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Yay for the return of good TV.

Through the autumn there was hardly anything on TV that I watched. I watched Torchwood once it started, and followed the second season of Supernatural at US pace until it went on hiatus, and that was about it. But starting this week there are a whole load of shows returning for me to enjoy.

ER started back on C4 last night. Now, I've drifted in and out of this show a lot over the years, not watching for entire series' at a time, but I got back into it last year, and found that I loved it all over again. The season finale was superb, and so was last night's new season opener. I cared about every single regular character, which is something ER hasn't managed to make me do for a long time.

Judge John Deed returns tonight in the first of a new two-parter. Which feels odd, because it's two one-hour parts - must remember to watch the second part on Thursday! - instead of the usual two-hour episodes. Not sure what it's going to be about, as I've not read any spoilers, but the actual case at hand won't matter - what it will really be about is concluding/continuing the ongoing saga of John and Jo.

Supernatural returns from hiatus this week (US pace) and will be airing on ITV2 at the end of January. Rome also returns next week for the second season, and I'm planning to watch that at US pace as well, since it's unlikely to make UK screens until later in the year. Life on Mars is due back shortly (yay!) although the airdate hasn't been confirmed yet - a case of 'watch this space'. And there's a new period drama starting on the Beeb on Friday, Lilies, that looked interesting, so I think I shall watch that, too, and see what it's like.

Loadsa good telly to choose from all of a sudden. :-)

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Yay for the return of good TV.

Through the autumn there was hardly anything on TV that I watched. I watched Torchwood once it started, and followed the second season of Supernatural at US pace until it went on hiatus, and that was about it. But starting this week there are a whole load of shows returning for me to enjoy.

ER started back on C4 last night. Now, I've drifted in and out of this show a lot over the years, not watching for entire series' at a time, but I got back into it last year, and found that I loved it all over again. The season finale was superb, and so was last night's new season opener. I cared about every single regular character, which is something ER hasn't managed to make me do for a long time.

Judge John Deed returns tonight in the first of a new two-parter. Which feels odd, because it's two one-hour parts - must remember to watch the second part on Thursday! - instead of the usual two-hour episodes. Not sure what it's going to be about, as I've not read any spoilers, but the actual case at hand won't matter - what it will really be about is concluding/continuing the ongoing saga of John and Jo.

Supernatural returns from hiatus this week (US pace) and will be airing on ITV2 at the end of January. Rome also returns next week for the second season, and I'm planning to watch that at US pace as well, since it's unlikely to make UK screens until later in the year. Life on Mars is due back shortly (yay!) although the airdate hasn't been confirmed yet - a case of 'watch this space'. And there's a new period drama starting on the Beeb on Friday, Lilies, that looked interesting, so I think I shall watch that, too, and see what it's like.

Loadsa good telly to choose from all of a sudden. :-)

Work tirade; feel free to ignore

Man. My Boss is so flaky, I can hardly even begin to describe it. Which is why I usually don't.

Today is a good example. She has 'office' down on her movements, but was in London for a meeting yesterday. I knew, from overhearing a phone conversation on Friday, that she wasn't planning to travel back from London till this morning so never really expected her to make it into the office. Then I get a couple of random people turn up out of the blue for a meeting with her that she'd apparently forgotten about.

Marvellous. It's so much fun having that kind of thing dropped on you from a great height. Cue lots of smiling and tooth clenching and fussing around making tea and coffee and frantically phoning Boss's mobile to find out where the hell she is. Only, y'know, more tactfully worded than that. Turns out she'd written the wrong date in her diary and thought they were coming tomorrow.

If she's no longer having this meeting tomorrow, as she'd expected, will she bother to turn up?

Thank heavens Pam was here so I wasn't on my own. Between the two of us we managed to hold an impromptu but highly productive meeting with these people, who work for a new community initiative that could be great for working in partnership with.

Bah.

Work tirade; feel free to ignore

Man. My Boss is so flaky, I can hardly even begin to describe it. Which is why I usually don't.

Today is a good example. She has 'office' down on her movements, but was in London for a meeting yesterday. I knew, from overhearing a phone conversation on Friday, that she wasn't planning to travel back from London till this morning so never really expected her to make it into the office. Then I get a couple of random people turn up out of the blue for a meeting with her that she'd apparently forgotten about.

Marvellous. It's so much fun having that kind of thing dropped on you from a great height. Cue lots of smiling and tooth clenching and fussing around making tea and coffee and frantically phoning Boss's mobile to find out where the hell she is. Only, y'know, more tactfully worded than that. Turns out she'd written the wrong date in her diary and thought they were coming tomorrow.

If she's no longer having this meeting tomorrow, as she'd expected, will she bother to turn up?

Thank heavens Pam was here so I wasn't on my own. Between the two of us we managed to hold an impromptu but highly productive meeting with these people, who work for a new community initiative that could be great for working in partnership with.

Bah.

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January 9th. Today is the one-year anniversary of my burglary.

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January 9th. Today is the one-year anniversary of my burglary.