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“All in the game yo, all in the game”

By Tom Lennon ⋅ February 11, 2010 ⋅ 2 comments

I came home from work today to find my wonderful stepdaughter Lily on the Internet. She was visiting the Disney Channel website, and – as one of those unfortunate people burdened with a certain kind of political temperament – I found myself experiencing an involuntary muscle spasm somewhere in the region of my social conscience [...]

Sesame: Life on the Street

By Tom Lennon ⋅ February 6, 2010 ⋅ One comment

This evening’s Archive Hour on Radio 4 celebrated the 40th anniversary of the seminal children’s TV show Sesame Street. The programme featured healthy dollops of insight about the visionary goals that underpinned the show and how the Children’s Television Workshop revolutionised children’s TV through the medium of animation, bad puns and felt glove puppets. The [...]

Treme Trailer

By Tom Lennon ⋅ January 13, 2010 ⋅ 3 comments

HBO have just released a teaser trailer for Treme, the new series from The Wire’s creator David Simon. The show is set in post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans and centres around a group of local musicians. It stars Wire alumni Wendell Pierce and Clarke Peters (who played Bunk Moreland and Lester Freamon in the Baltimore-set TV [...]

Is The Wire’s Dominic West the new Gareth Hunt?

By Tom Lennon ⋅ September 6, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment