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Deep Space 9, obviously. Though I personally don’t think that should count, because I’m going to count “stuff that was first on TV when...

Sapphire and Steel.

No reason why not. It began 30 years ago and "old" is a matter of interpretation ;)

As some of you probably know, Poker Face is a recent murder mystery series created by Rian Johnson, who’s also behind the Knives Out...

This evening’s episode was Business as Usual, which is one of my favourites and it’s aged very well. The main attraction is of course...

Watching DS9 recently and reflecting on RPGs has made me realise one key difference between DS9 and Smallville (and most of its...

My wife wanted to watch Dr Bashir, I Presume? so we did, and it was also better than I remember, and weirdly relevant to me personally...

This is absolutely true…IF the people or organizations evaluating the study for bias are unbiased themselves. Remember, in some...

I guess we’re at the stage where we know that our various forms of media (books, news, TV etc) may not be always telling us the truth...

You have Judges and Lawyers believing hallucinations. You have LLMs puking out their trained bias. You have people claiming LLMs have...

Yeah, I totally agree with all that. The BBC has basically always loved cops and hated protests - I can’t remember a time in my life...

Everyone knows that A Knight’s Tale is the most authentic medieval film of recent times, for a given value of authentic...

And lets be honest, its not like movie armor is worth a damn anyway. How often have we seen someone stab someone with a sword right...

Yes, news media haven't really been able to do decent fact checking for about 30 years. I think I remember a book (mainly about the...

The whole distrust of media thing is important for this conversation because we’re becoming more aware how biased most news media are...