New season talk type thread thing.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » June 25th, 2009, 1:28

I liked that, almost all background and not loads of OMG MOON!, pleasant surprise from the usual bias towards apollo 11 above all else.

edit:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0 ... Episode_1/

shows promise, too

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » June 26th, 2009, 13:04

Burn notice: Good
Bullshit: Good

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » June 26th, 2009, 17:14

Good call on the NASA and oil industry, very interesting.

I got a taste for docs so I've acquired The Ascent of Man. Which is so far very interesting, if a little dated.

buzzmong · Post by **buzzmong** » June 26th, 2009, 18:17

Continuing the space stuff, James May talking to Astronauts, doing some weightless training, and apparently being strapped into a Saturn V according to the blurb on iPlayer:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0 ... _the_Moon/

Oh, and he also flies to 70,000 feet, which is still quite a way off the 320,000 ft up that space is officially.

Stoat · Post by **Stoat** » June 26th, 2009, 19:10

buzzmong wrote:Continuing the space stuff, James May talking to Astronauts, doing some weightless training, and apparently being strapped into a Saturn V according to the blurb on iPlayer:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0 ... _the_Moon/

Oh, and he also flies to 70,000 feet, which is still quite a way off the 320,000 ft up that space is officially.

Oh yes, I've got that downloaded on iPlayer. I should watch it!

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » June 26th, 2009, 19:11

I did like that rather too, but I dunno, the top-gear-presenteryness sometimes doesn't work for me.

Post by **HereComesPete** » June 26th, 2009, 20:53

I watched it after top gear. Was okay but would have been better not straight after, felt like a captain slow report for top gear on spaec.

Post by **FatherJack** » June 26th, 2009, 22:20

He seem to have had a lot of boyhood dreams that fit precisely with the programmes he's presenting, ie: trains, robots, space.

I don't dislike him, but Top Gear seems to have changed him from excitable nerdy enthusiast into someone more laddish and he'd have been a better presenter for things like this the way he was a few years ago.

He's a bit like the straight man without a punchline, in this we see him being a bit rubbish at space training, but there's no Clarkson and Hammond to laugh at him. It would have been better if he'd described the experiences a little better, saying why they were difficult.

MORDETH LESTOK · Post by **MORDETH LESTOK** » June 30th, 2009, 14:29

FYI: US Fourth of July Holiday coming up...Burn Notice returns July 9th:

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVa0fxT4VsI[/media]

MORDETH LESTOK · Post by **MORDETH LESTOK** » July 1st, 2009, 19:09

I liked Mental...and of course, it's prolly gonna get cancelled. So, Burn Notice acquired the main character from Mental. He was quite good. Hopefully, will be a nice addition to Burn Notice.

[color=darkred][u]Ausiellofiles[/u][/color] wrote:'Burn Notice' nabs 'Mental' case Chris Vance!
Jun 29, 2009, 12:19 PM | by Michael Ausiello

Categories: Burn Notice, News

Chris Vance, who's currently headlining Fox's shrink procedural Mental, is Burn Notice-bound.

Sources confirm to me exclusively that the ex-Prison Breaker has booked a four-episode arc as Gilroy, a sophisticated and ruthless former MI-6 bigwig who now oversees freelance black ops.

Translation: He's about to make life hell for one Michael Westen.

Vance will appear during the second half of Burn Notice's current third season, tentatively scheduled to air in early '10. The gig won't conflict with Vance's Mental duties since production on the drama's first (and likely only) season wrapped months ago.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » July 5th, 2009, 23:59

Eureka is on on friday.

That is all.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » July 6th, 2009, 12:37

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:edit:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0 ... Episode_1/

shows promise, too

Just watched eps 2 and 3 of that.

Damn interesting, what with it being pretty recent history that you never really learn about in school etc.

buzzmong · Post by **buzzmong** » July 6th, 2009, 14:03

2nd Ep of the NASA series:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0 ... iant_Leap/

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » July 6th, 2009, 14:16

buzzmong wrote:2nd Ep of the NASA series:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0 ... iant_Leap/

There goes any hope of me being productive today.

Baliame · Post by **Baliame** » July 6th, 2009, 23:29

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:Eureka is on on friday.

That is all.

Post by **deject** » July 7th, 2009, 0:13

New "SyFy" show Warehouse 13 is on Thursday, I will see if it's any good.

Baliame · Post by **Baliame** » July 7th, 2009, 0:28

deject wrote:SyFy

I do not want to see that written down ever again.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » July 7th, 2009, 0:34

Baliame wrote:I do not want to see that written down ever again.

www.scifi.com

enjoy!

Baliame · Post by **Baliame** » July 7th, 2009, 0:46

I know it is, but it's just that terrible y'know.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » July 7th, 2009, 0:48