Browsing the archives for the BBC America tag

British-TV-pooloza

Over the last week I’ve been watching a ton of BBC America. It started last week with the five night mini-series of Torchwood: Children of Earth followed on Saturday with the premiere of Being Human and wrapped up on Sunday with Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead. Spoilers lie ahead if  you haven’t seen these, [...]

“Skins” Surfaces on DVD

Will and I have written of our love of Skins a couple times. BBC America wrapped up the first two seasons a few weeks ago and I’m missing it a lot. I initially wrote of the extreme divide between Skins and the 90210 reboot and as Skins wrapped up it’s first year of episodes that [...]

“Skins” vs. “90210″

Two series, set thousands of miles apart, both featuring high schoolers and yet completely different! I was introduced to BBC America’s Skins with its premiere in mid-August. The CW rolled out the new 90210 a couple weeks later. I just finished the first season–9 episodes–for Skins this week while 90210 has hit its first rerun [...]