EG's Televisual Update

Am still liking Lost at the moment, it still has its weird bits but mostly I am enjoying the bunch of glamorous, self-centered weirdos who seem to be stranded on a South Sea Island for the foreseeable future (if not a couple more series) with some polar bears....

The BBC are doing a more than credible version of Bleak House at the moment, whilst trying to keep to Charles Dickens' mainstream work (as it was then) in a soap-opera style. The star-studded cast include The X-Files' Gillian Anderson, Dennis Lawson, Charles Dance and Johnny Vegas. The two half-hour episodes per week mean you don't get daunted by having to sit down and watch a huge, heavy drama (and it is not particularly heavy, though I believe the book maybe).

I have yet to see last week's episode of Sky One's The 4400, which is currently in its second series about returned abductees that claim to have been taken by people in our future. It is not as sci-fi as that sounds, and is much more character oriented. The week before had a weird episode, where one of the agents dealing with the 4400 lived temporarily in a parallel universe where he discovered he was married to a stranger (who turned out to be a 4400) and they have rediscovered each other in their more familiar universe. Which is nice. I am interested to see how that develops.

The second series of Nip/Tuck on Sky One is also keeping me keen. It is much more character led this series, and less patient stories, but with the on-going Carver serial slasher mystery.

The BBC's spy drama Spooks is about to conclude its fourth series. It still has some gems, but generally is not as good as the first two series, but I am still making the effort to watch for the original stories that they come up with.