 2000s that saw free-to-air America television networks being dominated by reality tv shows. Reality tv programming was cheap to produce and easy to make – it wasn’t reliant on the consistency or quality of a group of writers to ...
Read More »WWE RAW It’s been said that the wrestling business is ‘cyclical’ meaning that it undergoes peaks and troughs in popularity and relevance to popular culture. When I was a kid, Hulk Hogan and Rock N’ Roll wrestling was a staple of Eighties pop culture. It then underwent ten years in the wilderness before being revitalised again by Steve Austin and ...
Read More »1UP Yours/Listen Up As I write this, I’m listening to the final 1UP Yours/Listen Up podcast before host Garnett Lee leaves the UGO gaming network for Shack News. That might not sound terribly interesting but listening to this weekly video game podcast has been a habit of mine for the past four years and the show was enourmously influential personally. ...
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