I'll start this weeks Overview with what must be a new urban legend. I heard that viewers complained to the ITV that ads in the break of Downton Abbey were too downbeat and bursting their cosy little bubble. This can't be true, are people so deeply into their Downton coma that a few adverts are jolting them back to reality? I hate cosy Sunday TV anyway, for me, it reached its low point when the BBC took Michael Dibdin's excellent Zen novels and turned them into mush. Taking out the darkness and politics and replacing them with lashings of Italian countryside. Let's hope the ITV put lots of ads for Fluffy Kittens R Us and Babbling Brooks. com in the Downton breaks this week.
Does anyone else think Sky Atlantic's This Is Jinsy looks like Balamory without the laughs?
Torchwood Meandering Day has finally finished. A storyline that barely deserved three episodes was stretched to an arse numbing ten and what was all that with Gwen Cooper's dad about? Why are we supposed to care about him? Did I miss the series where he was a main character? Gwen Cooper is one of the most annoying creations on British TV, so why worry about her dying dad? It was a shame really because Meandering Day had some talented actors, and John Barrowman, involved. A missed opportunity, let's hope we have finally seen Torchwood disbanded.
On the forthcoming attractions front. I get the feeling we have seen every exciting moment from the second season of Boardwalk Empire in the trailer.
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