Every year some new TV shows come out that seem based on very similar ideas. This year I noticed that Ringer and The Lying Game have rather similar concepts. Separated identical twins (played by the same actress), one rich one poor, swap places. One disappears and the poor sister attempts to find out what’s going on while impersonating the rich sister. More or less.
Grimm and Once Upon A Time both bring fairy tales into the real world but in rather different ways.
After the awesome finale of the TV show Game of Thrones I started rereading the books to get up to speed for the fifth volume which comes out in a few weeks. So far on rereading for the first time after nearly five years it’s remarkable how closely the TV series hewed to the first book, A Game of Thrones. Lines of dialogue were lifted exactly from the book, and many others just shortened a little.
Much closer than any other adaptation I can think of, and the better for it.
Three episodes into the first season of HBO’s adaptation of A Song of Ice and Fire and I’m a little annoyed because it’s making most of the other shows I watch seem shallow and shoddy. The good thing is that the episodes are so good I can rewatch them a few times 
I watched the first episode of Game of Thrones last night. It’s been a while since I read the books so I can’t comment on small inaccuracies, but overall it seemed a remarkably good adaptation. I hope the show achieves sufficiently good ratings for season two to be made.
Discussion of the show here and here and here.
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And after just one episode has aired HBO has picked up a second season of the show!
After ten weeks The Killing ended last night with a satisfying finale and a teaser for the next series to be shown later this year.
I have to say it again – a satisfying finale! How many shows have managed that lately?
The Killing on BBC4 is the best thing on UK TV at the moment.
Another ‘re-imagining’ of cult character Fans of Buffy the Vampire Slayer should brace themselves for a cinematic “re-imagining” of the cult character, which producer Charles Roven describes as a “a completely new reboot”.… [From Buffy to slay her way back into cinemas]
At best this would seem to be unnecessary and I expect it will be a lot worse than that. Joss Whedon is not attached to the project in any way.
Time to replace the DVD unit in the home theatre again.
It was a quicker job this time. I didn’t lose any of my settings like region free or speaker delay. Successfully played my filthy rental DVD in time to return it for the next one
Sherlock, the modern update of the Conan Doyle character, ended its short first season (three feature-length eps) on a cliffhanger last night. I’ll be watching when it returns.
