OtB 3.0

After six weeks in the cyberspace wilderness, Outside the Box is preparing for our return; and we will be bringing a more simple blog, with only the contents that readers want (as compiled by the stats).

Gone is the reviews, and previews.

Instead we have decided that this blog will now only be about the people, music and characters that make television great, as well as a few other bits and pieces as I see fit to generate them.

Thanks for visiting, and hopefully you will drop back here again soon!

Sorry I have been away!

I can’t believe it has been six weeks since I have updated the blog, but there have been a number of reasons I have been away. Family illness, computer failure and a general review of how much time I can dedicate to the blog.

Fear not though my readers, I will be back, and it will be in the next day or two, and I will be making the biggest changes to the blog ever…

Thanks for your patience,

Wesley

Be back soon…

More changes coming to the blog… will be back soon with all the juicy and exciting details!

I’M A CELEBRITY… the final three

So the final is set-up and to me it is a no brainer who is going to win. With only Gino, Kim and Jimmy left in the final it has to be Gino who wins.

After all do you really think Kim the cleaning lady is going to take home the crown of Queen of the jungle… I mean here is a woman who is so delusional she actually thinks she is a sex symbol.

And Jimmy White, though I like him, really hasn’t done much since entering the jungle!

Gino on the other hand has not only made us laugh, he has also provided the camp with food… In fact he has done so much cooking he will probably be looking forward to returning to Ready Steady Cook just so he can watch somebody else prepare some food.

So when you cast your vote tomorrow remember to vote for Gino… He deserves to be the king of the jungle!

BURN NOTICE the game

Travelling through cyberspace can lead you to some pretty strange places… And I am not just talking about fetish porn sites.

Yesterday I popped over to the FXUK site where I found a mindless but fun way to whittle away some time, in a silly little game tie-in for the show Burn Notice.

In the game you are Michael Westen on a boat, trying to catch some baddies. Great fun if you like going fast and shooting people whilst pretending you are a super-spy.

So if you want to have a go, pop over and give it a try.

http://fxuk.com/shows/burn-notice/game

I’M A CELEBRITY…George of the jungle quits

Can you believe it, George ‘of the jungle’ Hamilton has quit the jungle! George is the third person this season to quit the show behind Camilla Dallerup who quit because she was unfit, and Katie Price who quit because she is a money hungry, publicity seeker who realised that the great British public hate her; a fact her tiny brain could not cope with.

I am gutted George had decided to leave; he was probably my second favourite to win the show, behind the wonderfully entertaining and very horny Gino D’Acampo.

Viewers watching last night saw George hinting that he may leave.

During the chat George told Kim:

“Here’s the thing, I’m going to tell you what I’m thinking, they’re people who are starting careers. I’m at point where this is fun to do – I’m not going to go head to head, so I’m thinking about leaving, pulling out tomorrow.”

Feedback: GAVIN & STACEY (series 3)

Young ‘Gavlar’ and Smithy are back, and for me it feels like they have never left. Sure Gavin has moved from Essex to Wales, and the series has made the jump from BBC3 to BBC1, but other than the geographic co-ordinates it all just feels the same.

The characters and the show both seem not to have moved an inch since the last time we saw the gang a year ago. Sure Gavin has a new job and Smithy has no work on the account of the economy, but really do we care about their working lives? No we don’t!

Gavin and Stacey is about family and friends and the emotional soup that comes along with having people in your life that you care about… Sadly for the series, television is about being fresh and exciting, and giving your audience a feeling that you are on a journey to someplace new and exciting. Which is not something I got from the first episode of the new series. I felt more like I had been there and done that, and got the box-set already.The jokes felt recycled, and the mood of the show still had that warm fuzzy feeling about it, like watching home movies of your friend’s funny family.

Of course it was only the first episode, so I will not abandon hope. I will stick it out with my television family of choice and continue on the journey through Gavin and Stacey’s lives. I will watch with anticipation for  those moments that made Gavin and Stacey the biggest sleeper hit in recent BBC memory… And in true family fashion they may disappoint, but I will probably love them all the same despite!

So with my wishy-washy views on the series out of the way, I wonder what the other critics out there thought???…