Stuff I Watched: 16th Dec – 23rd Dec 2009
December 24, 2009 2 Comments
I don’t know whether I’ve not watched much telly this week or I’ve just watched stuff that I don’t want to write about. Either way, welcome to the most half-hearted edition of Stuff I Watched to date.
In The Loop: DVD (Watched 16th Dec)
The film version of The Thick of It is very much like a film version of The Thick of It. It’s essentially just an extended episode with some of the characters slightly different, but this is certainly not a bad thing. It’s very clever and brilliantly funny, just like the TV show. Annoyingly, the DVD broke after about an hour so I don’t know how it ended. Fingers crossed that it’s on the BBC soon.
Misfits: E4 (R 17th Dec W 19th Dec)
A cracking ended to what has turned out to be an excellent little series. Annoying Nathan finally does something good (but stays annoying) and he dies for his troubles. Sort of.
I’m glad to say that it’s got a second series.
Charlie Brooker’s Screenwipe Review of 2009: BBC4 (R 22nd Dec W 22nd Dec)
If you like television and didn’t watch this, then you don’t like television. And you’re probably dead.
Charlie Brooker is probably the closest thing I have to a hero. It’s strange that one of the best programmes of the year is one that just talks about other programmes. Absolutely awesome. I could watch Screenwipe over and over again. And I often do.
I realise that this is really brief, but it’s Christmas Eve and I’m very sleepy. If you’d like to chat about any of the programmes, leave a comment and I’ll get back to you when I can face writing more than two sentences.
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Absolutely spot on. In the Loop seems to have won tons of awards lately according to that Ianucci bloke and well deserved they all are too..
Charlie Brooker is my favourite atheist God. I stupidly buy all his books even though I’ve read all his Guardian columns and they’re all available online.
Merry Christmas sir.
Merry Christmas, Shadowsans. I appreciate you leaving a comment as it beefs up my pathetic attempt at a post.
In The Loop is excellent but I do wish that comedians would stick to making TV shows rather than trying to make the leap in to movies. I can’t really complain because the last series of The Thick of It was amazing.
I can’t praise Charlie Brooker highly enough. We’ve got new series of Newswipe and You Have Been Watching in the new year.