Spurned on by the recent dramatic increase in readership (ie, at least one person read the last one), I have decided to try and make a regular thing of this writing stuff. At least until I get bored with it again, which will probably be about 2 updates from now.

The last entry was a bit rough wasn’t it? So for this entry, brought on by sheer public demand, I will attempt to write in a positive or at least less negative way. So what’s the title of this one again? oh yeah, that. Right, well, today children, I wanted to speak to you about TV shows. See, there is a lot of not very good TV on at the moment, or if it is good, then it’s been so repeated that it’s become like a piece of furniture rather than some form of entertainment, it’s just..there.

So, in between flicking through Law and Order: Spinoff Intent Unit, or Survivor: Some generic country where apparently the natives have challenges involving sitting on poles, or even the jolly fun of all the “I was abducted by aliens” mini-series that have come up. I won’t even mention the new 24, because it’s been critically acclaimed as better than the previous 24, so that means it’s only slightly shit.

However there is some good of it, but in the strangest of all places. Y’see, among the various trashy series, there was a particularly bad series called “The Practise”, it dealt with probably the most loathsome group of trained professionals in society. Lawyers. It was a pile of tosh with overly-melodramatic sequences usually involving soul searching and so on. It was crap.

Then came a character so cool that even I couldn’t help watching the series. The actor playing this character is James Spader, who was also in Stargate (the movie). Needless to say, even with the introduction of another cool character played by William Shatner (of Star Trek), the unvaryingly dull storylines of the other non Spader/Shatner cast was too strong and the series died.

However a spinoff was made and is immensly watchable. Why is it so? Is it the moral teachings of each episode? Is it the supporting cast and their cliched characters? Is it the rivetting and unpredictable plot? Nope, apart from some slight differences from the norm, the only reason the show is fun to watch is due to these two actors. Imagine that, with directors, a cast of about 10 regular actors and god knows how many support crew, the entire show seems to only be propelled along by these two people. Well, I mean someone has to script what they say and so on, but really, these two guys make it all worth while.

I’m sure that now I’ve said this the series will get cancelled and replaced with something involving Jessica Simpson or perhaps even another series of The Apprentice, but watch it while you can, it’s worth looking at.