Tag Archives: Community

My first TV hero was Diana Trent, played by the formidable Stephanie Cole, from the BBC sitcom Waiting for God. To this day, I hope that my old age will allow me to be as badly behaved as her. If ...

TV and film is real life, isn’t it? After living in the US for a few years, one of the most common questions I was asked by my Australian friends was ‘Is school there really like it is on TV?’ ...

Watching – and thoroughly enjoying –  The Grinder has prompted me to think about sitcoms and their use of ‘gimmicks’ as both a set-up for an entire series as well as for singular jokes. The Grinder is built around the gimmick of lampooning tropes ...

It feels like cable channels and other alternative programming arenas are embracing the anti-Hollywood love story. With shows like Girls and Californication, we’ve seen all kinds of self-destructive, narcissistic behaviour of young twenty-somethings and even older generations. The new Judd ...

I wanted to capture the… the sights, the sounds… the smells of a hard-working rock band, on the road. What is more interesting than the bizarre stories that grace our television news programs? I remember loving the song ‘Horror Movie’ ...

Community first aired back in 2009 on NBC. The sitcom quickly drew a very loyal audience, though the audience never grew to the size the studio hoped for. When I came to Community, it was already mid-way through its second ...

Pain. Loss. Grief. Sorrow. Anger. Disbelief. These are not the emotions you usually expect to be bombarded with on your social media. But that was what was rolling over the internet yesterday as news broke of the death of Sir ...

On and off over the last few years, I’ve been following the adventures of a blogger called Mark Oshiro. Mark reviews books and TV that are popular (and makes fun of bad fanfiction), and gives chapter by chapter, or episode ...

The cult sitcom Community was cancelled by NBC after the show’s fifth season and for a while it looked like the show’s cheeky references to “Six Seasons & a Movie!” were not to be. Thankfully, the fans prayers have been answered and Sony ...

The other day I was browsing the Internet while stuffing my face full of salami sandwich. I came across an article on The Guardian discussing the overuse of pop culture reference in today’s entertainment mediums, more specifically, the use of ...