Banking on Holidays

It’s slightly weird that after being on Holiday all of last week, I’m getting another Holiday as it were on Monday as it’s a bank Holiday. The first of two in May. Actually come to think of it I can’t remember why we have two bank holidays in May, I must really remember to look that up.

I drove Grumpy’s car to work today because as one of the windscreen wiper blades was starting to spilt I didn’t want to risk driving in if it rained. As if the wiper spilts I have no idea what might happen damage wise to the windscreen and lets face it if rains you kinda need to see how of your windscreen. Apparently driving is a lot easier if you can see where you’re going.

Or so I’ve been told

I’m off out to the cinema tonight with the other YSA to see the new wolverine film. We might be going to one of two showings depending on what happens. Yes as you can see the usual YSA style of planning is still very much in vogue. We’ll either get the earlier showing, or we’ll get the later showing and go and get Ice cream in Frankie and Bennies while we wait.

Ah, Decisions, decisions.

In the news apparently the lead singer of the Pussycat Dolls is thinking of quitting to go solo ( yes because her first solo single sold so well didn’t) which lets face it if she did was probably pretty much finish off the group because as Engineseer once put it whilst one of their music videos was on “ If you think about it this group is really just one main singer with several rather nice backing dancers”. Apparently her boyfriend Lewis Hamilton is keen for her to leave the group as he doesn’t like the outfits or the raunchy outfits she wears. Hmmm, if you had a problem with that it doesn’t rather beg the question why did he decide to start going out with one of the Dolls in the first place. It’s not like he didn’t know in advance what they were like? Of course most men would likely just tell mr Hamilton there in response to his gripes that he should shut up whinging and be happy he’s dating one of the pussycat Dolls at all!

In the USA if I understand this correctly there about to announce the fall schedules for a lot of networks and this is where people find out if their favourite shows are returning. Looking at what on’s ‘offer’ as it were it made me realise that the amount of sci-fi on TV is starting to decrease rapidly.

Battlestar galactica is gone and there is nothing on the horizon that seems capable of picking up the torch as it were. The third Stargate series might but I think it’s going to suffer from the inevitable comparisons and accusations of stealing from BSG.

Terminator: The Sarah Connor chronicles is looking almost certain for the chop but at least the season finale gave a more definitive ending then most shows get. Dollhouse is apparently classic Joss whedon which as well as being its strength might also be it’s downfall as too many non geeks can’t understand it.

Fringe is apparently chugging along but doesn’t seem to be getting much attention and the least said about Heroes the better. It went from being must see and talk about TV to never mentioned TV. Unless there’s a drastic change I don’t see it getting another series.

Medium is buried in the deepest darkest depths of the BBC Schedule where only people on night shifts, insomniacs and students will ever see it. Supernatural does a little better over on ITV3 but not by much.

Lost is getting well and truly lost. I don’t care what the writers of that show claim, I don’t believe for a moment they got to where they are in the storyline having planned it from the start of the first season and chuck seems like it’s going to be chucked ( okay, enough with the awful puns I promise).

The outlook is a little brighter for UK sci-fi. Doctor who continues to do well although whether or not it’s currently popularity continues when it changes Doctor’s remains to be seen. Primeval is improving but it’s still far below it’s potential and Ashes to Ashes continues to chug along with it’s gloriously politically incorrect humour. Survivors is coming back for a 2nd series but I would say due to obvious reason’s it’s unlikely to get shown anytime soon. Torchwood also improves but it's main problem is the quite baffling amount of time between series.

Demons is almost certain not to come back, which is good in it’s way as even with a overhaul I think it would have still struggled. The central idea just couldn’t work in the constraints it’s time slot placed upon it. It’s hard to take the bad guys seriously when they can spend more then two minutes in the company of the infinitely annoying Ruby character and not kill her.

And on that note I’ll end it there,

Later folks