Don't know if anyone saw this the first time round or not but the second series of Hex started last night on Sky One. This series is writtne by the guys that did "Asif" on C4 a couple of years ago and it is pretty cool. The plot is essentially that a young girl finds out that she is the latest in a long line of witches and she is targetted by a demon/ ex angel called "Azazeal(sp)". Who shags her and gets her pregnant obviously. She thinks she has aborted the baby when in fact it grew so fast in the womb that it was able to survive the termination and is now being bought up by daddy. Very cool series with a Lesbian ghost and sex mad teachers and teenagers

Hex is complete trash with terrible acting, dialog, and rarely an episode goes past without at least one gratuitous display of nubile flesh.

Sues and I have been looking forward to the second series

Sounds like all the worst bits of Buffy an Angel amplified (which was most of it).

But hey, young nubile flesh is always a winner. I suppose that's what the mute button is for.

It's awful, but somehow manages to still be rather entertaining. It's a bit like the eurovision: it's crap, but if you get bored you can start insulting their taste in clothes until the next good bit. It's all jolly good fun, and very British.

But does it have a drunk Terry Wogan doing commentry throughout?

We all know that's the only reason we watch it.

But after all that I'm a big fan of Andromeda so I can't say too much.

I caught a little bit of the last series. Jemima Rooper's hair scared me off, is that just a side effect of being dead or something?
I enjoyed As If, so maybe I should try and watch some of the new series, I mean, in a not-expecting-anything-more-than-badly-acted-trash kinda way.

I think that really is the appeal of the whole thing to me. That and the amazingly weird and unconnected plot twists. It just seems fun. And bearing in mind that most of todays sci fi is about "a message" its just nice to have someithng that doesn't require much thinking

I don't understand how this works. The plot is made up as it goes along, the characters are inconsistant and unlovable, the actings alright, but nothing special and yet somehow I still love it.

It can't just be the lesbians and the sex can it?

Can it?

The vast amount of flirting that goes on probably is one of the selling points of the series. Who'd have thought that a sex-starved lesbian ghost would be so entertaining?

Actually, now I put it like that, I can see precisely why I enjoy it so much...

Two things about this scare me:

1) That you guys like it so much, despite the fact it's clearly the TV version of those crappy sci-fi novels where a forty-something year old man is writing about what he wants to happen to him.

2) That I'm now actually rather curious and wishing I had Sky

If it were food it would be a cheap, greasy fry-up. You know it's rubbish and it makes you feel dirty but you still enjoy it!

Is pay TV ecsesivly cheap over there??

That depends what you mean, if you mean in terms of paying for the service then no, it's generally not very cheap. If you mean in terms of production budgets then that's a matter of perspective. Compared to American TV production values I think the UK is pretty cheap, but they still do spend quite a lot of money on such things on the rare occasions that they make them.

Does affordable make more sence?

Affordable is really a matter of perspective. I get it because it comes in a package with my phone line and broadband. I'd be paying about the same amount for those two necessities even if I didn't have cable television, so I might as well have the cable too. I don't have a lot of money, but Sues and I do enjoy the programs on cable TV, so we just find the money for it. I guess that means that it is affordable, because we can afford it, but what is expensive to me is a blink of an eye to other people, so it's all relative really.

To put it another way, I don't have a lot of money but for the entertainment that it offers cable TV in the UK is affordable.

Rar! I thoroughly enjoyed that series, although the switch from Cassie over to Ella was quite odd. I think Jemima Rooper is fantastic as Thelma.