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Victoria ‘Vic’ McQueen (Ashleigh Cummings) dreams of escaping her small Massachusetts town and heading off to art college – away from her bickering parents and the area that stifles her talents. She divides her time between school and helping her mother clean houses, but though her mother believes Vic...
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EchoChamber is sad to hear of the passing of Paul Darrow at the age of 78. Though his career encompassed a wide range of roles (in shows including Emergency Ward 10, Z-Cars, Dixon of Dock Green, Within These Walls, The Legend of Robin Hood, Pie in the Sky, Little...
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God (Frances McDormand) has a plan. Or so she says. And so does her opposite number. But for eons (in fact, since the Garden of Eden) two respective minions, one from each side of those tracks, have done their best to do the job given to them. Crawley –...
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A weary writer (Seth Rogen) ponders his inability to come up with a satisfying hook for his next project. Moving post-it notes around and staring at his computer screen doesn’t seem to be working… until he realises he can use a mushroom cloud and post-apocalyptic setting to start his...
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Sophomore television seasons are always hard. Like that pesky second album follow-up to an unexpected gold-plated disc success, there’s the potentially crippling high expectations and the question of whether you go faster, higher, longer and harder or just spin-out in an entirely new direction, flexing different creative muscles as...
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Anthropology professor Jeff Storck (Chris O’Dowd) is not having a great life. His father, Otis,with whom he lives, has just killed himself. His estranged wife wants a divorce (she’s met another guy called Jeff) and sends a lawyer (also called Jeff) to deliver the papers. The weapon Storck Snr....
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While many eyes will have been on the debut of the trailer for the next Terminator film, entitled Dark Fate, CBS All Access rather quietly gave us a look at what to expect from another anticipated sf staple… Star Trek: Picard. Today was probably chosen as it is –...
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We’ve waited quite a while for a new Terminator entry, thanks to the arguments of rights and – frankly – the diminishing quality of the sequels. Even the likes of rival Game of Throners Emilia Clarke and Lena Headey taking turns at being Sarah Connor in different forms didn’t...
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There’s one – and probably only one – absolute truth when it comes to writing for television: that you can’t please everyone, even most of the time. The more passionate the followers of your show, the more likely they’ll passionately disagree with some elements and production decisions and, ultimately...
Victoria ‘Vic’ McQueen (Ashleigh Cummings) dreams of escaping her small Massachusetts town and heading off to art college – away from her bickering parents and the area that stifles her talents. She divides her time between school and helping her mother clean houses, but though her mother believes Vic...
EchoChamber is sad to hear of the passing of Paul Darrow at the age of 78. Though his career encompassed a wide range of roles (in shows including Emergency Ward 10, Z-Cars, Dixon of Dock Green, Within These Walls, The Legend of Robin Hood, Pie in the Sky, Little...
God (Frances McDormand) has a plan. Or so she says. And so does her opposite number. But for eons (in fact, since the Garden of Eden) two respective minions, one from each side of those tracks, have done their best to do the job given to them. Crawley –...
A weary writer (Seth Rogen) ponders his inability to come up with a satisfying hook for his next project. Moving post-it notes around and staring at his computer screen doesn’t seem to be working… until he realises he can use a mushroom cloud and post-apocalyptic setting to start his...
Sophomore television seasons are always hard. Like that pesky second album follow-up to an unexpected gold-plated disc success, there’s the potentially crippling high expectations and the question of whether you go faster, higher, longer and harder or just spin-out in an entirely new direction, flexing different creative muscles as...
Anthropology professor Jeff Storck (Chris O’Dowd) is not having a great life. His father, Otis,with whom he lives, has just killed himself. His estranged wife wants a divorce (she’s met another guy called Jeff) and sends a lawyer (also called Jeff) to deliver the papers. The weapon Storck Snr....
While many eyes will have been on the debut of the trailer for the next Terminator film, entitled Dark Fate, CBS All Access rather quietly gave us a look at what to expect from another anticipated sf staple… Star Trek: Picard. Today was probably chosen as it is –...
We’ve waited quite a while for a new Terminator entry, thanks to the arguments of rights and – frankly – the diminishing quality of the sequels. Even the likes of rival Game of Throners Emilia Clarke and Lena Headey taking turns at being Sarah Connor in different forms didn’t...
There’s one – and probably only one – absolute truth when it comes to writing for television: that you can’t please everyone, even most of the time. The more passionate the followers of your show, the more likely they’ll passionately disagree with some elements and production decisions and, ultimately...
