It’s been a while but I’m happy to tell you that our comments facility is now back up and running. For the past few months, our parent company has been having server issues, which has meant no comments. But thankfully they’ve all been sorted out so please get commenting. If you have taken issue with one of our reviews, tell us. If you have your own opinions about a particular programme or series, share you views. That’s the beauty of TV – everyone has an opinion, and we want to read yours!

You may have noticed that TV Scoop’s comment-leaving service is still disabled. The tech team over at Shiny Towers are still working hard to resolve the situation, but in the meantime please keep reading, and if you feel a burning desire to comment on something we’ve written there are still a number of ways you can communicate with us. You can click on my name on the credits (bottom right of this page) and send me an email. We’re also on social networking sites Twitter (@tvscoop; @mofgimmers; @annalowman) and facebook. In the meantime thanks for reading and bearing with us.

Some questions for you. Do you sit in front of the telly every night and spout your views at the screen in an embarrassing and over-the-top fashion? Are you a student with forthright views on the future direction of Ready, Steady, Cook? Are you a stay-at-home-mother who loves watching rubbish telly? Do you have a reason why you like Ant more than Dec? Are you just an avid television watcher who wants their voice to be heard? If you’re answer is yes to any of the above, here’s your chance to be part of something. We have some room for a television lover who can write a bit. A TV lover who watches all kinds of stuff and can put their feelings down in word-form. Fancy it? Keen? Simply click on my name on the credits roll on the right hand side, near the bottom of this page and send me an email. Come and say hello. Tell me what your favourite TV shows are and why. Tell me what annoys you. Tell me!

TV Scoop writes for The Guardian? That’s not strictly true, but one of our team, Anna, has been snapped up to write The Guardian’s TV previews for the past few days. We all read The Guardian here at TV Scoop (among other newspapers) so for Anna to be snapped up and be asked to write for the paper is really satifsfying and makes us really proud. Well done to Anna, whose passion for TV, music, theatre and the arts in general has made her a joy to work with. Don’t worry, she’ll still be writing for us, but I just wanted to shout from the rooftops and big her up. It just shows you that TV Scoop, as a site and as a collective, is doing something right. If you want to read Anna’s previews, go here.

As ever we really appreciate you reading our site and more often than not enjoy reading your comments about the TV shows we write about. In a weekend that saw a possible regeneration in Doctor Who, as well as some excellent/shambling performances at Glastonbury, you may have noticed that the ability to leave comments has disappeared. Sod’s law really – one weekend in June where there was some decent telly and no one could leave a comment. It’s not us becoming comment Nazis and banning them, there are some weirdcomputerthings afoot going on behind the scenes. We’ve been assured that these problems are being sorted out, so be patient and keep reading our posts. Soon enough you’ll be able to tell us how rubbish we are and/or how rubbish the TV show we thought was great was. Thanks!

To all those techno-savvy early adopters out there the fact that we’ve got round to getting our own Twitter feed is neither here nor there. Come on granddads, I can almost hear you cry, get with the programme (do kids say that these days?), we were wise to Twitter ages ago. I’m sorry, I am. But you know, some of us like big, proper conversations and all that old-fashioned guff. Twitter is cool though, so expect the TV Scoop team to update regularly from their sofas or from out and about. You can read what’s going on in our particular corner of Twitter down near the bottom of this page, and you even find us online at twitter.com/tvscoop. Don’t forget, at the top of the page you can click on a button that will allow you to have a look at what’s on telly. Yes, TV listings on your favourite TV blog. Good, no?

You enjoy reading TV Scoop? That’s good, and we appreciate it. But TV Scoop is part of a whole range of good-looking and entertaining lifestyle sites at Shiny Media. So have a look around, because this was the week that was across the Shiny Lifestyle sites. And what a week it has been… this was the news:

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There was a heated debate about Carla Connor (Alison King to her mum) on Corrie Blog right here. There was also a profile of Annie and Jack Walker (first landlords of the Rovers) here.

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On Bayraider, there was a story about a Tom Hanks solar powered radio here, and a Superbowl ticket special here.

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The ace Available For Panto had a big story on John winning Celebrity Hijack here, and Leona Lewis’ new US video for Bleeding Love.

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My Chemical Toilet has been cheeky again. Natasha Bedingfield’s record label has cynically repackaged her second album was the shock headline, while Morrissey got Russel Brand to help him out.

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Lost Weekend had this little lot – it asked whether a plane can take off from a treadmill and there was a special feature on Slum Tourism.

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These were the headlines on Hippyshopper last week: the end of the road for the patio heater, and there was a Hippyshopper green Valentine’s Day gift special.

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On Crafty Crafty, learn how to crochet your own Legend of Zelda thingy here, and there were some lovely his and hers mitten patterns.

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Last but not least is Dollymix. And wouldn’t you believe it, Ryanair was having trouble with racy adverts. Filthy sods.

I like cricket, I make no bones about that. You may not, but you might know someone that does. Which is why I’m alerting you to our sister site, The Googly, and its Monty Panesar competition.

