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 by The I'm With Geek TV Team
Another year has come and gone, and with it some fantastic TV series. Join the IWG TV Team as they pick their favourites of the past 365 days!  by Leah Stone
Have you ever come a cross a plot that do a lot to confuse you and tries hard to be intelligent but doesn't really do much else? This year’s Doctor Who Christmas special is basically that. It’s along the same lines as Inception, however they’ve replaced Leonardo Di Caprio with the grumpy and grouchy 12th Doctor. You don’t ever quite know what is real and what isn’t, so it is very easy to just get lost in figuring out the plot and not focusing on the other aspects.  On Monday, writer Jeremy Lloyd passed away at the age of 84 following his hospitalisation for pneumonia. Best known for his collaborations with David Croft, Lloyd was responsible for writing some of the best-loved British sitcoms of the twentieth century, including Are You Being Served and ‘Allo ‘Allo.
Born in Essex in 1930, Lloyd started his career in writing in 1958. He was also an actor, making his film debut in 1960s comedy School for Scoundrels and making cameos in Beatles films A Hard Day’s Night and Help. He achieved acclaim in America for his appearances in the 1969 season of Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In. But he didn’t appear in the next season, having left the country to enter a brief marriage with Joanna Lumley.  by the I'm With Geek TV Team
'Tis the season to sit down in front of your TV and fill your eyeballs with as much saccharine sweetness physically possible. We here at the I'm With Geek TV Towers put all of our favourite Christmas specials into a hat and picked one at random to watch and comment upon. Click on to find out who was filled with Christmas cheer and who found naught but coal!  by Robbie Jones
Well ladies and gents, here we are. It’s the Season Four finale of Homeland, the show that pulled a massive U-turn and went from one of the worst shows on TV to one of the best halfway through the season. These past few weeks have been exciting, nerve-wracking and filled with possibilities. Now, it all comes to an end for another year. We will take a look back Season Four later on, but first let’s discuss the last of Homeland we’ll see until September. Nothing happened.  by Hayley Charlesworth
In this blistering mid-season finale, The 100 leaves behind the action on Mount Weather for an episode purely focused on Clarke and Finn. This is an episode that takes our heroine to places she has never been before, and can never return from. It also reveals Clarke Griffin to be one of the strongest characters on television.  by Helen Langdon
Atlantis is off for a Christmas break and won’t be back until 2015, but before it went, it left us with a bit of an exciting episode, featuring the Grey Sisters (you might notice that their attribute of sharing one eye between three of them was nicked for the Fates in Disney’s Hercules), some man-eating birds (which were pterodactyls, honestly), and ending with a marriage proposal.  It's the bane of the Christmas season. Wrapping presents!
If you're anything like the staff at I'm With Geek, you can leave a room looking like a small explosion at a wrapping factory, with wrapping paper everywhere and sellotape somehow securing the door to the frame, requiring an awkward conversation with the nice firemen who had to get the jaws of life to let you out... But that's a story for another day. Luckily, HBO has teamed up with Arona Khan, a gift-wrapping expert, to show you some fun ways of wrapping those of Game of Thrones and True Detective box sets to gift your friends and relatives. Click on to find out!  by Helen Langdon
Today, we’re talking about How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Let’s get this out of the way right at the start – not that abominable Jim Carrey film, which deserves to die in a Yule-Log-fuelled fire. No, this is the 1966 cartoon, which is half an hour of glorious technicolour cheesy fun. Half an hour, because the story isn’t bloated out with unnecessary characters, side plots, Jim Carrey in dodgy prosthetics and a badly attempted Tim Burton aesthetic (OK, that’s the last time we’ll mention That Film, honestly).  by Cookie N Screen
American Horror Story has come to this stand-still. It’s just too familiar now to be completely shocking. Or it negates its characters in order to be shocking. Which does the opposite and makes it not shocking. Maybe it’s because it is the festive season (and we’ve all hit that slump, viewing, writing and acting.) But there is just something so dull about this television series now as it follows its blueprint of everything that came before it. Rise the body count! Include a twist! Give someone questionable moral ethics! Let them have a breakdown! Freak Show is so tedious and frankly, we don’t care. In the case of this week’s Orphans, there is literally one thing that keeps us going. And I can’t even talk about that!! (Spoilers) |
TV Editor: Graham Osborne
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