John Meredith's Blog

I am not the only person to think that Torchwood’s “Children of Earth” mini-series is up there with the best of Battlestar Galactica. The Guardian’s Daniel Martin thinks so, and heaps praise on the series. And rightly so. I have rarely seen science fiction encompass all aspects of drama, but CoE has a fair amount [...]

I don’t know what everyone is getting het up about. Really….what do people expect TF2 to be? Some sort of intergalactic Shakespearean drama? I went to see it the other night and expected a few things: Robots. Big ones. Hitting each other. A straight forward narrative. A good laugh. What did I get? All three. [...]

Right after Dexter finished, UK’s FX Channel had a problem. They needed a slightly off beat, adult oriented programme to keep that timeslot busy. Enter Chalie Jade. I didn’t know much of Chalie Jade, other than it “looked right up my street”. But first impressions didn’t get me very far, and now, some 12 episodes [...]