Lopez Blogs

Ever since the writers downed their pens, America has switched off their collective tv sets and gone out to do something more interesting instead (and if you remember where that is paraphrased from you are nearly as old as I am. 21) ~ however, there have mercifully been plenty of little gems cropping up all over the place. If you are a self confessed tv nut like me, you won't have had to go without. But first up, lets check out some music...

Last night was indeed the Brit awards. I didn't watch all of it but I did catch some random moments. Here are some of the highlights in my lovely bullet point format!

• Take That winning two awards and Gary looking more silver foxy by the day. Don't know what was up with Mark's bouffant though - it looked very windswept.
• Leona Lewis did a "just like on her album" version of Bleeding Love which was made more fantastic than it should've been by the fact that it's such an ace song, her amazing purple dress (she looked like my favourite quality street) and the quite funky choreography of the backing dancers
• Sharon Osbourne looking decidedly awkward when Kylie came up to collect her award from an overstimulated, but lovely looking DanUSA, er I mean David Tennant. The Osbournes can't be the Minogues favourite people really, can they?
• Amy Winehouse performing Valerie was total car crash. I mean seriously, it was worse than vacant Britney at the MTV Awards. Her shuffling two step attempts at dance made it look like she really needed the bathroom, her vocal was all over the place, the orchestra were pissing themselves laughing at her and she was out of sync with the music. Pity - i still love the song.
• I fairly adore the fact (though probably not as much as Adem) that the Arctic Monkeys always dress up for award shows. They were very drunk and apparently trashed the stage so ITV had to go to Fearne Cotton backstage. Still, they looked very dapper as English gentlemen...

For a much more entertaining look at the brits, why not pop over to Chartrigger. You know you want to... In other music shows, I didn't watch the grammys so can't really comment on that. I'm not even sure who won other than Amy and Mark Ronson. I am waiting til the final ten to get into American idol, though i do like the adorable little Utah boy David Archuleta. I hope he gets through. Dany (one N? How pretentious) Noriega irritates the bejeezus out of me - he is the gayest looking non threatening teen dude since Zac Efron. I honestly thought Jason Castro was a girl btw. Overall, i was appalled by the like of styling - a couple of people seemed to have made the effort but not really anyone else. Plus Yuri, XO, DanUSA and a few others had a discussion about someone's scarf that led to me labelling that particular Robyn look on boys being akin to "some dick thirsty drama Professor". Lovely. Though not as lovely as when i sent out our new First Aid policy at work to everyone and labelled the email "Fist Aid". I live to give.




Dancing on Ice: Ah its the reality show it's ok for C-list celebrities to go on. This year has been quite engrossing to be honest. It's clearly a race between four people - Suzanne Shaw (Hear'say), Zahra from Corrie, Gareth Gates and Chris Fountain (hollyoaks). The girls are pretty decent - and fearless (I could barely watch Suzanne do the headbanger last week - check out around 1m34s) but it's Chris and Gareth that have my attention most. Chris is just in a league of his own, which you can see above. His performances are always electric and fascinating to watch (check out his week one performance set to the Arctic Monkeys), while Gareth's seem to be all about having fun and a good time. If he put as much fun into his rather dour third album as he does this performance of Blame It On The Boogie, well it might have done a lot better. Plus some of the professional male ice skaters are quite pleasing to the eye...(yes Fred Palascak and Daniel Whiston i mean you!)

Skins Year 2: Thank god for the return of Skins - two episodes in and it is as engrossing and magnificent as ever. Turns out Tony is now a "total mong" (their words not mine) and is having trouble with his memory and motor neurone functions - this has had a knock on effect to the group who seem strangely disjointed even when together. Maxie is emerging as the star this season - his stalker storyline is rather brill, and his role in Osama! The Musical was hilarious. Points to Anwar for shagging Maxie's psycho stalker and listing the films of Hugh Grant to stop himself from performing too quickly. "I never get to About A Boy"... Classic.

Shameless Year 5: The extended (16 instead of 8) season of Shameless has been slightly hit and miss for me, though still better than most things on the box. The frank-centric episodes do nothing for me (his "love story" one last week was dullsville) but there is such a wealth of fascinating characters to draw on that there is always something to get drawn into. I currently love Mickey and his useless attempts to hide his gayness from his gangster family... But what the fuck was that Ian shags his half brother storyline about??!

Nip/Tuck Year 5: Talking of incest, it seems to be quite fashionable this year. Nip/Tuck has always been about the sublime and ridiculous and of course this year has been no different with it's hardly subtle commentary on the fact that fame will fuck you up and ultimately kill you (particularly hammered home during the final few seconds of the most recent episode). So what did the year bring? Julia being tv's most unlikeable person seeking to find herself again and screwing her family up in the process; Matt going from one extreme relationship to another, including boffing his half sister; Eden being one of those beautiful so must be evil type messages; Hearts and Scalpels being the most thinly disguised front for a Grey's Anatomy rip off (key line when they fire the lead actor "if you were black we could have waited til the end of season to fire you!!" hahahaha) and Cagney or Lacey playing a psycho agent who clearly didn't swipe her passport at the Mexican border. As over the top and melodramatic as usual. Brillo.

Honest Year 1: I am hoping against hope that there will be an Honest year two. Not only did Matthew McNulty do rather well playing twins, but the show couldn't have been more At Home With The Braithwaites if it tried. And that's a good thing - Amanda Redman knows how to play obstinate mother really well. The show wasn't anything groundbreaking but was quite entertaining in it's own little way.

Best of the rest:

Lost - has regained it's former glory. There is an episode of the simpsons where Homer is watching Twin Peaks and declares "brilliant - i have no idea what is going on". That's me and Lost! I have to run over to DanUK to see what he thinks!
Kyle XY - is it me or does ABC Family seem to have outdone the CW in becoming a worthy WB type station competitor. Kyle XY continues to be emminently watchable, even if no one ever dies for real after being shot or jumping off a cliff. Plus they have thinly veiled family conversations about discovering masturbation. How Dawson's Creek of them...
Prison Break - still ridiculous and ludicrous all at the same time. Yet in a way that doesn't anger me like the filled with holes plots of 24. Episode 13 could serve nicely as a cliffhanger or a slightly unresolved but satisfying series finale. Fox i'm sure will take their pick...

Returning soon:

All new episodes of Gossip Girl, Reaper, Ugly Betty, Desperate Housewives, Grey's Anatomy and Supernatural! Woo hoo! no Heroes, Pushing Daisies or Private Practice til next year though. Boo you whores...