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đ5ïžâŁ A lot of planes meant a lot of TV Shows. Plenty of series watched, although many good, there wasnât I felt a load that were distinguishable.
Five were still hard to pick, but I gave it a go. Below are My Five Favourite TV Shows from 2025 đș
Please click for moreI used to be such a movie watcher, but for some reason I just canât sit through a film anymore, but strangely I can binge a TV show and did I plenty in 2024.
Iâm not sure it was a vintage TV year, although Iâm not always watching the most up to date shows, as youâll probably see from my list. These are My Top Five 2024 Favourite TV Shows đș
Please click for moreI heard that Charltonâs Sky Sports Plus coverage stopped just before the end of normal time on Saturday, which must have left viewers a little anxious.
I think Soccer Saturday went to our game just once, that after the goal, preferring to concentrate on Birmingham and Wrexham.
Please click for moreSky Sports committed to publishing their live match selections for the first half of the season before it began, and today they announced the long list of games they will show until the FA Cup 3rd Round weekend.
The games mostly mean a change of time, and Addicks already knew that the Wigan game was pushed to 5.30pm like every opening L1 game, and then our first home league fixture against Leyton Orient is at 12.30pm, but that was it until the end of September.
Please click for moreItâs been a bit of a struggle the almost two-week hole in my life between the final of the Euroâs and tomorrowâs Olympic Games Opening Ceremony. Iâd rather poke my eyes out than watch a pre-season friendly, Iâm not ready for the new football season yet, so I am all geared up for the greatest show on Earth, the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad.
Please click for moreThe club has given supporters an update on what to expect from CATV next season. This follows the news of the new Sky Sports EFL deal.
As expected we wonât have the weekly pre and post match show, but there will be a monthly show with Minto, Curbs & Brownie.
Please click for moreWe are all creatures of habit, but about the only good thing about being stranded in the lower reaches of the league pyramid is that Charlton fans have mostly been able to hang onto the traditional Saturday at 3pm kick off.
3pm on Saturday is in every football fanâs DNA, especially if you are attending the game itself, but even if you arenât.
Please click for moreAs expected Sky TV and the EFL have shaken hands on a record domestic rights deal to show over 1,000 live games per season, thus closing down Sky Sportsâ EFL red button coverage and the EFL’s domestic streaming option whether that was via iFollow or like in Charltonâs case their own streaming service.
Please click for moreThe conspiracy theorists, and I live in America and have got to meet a fair few, would say that Lloyd Jonesâ apparent kidnapping after having an injection almost a month ago might be more to do with his new boss finding out about this.
Please click for moređ5ïžâŁ. I was spoilt for choice for great TV in 2023. My list of enjoyable TV shows was never ending and then narrowing it down to five was extremely difficult.
So much binge-worthy television out there, and I am always on the look out for a show I may have missed.
Please click for moređ5ïžâŁ I forgot to throw my last couple of these out there. I have two more 2022 Top Fiveâs to share, and this one is TV Shows. I do love to get lost in a good TV drama, and there were plenty to choose from last year.
After much deliberation these were my Top Five 2022 Favourite TV Shows đș
Please click for moreThe FA Cup 2nd Round replay has been chosen by ITV to be shown live. ITV4 to be exact. Woop, woop.
There are only two replays and both will be on the box. Dagenham & Redbridge and Gillingham is the other. Our game will be at 7.45pm on Wednesday 7th, December.
Please click for moređ5ïžâŁ Back in the saddle to finish off the last few 2021 Top Fives. Plenty more couch time, sorry I mean working from home in 2021, and many good TV shows to binge. Here were my Top Five 2021 Favourite TV Shows đș:
Please click for moreBit of a shame really as Iâd imagine a night in either Newcastle or Manchester would have appealed to many Addicks, but the game has been chosen for TV and at the worst time if you were planning on going. Mind you one could now make a weekend of it!
Please click for moređ5ïžâŁ Plenty of time in 2020 to watch the box you’d think, although I have to say for very long periods I struggled so much separating work from home that I would settle for something mindless over immersing myself into a proper series.
