Captain Jack Harkness would so win against Jack Bauer in a suffer-off.

You had a shitty day? Well let me tell you about *my* shitty day.

( Season 3 aka Children of Earth spoilers )

( spoiler cut for the paranoid )

Right, I went a few days ago googling to see if Jason Dohring had been in anything recently. Turns out he guest starred in a series called Party Down, I was vaguely interested.

Then I went searching a bit more and lo and behold it's a comedy about 'out of work' actors and wanna be showbiz people who are working in a party catering service while looking for their big break.

The thing that makes this show awesome? It's made by the creator of Veronica Mars and he pulls in a lot of his old actors.

Jason Dohring is in the second episode, when they cater for "California College Conservatives Union Caucus" ..and yeah he's an obnoxious rich republican idiot in there

Anyway, it's funny and it's great to see the familiar faces.

It's a 30min comedy but there's no laugh track and it's not a sit com per se.

ETA: Just a FYI sort of thing, the show does trigger my embarrassment squick fairly regularly but I'm laughing enough to cope with it most of the time, heh..

I was not expecting to fall hard for another vamp show this soon after Moonlight got cancelled *grr* at the network there.

but..

True Blood aka a vampire show managed by Alan Ball of Six Feet Under, on HBO.

Me and my kinks didn't stand a chance.

Dear lord *facepalm*

Ok I've been sick for most of last week and I've been gorging on Spooks (I watched season 3, 4 and 5 in a week).

Now I've got season 6 to go before I'm all caught up. However for probably obvious reasons I'm not starting the season until I've got ALL the eps down. I.e I'm expecting to watch the whole thing in 2-3 days but I don't want any chance whatsoever of hitting then, but the next one?! where is it?!! why did the interweb flake out on me NOOOOOOOO!!! thing.

Anyway to scratch the itch I decided to take a peek at the post apocalyptic Spooks BBC3 spin off.. and

...

Yeah, now see. It looks pretty much exactly like the young&hip version of SG1 in the 200th ep. They're all way too young, all very pretty, go clubbing and are generally seeming like typical TV Bright Young Pretty Things. Which isn't all bad, I mean Skins was fun (ok they were a bit younger there) but still. As Spooks? pah! Also one of the key things I enjoy about Spooks is the somewhat geeky background officers. The analysts and gadget people. Y'know people with sexy brains, rather than gun toting Action Men and Women (although they're fun too)

Anyway yes, I'll just be waiting for the mothership, I'll probably continue watching the Spooks: 90210 a bit longer out of morbid curiosity but yeah.. notte impressed.

The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre are doing a show on the Edinburgh Fringe which I went to see and it was a ton of fun.

They have a bunch of youtube sketches, one of my favs so far is the BEST.EPISODE.EVER of Primeval *smolder smolder cheekbones smolder*
No really:




You should click through and see their other stuff as well. Their Life on Mars parody and Reservoir Socks are pure genius as well.

'Cos really sometimes worn grey socks with high pitched Scottish voices and wobbly eyes are hard to beat.

I'm currently pon farring my way through Spooks season 2.

Tom Quinn is just beautifully fucked up and so so brittle and getting more so with each ep.

I'm just halfway through the season and unspoiled so no knowing comments about what happens please.

Anyway yes I just love the mindfucks and the stress they have to deal with

= Fighting Evil So YOU don't have to!!

Ok see, I got this message from evildrem saying "Watch Middleman, it's funny" or something like that. I basically went huh?

Fast forward a few days and I remembered about that and googled it and found er.. nefarious ways of acquiring a few eps and it's actually quite a lot of fun.

It's pretty much as if Torchwood and Due South had secrit wacky comic book babies.

It has some fun female characters. I.e I actually like the female lead and her friend. The Middleman himself is very entertaining and beautifully played but so clean cut I sort of want him to meet Captain Jack. He's also has that same vaguely WWII look about him which just makes me want to see them together more.

Anyway a deeply silly and wacky show that where I would not be surprised to eventually have them run into sharks with lasers on their heads.

Also I mean how can you not love a show where the all knowing computer is a robot that's stuck looking like it/she walked straight out of a Far Side comic, glasses, attitude and all.

Here, have a trailer: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=zHyOKjvk3j4

I'm sort of half way through season 2 now and apart from me needing to find some more Duncan/Logan fic just one observation that I find endlessly amusing right now.

In the credits you have the lyrics "Come on now sugar!" over Logan's bit and then "Bring it on bring it on, yeah!" for Weevil.

I know it's very minor observation and doesn't really warrant an entire post but well..