Comments Shannon's Top Ten TV Shows, Part 1

It’s the same length as Sex and the City, a HBO program. Channel 9 manage just fine with a 40 minute time slot for that one. I just meant I doubt ABC had to pay nearly as much for Coupling as channgel 9 do for say, CSI and I think it’s been undervalued. If it was valued properly then the ABC wouldn’t be able to afford it! Hmm..

But it’s good that it’s undervalued, because we get it on a channel with no ad-breaks. You’re not against that, are you?

I predict… Buffy, Angel, Stargate, Alias, Dark Angel… and… Smallville?

Well, I can’t be expected to deduce what crazy stuff you’ll put in, if Gilmore Girls made it into the top 22. I’ll bet Monty Python’s Flying Circus isn’t there though.

I’ll try Simpsons, Futurama, Red Dwarf and, out on a limb, the D-Generation.

I don’t know if Shannon is educated enough to have seen Bottom.

Wonderwho?

So does Jolene Blalock. I stopped myself from mentioning it on Andy’s blog, but since you’ve lowered the tone over here, it might as well be said.

Again, wonderwho? And I’m assuming its not a heroine with breat implants?

You’d rather I google it than garner some discussion on grapefruits? Hmm I’ll keep that in mind in future.. Less talk = better…

“Set against the backdrop of Niagara Falls, Wonderfalls is a quirky one-hour family dramedy about an underachieving twenty-something souvenir shop worker named Jaye Tyler. Her life is forever changed when inanimate figures – including toys, cartoons and anything in the form of an animal, begin to talk to her. In each episode, the creatures’ cryptic messages set into motion a chain of unpredictable events that invariably lead Jaye into the lives of others in need.”

Sounds like Tru Calling only worse.. I suspect its one of those things you just have to see..

We saw the first two episodes in Canada and then they cancelled the show. I liked the first episode and the second was okay so I downloaded the rest of the show as it was never going to be shown here. It picked up about episode 4 and had a great finish. It should come out on DVD in december.

Which guy? (If you tell me to google, I’ll gut you Tom.)

When’s part 2 coming out?

You know back about a month ago (im sure it wasnt september 2004.. that can’t be right) when you started bagging me about it and I had to admit that I had forgotten I had ever started this article.. I actually sat down and finished it. Well, almost. I wrote from ten up to two and then I faltered. I can’t decide which to put as 1 and which to put as 2. I could take the woossie way out like tom and make it an equal first but that would defeat the purpose. So, I shall sit in indecision for all time. Or until I start hating all the old cancelled shows I once liked and start all over again. Either way.

I wouldn’t have that highly shaky excuse as a backup. So I maintain this highly shaky excuse as the reason no final 10 exists.

I’m always around.. I just never have anything intersting to say and I’ve been told its best to shut up in such situations.

Yes but then all that ever happens is I get argued with. And 20 years later, its getting old…

And while I’ve no doubt the three years you’ve known me have enriched your life in ways unimaginable, as maintain that I as yet have to say something interesting. Take this post for example. Utter dribble. So i cease…. .. now.

Just noticed that Steven Moffat (Coupling) had posted this on a Doctor Who forum and thought I’d repeat it here: How Coupling ends…

Oh, all right.

Sally said yes to Patrick, they got married and are very happy. Especially as Sally beat Susan to the altar, and finally did something first. Patrick is now a completely devoted husband, who lives in total denial that he was anything other an upstanding member of the community. Or possibly he’s actually forgotten. He doesn’t like remembering things because it’s a bit like thinking.

Jane and Oliver never actually did have sex, but they did become very good friends. They often rejoice together that their friendship is uncomplicated by any kind of sexual attraction - but they both get murderously jealous when the other is dating. Jane has a job at Oliver’s science fiction book shop now - and since Oliver has that one moment of Naked Jane burnt on the inside of his eyelids, he now loses the place in one in every three sentences. People who know them well think something’s gotta give - and they’re right. Especially as Jane comes to work in a metal bikini.

Steve and Susan have two children now, and have recently completed work on a sitcom about their early lives together. They’re developing a new television project, but it keeps getting delayed as he insists on writing episodes of some old kids show they recently pulled out of mothballs. She gets very cross about this, and if he says “Yeah but check out the season poll!” one more time, he will not live to write another word.

Jeff is still abroad. He lives a life a complete peace and serenity now, having taken the precaution of not learning a word of the local langauge and therefore protecting himself from the consequences of his own special brand of communication. If any English speakers turn up, he pretends he only speaks Hebrew. He is, at this very moment, staring out to sea, and sighing happily every thirty-eight seconds.

What he doesn’t know, of course, is that even now a beautiful Israeli girl he once met in a bar, is heading towards his apartment, having been directed to the only Hebrew speaker on the island. What he also doesn’t know is that she is being driven by a young ex-pat English woman, who is still grieving the loss of a charming, one-legged Welshman she once met on a train. And he cannot possible suspect that (owing to a laundry mix-up, and a stag party the previous night in the same block) he is wearing heat-dissolving trunks.

As the doorbell rings, it is best that we draw a veil.