HBO /BBC MiniSeries not to be missed House of Saddam
Soon to be released here in the states on HBO, is a new 4 part drama series about the rise and fall of power of
Saddam Hussein. The series is titled
House of Saddam, sort of indicating there is a royalty aspect to his rise to power.
The drama, I found to be very enlightening.. The show was produced by BBC and HBO (like Rome was) so the quality of production is first rate.
Highly watchable stuff. Actually available now for those of you who torrent, as the BBC aired it back in Jul;y.
Best wishes for a happy turkey day
New TV Show "Crash"
Based on the 2004 movie,
Starz now has remade it into a 13 part series
This is the first show
Starz cable has produced. It start Oct 17, I am watching episode 1 now.
With Dennis Hopper it looks like a well written edgy cop drama.
Electric Bike review on NPR
On yesterdays
ATC on NPR I heard a story which give you a very clear idea of what an electric bike can do.
I thought I would pass it along to my loyal readers .
Fall 2008 TV looks like a winner !
The new series
"Fringe" might turn out to be my next favorite show. Its the new work by JJ Abrams (from Lost and Alias fame) and has all the trademarks of the X files meet lost. There is a cameo by the star of Re genesis
Peter Outterbridge. Which tells me that JJ Abrams has some way of getting Canadian Television.. (does JJ Torrent ??? ) The first in this series is avail from your favorite torrent site. I love the
signature use of titles and airline events which throw back to Lost and Alias One line where Peter Outtbridge says
"we will have to regenerate the cells... "I about fell of my chair.
The Shield is closing the series this year with their final series..
There is a rumor all over the net that on
Prision Break, one of the the main stars is going to be off in the season openener '(a 2 hour special) !
From the people (tmc) who brought us Being Bad and Mad Men comes a new drams based on the 1974 film
The Conversation. Two very good films I happed to watch this weekend. Both foreign, both worth watching.
The Trap and Tell no one.
Bob
Summer TV Suprise - Bonekickers on BBC
A summer show on BBC is really something to Watch
Its called
Bonekickers While the reviews are not great, for me its educational and enjoyable. Written by the same writing team as brought us Life on Mars.
Fabulous new documentary Evidence Of Revision
This documentary which is show in 5 parts, (about 2 hours each episode) tells a very compelling story which points to LBJ as the assassin of JFK.
Unseen videos, many interviews. All in all its as good as
The power of nightmares.
There is relevance to today's political arena. Who is Obama going to pick as his running mate ? and why. Why we went to war ? what can the next president actually do to get us out ? Its taken 50 years to get this JFK story actually out, how long is it going to take for us to find out why we are in Iraq ?
The video is on u-tube and various other sites as well as all over the torrent sites everywhere.
If
Zeitgeist rates solid 9... this video would in my opinion rate 11.
The only thing would be better is we could find more information on who made it..that is as of today a mystery, but the interviews are all read.
See it for yourself. Part III is mind blowing.
LBJ now looks to me almost as evil as Dick Cheney.
On a sweeter note.. Stevia is going prime time. As I reported years ago, Coke was working with Cargill to buy stevia farms, trying to get the US to approve Stevia to be used in Diet Coke
Well today is the day I have been waiting for.. Coke announced they have the product and are going to start to sell stevia as a sweetner today.
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D91Q92600.htm
Bob Lee
