The Week in Entertainment

DVD: Seasons 2 and 3 of Slings & Arrows, that utterly brilliant Canadian show. They did tell their story, but I can't help wishing there was a fourth season.

TV: Torchwood. I like what they're doing with Jack and Ianto. Doomed, but sweet - and hot. I finally watched Tin Man - not bad, but not great; uneven, in other words, some parts of it very predictable and others surprising. But I have to label something "Fail!" when the family have their big hug at the end and I find myself thinking, "How did those two blonds produce those two dark-haired kids?" Still, it wasn't a waste of time. The Number 23 - not bad. At least the reasoning behind the number was inventive, and Carrey was pretty good.

Read: Anything Goes. Started Pinkers Words and Rules but left it in the office Friday - I'd taken it out to take some notes and then forgot it. So I read Interworld by Neil Gaiman and Michael Reaves, and a Nero Wolfe I stumbled across while looking for something else - Not Quite Dead Enough; I'll probably take JM Coetzee's Diary of a Bad Year on the bus tomorrow, and read it before I get back to the Pinker; it's easier to get back into non-fiction than a novel.