NewsRadio Seasons One and Two If I say the words (or is that word) NewsRadio too many people, they'll just look at me with a blank expression. It's no surprise really it's only really been shown at one in the morning on Sky's Paramount channel in the U.K, luckily for me I had a bout of insomnia when Paramount went through the first three seasons (they never had the rights to the last two seasons), and this is the perfect ensemable sit-com which some of the most incredibly sharp writing. I should start by talking about the performers, his show belongs to the late Phil Hartman as rapidly insane news anchor man Bill McNeal, his delivery his perfect, (Note: the fifth season recorded after his death, didn't have the same magic as when Hartman was in it), Stephen Root as station owen Jimmy James, would in many another sitcom be the best thing in, another performer with such natural perfect delivery. Dave Foley in the lead role is good fun, Maura Tierney (now of ER) is his love interest, there's Andy Dick, with his perfect timed pratfalls and Khandi Alexander, Joe Rogan and Vicki Lewis round of a cast that doesn't have a bum note. The 28 episodes in the first and second series (6 in the first, 22 in the second) quickly gel together and it's amazing our early in the series, the characters become fully rounded. The third episode Smoking, is an excellent episode (and an excellent example of how comfortable they cast where with each other so early) about Bill McNeal trying to quit smoking and Dave trying to give up caffeine, and finishes with the odd message, don't bother trying to give up your addictions your only going to fail, other classic episodes on this set include The Cain (another Bill centered episode), Rat Funeral, Goofy Ball (the Goofy Ball of the title is voiced by Judd Apatow, who went onto to create Freaks and Geeks and Undeclared, which I'll get too in later posts) and it's fair to say many more of these episodes. The show is very funny, and it's utterly bewildering that this show never got a decent U.K airing (it could have been on Channel 4 on Friday Night), but I can't recommend this show enough. *****

Bret Hart: The Best There Is, The Best There Was, The Best There Ever Will Be It's not hype...this is by far the best DVD the WWE have ever released, better then the brilliant Ultimate Ric Flair Collection, better then the Rise and Fall of ECW, better then Mick Foley's Greatest Hits and Misses, this is the greatest wrestling DVD/release of all time... Hell froze over and Bret "The Hitman" Hart and the WWE reached an agreement and got Bret's full involement (the original title was going to be called Screwed: The Bret Hart Story, as you can see it focused somewhat on the Monteral Screwjob), anyway this three disc set is absolutely perfect- disc one houses the excellent Bret Hart documentary, which like I said thanks to Hart's involvement- you here multiple sides to the story, and the documentary gets very emotional at times, when talking about his father and his brother, Owen (there is also a short extra where Hart talks about wrestlers who passed away), and deals with Stampede Wrestling (we get to see some Stampede footage), The Hart Foundation, Intercontinetel Championship, WWF Championship, the Anti-American Hart, the Screw Job, WCW, Owen's death and the end of the career, nothing is sugar coated over, everything is said how it seemed to go down. the documentary is one word is perfect. The 2nd and 3rd discs house an whole bunch of awesome matches (disc one also has a couple of matches), the stand-out matches are of course Bret vs Owen from Wrestlemania X, Bret v Austin in a submission match from Wrestlemania XIII, Perfect and Hart from Summerslam 91, and the sole WCW match, the Owen Hart Tribute Match vs Chris Benoit, you can't ignore the other matches, because Bret Hart, as his catchphrase and the title of this DVD goes, he was the Best there was. If your a wrestling fan, there is no excuse (NO EXCUSE!!!) why you shouldn't be buying this, even if in his day you was never a huge Bret Hart mark this DVD is still a must own. *****