Musings of a Couch Potato
Saturday, April 10th, 2004 23:42![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kittiwakeThree good new cop shows this spring: "Murder City", "Murder in Suburbia" & "New Tricks". All providing interesting relationships between the cops as well as good whodunits. MC stars Amanda Donohoe as a female DI who acts as a buffer between the manic DS and their boss, who can't understand him at all and spends most of the time worrying about his budget. MIS features a pair of female detectives (a coolly elegant DI and a DS who is a bit of a scruff), who spend most of the time discussing their love lives, while solving crimes and unnerving their boss by subtly flirting with him. In NT some retired cops are re-employed by the police force to re-open old cases in a civilian capacity and they also have a female boss.
The other new program I really like is "Hustle", with Adrian Lester leading a group of con-artists. Amusing and stylish, with moments where the action stops and the con-artists talk directly to the camera about the art of the long-con.
I don't know if The Gherkin (nickname of the new Swiss Re building) has been chosen by media folk to represent London, but in the past week I have seen it in the background in "Murder City", "New Tricks" and "My Family". I think it's gradually replacing the London Eye as a London icon. The London Eye did turn up in this week's "Hustle", but only because the team had 'sold' it to a businessman.
I can see why "Everybody Loves Raymond" has been relegated to the graveyard slot of 8 am on Channel 4. I occasionally catch some of it when I 'm getting ready for work and I don't see why anyone would love Raymond. He is whiny, insecure, envious and self-centred in the extreme, so I suppose the title is ironic as he just thinks that the whole world revolves around him.
The other new program I really like is "Hustle", with Adrian Lester leading a group of con-artists. Amusing and stylish, with moments where the action stops and the con-artists talk directly to the camera about the art of the long-con.
I don't know if The Gherkin (nickname of the new Swiss Re building) has been chosen by media folk to represent London, but in the past week I have seen it in the background in "Murder City", "New Tricks" and "My Family". I think it's gradually replacing the London Eye as a London icon. The London Eye did turn up in this week's "Hustle", but only because the team had 'sold' it to a businessman.
I can see why "Everybody Loves Raymond" has been relegated to the graveyard slot of 8 am on Channel 4. I occasionally catch some of it when I 'm getting ready for work and I don't see why anyone would love Raymond. He is whiny, insecure, envious and self-centred in the extreme, so I suppose the title is ironic as he just thinks that the whole world revolves around him.
