I've been watching quite a few new things recently.

First I tried Chuck. It confused me no end when it was on because there's a Chuck in Pushing Daisies and that was on at the same time. I kept seeing people talking about Chuck expecting them to be talking about one series and then finding they were actually talking about another.

However, with the aid of lovefilm, and giving them money for extra DVDs, I watched the whole series this month (and a bit of last month - it was quite handy that the time I decided to try it was not long after it came out on DVD). And I really liked it. There are some characters I wouldn't be sad if they were never seen again. But whatsisname who plays Casey does make up for them. (I find it quite amusing that he played a character called Jayne in Firefly and I know a girl called Kacey...)

on more than one occasion put me off watching The Middleman by describing it to me. But then I finally saw someone talk about it in a way that made it sound interesting, so I tried that too. I got two thirds of the way through the first episode before I gave up. It's just not very interesting at all.

Goodness knows why I thought trying Tin Man was a good idea, apart from it coming out on DVD a couple of weeks ago, because I'm not that into The Wizard of Oz to start with. I made it through one hour and 24 minutes: it's just so slow. All of that could have been done in half an hour. I'd go and read the rest of the plot summary somewhere, to save myself the bother of another three hours of that, but ultimately, I'm just not that interested. I'd have tried it sooner if I'd known it was only one series, though. I assumed it was the usual American jobbie of hundreds of episodes over several years.

Then tonight was Merlin. I confused my sister completely today by telling her I was going home to watch Merlin, until I pointed out it was a new TV series. It's the same thing the BBC have done with Robin Hood, with putting a long (13 episode) series into the Saturday night slot to get family viewing figures across the year with Doctor Who. (One more series and they'll be able to do the whole year) I found this one quite interesting, although I was really surprised to see whatshername who plays Gwen in Torchwood in it, doing an English accent. I'm not sure about Merlin and his cockiness and his angst yet, but it does look as if it could be interesting. So I'll be watching that next week. (I think I lasted an episode and a half with Robin Hood).

Talk about the tennis, with photos, will be tomorrow once I've chewed all my fingernails off and I know the result.

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