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Hobson & Choi Podcast #2 - #HobsonVsWolf

The second Hobson & Choi podcast is with us! We're now officially not a one-hit wonder! Can we get past the difficult second episode, though?

Anyway, this week: Angelina Choi explains to her new boss why he has to fight a wolf and what their social media strategy is. And what "social media" is. Can she land the pitch? And in the Author's Notes section: why am I crying in a bin? All this and more!

You can play the episode in the player below, download the MP3 here or subscribe on iTunes to have it thrown at you every week. Or if you hate iTunes on principle, you can point your RSS reader at our Libsyn page to get every episode.

Hope you like. More next week, and if you hate audio or badly want to know what happens next, episodes up to #30 are up on Jukepop too.

Hobson & Choi Podcast #2 - #HobsonVsWolf by Nick Bryan on Mixcloud

Hobson & Choi #30: "All Together Now" PLUS Podcast news!

The big 3-0! Hobson & Choi #30 is up, entitled "All Together Now", and featuring big confessions and confrontations in the ongoing storyline. Not to mention some big podcast news, which I'll reproduce below.

Basically, the podcast is now up, running and launched, after some brief technical issues! Me reading an edited version of each H&C chapter from the beginning, plus notes/insight afterwards! You can find it on iTunes by either searching my name or clicking here, or if you hate Apple, you can subscribe to the RSS/grab the original files from the Libsyn page. It's also streaming on MixCloud.

Back on Jukepop, we were #14 in the August top 30! Pretty good guys, best result yet in fact. Thanks to everyone who voted. Now, hopefully with some podcast-momentum, onwards to September!

TV blogging: Dexter & Coupling!

Hectic day in TV blogging as a load of work flies up in a single mass...

First up - there's no new Dexter episode this week, so I've drawn up a list of seven possible spin-offs on The Digital Fix instead. Would you watch any of these? Got a better idea?

And secondly, from our retrospective department:

A lookback at Steven Moffat's excellent sex-comedy Coupling on Dork Adore! Did you watch it? Should you?

That's all for now. Big Hobson & Choi update later! Lots of news!

New TV review: Breaking Bad!!

Latest Breaking Bad review on The Digital Fix! More from the Hank/Walt/Jesse love triangle!

Yeah, coming up with bad things to say about that show is becoming a challenge. Still, can't complain.

Book review: Under The Empyrean Sky by Chuck Wendig

Latest me-reviewing: Under The Empyrean Sky by Chuck Wendig, the start of his new YA Heartland Trilogy! Killer Corn = Killer Book?

First blog of the new week, more to come, etc. And if anyone missed the Hobson & Choi podcast, you can listen to it here. Full release with iTunes and such to come soon hopefully - technical issues continue, probably not to be resolved until the US have returned from the Labor Day holiday. ("Labour" typo intentional.)

Hobson & Choi Podcast #1! Up now!

An exciting day, as I launch the Hobson & Choi Podcast! Admittedly, not with full iTunes/RSS bells and whistles, due to technical problems that are dull. Hopefully they'll be with you soon. However, I didn't want to disappoint after promising a Sunday launch, so episode one is up now on Mixcloud and hopefully also embedded below...

Hobson & Choi Podcast #1 - Induction Day Blues - By Nick Bryan by Nick Bryan on Mixcloud

Hobson & Choi #29: "Gone Quiet"

Hobson & Choi #29 up now on Jukepop, featuring both a big twist in the case and an exciting announcement about the serial itself!

What the hell, I'll spoil the announcement, since this is my blog and you've bothered to come here: I'm doing a podcast! A Hobson & Choi Podcast to be precise. For those who have always wanted to have me read Hobson & Choi to them, starting from the beginning.

It'll release on Sundays, links will go up here and on the usual social media sites. It'll continue for at least a fair while because I want to do it, and possibly as long as there's H&C chapters if there's interest from listeners.

Anyway, that's in a few days. For now: latest chapter up on Jukepop, please do vote for us on there, because its the end-of-month top 30 soon and every little helps. Ta very much, guys.

New TV review: Dexter!

Another week, another mediocre Dexter season 8 episode. Increasingly exasperated review up now on The Digital Fix.

Oh well. At least there's Hobson & Choi later, along with exciting announcement type thing. Stay tuned for that.

New TV blogging: The Newsroom!

The Newsroom brings its season-long Genoa arc to the boil! Can they bring it together?

Meanwhile, final H&C of the month tomorrow, including a big announcement. Exciting.

New TV blogging: Breaking Bad on The Digital Fix

Breaking Bad review on The Digital Fix! Will it be an alternative to all the other gushing reviews of this show online? (No.)

Back to work, then. But the ongoing TV review schedule does at least continue. Well, until next week, when most of the US shows I cover are taking a week off for Labor Day. Dammit.