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May 12, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

Mike Post About My Favourite TV Composer

In primary school, way back a hundred years ago or so, I learned about Mike Post. He was the guy that wrote the theme tune for Hill Street Blues. I loved that show. I didn’t really understand it so well, at first. But it was one of the shows I was allowed to stay up […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Blog, Composer, Composition, Film, Hill Street Blues, Jingle, LA Law, Law & Order, Magnum P.I., Mike Post, Mike Post About My Favourite TV Composer, Television, The A-Team, Theme, To follow me in all the right places check out the Linktree right here. And to subscribe to my Substack newsletter “Sounds Good” click here, TV ·

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April 24, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

Those Days Were Ours: Part-Remembering Happy Days

Sunday, Monday, Happy Days! These days are ours… Happy Days was filmed in front of a live studio audience. I spent a huge amount of my childhood watching re-runs of Happy Days. I started watching it when the original series was winding up. But I didn’t know that. The timeline was all out of whack for […]
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January 27, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

In Praise of ‘Succession’

Succession debuted in 2018, created by British screenwriter and producer Jesse Armstrong. He was best known for the brilliant Peep Show – and his largely British writing team (you may remember I recommended Georgia Pritchard’s “anxiety memoir”) have, over three seasons, done the most amazing job of pitching black-as-the-inside-of-a-coffin-on-a-moonless-night comedy that satirises the Trump/Murdoch-level arrogance, […]
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January 26, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

The Crude Farce of After Life Season Three

I haven’t always had a problem with Ricky Gervais. I was a big fan of The Office – who wasn’t? I think Extras was possibly better, smarter. And, at the time, I was even into his stand-up comedy specials. Each one arriving with special-club buzz. They haven’t aged well. They weren’t really great at the […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged After Life, Ashley Jensen, Blog, Comedian, Comedy, Crude Farce, Derek, Diane Morgan, Extras, https://linktr.ee/Simonsweetman, Movies, Netflix, Review, Ricky Gervais, S.3, Season Three, Television, The Crude Farce of After Life Season Three, The Office, TV, Twitter, Want more? Check out my Substack You can also support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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January 3, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

What A Good Score! – #3: Battlestar Galactica Season 3 by Bear McCreary

Bear McCreary’s score for the TV show Battlestar Galactica (season 3) came to me in a rather weird way. It was the era of blank CDs, making copies, giving someone a ‘burn’ – I was always loaning CDs and making copies for people to hear music, making mixtapes sometimes too. And I was receiving music […]
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November 24, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

In Praise of ‘The Morning Show’

Over the weekend we finished the final episodes of season two of The Morning Show. I liked this show a lot. It’s a smart soap-opera, a compelling and very straight-faced satire. The Morning Show debuted in 2019 as a flagship for then-new streaming platform, Apple TV+ and its stacked cast – Steve Carrell, Jennifer Aniston, […]
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November 16, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

The Return of Curb Your Enthusiasm: Pretty, Pretty, Pretty Good!

Curb Your Enthusiasm is back. Season 11 is playing currently – you’ll find it on the internet, it’s an HBO show and in New Zealand that means episodes are arriving weekly and available on Neon. It’s also available in other ways… There’s only a few episodes so far – and it’s got the feel of […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Curb, HBO, https://linktr.ee/Simonsweetman, Larry David, Neon, Pretty, Pretty Good!, Pretty Pretty Pretty Good!, Seinfeld, Television, The Return of Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Return of Curb Your Enthusiasm: Pretty, TV, Want more? Check out my Substack You can also support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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November 13, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Good Mourning: Remembering The ‘Good Morning’ TV Show (1996-2015)

Even people who never watched the New Zealand TV show Good Morning  still reference Mary Lambie (the host from 1997-2003). I never watched the show – well, hardly ever. It was a university holidays indulgence for a time. Like classic “sick-day” viewing. A mix of soft interviews and hard/heavy infomercials. And then, one day, in 2005 I […]
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September 6, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Some Lockdown Viewing

Groundhog Day One of the greatest movies ever – and a perfect thing to re-watch as we live some privileged version of Groundhog Day, the same day over and again, time stretched but folding in on itself in a lockdown. We watched this as a family film under lockdown. It was bloody good eh. Just […]
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September 4, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

TVNZ Rebooting The Apprentice Was A Truly Horrifying Thing

TVNZ rebooting The Apprentice was a truly horrifying thing. Actually, no, that’s too dramatic. It’s just downright embarrassing is all. They’ve tried to brush away the fact that it brings Donald Trump back to mind – saying comparisons are inevitable; well of course they are it is the very platform that made latter-day Trump a […]
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September 1, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

The TV Show Is On A Loop For You To Find Your Placeholder Friends

I was walking home, a routine podcast-stroll, listening to Marc Maron – one of my forever go-to podcasts; it’s a habit. And he’s talking to A.O. Scott – the film critic. So I was leaning in on this one. Because I loved A.O. Scott’s book – which is the book that Marc is now reading, […]
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June 8, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

My Top-Ten Re-Watchable Sitcoms

There is one thing with this list of 10 – all of the shows needed to be rewatchable, need to be shows I have actually re-watched. Often. So with that as the only catch here’s the list. 1. Taxi – I am in love with this show. And I always have been and I’ve written […]
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