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BBC’s ‘Luther’ is Superlative Cop TV

July 20, 2012
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BBC’s ‘Luther’ is Superlative Cop TV

It is a fact generally acknowledged, that the English do cerebral television better than the Americans, and Americans do action better than the English. But the two things aren’t mutually contradictory, as you may observe by watching the BBC series Luther, available now on Netflix. It was first recommended to me by Gene Edward Veith at his Cranach blog. I’m not sure about all the theological conclusions Dr. Veith draws—it seems to me that biblical and Christian references are bound to show up in any…

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The Attack of the Terminators Is Already Overdue

April 22, 2011
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The Attack of the Terminators Is Already Overdue

By Mike Gray They should have made the first film and forgotten about the sequels — but that’s not how Hollywood operates: The date 21 April 2011 has been prophesied in the Terminator series as Judgement Day, when the machines rise up and bring about the end of human society as we know it. When you mess around with history — but especially the kind that hasn’t happened yet — you’re going to get confusing discontinuities: TERMINATOR TIMELINE 4 August 1997: The date Skynet goes…

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BBC to Trim World Service and Lay Off 650 – NYTimes.com

January 27, 2011
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“Facing a 16 percent reduction in its budget, the BBC World Service said on Wednesday that it would close 5 of its 32 language services and reduce its work force by about a quarter, cutting around 650 jobs over the next three years. “BBC to Trim World Service and Lay Off 650 – NYTimes.com.

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Sherlock: A Study In Pink

October 25, 2010
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Sherlock: A Study In Pink

I was prepared to dislike the new BBC series Sherlock, broadcast on PBS, but to my surprise I quite liked it.

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‘Sherlock’ Updates Holmes et al. for Contemporary Audiences

October 24, 2010
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‘Sherlock’ Updates Holmes et al. for Contemporary Audiences

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes is surely one of the most fascinating characters in modern fiction, having inspired countless imitations, societies of fans who pretend he is real (and some people who really believed he was a real-life person), and numerous literary pastiches and stage and screen adaptations. He is just real enough to fascinate, and just unreal enough to provide room for audiences to use their imaginations in understanding him. With so much Holmes-work having been done over the decades since his first…

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Roger Scruton Chronicles Modern Art’s War on Beauty

May 25, 2010
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Roger Scruton Chronicles Modern Art’s War on Beauty

Inform a museum’s curator that she should request a refund from her plumber who foolishly set a urinal among the works of Rembrandt, Degas, Winslow Homer, and Thomas Eakins, and Madam Curator will likely label you a judgmental, knuckle-dragging, Rush Limbaugh-listening, right-wing Neanderthal. “That’s not a urinal,” Madam Curator retorts. “That’s art! How dare you bitterly cling to an outdated objective standard of beauty! Clearly you know nothing about art’s relationship with the modern world.” “But it’s a toilet!” You argue, “Nothing but an ugly…

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Envirocommies Blast ‘Top Gear’ Segment

December 30, 2008
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Envirocommies Blast ‘Top Gear’ Segment

  You can criticize anything except global warming shibboleths, the producers of the excellent BBC TV automobile show Top Gear have found out. They did some of their usual editing with a piece on the Tesla electric car to make the item spicier and more fun, the Guardian reports, and naturally the enviros went nuts, saying the program misled viewers. It’s a comedy show, people, not a documentary. Oh, that’s right, envirocommunists have no sense of humor.—S. T. Karnick Comment on this article!

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U.S. Version of ‘Life on Mars’ Starts Well

October 16, 2008
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U.S. Version of ‘Life on Mars’ Starts Well

          ABC TV’s American version of the much-lauded BBC police drama Life on Mars is off to a good start, but sustaining the show’s quality will be difficult.  

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Evolve This!—BBC’s ‘Primeval’ Series Pushes Radical Darwinism

October 10, 2008
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Evolve This!—BBC’s ‘Primeval’ Series Pushes Radical Darwinism

    TAC correspondent Mike Gray likes the characters and sense of adventure in the new BBC series Primeval, but wonders why it propagandizes for a radical notion of Darwinism that evolutionary biologists have rejected.

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Evolve This!—BBC’s ‘Primeval’ Series Pushes Radical Darwinism

October 10, 2008
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Evolve This!—BBC’s ‘Primeval’ Series Pushes Radical Darwinism

    TAC correspondent Mike Gray likes the characters and sense of adventure in the new BBC series Primeval, but wonders why it propagandizes for a radical notion of Darwinism that evolutionary biologists have rejected.

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New Episodes of ‘Top Gear’ Coming to United States

July 14, 2008
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New Episodes of ‘Top Gear’ Coming to United States

The best nonfiction comedy program now on television is back with new episodes tonight.  

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A Series of Appealing Mysteries

July 6, 2007
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A Series of Appealing Mysteries

The BBC TV program Mayo, now showing on BBC America as The Gil Mayo Mysteries, is an exemnplary TV mystery program. Based on a series of novels which I have not read, the show has engaging detectives and a little romance, and is light on blood and gore and explicit violence but strong on creating plausible suspects with interesting and revealing motives. It also has a nice central mystery: whether police homicide detective team leader DI Gil Mayo, an amusingly literate and in fact pedantic…

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Biased BBC

June 18, 2007
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Biased BBC

Not that it should surprise anybody, a year-long internal investigation by the British Broadcasting Corporation has found that the BBC has a strong leftist bias. The Telegraph reports: The BBC has failed to promote proper debate on major political issues because of the inherent liberal culture of its staff, a report commissioned by the corporation has concluded.

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Hustle, Season 4, ep. 1

April 20, 2007
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Hustle, Season 4, ep. 1

The first episode of the new season of Hustle, the excellent British-American co-production about a group of confidence tricksters with interesting moral codes, premiered Wednesday night and was not quite as good as the previous seasons but was still much better than nearly everything else on TV.

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The Con Is On Again

April 18, 2007
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The Con Is On Again

The excellent AMC/BBC-TV series Hustle returns tonight at 10 EST. Tonight’s episode commences the fourth annual series of six episodes of the British-American co-production about a group of confidence tricksters with interesting moral codes.

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