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Kid Moe posted:Simon Amstell guest presenting Buzzcocks tonight with that oval office Noel Fielding replaced by Russel Brand. Oh great, we get a oval office replaced with a bigger oval office. Hopefully Simon Amstell will make it ok.
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TVIV's ridiculous too cool for school hatred of Fielding/The Boosh is hilarious.
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Jan 19, 2011 18:32
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Why the gently caress is Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade randomly on BBC1 tonight 8.00-10.00. Im not complaining but when was the last time they turned over the whole prime time slot to a movie?
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Jan 19, 2011 18:36
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The first series of Boosh had some funny ideas and Julian Barrett is lovely, but it suffered diminishing returns like Little Britain or the third League of Gentleman series, going back to the well too many times on its more unique ideas. It also suffers from a core fanbase too caught up in the superficial aspects and missing the point somewhat. The director did a feature film called Bunny and the Bull which was really good and showed what he could do with his own script but nobody saw it except me, my housemate and the two other people in Cineworld at 11 on that Friday evening. Psybro fucked around with this message at 18:39 on Jan 19, 2011 |
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Jan 19, 2011 18:37
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Graviton v2 posted:Why the gently caress is Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade randomly on BBC1 tonight 8.00-10.00. I think they did the first two in that slot in the previous few weeks Fatkraken fucked around with this message at 18:59 on Jan 19, 2011 |
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Jan 19, 2011 18:49
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Third League of Gentlemen series was the best. You are terrible.
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Jan 19, 2011 18:50
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Rapey Joe Stalin posted:TVIV's ridiculous too cool for school hatred of Fielding/The Boosh is hilarious. I'm sorry I just don't find anything about the mighty boosh funny. It kind of feels like the other way around, if you don't 'get' the mighty boosh you're not cool enough. It seems to try to be way too oddball, but completely misses the mark.
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Jan 19, 2011 18:50
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Rapey Joe Stalin posted:Third League of Gentlemen series was the best. You are terrible. I'd be interested to know why, and I swear to God if you bring up the absence of a laugh track I will kill you with my bare hands. I did like the Geoff Tipps one.
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Jan 19, 2011 18:51
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Psybro posted:I'd be interested to know why, and I swear to God if you bring up the absence of a laugh track I will kill you with my bare hands. Because they were trying new things, and being darker ? NaDy posted:I'm sorry I just don't find anything about the mighty boosh funny. It kind of feels like the other way around, if you don't 'get' the mighty boosh you're not cool enough. It seems to try to be way too oddball, but completely misses the mark. Well yeah, it can be hard to 'get' if you have a dreadfully underdevolped sense of humour. But there's always Last of The Summer Wine.
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Jan 19, 2011 18:56
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I rather like Mighty Boosh, only seen the first two seasons properly but I really enjoyed it, especially the second. There were lots of great ideas and it kept changing it up. What I've seen of the third seems to be getting a little stale, in 1 and 2 it was new characters/settings constantly, in 3 they brought back "fan favourites", which is a surefire sign a show is running out of ideas (see "emohawk" in red dwarf bringing back Ace and Duane Dibley for NO readily explicable reason). Fielding himself is fine in (very) small doses, but he gets extremely tiresome with his "I'll act random and really dumb and it will make funny" thing. It works OK with his Boosh character because he has a straight man to work off, but taken on its own it gets old pretty fast. It feels like he's trying to get away with not actually being CLEVER with his humour and trying to ride on his popularity and charisma to carry some pretty weak material. It's not offensively bad or anything, just boring after a while As for league of Gentlemen, while the third series definitely felt it was lacking some spark that made the earlier ones so magical, MASSIVE props to them for at least changing things up, playing with the formula and not just rehashing the same old thing again and again. It was almost entirely new/underexplored characters and they had some fun tying seemingly unrelated episodes together. I'd rather a show took risks than get Little Britain and Catherine Tate just doing the same jokes every week with basically no difference and passing it off as new material.
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Jan 19, 2011 18:59
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Dont find it lol funny myself though I do really like Noel Fielding. I started automaticlly hating him but he is just a nice funny dude. I really want to hate him but I cant.
