Twenty20 - Cricket or Something Else...

I'm not sold.

After tonights Innaugural International Twenty20 Match on Australian soil i'm still trying to work out whether i'm interested in the game or not.

To me, part of the beauty of cricket is the fact that it isn't over in 3 hours. You actually have to watch/listen/be interested in a match over a day/5 days. Maybe over time this style of cricket will emerge to have new skills and new tactics. At this stage though, i'm not sure that it is that worth watching as "cricket."

However, there were over 50,000 people at domestic cricket matches over the weekend, and this can only be a good thing. If it brings people into the game, then all for the better.

Then again, AFL is the most watched sport in Australia, and look at how important and vital that is at an international level...

Rome wasn't built in a day.... If only 9 Australia understood that about TV

Rome. Ancient Rome. A place of sex, violence, politics and Drama. At least according to the HBO series.

This is a fantastic piece of television. Suspend your disbelief, your historical belief even more so, and you'll find one of the most lucious, funny, and beautifully conceived pieces of television ever made.

Sadly for Australians, who is the wonderful network that bought this fantastic show to screen on free to air for our public? None other than the late K.B.Packer's PBL owned Channel 9. So we in Australia can look forward to seeing it shown in prime time for a week or two, before it's chopped and changed around until it's eventually taken off until off ratings or simply never seen again.

Some of us still remember The West Wing Mr Packer Jr. And some of us now find other ways to watch our TV.

Watch this TV show. Just don't wait till Channel Nine Fucks it up for you...

Things to see.... and that's about it....

I'm back, and there's just so much to watch...

Sorry, I seem to have a dysfunctional love of extra full stops...

Coming off the nominations for this years Golden Globe awards (Yes Rob, i'm one of those people who keep an eye on these things. Give me another point on your nerdometor,) i just checked out a show that garnered 3 nominations, including best comedy series, and best actress for Mary Louise Parker. It's called Weeds.

If you thought Desperate Housewives was a biting satire of suburban lifestyles you couldn't have been any more wrong. This is to Housewives what Arrested Development is to King of Queens. ie it's Much Much Much Much better. Thought i'd just spell that out for the less initiated and edumacated.

Sadly though, it's shown on Showtime in the US. Fantastic for the fact that as a cable network they have more leway and less reliance on ratings. Shit for the fact that their website for some reason can't be accessed from my computer.

Find it and check it out.