MEAN and MASSIVE

The Only Way Is Essex (often abbreviated to TOWIE), the UK reality TV show set in Essex, England has been an undeniable success and has become something of a cult series since it first premiered in October 2010, even picking up this year’s ‘YouTube Audience Award’ at the BAFTAs. So it’s not surprising that bosses [...]

SEB: Popstar to Operastar Series 2 Finale, Jo McElderry, Cheryl Baker, Katherine Jenkins, Rolando Villazon Last night saw the final of the second series of ITV’s singing contest, Popstar to Operastar. The two finalists were Joe McElderry, the 20 year-old former X Factor winner and Cheryl Baker, the former Bucks Fizz singer and Eurovision contest [...]

SEB: downton abbey series 2 spoilers I gave you so far my reviews for the first four episodes of the first series of Downton Abbey. The Crawley family and their staff filled my early summer evenings with good amount of English drama, secret passions and lots of intrigues. However, with the new shows on the [...]

SEB: downton abbey s01e04, 104 episode review I thought the fourth episode of the series was somehow the weakest, focusing mainly on the crew without any major dramatic event. I still enjoyed it, there’s nothing like conspiracies in the staff chambers to warm my heart, but still – if there’s a typical “second act” moment, [...]

SEB: tca awards nominees Later this summer we will hear what the Television Critics Association loved most this year. This year’s TCA Awards would be hosted by Parks and Recreation‘s Ron Swanson – Nick Offerman (so no matter what the critics chose, it’s going to be a hell of an event). A group of around [...]

SEB: downton abbey s01e03 review Downton Abbey continues to fill my evenings with sophisticated English humor. This time we took a break from most money matters, to focus on a beautiful stranger that entered the estate and got Mary’s full attention. But Lady Mary was not the only one to want play with the Turkish [...]

SEB: downton abbey s01e02 review Continuing my reviews marathon with British period drama Downton Abbey (ITV). The second episode was slightly different in tone I thought, funny at times (English humor that works very good for me on summer nights), and with Violet Crawley becoming a true aristocrat bitch. On this second episode, following the [...]

Downton Abbey takes us long, long time back. Perhaps not so long back (1912 was just a century ago), but enough that everything seems estranged at first. The show’s creator Julian Fellowes made a clever decision, to place the sink of the Titanic as the story catalyst, and to place it in the very beginning [...]

As I’ve mentioned before, I’m trying to improvise and find new shows to watch and cover until the Summer Schedule is in full gear (end of June, more or less). I’ve started with Angry Boys, and now I’m adding a special marathon for the award-winning British period drama, Downton Abbey. The series has received mostly [...]

Britain’s Got Talent Series 5, Simon Cowell, Amanda Holden, Ronan Parke, Jai McDowall This weekend saw the grand finale of Britain’s Got Talent 2011 and the surprise winner was Jai McDowall, a support worker turned singer from Scotland. Jai emerged victorious from the ITV competition after beating the favourite, Ronan Parke, young dance troupe, New [...]

SEB: Jo McElderry, Jocelyn Brown, Midge Ure, Melody Thornton, Katherine Jenkins Popstar to Operastar is a British Reality TV show which returned for a second season last night. But what is the premise of the show? Well, as the title suggests, eight celebrity pop stars are challenged to use their vocal talents and transform themselves [...]

SEB: X Factor judges, Gary Barlow, Louis Walsh, Tulisa Contostavlos, Kelly Rowland, Simon Cowell, Cheryl Cole The 2011 judging panel for the UK’s biggest reality TV show, The X Factor has finally been announced and not before time, considering that the first auditions take place in Birmingham tomorrow. And was Cheryl Cole, former judge on [...]

SEB: BAFTA 2011, The Only Way is Essex, Sherlock, Misfits The 2011 British Academy Television Awards were held last night, Sunday 22nd May at a star studded event at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London and there were some surprise winners, none more so than The Only Way is Essex, who picked up the YouTube [...]

SEB: Britain’s Got Talent 2011, Series 5, Simon Cowell, Amanda Holden, Michael McIntyre, david Hasselhoff It’s what we’ve all been waiting for (well fans of reality tv that is!) but this Saturday, 16th April sees the return of Britain’s Got Talent to the screens in the UK. In the past, Britain’s Got Talent has brought [...]

SEB: Dancing on Ice 2011, Sam Attwater, Laura Hamilton, Chloe Madeley, Torvill & Dean The 2011 series of ITV’s Dancing on Ice has probably been the most exciting in it’s six year history and last night’s final was one of the closest fought we’ve ever seen with all three finalists having the potential to be [...]