ABC Family has a jam-packed summer line up and one of the newbie’s on the schedule is a show called Pretty Little Liars based on the books by Sara Shephard. This centers around four girls in a town called Rosewood who have a friend, Alison, who disappears and eventually winds up dead. The night of […]

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It is amazing how a movie or a video game can give birth to an entire industry, but it is a fact of life. One of the best examples of this phenomena is the video game Halo. This game has been around for a decade, and has gone through at least four iterations. The spin […]

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After five and a half hours - a full seven episodes - of this addicting reality show, you’re likely to look around your own home and feel a little bit better about the clutter you may have. “Hoarders” - a reality show in the best sense of the term - features people (and sometimes couples) […]

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More than twenty-five years ago, my ex-husband and I travelled along with my parents and my brother and his family, up and down the east coast from the  Gulf Coast to the Northern States, and as far west as Colorado. We each had our own campers that we took to help with the expense of […]

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Sad news. “Law and Order”, at least the New York City version, will be canceled.
Yes, there still will be spin offs, but the main NYC program will now be history.
Living outside the USA, much of the programming that we see does not give a good mirror to American reality. If I were black, I’d sue. […]

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The Celebrity Apprentice has returned for 2010 and we have seen many leave since its season premiere on March 14 on NBC. Each episode has given us two hours of celebrities from Darryl Strawberry to Carol Leifer working to raise money for their chosen charities. There seems to be one exception this season and that is that […]

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TV Guide calls this 4 DVD set “an entertaining collision of bare-knuckled police-procedural realism and mind-blowing surrealism.” Life on Mars Series 2 is an International Emmy and reg-winning series that was seen on BBC America.
In this series we find detective Sam Tyler, played by John Simm, in a position facing, same place, same job nut […]

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My wife thinks I know the strangest people, actually she may be right. The other day I picked up the phone and off into the world of the not ‘regular’ I went. Jan asked me ‘Mobster, FBI, CIA Spook, or your daughter’. I assured her that it was not my daughter.
‘OK, I’ll bet it was […]

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Rielle Hunter showed up on Oprah to collect another 60 –48 with commercials removed–minutes of fame. The interview, as with all Hunter utterances, was amusing. Viewers tuning in to learn something new were disappointed however.

[ABOVE: “Now that we’re comfy..”]
RIELLE HUNTER on OPRAH:
NOTHING NEW
THAT’S MY STORY AND I’M STICKING TO IT!
SAME OLD, SAME […]

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I wrote a review on Murphy’s Law Series One back in January, and I must say it was an interesting series. Tommy Murphy’s (played by James Nesbitt) daughter was murdered by the IRA who forced James’s wife witness the murder. James goes through life feeling responsible for his daughter’s death and because of this death […]

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(London, UK) Britain’s three political leaders, David Cameron, Nick Clegg and Gordon Brown paid a glowing tribute to the ‘armies of carers’ in the second historic Prime Ministerial Debate on Sky Television on Thursday 22nd April. The powerful debate was moderated by Adam Boulton.The leaders mentioned carers for a second time and talked about the […]

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This week’s V was a lesson in how home security systems can save lives. Or take them away, depending on which side you’re cheering on.
The Visitors have an immense amount of technology on their side. They can (possibly. Seems a lot like fear-mongering to me) detect aneurysms before they happen, send […]

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The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh

To say this is a moving documentary does not to justice to the subject. This is without doubt one of the most important documentaries I have seen in quite some time.
My wife Jan loves to open the parcels and packages that seem to arrive daily. She saw this DVD […]

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As children we learn to love dirt, we are one with it. Unfortunately as we grow older our affinity with what is probably the most important live giving substance in the planet is lost.  I recall in my youth (around the summer of love), I was well equipped in my Hippie persona,Bell Bottoms, a cotton […]

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I have to admit that I am a huge fan of the Travel With Kids series. I watched the Travel With Kids - New York DVD and thought it was really well done.

