Did you watch it last week? Yes people, there’s a new girl in town and a new comedy on TV. But did I laugh as Jess cried? Well, let me tell you about my 8.30 Channel 4 date with New Girl and you can make up your own minds if you want to spend your Friday evening with the second episode.

Everybody’s favourite indie boy crush has been given her own sitcom! It’s been a meandering career for Zooey Deschanel since she turned up as the cool older sister in 2000’s Almost Famous. 

The journey has taken her through bleach-blonde leading roles; M. Night-Shyamalan boo boos    and She & Him sing-songs. She may not be in all the magazines like some of her contemporaries but Zooey is as cool as her name and has been working hard for the last 12 years.  I was as pleased as punch when Deschanel popped up as my new Friday night 30mins of fun….actually I think I’m the one with the indie boy crush. 

Ok, so, what with my finger being so on the pulse I wrote about the Ab Fab new episode rumours in August with my VERY REAL concerns for the resuscitation of Edina and Patsy. It might not seem like it at the time but the menopause is finite and for 60 year old Edina and 39 year old Patsy it’s not something they’d particularly wish to reminisce over. So how much material could there possibly be for Saunders I wondered.

After the last distressing revival I was prepared to spend 30 minutes stony faced. Putting on Christmas pounds is not something that concerns me but I was pretty confident my buttocks would get a little work out, there’s nothing so uplifting as a bit of embarrassed clenching. 

Fed on a diet of high sugar, computer games and cable TV my generation is going through a nostalgic phase. Even Generation X cracked out a bit more originality I'm sure. Though nothing springs to mind just yet.

You would think coming of age at the new millennium would inspire us to look forward, or at least cover everything in silver foil for that futuristic feel. Instead we're delving into our childhood, lounging around asking “hey, anyone remember... Transformers? We should remake that.” This trend of the 80s cartoon reboot had so far left me indifferent. Then you MONSTERS took my Thundercats.

This is supposed to be a review, an informative and balanced review of the new reboot of Thundercats.