I love a good TV series like the next man. There is so much good stuff about these days and with Disney joining Netflix, Amazon, Hulu and others in competing with all the mainstream providers there is a battle for good content.
So, onto my next 2019 Top Five picks and my Top Five Favourite TV Shows that I watched in 2019, which doesnât mean at all that they were all first aired last year.
Little old Charlton appear to have a new fan. Sky Sports today announced that three more of our games will be live on the box. The Hull home game has moved back from Saturday, December 14th to the Friday night, three days after we play Huddersfield.
Then over Christmas and New Year Sky have chosen the Derby and Swansea away games to show as well. This well and truly mucks around with Addicks plans if they were intending on going, and will I am sure damage travelling numbers which have been magnificent so far this season.
A quick weekend in Miami to meet the exhausted-other-half and our little Edwina the Eagle daughter after their week skiing in Colorado. Whilst I made the short hop across from Bermuda this morning, they had to suffer a midnight flight and a red-eye from Denver.
A pretty quiet weekend should ensue and a welcome break from work, which is currently relentless and unsympathetic to doing much else including sleeping through the bloody night.
To coincide with tonight’s Golden Globes, I thought I’d push this one out.
I watch less and less telly, real time TV anyway and Bermuda unsuprisingly is light years away from Catch Up and iPlayer etc but Netflix, Hula and iTunes are our friend and I can sit on the couch or on a plane and binge through a season of a TV show easily.
Iâm always on the hunt for recommendations by the way, but these were my Top Five Favourite TV Shows that I watched last year, bearing in mind I may have been late to jump on them.
I was thinking yesterday how nice it was that Iâve been able to watch the Addicks live on the television for their last four games. Except weâve lost all four, and in fact the two before that, both of those were 0-3 defeats. At least we scored yesterday for the only time in those six games. I am sure there are Premier and Championship teams that will claim worst TV records, but Iâd like to see them, and this isnât a recent phenomenon remember.
Anyways, Iâm here to list some positives. Yes I know, until the old scroat either sells or keels over, then positivity is very thin on the ground, but there was a fair bit on Saturday to be hopeful for.
Perfect. 600 mile round trip on opening day and because our new friends Sky fancy it, the game will kick off at 12.30pm. Nice for those of you that wanted to see the team in the flesh on opening day. Wait, we may even have new owners sat in the stand the old scrote in his laboratory watching on his Belgian telly..
This is followed by our new big rivals Shrewsbury Town at The Valley the week after, then the club’s first ever trip to Accrington Stanley and a game under the lights in SE7 home to Peterborough.
The first proper day of the World Cup. The do not disturb sign is hanging around my neck.
As suspected the Bermuda TV coverage is worst than terrible. Not sure where they stole the pictures from, but sounds as if the commentator is doing it from his sofa, and there is no pre or post game punditry and the half-time show consists of crowd scenes interrupted by adverts from local companies who have each thrown in about a hundred bucks to âsponsorâ it. Please donât let me hear you moan about Martin Keown and Glenn Hoddle..
Also, during the game the screen has no score or time on it, which is a very disconcerting and a nightmare if I need a wee. Who knows what the score is and how long is left, doubt if the commentator knows either.
Next on the agenda of my Top Fives is TV Shows. Somehow over the years, not helped by having just two cinema screens on the island, I rarely watch a movie, but I love to get stuck into a TV series. By the way Iâm always looking for recommendations, so any suggestions are much appreciated.
Define a season..
A fantastic result today up at Bradford, one of those that can define a season. Konsa and Sarr, playing at left back instead of Dasilva, gave us a very solid base, and it sounded as if everyone put a proper shift in for the shirt in woeful weather conditions.
When JFC scored I donât think I have celebrated a goal listening to the radio commentary like that for some time. It was a great time to score, but then Ben Amos produced a Bobby Bolder type performance to keep Bradford out allowing us to take the 3 points back down south.
