So last night saw the return to British TV of cult show Lost for its second season. Thankfully Channel Four didn’t make us wait until september and so we pick up where we left off with a 2 part opener showing the guys heading down through the hatch, and what happened to the intrepid sailors and their raft.
We also get introduced to a slightly barmy scottish bloke who lives in a little bunker and types lottery numbers in to a very old fashioned computer. Confused? You should be. Overall it was an excellent, exciting start to the new season despite asking more questions than it answered, and leaving us on a major ciffhanger as it looks like Mike, Jin and Sawyer are about to die.
My only complaint is the damn adverts on Channel Four. Is there really a need for the first string of adverts to start after the first two minutes of the show? Absolutely ridiculous.
This is of course no surprise, as Channel Four are already under investigation for their excessive advertising.
That groan aside, it looks like tuesday nights are going to be stay-ins for the forseeable future. They had better not shift Lost around when the inevitable Big Brother starts…
Just finished watching the second episode of the new Dr Who series, and I must say that so far it is very good. This episode was not only scary and spooky, but well acted and having some really impressive SFX. Featuring a CGI werewolf, the BBC have clearly upped the budget from the first series, which did suffer from some pretty lame effects at times. The werewolf here though was excellent, beautifully animated and genuinely scary.
It beggars belief that a programme that costs more to make than the money it dishes out to the competitors can be so entertaining. I missed out on this programme when David Dickinson used to be in it, but the current presenter Tim Wonnacott is barking mad, and it is amusing if only for the stunningly poor profits (losses?) that most teams make.