Let Me Entertain You?

I spent hours installing dozens of free apps and games on my iPod in order to earn free chips to buy new armour in Buddy Rush – so much so that I ran down the battery and didn’t get a chance to play with my new armour, so I’ll bore my reader with more telly musings whilst it charges.
I previously touched on a couple of the shows that aired during my absence. I’ll continue, I think, with Combat Hospital. 13 episode first season broadcast on Global which I think is Canadia (little maple leaf on the parental rating box in the top left gives it away). It was also broadcast by ABC but they skipped episode 11. So far no word on whether there will be a season 2 – it is, as they say, on the bubble, which is a shame as I enjoyed the show. The show is about a Role 3 military hospital in Kandahar and is set in 2006. The hospital is staffed by ranks from many of the allied forces fighting in Afghanistan, but primarily USA, Canada, UK and Australia (main cast). In the first episode we join newcomers Bobby Trang (Terry Chen) and Rebecca Gordon (Michelle Borth) as they join the team and find their way around. It’s most definitely not a 21st century M*A*S*H, but I don’t think it’s trying to be. The show has faced a lot of criticism from the US media, but from what I’ve seen on TV guide sites such as TVRage.com and TV.com viewers generally like the show, rating it 7.2/10 and 8/10 respectively. However, viewer appeal alone is not enough to save a show – Jericho was adored by the interwebs – but it wasn’t enough to save it.
Just a quick mention for Breaking Bad which has just finished it’s 4th and final season. I’ve only discovered the show this year and am partway through the second season – so no spoiling me on that plx!
In March this year Southland finished it’s third season, and it will be returning to TNT in January 2012 for a fourth. I find Southland to be very gritty and raw; I’m not familiar with the inner workings of LA cops, so I can’t vouch for their authenticity, but it is definitely good telly!

OK – gonna end this for now – need to eat, and my iPod is charged – time to play Buddy Rush
Now Playing: Regina Spektor - Far (Special Edition CD & DVD) - Wallet

Oh Joy! It’s NCIS Day!

When you’re stuck at home due to illness/disability, as I am, the small things in life get you excited. Having just pushed my 12 year old son out the door too school, I check my TV Rage listings to see what was on last night, and fire up my newsreader to snaffle them from usenet. Illegal? Prolly. Necessary? Oh yes!
And oh what a treat! NCIS, NCIS:LA, Southland and the much-waited-for return of FlashForward (though I note with dismay it’s only a special, not a proper episode. Prolly a catch-up since it’s been off since before Christmas).
<---- Look! It’s Ziva!!!
So, Whilst I wait for NewsbinPro to do it’s thing, I thought I’d update this to brag about it :)
Can’t be too smug though – I have to go out later to Harwood for my ‘script and some food, since the cupboard is pretty bare indeed.

Boring

Well, bored I suppose. No one reads this bloody thing anyway, but I am bored. Stayed up all day (with the odd power nap) in an attempt to turn my day around – got to be at Hope Hospital on Monday morning to see the MS specialist, so desperately need to get the sleep all day browse all night thing sorted. As luck woul have it, It’s almost midnight and I can’t sleep, exhausted as I am. I’ve watched all my telly stuff from the week (24, CSI x3 flavours, NCIS x 2 flavours, House, Criminal Minds, White Collar, Human Target & Southland), plus the documentary stuff like Ghost Hunters and MonsterQuest. I’ve filled time playing various Hidden Object games – about the only gaming I can do with one hand. I’ve surfed, tweeted and blogged, read email, replied, caught up with my RSS subscriptions, fed the cat, fed the hamster, showed the hamster to the cat, got bollocked. I’m bored.

This is my cat,

and this is the hamster.
See. Bored. ttfn