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November 23, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Carter Burwell: The Morning Show – Season 2 (Apple TV+ Original Series Soundtrack)
Carter Burwell The Morning Show: Season 2 (Apple TV+ Original Series Soundtrack) Lakeshore Records As it turns out I’m a pretty big fan of The Morning Show. It’s not perfect. But as smart, snackable TV it’s solid, knows its game and brings in some big themes, big moments, big performances. It’s good – but not […]Archive
November 21, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
In Praise of Tom Scharpling
Some days I reckon Tom Scharpling is one of the funniest people alive. Certainly, Tom Scharpling is one of the great underground wizards of radio, and podcasting. I don’t know how I first heard about him – or when I first started tuning in properly, but he has backstory and projects for days. And as […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
November 11, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast # 273: Dai Henwood
Hi and welcome to episode 273 of Sweetman Podcast – finding my way back into podcasting after a nearly three-month break. As with last year’s lockdowns I paused the podcast. But we’re back now – at least through until the end of the year. Now – as you probably know, as well as the usual […]Archive
November 1, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
In Praise of John Carpenter
By the time I first became aware of John Carpenter I’d already seen a few of his movies. I’d seen Big Trouble In Little China, certainly and most of They Live and of course Christine – which I really just watched as “a Stephen King film”, paying no attention to who made it. But the […]Archive
October 21, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Love Thy Neighbour – The Complete Series: DVD
Love Thy Neighbour: The Complete Series Creators: Vince Powell / Harry Driver ITV / Madman The convenient excuse is to suggest that something happened when times were different, but time is an abstract concept – the times themselves were not different, we have been stretching time and having it constrict on us since long before […]Archive
October 20, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Now Music Is Saved Somewhat From TV Advertising
When my folks come for a visit, at some point, every time, one of them will mention a catchphrase – something they’ve picked up from TV-advertising. And we’ll look at them with our very best blank look, because we don’t see ads. We certainly don’t remember them. If we happen to catch them – maybe […]Archive
October 11, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Georgia Pritchett: My Mess Is A Bit Of A Life
My Mess Is A Bit Of A Life: Adventures in Anxiety Georgia Pritchett Faber & Faber Georgia Pritchett is a British screenwriter. If you haven’t heard the name, you have absolutely devoured some of her work. Maybe a whole lot of it. She has been part of writing teams for a whole bunch of British […]Archive
October 4, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Cassandra Peterson: Yours Cruelly, Elvira
Yours Cruelly, Elvira: Memoirs of the Mistress of the Dark Cassandra Peterson Hachette Books Growing up, Elvira: Mistress of The Dark was everywhere. We played the video game, we watched the movie. She popped up in pro-wrestling (Wrestlemania II) and was a fan of, and tagged alongside, horror movies and heavy metal. What wasn’t to […]Archive
September 22, 2021 by Simon Sweetman