The Week in Entertainment

DVD: Murder Most English, a low-key, quirky English village mystery series. Some more Murdoch Mysteries (season 2), and Campion. A Russian movie called Rusalka (Mermaid), which is funny and heartwarming if in a particularly Russian way; though its blend of dreamy magical realism and the nitty-gritty of post-Soviet Moscow isn't typical of Russian film-making, it's pretty typical of Russian thought.

TV: Leverage!! Yay, it's back. I have to get up too early to watch both episodes tonight, but so far it's on its game. Doctor Who. I should have known. No sooner do I say I like having two companions than... Poor, poor Rory. As soon as the doctor said this wasn't a fixed point in time and anything could happen, I knew they were teasing us with the two of them on the hillside... This new show is harder on its companions that the earlier incarnation... Some of the US Open, and I don't think I've explicitly said, but I do watch baseball...

Read: Emyr Humphreys' brilliant character study The Shop. Began The Russian Dreambook of Colour and Flight by Gina Ochsner, which is so far excellent, in the tradition of social satirists like Bulgakov.