Jack Yan on Vox

New Tricks is cool

nobody@vox.com(Jack Yan) — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:02:56 +1200

I know Britain is as youth-obsessed as America sometimes, and an article in The Daily Telegraph, about cop show New Tricks, reminded me of that fact. Amanda Redman, the star of the show, and doing better here than in Honest, the remake of the N...

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Ashes to Ashes season two hint: it’s set in 1982

nobody@vox.com(Jack Yan) — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 23:49:44 +1200

TV Scoop has some hints about the next series of Ashes to Ashes, to début February 2009 on BBC One: ‘We’ve just handed in episode one. It’s set in 1982, so the Falklands have just happened. We’re taking it slightly darker this time …’ Read the re...

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In depth: Nom D, Fly Guys and Donna Loveday

nobody@vox.com(Jack Yan) — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 23:35:14 +1200

[Cross-posted] A very established New Zealand designer, Margarita Robertson of Nom D, and a newer label, Fly Guys, are proﬁled on the Lucire site this week. Sam Mitchell’s Q&A with Margi is probably the most in-depth that has ever been published...

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She knows, you know

nobody@vox.com(Jack Yan) — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:50:53 +1200

I searched for this online years ago and could not find it. Finally, it’s on YouTube. Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you the British version of ‘You’re the One that I Want’, written by John Farrar, but lyrics slightly modified from the original. (I ...

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Doctor? Doctor who?

nobody@vox.com(Jack Yan) — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 23:23:56 +1200

For Mari, who is a Doctor Who fan.

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With mild green Fairy Liquid

nobody@vox.com(Jack Yan) — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:54:59 +1200

I hope Kiwi Lifers seeing the ninth episode of Life on Mars tonight for the first time enjoyed it. I did watch it again—yes, with the ads—and I didn’t mind the repeat, even if I could have chucked on the DVD. The acting was superb on every count, ...

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The memory was better

nobody@vox.com(Jack Yan) — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:31:53 +1200

Funny how your memory plays tricks. In 1984, I watched the pilot for Dempsey and Makepeace and thought it was fab. Over dinner, now that my DVD of series one has arrived (as predicted—sooner than the Amazon US order that was placed earlier), I hav...

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Back, but not in the nick of time

nobody@vox.com(Jack Yan) — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 22:22:20 +1200

I take my hat off to TV One for doing the right thing for the second series of Life on Mars—which will hit prime-time in New Zealand at 8.30 p.m., Monday, June 16. Thank goodness not every British show has been relegated to 11 p.m. slots. Altho...

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Katherine Jenkins is the voice—and face—of Wales

nobody@vox.com(Jack Yan) — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 02:20:07 +1200

I don’t know why good British programmes are on at 11 p.m. or thereabouts on TV One these days, other than the pro-American, anti-British and anti-New Zealand-drama* attitude of TVNZ management that is so out of keeping with the nation’s tastes. (...

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Tony Blair inspires Yale’s class of 2008

nobody@vox.com(Jack Yan) — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 21:13:22 +1200

Former British PM Rt Hon Tony Blair gave the graduation speech for Yale University this year. It was an inspiring, largely non-political address. So, after 100 years of Class Days, finally you get a British speaker. What took you so long? Did ...

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