Many people know that i’ve spent the entire winter holed up in bed watching dvd of television programs. Yes it’s true, i watched

• the complete first season of Brothers and Sisters. Aaaagh.
• the mighty boosh, season three
• Torchwood, the Welsh spinoff from Doctor Who
• a few episodes of the totally trashy American Gothic
• Flight of the Conchords, again
• re-runs of Firefly, Buffy ..

Brothers and Sisters had me hooked from the start. Such compelling-ly mad characters. It was fun in B&S watching Calista Flackheat and Rachel Griffiths’ lips compete for whose could be the most wobbly due to puffy injections.

Mighty Boosh is of course beyond compare.

.. and now i’ve found something new, something i hadn’t seen before .. Life on Mars. Ooh it’s good. Unfortunately the first time round, the Movie Reel gave me disks 1 and 4 in the same case .. so i’ve had to wait for the next instalment.

American Gothic was strange, because it was promising .. but so disappointingly Lame. There’s one sheriff in town who rules the place with his mysterious psychic powers – and regular murdering – but somehow he doesn’t use his powers against the main heroes. The heroes are irritatingly pathetic. Not recommended.