Saturday, February 19, 2005
I'm pretty sure this computer is taking the piss outta me. Now that might sound like paranoia and even a little obsessive, compulsive but I can't shake the consideration that this bloody box in the corner across from the other one is extracting the ol' urine. Anyway, on a somewhat related note, my favourite TV show at the minute is MONK. It's on BBC2 here on a Saturday afternoon so while everybody else is at the mall, or getting on with their lives. We watch MONK. He's obsessive compulsive to a point beyond the call. It also takes place in San Francisco and there are great locations that just make you wanna be there. It's quite a gentle piece with an inherent sick cool that just doesn't make it to our screens too often these days. You should check it out if it appears on your schedules.
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Hiya Lindsay-About MONK...last August when I was stuck staying in a motel room for four nights with only a basic cable setup (with a smattering of the more-popular cable networks that I never watch plus the usual local stations including a PBS one that seemed to show nothing but nature shows and stodgy British comedies), I had no choice but to watch MONK (as opposed to Celebrity Strip Poker and the Lifetime Movie For Emotionally-Constipated Women) and guess what...I thought it was a rather well-made and downright interesting program! Of course it ain't no NAKED CITY let alone MUNSTERS, but what is these days? For me, it has the better aspects of seventies cop/private eye programming rolled up with perhaps a wee bit of moderne piousness, but fortunately any attempt to turn MONK into yet another message-laden project is nipped in the proverbial bud early on! (At least I got that from the episodes I eyeballed!!!) Naturally, when I got back to my own tee-vee and LEAVE IT TO BEAVER reruns I had no more use for MONK, but I guess it was there when there was nothing else worth watching.
Hey Chris
Absolutely, it can't compete with the Goldan Age of US TV. It's no F Troop or Car 54 or owt like that but it's a great little show and I guess we have to be thankful for that. I've been reading your things about Combat and the mention of Garrisons Guerillas, etc. and checking out the boxsets. Loouking forward to a time when I can score 'em and just stay inside to watch them. It's a pretty low-ladder aspiration but that's what i'd call a sabbatical.
Er... or Golden even...
Hi Again-Oddly enough, the COMBAT DVDs are turning up for sale in the PBS video/accessories/etc. catalogues that I somehow get with the rest of the junk mail! Strange since I wouldn't think that the highbrows at Public Television would ever consider COMBAT a teevee show worthy of the same high "standards" as their "crowning achievements" (make that worst moments!) as MASTERPIECE THEATRE or whatever dull documentaries they're showing these days (haven't tuned in to the local station since they stopped running late-fifties vintage RED SKELTON SHOWs complete with the original commercials on Sunday afternoons!). If you want to know how to order these disques I can wing some information your way.
Monk is created by Andy Breckman, from WFMU. Another FMU DJ, Tom Sharpling is one of the writers. If you know the on-air staff of WFMU (www.wfmu.org) you will see their names popping up as minor characters in the show. The most recent episode (in Las Vegas) featured a show girl named Theresa Terlenko aka Terri T. of the Cherry Blossom Clinic!
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