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Jan 19, 2011 19:01
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Rapey Joe Stalin posted:Well yeah, it can be hard to 'get' if you have a dreadfully underdevolped sense of humour. But there's always Last of The Summer Wine. Sorry I must have wrote that wrong, I get it, I just think it's a bit poo poo.
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Jan 19, 2011 19:03
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Kid Moe posted:Simon Amstell guest presenting Buzzcocks tonight with that oval office Noel Fielding replaced by Russel Brand. Actually it was filmed ages ago but didn't air due to Sachsgate.
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Jan 19, 2011 19:04
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yeah I don't really care for Boosh very much but I do quite like Noel Fielding.
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Jan 19, 2011 19:04
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Graviton v2 posted:Why the gently caress is Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade randomly on BBC1 tonight 8.00-10.00. ITV 1 - 19:30 - Arsenal v Leeds
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Jan 19, 2011 19:17
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NaDy posted:Sorry I must have wrote that wrong, I get it, I just think it's a bit poo poo. There are no other options. It is physically impossible for people with a good sense of humour to dislike Fielding or the Boosh.
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Jan 19, 2011 19:18
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slotbadger posted:Actually it was filmed ages ago but didn't air due to Sachsgate. Shame. I miss Amstell as presenter. Some of the guest presenters are loving terrible, James Corden and Catherine Tate are probably the worst I can think of.
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Jan 19, 2011 19:19
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Rapey Joe Stalin posted:Because they were trying new things, and being darker ? That's not necessarily a mark of quality, though, is it? Papa Lazarou pissing black urine into somebody's face is darker, but that doesn't automatically make it better. I thought Apocalypse was incredibly ambitious structurally, but it still wasn't funny or particularly exciting. I would categorise both the third series and Apocalypse as noble failures. quote:Well yeah, it can be hard to 'get' if you have a dreadfully underdevolped sense of humour. But there's always Last of The Summer Wine. This is patronising rubbish. There are many, many people who 'get' much more difficult material in Monty Python's Flying Circus or Blue Jam, but still don't like the Boosh. It's like telling somebody who thinks Titus Andronicus was a bit sloppy compared to Shakespeare's other work to gently caress off back to Emmerdale.
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Jan 19, 2011 19:20
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Padje posted:Which one was Thunderbird 5? Are they going to leave this channel to rot in space? It was the one "piloted" by John, the Tracey that even Gerry Anderson didn't like. Which actually makes it fit Channel 5 all the more.
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Jan 19, 2011 19:55
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Watching the Boosh for me has always been like watching a bunch of old school-mates in the pub. They've been mates for so long that they've got all their jokes and riffs and references that have them absolutely falling about laughing, and everyone else in the pub is looking round, trying to work out where the joke was supposed to be. They're clearly having a great deal of fun, but that doesn't mean it's automatically funny for everyone else.
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Jan 19, 2011 19:56
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Graviton v2 posted:Why the gently caress is Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade randomly on BBC1 tonight 8.00-10.00. No idea, but this made me remember how they always used to show good films at 8pm on a Wednesday when I was a kid. Including Indy.
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Jan 19, 2011 19:58
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Psybro posted:The first series of Boosh had some funny ideas and Julian Barrett is lovely, but it suffered diminishing returns like Little Britain or the third League of Gentleman series, going back to the well too many times on its more unique ideas. It also suffers from a core fanbase too caught up in the superficial aspects and missing the point somewhat. You put something I generally felt into better words than I could, except the 3rd series of LoG bit. I can still quote bits from the first series with friends, but the later series didn't click for me at all. I wish Julian Barrett was on TV more, he seems the more interesting whenever I see them normally. Maybe if they were both on TV half as much as Fielding is on in total now, the world would be a better place!
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Dr Snofeld posted:It was the one "piloted" by John, the Tracey that even Gerry Anderson didn't like. Which actually makes it fit Channel 5 all the more. Haha, that reminds me I must crack open my Thunderbirds DVD boxed set. It was my favourite TV show growing up. The Guardian was reporting that Dicky Desmond is bringing a TV version of OK magazine, possibly to replace Live from Studio 5. One can only hope it won't try to masquerade as news programming like its predecessor.
