SVT is broadcasting a summer rerun of the most clever sitcom produced this century Couplings created by Steve Moffat. I hope there going to be a fourth season. But I’ve learned that NBC has produced a horrible remake for the american market … I rather watch a 24 hour marathon of Friends in simulcast than that.
We are men. We are different. We have only one word for soap. We do not own candles. We have never seen anything of any value in a craft shop. We do not own magazines full of photographs of celebrities with their clothes on.
— Steve (S3EP6)
I’m just catching up on the CSI reruns here in sweden, saw the first season but got distracted later, also going to watch the CSI Miami reruns that start on monday. Last weeks most interesting read was an article about Stargate Digital that do the visual effects for those shows and a dosen others. The quality they put out on such short trunarounds and with television sized budgets (ok CSI ain’t cheap … but isn’t on a Band of Brothers budget either) is impressing.
Femman (swedish SBS owned television channel) has really been pushing their new show Förnimmelser av mord and even tried to do some subliminal marketing during commercial breaks showing a half second bumper for the show between commercials. I wish Killinggängets would do a parody Förnimmelser av tittarsiffror where a phycic goes near a pile of old Kär och galen episodes and start crying “I can’t take it anymore … it hurt to much”.
The show Astronauterna is actually quite good. Finaly a show with no place for sissies or whiners!
And the most clever sitcom produced in this century is with no arguments british Coupling created by Steve Moffet. The second season is currently being aired in sweden.