Well, Travel With Kids - Ireland is an even better DVD!
I can understand what the film makers are trying to do, which is […]

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I am a huge fan of what I call living history. By that I mean history that is well documented and we have first hand descriptions and accounts. This DVD fits the plate to feed my hunger.
George Westinghouse may not be the best known person when it comes to great inventors, yet he should be. […]

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The political hot air and exaggerations that goes around the Internet makes one wonder if everyone is going to have not their “ten minutes of fame” but their “Ten minutes of being demonized by the “Liberal/Mainstream-Media/DailyKos” partisans or the “Rush/Beck/Tea-party” zealots.
However, the good news (and something that is rarely mentioned in the blast of the […]

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“Throughout time, there have been mysteries mankind cannot explain…” So begins the narrated opening credits for the History channel documentary series MysteryQuest, immediately letting audience members know what kind of interesting ride they’re in for.  Even better, the narration continues with the following: “But advances in technology have led to new theories, and the search […]

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“Like sands through the hourglass… so are the days of our lives.”
So begins the rather epic two disc collection of music from Days of our Lives, a soap opera that has been airing daily for almost half a century. As the composers discuss in the liner notes, the last collection was released over ten years […]

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This 2 Volume Boxed DVD set, Wish Me Luck Series 1 is based on the true stories of female intelligence agents behind Nazi line. It has a great cast including, Kate Buffery, Jane Asher, Julian Glover, Michael J. Jackson, Warren Clarke and Jeremy Northam. Filmed on location in Britain and France Wish Me Luck boasts […]

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If you are a thriller lover like I am then this DVD Armchair Thriller Set 2 set is for you. No one can do  a good thriller like the Brits do. This set will surely keep you on the edge of your seat. The suspenseful plots trace the stories of desperate people trapped in dire […]

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This is an 11 volume DVD set of The Ruth Rendell Mysteries Collection which hits the streets on DVD on March 16, 2010. Filled with suspense and psychological depth, we have these 17 feature length mysteries which are based on Ruth Rendell’s bestselling fiction. The stars included are Colin Firth, Honeysuckle Weeks, James D’Arcy, James […]

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SAAS the  largest Adult charity in the United Kingdom who specifically cater for Adults with autism and we welcome this new Autism Strategy
SAAS welcomed a raft of new measures in the landmark adult autism strategy published today aimed at tackling the isolation, ignorance and inequality routinely experienced by the over 300,000 […]

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Award winning playwright and screenwriter, Alan Plater has returned with the debut on DVD with a third Beiderbecke mystery which is as quirky and fun as the first two. The Beiderbecke Connection was aired on public TV in the 1990’s along with the first two, The Beiderbecke Affair and The Beiderbecke Tapes.

In The Beiderbecke Connection […]

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This DVD set, Poldark Series 1, as seen on Masterpiece Theatre as a wildly popular hit show, is making its debut on DVD which street dates on March 2, 2010. The New York Times describes it as “Romantic adventure, complete with raging ambition, terrible betrayals, frustrated loves, daring deeds, and a marvelously dashing hero.”
Poldark has […]

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The Road From Coorain is an emotionally compelling drama about childhood and the remarkable relationship between two special women. It was broadcast on PBS’s Masterpiece Theater in 2002 and 2003 but it is now available on DVD.
Jill Ker, played by Katherine Slattery, who was born in the 1930’s on a sheep ranch in New South […]

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For many years I have listened to experts talking about the plight of humanity, there are too many people and not enough food. The solution offered almost always involved harvesting the riches of the Oceans. But do the Oceans still have those riches to be found? That is very much the question that the award […]

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For the first time in the U.S. the audiences will be able to sit at home and watch on DVD the world’s longest continually running police drama, Taggart Set 2. It will be available on DVD on February 23, 2010.
It is described by the Sunday Times as “Gritty, compelling… a mad cocktail of Sherlock Holmes, […]

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This is an interesting DVD set called Wartime Britain that includes three stories of bravery and betrayal set during Britain’s finest hour. It features almost 10 hours of award winning British drama which is now out on DVD which will be released on February 23, 2010.
The three dramas include:
The Heat of the Day – Elizabeth […]

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If you enjoy mystery series then you will probably enjoy Midsomer Murders Set 14. There are 4 contemporary stand-alone British mysteries included and it is now available on DVD for the first time in the U.S. It debuts on DVD starting February 23, 2010. The feature length mysteries in set 14 have never been aired […]

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