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Jan 19, 2011 20:06
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Dr Snofeld posted:It was the one "piloted" by John, the Tracey that even Gerry Anderson didn't like. Which actually makes it fit Channel 5 all the more. John was always my favourite, poor guy stuck up there all alone  actually scratch that Virgil was cooler.
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Jan 19, 2011 20:27
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The Buzzcocks tonight is actually the one that BBC wouldn't air after the whole Manuel thing.
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seregrail7 posted:The Buzzcocks tonight is actually the one that BBC wouldn't air after the whole Manuel thing.
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Jan 19, 2011 21:53
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Being Human (not really spoilers but might be annoying to people who haven't seen series 1 yet) I'm watching Being Human and can someone tell me, not what was said, but if we ever find out what Annie whispered to Owen in s01e05 when he comes over and she says (something along the lines of) 'I'll tell you something only the dead know' then whispers something into his ear. Then George asks what it was and Mitchell gives her that 'don't you loving tell him' glare I don't think I want to know what was said (no spoilers plz) but I just want to know if it's ever acknowledged or anything because it's doing my head in. Amazing show though. Best thing I've seen in years. Annie: I'm a ghost actually. Seth: Get out! Can you like move things about and walk from one room to another? George: Yeah, I'm pretty sure everyone can do that. Seth: Shut it, Digby! The only reason why I haven't torn your bastard face off yet is because I've just done the hoovering in here. Gutted Seth got a stake in the back He was hilarious.
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eating only apples posted:John was always my favourite, poor guy stuck up there all alone He'd switch places with Alan once in a while, so I guess it wasn't all bad.
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Jan 19, 2011 22:29
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Bloodbath posted:Being Human (not really spoilers but might be annoying to people who haven't seen series 1 yet) From what I've read that issue is addressed this season. Which starts very soon so 
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This Sunday I believe, should be good. I hope we get some answers and more Annie focused episodes. They're doing an online episodic thing called "Becoming Human" with a seperate cast that ties into the main series as well.
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Jan 19, 2011 22:38
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Excellent! This is my first viewing (just finished ep5 last night) so looks like I chose a good time to become obsessed.  Just can't get over how brilliant it is.I thought Annie looked familiar. She was in that Sugar Rush show on Channel 4, years back. Used to quite enjoy that as a young male stuck at a single sex school...
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Jan 19, 2011 22:50
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thebardyspoon posted:and more Annie focused episodes. I hope not, she's the worst actor in the show and with the exception of her being snatched at the end, her plots are loving terrible.
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Jan 19, 2011 23:03
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reality_groove posted:Haha, that reminds me I must crack open my Thunderbirds DVD boxed set. It was my favourite TV show growing up. You know what I'd love? A Thunderbirds remake in the vein of that CGI Captain Scarlet from a few years back, but without changing the technology of the setting. Like, Thunderbird 5 still has computers with data reels, space travel is still performed with rockets instead of shuttles, Fireflash is the epitome of modern passenger flight, that sort of thing.
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad posted:Live from Studio Five has been cancelled, to the surprise of absolutely nobody. Also, new branding! 
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Psybro posted:The director did a feature film called Bunny and the Bull which was really good and showed what he could do with his own script but nobody saw it except me, my housemate and the two other people in Cineworld at 11 on that Friday evening. Hey hey hey I saw Bunny and the Bull too! It was weird. Sentinel Red posted:They should just appreciate the fact it's the 21st Century and relaunch with this: YESSSSSSS also the new Channel 5 will still be poo poo because they're replacing Live from Studio Five with OK!TV (so, more poo poo from Dirty Des then). It also means that OK!TV will count as news for Channel 5's public service remit 
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Rapey Joe Stalin posted:TVIV's ridiculous too cool for school hatred of Fielding/The Boosh is hilarious. I don't hate either man .
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I was wondering what was up with the Buzzcocks episode tonight. Thanks for clearing that up TVIV. I was all confused because Brand was still doing the explicit sexual predator schtick that he's toned down now, Amstell was host and Rachel Stevens was apparently relevant.
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