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1. The Only Connect season final was won by the team I'd been barracking for, a group of SF geeks and Eurogame enthusiasts. Yay! (Though I was a bit disappointed when they were flummoxed by the question seeking the connection between "gale", "peel", and "king". I thought that was fairly obvious.)


2. The latest season of Foyle's War has finally started airing here. Yay! I was amused to recognise Frank Shaw, DCS Foyle's former assistant in the subplot of the season opener, as Steve Turner, DC Crabbe's assistant in one of my other favourite British detective series, Pie in the Sky.


3. The latest season of Sherlock and the latest whatever-it-is (I think technically it's the back half of the first season, or something) of Agents of SHIELD have not started airing here yet. I was going to say I'm not sure I care, but obviously I care enough to think it's worth mentioning.


4. Meanwhile, I have been watching old episodes of Doctor Who. Yay! The ABC's episode synopses for Classic Who are a bit of a mixed bag: some of them are unremarkable, some of them are clearly ripped off from the BBC's official web site (to interesting effect, because what the BBC's official web site has are not in fact episode synopses), and then occasionally there's something like this: "The Doctor and Ace join the Brigadier in a battle against warriors from another dimension. They also discover that pub prices are outrageous."


5. A few years ago, there was a thing going around where people wrote program guides for fictional TV shows: describing the premise, listing the cast, and so on into however much detail the individual author felt like. (One of the ones that got my hypothetical vote for Show I Would So Watch If It Were Real, ironychan's Mammoth Season, ended up with detailed descriptions of each episode, a fair amount of meta about the popular fanon, and an account of the show's troubled production which led to it being cancelled halfway through the intended story arc and ultimately wrapped up as a Dark Horse comic book miniseries.)

Anyway, the reason I mention it again now is that recently, while looking for something else, I stumbled across a good one that I somehow missed at the time: Shivers, as described by innerbrat, is an intriguing adventure show with the high concept "Lesbian Vampire Killers: as in, they're lesbians who kill vampires (and other monsters)". One nice thing about it is that the cast has a high level of diversity - apart from a good gender balance and representation of varied sexualities, as one might expect from the premise, it also does well at ethnic diversity and has a major supporting character with a non-defining disability. (The obligatory wise old mentor character is a cantankerous old woman, played by Stephanie Cole, who is a wheelchair user. And also has a walking stick, because there are situations where a walking stick is more suitable than a wheelchair, and vice versa.)