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If there's one thing that bugs me about a wide variety of satellite channels, it's that they seem to run the same ads for their own shows over and over and over and over again. And while I could happily watch Living TV's Alan/Denny Boston Legal ad repeatedly, I surely can't be the only one who wants to kick Ricky Gervais in his smug, smirking, self-congratulatory face?

This isn't part of the supposed Ricky Gervais backlash, btw, which I saw touted somewhere as part of the whole 'Brits don't like successful people' idea - I never liked the guy or thought he was funny... ;)

Boxset hell

This year looks like being tv series boxset hell for me - here I am, packing a load of stuff away (I mean literally boxes full of tv show tapes) and the tv companies insist on putting out boxsets that call my name and plead for me to buy them. It's a conspiracy, I tell you!

Even without the promised season 1 Man from UNCLE, over which sad saga we shall draw a veil for now, this is how 2006 is shaping up already:

Bought: Magnificent Seven season 1

Pre-ordered: Wild Wild West season 1, Slings and Arrows season 1

Hoping to get a better price in the US next month, but they will be mine: Boston Legal season 1, Numb3rs season 1, Wonderfalls

Things to which I am giving serious consideration, many of them out later this year: The Adventures of Brisco County Junior, ReGenesis season 1, Rome season 1, Life on Mars season 1, Carnivale season 1, Invisible Man season 1 (in two boxsets, so twice the evil!), Veronica Mars season 1, Threshold

Things I would buy in a heartbeat if they came out: Man from UNCLE *wails*, the rest of Wild Wild West, Magnificent Seven season 2, and probably other stuff I'm not thinking of right now...

See what I mean? Anyway, I'm sure I'm not alone in the contents of my wallet being sucked away by shiny things, so what's on your shopping list for this year? ;)

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Not really too much of a spoiler - I wondered how many other people watching Dr Who were similarly amused when he introduced himself as being from Balamory? ;)

Excellent episode again, btw!

( Spoilers for next week... )