Maony Panesar. Who he? He’s a really good cricketer who plays for England and, thanks to his brilliant, wicket-taking celebrations, has helped breath new life into the England cricket team. OK, se he might not be on top form at the moment, but on his game he’s one of the world’s best spinners. Over on The Googly, they have three copies of the Mony Panesar’s Cricket Madness DVD to give away. Click here to enter.

We’ll be posting reviews and all sorts of other things over the Christmas period, but for now it remains for me to say thanks for reading and thanks for all your comments during this topsy-turvey year of TV. It’s been special.

As a really special, ahem, treat, here’s the video of the Shiny team singing a merry Christmas. It’s over the jump so have a look. But one warning… best not to have eaten before you look. Merry Christmas!

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As regular readers will by now know, there are two internships currently up for grabs at Shiny Media (the UK’s leading publisher of blogs.) One’s for a video presenter and the other for a video production person. All we ask is that you make us a little video to show off your skills.

As the competition has progressed, we’ve seen the standard of entrants sky rocket and people have been asking for a little bit more time to get their entries in. The good news is that we’ve EXTENDED THE DEADLINE and now you’ve got till January 1st 2008 to get your videos in. Three people will then be shortlisted from each category, and, all six of you will be invited to attend a judging date at the Shiny offices during the week commencing January 14th*. There’s a FREE PHONE and an ALL EXPENSES PAID TRIP TO BARCELONA up for grabs, so if you can do better than the entries that have come in so far) get your act together and enter. Here’s one to get you in the mood:

We’ve received so many entries, and to have a look at what other people have sent in, go to the LG/Shiny YouTube site right here. You’ll need to upload your videos to the site to stand a chance. How do you enter? Hit the LG button below. Good luck!

Shiny Media is one of the fastest-growing and exceptionally cool web media companies in the UK. Fact! Apart from the ever wonderful TV Scoop, Shiny has around 40 blogs on its roster. Not too shoddy at all. The good news is that Shiny Media has two amazing internships up for grabs thanks to the LG Video Media Talent Award. One is for a budding video presenter and one is for a video production person. Check out this person’s entry to see what you’re up against.

Think you can do better? Then show us what you’ve got by submitting your own videos to our YouTube channel – click here to see what other people have submitted so far! How do you enter the LG Video Media Talent Award? By clicking here that’s how!

It’s been quite a year for Shiny Media, the people behind TV Scoop and the family of other top blog sites. But, as ever, we want to hear from you – we want you to let us know what you read, what you think, are we great, are we rubbish… it all helps us to take stock, listen to you and produce blog sites that YOU want to read.

Surveys are fun, but even more fantastic is the fact that we have teamed up with our chums at play.com to give away one lucky respondee a rather splendid 16GB iPod Touch, worth £249.99 in the shops. This winner will be chosen at random, so it’s worth having a shot. Play.com, by the way, is a marvellous placey to do your Christmas shopping – there are loads of really affordable DVDs, CDs, book, gizmos and lots of other stuff to browse through if you fancy doing a spot of online shopping and beating the crowds around town.

The survey takes about three mintues to complete, so there are really no excuses. Besides, the glow and warmth you will feel from taking part in such a worthwhile enterprise could very well last a lifetime. We thank you!

To take the survey, go here.
I should also add that Shiny T&Cs can be viewed here.

Yes, our new chums at The Guardian Guide (the paper’s hipper-than-thou Saturday entertainment supplement) featured little old us at the weekend. And, I have to say, we’re all quite chuffed about it. Andrew Collins, no less, selected us as the TV blog to watch out for (along with another A1 Shiny site, Available For Panto).

As cool as this selection is (you can see us in the blogroll section here), it’s you lot that help us make the site. So if you want to subscribe to TV Scoop and receive a daily email round-up (it’s free people!) have a look to your right (at the top of the page). If you don’t, keep telling us what you like, love, loathe or merely dislike. Your opinions are what makes the site (and the world) go round.

Just a reminder about the fab new moblog we’ve set up in conjunction with LG, and the competition we’re running, where two lucky UK-ites can win an LG Viewty mobile phone each. Pretty special, obviously!

We’re looking for two UK photo bloggers to help us by taking portrait snaps of those who you think best sums the true essence and style of the UK. We’ve teamed up with blog networks from Germany, Spain, France and The Netherlands to create the ultimate pan-European blog City Clickers.

At the moment, our Euro-friends are totally kicking our butts in this comp, so show off your patriotic side by getting out there and snapping what you see. Basically, if you can post 10 photos a month then we want to hear from you!

Winners will receive a brand new LG Viewty phone and will have their bill paid for 2 months. To find out how to enter and to see what other people have photographed, click here.

When I’m not writing TV reviews for this here wonderful site, I’m blogging about books at Trashionista.

And this week we got the biggest scoop since Trashionista began: an exclusive email interview with Marian Keyes – SCD obsessive and Queen of chick lit.

If you want to re-live Marian’s marvellous behind-the-scenes jinks on the set of Strictly, then carry on over the cut…

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