The much lauded arrival of Valley Pass collapsed under the interest of Addicks wanted to see live action from Ireland this evening of the first pre-season friendly against Crumlin United. The official site crashed and despite eventual You Tube coverage, for me at least, Valley Pass failed to get off the ground. Unlike Charlton who won 5-0.Â
Fortunately the club hadn’t been banging on about the new premium service much (!), but this little roll-out exercise wasn’t a great way of getting fans to part with ÂŁ60 as it struggled with both bandwidth and traffic.Â
I’m a big TV series watcher, and there are some great shows out there both sides of the Atlantic. I often watch them belatedly taking recommendations from friends and then downloading whole seasons for airplane journeys or quiet evenings. I’m always up for new shows, so I’d like to hear any new suggestions.
It was tough to pick a Top Five, but I eventually did so here are my Top Five Favourite TV Shows that I watched in 2016:
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Congratulations to Burnley. Proper little club (pop: 87,000), owned by local businessmen with a grounded but forward thinking vision. A club that didn’t flaunt FFP to win promotion last time, and did not risk it all once in the big time, but made friends by playing the right way. Very much like us after relegation in 1999, they held onto players, added astutely and boldly in the case of Andre Gray, but most importantly the owners backed their very bright and visionary young manager.
Part of me was hoping that Burnley would still need to win at The Valley on Saturday. I love the drama. But I’m glad we can park that side story and the Clarets will deservedly be promoted whatever happens. In fact as in now tradition they will wipe the floor with us and win the title.
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Fans from the Coalition Against Roland Duchatelet (CARD) will carry a coffin to The Valley 45 minutes before Sunday’s televised kick-off to symbolise what the clubâs owner and chief executive Katrien Meire have done to the Addicks, and they are inviting supporters to line the route to pay their respects.
The mock funeral procession will kick off what CARD intends to be an afternoon of protest and unrest. Other protests are planned that will become apparent during the game, showing live to a national audience.
A CARD spokesman said: âThis is not just about the teamâs prospects, although they look very grim. It is a measure of the damage being done to Charlton by Duchatelet and Meire, which is unlikely to end with relegation. They are destroying decades of work to build up our club in the name of a soulless experiment conducted by remote control from Belgium. This is not the Charlton Athletic that has been a vital part of so many peopleâs lives for decades.
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I’ve got a little waylaid in these first couple of weeks of the New Year. A little bit of Charlton stuff going on, so I have been remiss on my 2015 Top Five things and I know this is what you really want to read.
So, where was I? Ok, let’s take a snap of my Top Five Favourite Television Shows of 2015.
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I had been nervously waiting for Sky to put out their live televised games for the opening weekend as I have a flight booked for the Sunday, so I am sort of pleased to say that we don’t feature in the Sky listings at all, mind you one little televised game to keep us expats happy before the winter sets in would’ve been nice.
The Championship season will open at the Amex on the Friday night when Brighton host Nottingham Forest in front of the cameras. Sky will show the early Saturday game between Leeds and relegated Burnley, then on Sunday Sky selected Preston’s return to the 2nd tier against Middlesbrough. Kick off midday.
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I’m flying back to Gatwick overnight and all being well I’ll grab a quick pint in the Oak before we take our seats for the early kick off against promoted Bournemouth before the curtain draws on the season.
After the midweek games somewhat ruined Sky TV’s excitement their cameras will be at Blackburn v Ipswich and Derby v Reading as the Tractor Boys and Rams attempt to hold on to their top 6 places. Personally more excitement might have been found at Brentford and Wolves as they have to win and score goals to force themselves into play-off contention.
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I hope you all had a great Christmas, and I know you have been wondering what Santa missed. Well, I am here to tell you. My next installment of my 2014 Top Five’s.
Christmas always reminds me of great family television back at home, but sadly Bermuda is a slave to the American networks and cable channels, which I long gave up watching, apart from a couple of channels, and instead became a fan of the box set. Not interrupted by adverts, schedule changes or time zones, the other half and I fly through them at a rate of knots. Equally whenever I travel my iPad is always juiced up with the latest download.
It was another great year for TV drama, but I have my picks and you need to bear in mind I may well have watched them after they were released on television here or in the UK.
