Practical Matters
There is a fantastic TV show buried deep in the daytime slot on ITV 3. American readers of this blog (ARE any of you actually reading it by the way?!) may be familiar with The Practice.
Set in Boston, that trendy city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (NOT the State of Massachusetts, as University Challenge implied last night), it is a legal drama from the stable of out-and-out genius David E. Kelley. The Practice was on terrestrial TV a few years ago, but the a-holes who schedule these things bumped it. Fortunately, we now have a satellite dish at Big Tommy Towers, so it doesn’t matter so much that the mainstream channels want to offer us a diet of crap British sitcoms, biased news coverage, and moon-faced simpletons on Big Brother.
The Practice is taut, hugely exciting, incisive, poignant, funny, informative, and a cracking hour’s viewing (45 minutes when you spool through the adverts). In yesterday’s episode one of the main characters was shot dead. I feel a genuine sense of bereavement. A TV show that powerful and good deserves a wider audience. Check it out.
Set in Boston, that trendy city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (NOT the State of Massachusetts, as University Challenge implied last night), it is a legal drama from the stable of out-and-out genius David E. Kelley. The Practice was on terrestrial TV a few years ago, but the a-holes who schedule these things bumped it. Fortunately, we now have a satellite dish at Big Tommy Towers, so it doesn’t matter so much that the mainstream channels want to offer us a diet of crap British sitcoms, biased news coverage, and moon-faced simpletons on Big Brother.
The Practice is taut, hugely exciting, incisive, poignant, funny, informative, and a cracking hour’s viewing (45 minutes when you spool through the adverts). In yesterday’s episode one of the main characters was shot dead. I feel a genuine sense of bereavement. A TV show that powerful and good deserves a wider audience. Check it out.
posted by Tom Greeves at 12:26 am
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