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Monday What's On Tonight: unofficial British edition

I try and avoid picking films that are on all the time, but I hadn't noticed if this one was already in the rotation. I suspect we've all already seen it anyway but it's there for those who haven't.

Yeah it gets better, and the prequel series is great too. The way I look at it, if Game of Thrones is rock and roll, Spartacus is heavy metal. You just have to adjust to a genre of storytelling in which everyone is naked and covered in blood.
The final series is called War Of The Damned and it's about the only TV I…

I too enjoyed TWQ, so it was interesting to read how much the AV Club hated it. It's very heavily slanted towards the female point of view and several of the actresses are excellent.
Apparently there were handrails on some of the staircases or something. I didn't notice, or I'm sure my enjoyment would have been…

Good catch. Although I'm not sure if I can manage a whole series of Matt Berry.
I include Sundays in the weekend roundup because I'm not at a computer on Sundays. The AV Club staff will have to hold the fort on their own.

Wot's on this weekend: unofficial UK freeview version:

I like all three of Nolan's Batman films, yes including the scripts. The scripts are good. The acting is good. The cinematography is good. I care about what happens to the people in them. I wish all pop culture was on this level.
I rewatched them the other day back to back (I hadn't seen the first one for a…

Thursday What's on tonight: UK freeview version:

Wait, so upvotes are logged but downvotes are anonymous? That is some weak sauce, man.

Wednesday What's on tonight: unoffical UK freeview edition

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Tuesday What's on tonight: UK freeview version:

Hmm. I think most of this stuff is marketed at human children.

Can we get Charles Dance to read this newsletter aloud?

Monday What's On Tonight: sexy British edition
Home grown: Diary of a Teenage Virgin (10pm C4)   No Sex Box this week, instead a programme about the social/sexual pressures on teenagers.   Alternatively BBC2 has Stephen Fry: Out There, where he finds out what it's like to be gay in Uganda.   Spoiler: not fun at all.

It's surprising what fun a good writer can have constructing 'childlike' dialogue.   In the UK we have Lauren Child's Charlie and Lola books and BBC animation.   Just the titles of the books are frequently delightful:

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Thursday What's on tonight: UK freeview version:
Home Grown: Breathless (9pm ITV) 1960s medical drama serial begins.

The first half hour and the last half hour probably cover everything of interest in the film.   Levine has made more accomplished stuff since, though.