Masterchef US
As a big fan of all things Masterchef, I also enjoyed the american version of Masterchef. But only the latter stages to be honest. In the Australian version there is a lot camradery, sometimes a few quibbles here and there, but in the American version, the competition was much more fierce and sometimes down right dirty. Last night I watched the finale, and a very remarkable winner came out on top, the blind cook Christine Ha ! She win $250.000,- and a book deal ! Very impressive I must say, throughout the competition she almost always had one of the top dishes and even managed to get the presentation right despite her handicap. Gratz to her . LA Times...
House–Everybody dies
All good things come to an end, and so after eight seasons, House MD comes to an end. I haven’t been following the series very closely the last two years. I was a huge fan for the first 5 or so seasons, and then somewhere during season 7 they kinda lost me. Late Season 5 and the start of season 6 when House dealt with his inner demons without the vicodine was the best part of the last few seasons, but the writers decided to go back to the ‘old’ house fast as it was harder to write for the new House I guess. Or people liked the old bully better. But I did watch an episode here and there. This season has been a bit better lately. What follows are some thoughts about the series finale. At the start we find out that House has hit rock bottom, and (presumably)...
Dr Who gets a new companion
For the new run of Dr Who shows starting late this year, The Doctor will get a new companion. She’s got some big shoes to fill since everybody loved Amy Pond / Karen Gillan. Her name is Jenna-Louise Coleman. Links: The Guardian The Sun BlogtorWho
Amy Winehouse
Merely an hour after she was found dead in her apartment, rumours were going around on Twitter. I’ve seen them before and figured it was another hoax, though some time after, the news was found on several somewhat more reputable sources. Not that much of a surprise but still a shock once it actually happened. She actually was starting to get better as you can see by the recent pics at the Daily Mail. She leaves us two wonderful albums. You can watch my favourite song...
The Doctor has returned
Last saturday at 19:00 (dutch time) the doctor returned on BBC One ! It was a very intriguing episode, and it took me two viewings to wrap my head around it a little bit ! It was great to see Mark Sheppard too (the lawyer from BSG). Here are some screenshots and links to some excellent reviews: Feelinglistless RobWillReview BlogtorWho Audio...
Gary Moore – 1958 – 2011
Unfortunately early this morning I heard about Gary Moore‘s very unexpected death. To be honest I haven’t followed him the past few years, but I had a friend in Highschool (this is the mid ’90s) who was a huge fan, and that’s how I got into his music as well. We saw him perform live quite a few times, and was always impressed by his excellent guitar play. Such a wonderful tone !
Summer TV
This summer it seems that there isn’t much worthy enough to follow as far as new TV series goes. I kind of like the new Canadian tv series Rookie Blue and that’s about it. True Blood apparently comes highly recommended, but I am not that much into vampires, and I didn’t see season 1 and 2 yet. I do keep up with the What’s Alan Watching blog to see whether there is anything of interest coming up. Lately I have been buying seasons of E.R. on DVD though to get some sort of tv series fix ! I never really followed it when it was aired at the time, but it’s still very enjoyable now. Let’s hope the fall will bring something remotely as interesting as E.R., Lost or Battlestar Gallactica, but it’ll be hard to fill the void...