Interesting TV
Jan. 8th, 2009 06:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tagryn* I thought that Shatner's Raw Nerve with guest Leonard Nimoy was fascinating. The expectation going in is that Star Trek would hang over everything, but it was actually more like two comfortable old friends talking and discovering things about each other they didn't know before, even after decades. Well worth checking out, the schedule is on the program's website at http://www.biography.com/shatner/
* Based on a recommendation by Kathy Li, we put Leverage on TNT into the DVR to give it a try. It's been surprisingly good: the writing is of high quality, and while the cast has a "name" actor in Timothy Hutton, the show doesn't focus exclusively on him with the other actors being satellites (see: K. Sutherland in "24" for an example), so that gives the show some good balance.
* While I'm anxious for "Battlestar Galactica"'s return on January 16th, I'm less enthused about the prequel series Caprica. Maybe it'll turn out to be something like ST:DS9 which I enjoyed a lot at times, but I'm afraid it'll just be a repeat of B5's Crusade: going to the well once too often to try and keep a franchise going that should wrap things up at the right time.
* Based on a recommendation by Kathy Li, we put Leverage on TNT into the DVR to give it a try. It's been surprisingly good: the writing is of high quality, and while the cast has a "name" actor in Timothy Hutton, the show doesn't focus exclusively on him with the other actors being satellites (see: K. Sutherland in "24" for an example), so that gives the show some good balance.
* While I'm anxious for "Battlestar Galactica"'s return on January 16th, I'm less enthused about the prequel series Caprica. Maybe it'll turn out to be something like ST:DS9 which I enjoyed a lot at times, but I'm afraid it'll just be a repeat of B5's Crusade: going to the well once too often to try and keep a franchise going that should wrap things up at the right time.