Here are My 2014 Top 5 Favourite TV Shows:
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The final day then of London 2012, an end to an historic and extraordinary 6 weeks. If in a year or two’s time the Olympic Stadium is hosting football, it will be such a shame.
During my very swift weekend visit back to the UK I found myself in Gatwick, Nottingham, Eastbourne and Chislehurst but what I couldn’t be drawn away from was the London Paralympics.
The gripes about the adverts aside, although trust me after watching US telly for 10 years, the UK’s commercial stations are a lot less disruptive, from what I saw Channel 4 were doing a sterling job of showcasing the most watched Paralympics ever.
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It’s like the night before Christmas. I have had a very quiet 3 day weekend and have been kicking my heels waiting for tomorrow night’s game against ‘unbeaten’ Huddersfield.
Without a real local derby, ‘big games’ are few and far between in this division, but tomorrow night is the biggest we have played since Swindon in the play-offs and despite the interference of the cameras, I’m hoping to be listening to an electric atmosphere. The club are expecting over 17,000 at the game, which casts further embarrassment on Crystal Palace’s abysmal crowd yesterday.
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I see the Huddersfield game got put back to the Monday for Sky. Obviously this gives me the opportunity to watch the game but I have to agree that a Saturday afternoon would have provided a cracking atmosphere with, so far, the best two sides playing in the early winter sun to a packed house.
Monday night football is not quite the same and Huddersfield could easily be coming to us on a 43-match unbeaten run and I’m manfully trying to forget the cameras.
When I was at home this past weekend I got the opportunity to watch BBC’s Football League Show with Manish Bhasin and Steve Claridge, football’s answer to marmite. BBC do the show a million times better than ITV ever used to and I’m a big fan of Mark Chapman and Mark Clemmit, whose recent interview with Chris Powell was excellent, if you missed it.
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Unless you have been holidaying under a rock for the past week, you would have no doubt heard that Piers Morgan started his late night chat show on CNN. If you happen to follow Morgan on Twitter, then no doubt you’d have read nothing else.
Morgan is the latest in a Brit invasion of the US television networks and represents a gamble by the ailing news network choosing someone that most Americans had never heard off to front the late night slot and replace the revered Larry King, who retired.
I flip-flop between liking the ex-Daily Mirror editor and hating his guts but after a week of his new show I’ve been impressed. He started with someone even Morgan has to admit is more famous than him, Oprah Winfrey. After an hour I wondered if the show would be able to continue because Morgan came close to losing his tongue, it was so far up Oprah’s bottom.
Larry King is doing his last CNN chat show tonight. He is to America what Michael Parkinson was to the United Kingdom. A self styled iconic interviewer but with a penchant for wearing braces.
King is 77-years old but isn’t actually retiring, no one actually ever seems to retire from American television in my experience but the Larry King Live Show ends tonight and Piers Morgan on the back of a growing Brit invasion takes over the 9pm slot in the new year.
King has interviewed everyone from Sinatra, to Reagan, Brando to Lady Ga Ga, JFK to Oprah and his non contentious style is widely acclaimed. Personally King’s simple questioning and unfortunate arse licking would often leave me wanting after an interview but one can’t deny his success. He is a big hit with the ladies too and has been married eight times!
Piers Morgan is a different kettle of fish though, and already the adverts are building up his far more combative style. Morgan is bloody annoying but can be good TV, although I hope he is more Gordon Ramsey than the soupy Cat Deeley or Vernon Kay.
Swindon Town 0 Charlton Athletic 3
I was on the plane for the whole length of the game last night travelling back to Bermuda from Gatwick. The brilliant new Sherlock Holmes BBC series had taken my mind off what might be happening at the County Ground but once we touched down a fair few scenario’s played in my mind in the time it took to turn the mobile on and for it to obtain a signal but as Twitter burst into life the first few messages at the top of the page told me all I needed to know!
Thanks also to those of you that sent me the final result directly. But what a fantastic result and on paper probably the best one of the season and fine revenge too, after the heartbreak of the play-off’s.
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