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RETURN TO MADISON AVENUE

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Mad Men is back in style, and how nice is that? 13 more episodes of sheer goodness, thank you.

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RECOMMENDED: POLYGAMISTS

Monday, June 28, 2010

If you haven’t had a chance to catch HBO’s Big Love then I highly recommend that you do. Season 4 of the series is now finished and it really amazes with a most outrageous and brilliantly clever story line.
Big Love is a about a polygamist family living in Utah. There is the husband – Bill [...]

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Watching Dimensions

Monday, June 14, 2010

I was almost going to post something on the almighty Vuvuzela today. But others have covered this subject neatly.
Plus, I found this animation by digital art pioneer Manfred Mohr who’s birthday we missed last week. If you’re not so much into watching two-dimensional balls, try watching this multi-dimensional cube.

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TREME THEME

Sunday, April 25, 2010

As you might have noticed, we are all big fans of TV series The Wire, so it’s with great anticipation we see the return of Wire’s mastermind David Simon with his new series Treme, examining New Orleans after the Katrina hurricane, intertwining the city’s great musical history with its current desolate state and the effects [...]

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DON’T YOU KNOW WHO THAT IS?

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

It’s been two years since the last episode of The Wire aired. Produced by HBO and set in Baltimore, it was described by many people as “the world’s best television series ever”. Even by those who generally never watch television because the standards of tv shows are usually so low.
The blog The Wire Re-Up on [...]

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ONE FOR THE LADIES

Sunday, January 24, 2010

Best known for his portrayal of Stringer Bell in the The Wire and once named ‘the most beautiful man in the world’ by renowned German cultural critic Diedrich Diederichsen, Idris Elba just released an EP under his DJ name of Driis, titled High Class Problems Vol 1.

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ANTIPODEAN

Sunday, December 20, 2009

While everybody in the Northern Hemisphere is worried about what else they can put on to feel warmer, our editor Sarah is on her way to Australia right now, where she can expect problems of the opposite kind: What else could I take off – it’s over 30 degrees!
There are some funny Australians who can [...]

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HURT FEELINGS

Monday, December 14, 2009

It’s sad and official: There won’t be a third season of Flight of the Conchords.
Bret, Jemaine and James (co-creator/director) said “we’ve noticed the less we say about the future of the show, the more people want to talk about it, so in an effort to reverse this trend we are today announcing that we won’t [...]

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PRIME TIME CLASSIC

Friday, October 30, 2009

There has been much talk about the reinvention of television during the past few years with the rise of HBO and high quality-TV series such as The Wire, The Sopranos or West Wing, that fully used the potential of a narrative that could stretch over weeks and months, taking their time to develop multi-layered characters [...]

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ALL IN THE GAME

Thursday, October 15, 2009

Happy 40th birthday Dominic West a.k.a. Jimmy Mc Nulty. He was famously starring in THE WIRE, an American television drama series set in Baltimore, Maryland, where it was also produced. Created, produced, and primarily written by author and former police reporter David Simon, the series was broadcast by the premium cable network HBO in the [...]

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