The blog of Lee Harris - publisher, editor, writer, lover, raconteur
Torchwood: Children of Earth. Your Opinion is Wrong (and so is mine)
So, after becoming the most successful programme ever to air on BBC3, Torchwood gets bumped up to BBC2, and after trouncing the competition in the ratings, it gets a further bump to BBC1, but gets reduced from a 13 episode series to a 5-episode “event”.
Despite John Barrowman publically describing this drop in episode numbers as [...]
Cunts, parts I and II
I’m not generally one to employ bad language, except when, you know, I want to, but sometimes the only word that fits is the one you can’t say in front of your parents.
I live in York. It’s a beautiful city, and I’m lucky enough to live in a particularly nice part of it. The only [...]
what the effing crap? that angel guy just felt me up!!
Ok, it’s been a while, I know, but you have to watch this.
The 40 seconds in the middle is shit, but it’s worth it for the rest:
Wild, wet and Welsh
That’s my holiday, by the way, not me!
I’m currently sat in a glorious little cottage in South Wales, having come down for a week to visit family and generally get away from it all.
I’ve managed to check email only a couple of times a day, and the mobile reception in the area is so bad [...]
Things that annoy me, #31
Sending someone an email with more than one question in it, and receiving a reply with only the answer to the first point.
Way to read an email, guys!
More crap National Rail stuff and a “Yay” for good service, elsewhere.
Ok, so if you read my previous rant, you’ll know I’m not terribly impressed with the way National Rail goes about its business.
Yesterday I had need to change a ticket booking due to a sick child. Rather than simply drive to the train station, I thought I’d call National Rail enquiries. After all, why waste [...]
Travel Fuck-Ups (and how to avoid them)
Those of you who know me will be shocked to the very core of your being when I tell you this: I am not perfect, and I sometimes make mistakes.
No, no – I know what you’re thinking, but this isn’t false modesty on my part, this is a statement of fact – and before some [...]
Dollhouse
I’m a self-confessed Whedonite. I draw the line at dressing up as a browncoat, or carrying a stake with me, but I think the man is the best thing to happen to genre TV since Roddenberry said: Hey – wouldn’t it be a great idea to do a space series. His latest project – for [...]
Being Human, episode 2
Last week I said some hurtful things. You do, sometimes, in the heat of the moment, then dawn arrives and you realise that although you meant what you said at the time, you weren’t really in your right mind. There was something else going on. Honestly. It wasn’t you, it was me.
Ok, not quite. I [...]
The West Wing, Season One
So, as some of you know, I got into The West Wing pretty late. So late, in fact, I was able to get hold of a copy of the Season 1-7 box set for a ridiculous price.
Tonight I saw the last episode of season 1, and it is still my favourite TV series. This is [...]
