TASTY TATIES!
BEFORE THE GAME (Sat Aug 22, Ten-4pm)
-Allegedly some sort of light variety/comedy program to warm the audience up for the following 48 hours of football that seems to run on weekends, this show could also be seen as a convention for the worst comedians in Australia – Mick Molloy, Dave Hughes and Lehmo? That’s like the Unholy Trinity of Dire Stand Up. They just need Carl Barron, Greg Fleet and Rove McManus to do a guest spot and they’ll have a comedy apocalypse…
MINISCULE (Sat Aug 22, ABC- 6:25pm)
-No it’s not a documentary about George Dubya’s brain, Phillip Ruddock’s conscience or Barack Obama’s progress in GLBT rights issues, it’s a sweet little CGI filler program about insects. Each episode takes a different Australian invertebrate and gives them a five minute adventure in the Aussie ecosystem among the highlights is a Carpenter Ant that wants to take after the cicadas and become a singer (would that make her a Karen Carpenter Ant?)
STEPHEN FRY’S AMERICA (Sun Aug 23, ABC- 7:30pm)
Stephen Fry – British actor/wit and the closest thing the C21st has to Oscar Wilde – returns to television for this six part series in which he travels the US of A in a London Black Cab and attempts to discover what makes America tick, by interviewing its people- from demolition derby spectators in Alabama to senators in Washington. Brilliant, funny documentary with some genuinely interesting interviewees- they were probably just happy to be interviewed by a Gay celebrity who wasn’t BRUNO…
HOT WEDGES!
HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER (Mon Aug 24, Seven- 7:30pm)
-Sweet, oddly hot, openly Gay actor Neil Patrick Harris (probably condemned to carry the moniker ‘Doogie Hauser’ around his neck like an albatross for the rest of his career) is to this sitcom what the character of Steve Urkel was to FAMILY MATTERS in the Eighties- without him, the show would be as useless and flat as co-star Jason Seigel’s odd, old-man’s face on a young-man’s-head thing he has going on. Alysson Hannigan (BUFFY) is good in it, but she doesn’t walk in an immediately start feasting on the scenery like NPH does. He’s so good in the role of lecherous womanizer Barney that many are convinced that he’s not really gay. It’s called ‘Straight-Acting’, people!
THE BIG BANG THEORY (Mon Aug 24, Nine-8pm)
-Okay, so it’s a fairly hokey US sitcom about two geeky male friends who are edumacated in the ways of the world by a hot, funny girl who moves into the apartment across the hall from them (why couldn’t they have done the reverse, and had a hot, funny girl being taught how to play World of Warcraft and download pirated movie torrents by two supergeeks worshipped in chat rooms all over the net?) but I am totally unable to take this lame concept out behind the chemical sheds and put a bullet through its brain as it deserves, because one of the geeks is played by my good old fantasy husband, Johnny Galecki (ex-David from ROSEANNE). The little guy is just so cute that he could star in a remake of CASABLANCA, as Sam’s piano, and I’d find something good to say about it. So…er, BIG BANG THEORY… Okay it sucks. But hey, Johnny wears nice pants!
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