h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

btw

has hit German TV

more when I get feedback from my guinea-pig viewers...

Starting watching the documentary on gravity on BBC2 tonight:

"Who's he?" sez Dai

"Dunno, but he's definitely the thinking woman's crumpet!" sez I.

Dr Brian Cox, rock star turned quantum physicist, with the floppy hair and genial ingenue presenting style....hubble hubble hubble

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Well, I'm sure I spotted you among the crowd there.

I'm hoping there's 2 Brian Cox's and you're not describing the old, Dundee born Hannibal-before-Antony Hopkins-Brian Cox?? Yeuuch!

Just been introduced to Boston Legal on local telly and while the rest of the cast is carp (fat James Spader and an even fatter James T Kirk!) and am liking Justin Mentell for all round cutie boy-wise cracking eye candy!!

Dr Who won't work on German TV. The dubbing is so badly done (I didn't stop long enough to watch to see how well translated it was, but the sound was just ... Wrong!) And I don't think the Germans'll *get* it. But never mind - there's worse things on TV here at the moment.

And without having seen it from the beginning, in black and white, I'm not sure if they'll see the point, either.

However, for decades, since I left England in 1976, I've always had a Dr Who-shaped hole in my Saturday afternoons. I was just beginning to get used to it, when German TV started to show it - at 5pm on Saturdays!

I'll give it a go --- but my main mission is to get Germans watching. So I can get a sonic screwdriver

Sho, sonic screwdrivers have been in our bargain buckets for about a month. Email me your mailing addy, please.

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Torchwood is THE BEST thing on the box although I won't talk about last night's new episode until I'm sure you've all seen it It's certainly filling my Doctor Who-shaped hole.

Fat James T Kirk that's why I can't watch Boston Lega, and I hear from my sister that it's good! (She's not into sci-fi, just like everyone else in my family, I'm the )

I will be sorry when Mistresses ends. It's been a revelation.

Last night's Torchwood was the best so far

I'm looking forward to dissecting every minute detail with relish

Is there a place to do such a thing? I'm sure there was last series but I can't find it now!

Eloisa - my very own "Am I a perv?" briefly looked like turning into the Torchwood discussion forum, so you could kick-resurrect that. Or maybe start one of your own - you might however consider a title more likely to attract and inform the notice other fans (Torchies? Torchbearers?)!

Anyway, for last night's gay snog. I'm revising my initial opinion (bear with me, I only started watching this series) that this programme is little more than a study of the emotional life of Captain Jack Harkness with filling round the edges - I thought last night's and last week's episodes were strongly plotted and well written with real non-Jack interest. And there was a gay snog .

oh Ianto... he is just so... ready to get beaten up and hugged back to ok and beaten up again...

That Torchwood ep was about the best ever - enough of all the team to keep the die hards happy, and yet again Tosh having her heart broken.

And.. gay snog

GB... I'll mail you this weekend - thank you!

http://www.sueridermanagement.co.uk/presenters/BrianCox/briancox.htm

THIS Dr Brian Cox...

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

And another thing: It occurred to me that you could divide the women of the world into three groups depending on which Captain Jack they'd go for - Aubrey, Harkness or Sparrow.

Come to think of it, does Jack Bauer have a rank?

Anyway, I failed at the first hurdle, since I reckon I could find a time and a place for each of them, if I had to ...

Mmm, Sparrow please. Better tie him up though, that boy can't be trusted!

ok, what about those of us who want all three Cap'n Jacks?

At the same time?

No, one after the other.

I haven't decided yet whether I'm going to watch Primeval tonight. Last Chance saloon!

really? but the totty is so good - and two of 'em!

My German receiver is broken so I couldn't watch Dr Who in German