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Just finished watching Children of the Stones. It was really good. It's a seven episode children's sci-fi show that was released in 1977. COTS is about an astrophysicist and his son moving to a village so that the father can conduct some research although through a series of mysterious enigmas some wiggy poo poo happens. It makes me want more stuff like this though there isn't much chance that Big Cook Little Cook will discuss leylines and black holes any time soon I imagine. At parts it reminded me of Threads and Survivors, though I think that was generally because of the whole filming in a britain that doesn't exist any more. I'd like to watch Ace of Wands and The Mad Death next I think. Anybody else have any suggestions something like it? justcola fucked around with this message at 00:12 on Aug 1, 2011 |
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Did anyone watch Dragons Den last night? The new Dragon looks pretty much like a real life Cruella De Vil.
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Aug 1, 2011 12:34
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Did anyone watch Penn and Teller on Saturday? I thought the trick where the guy managed to put Penn's card into a seemingly sealed pack of card was really great, especially as he did it right in front of Penn and still fooled both of them. It did make me wonder how smart the audience was when only a few of them seemed to realise the black guy in sun glasses wasn't obviously someone wearing a rubber mask. That whole trick was awful, especially when it was really obvious the numbers in the bowl didn't relate to any in the audience. Probably the worse trick I've seen on there.
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Aug 1, 2011 12:42
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Brown Moses posted:Did anyone watch Penn and Teller on Saturday? I thought the trick where the guy managed to put Penn's card into a seemingly sealed pack of card was really great, especially as he did it right in front of Penn and still fooled both of them. I felt like an idiot afterward - I knew there was something weird about him, but I apparently failed to notice he was an entirely fake person. It was well-presented, I guess, but really the worst kind of magic. No impressive effect, and at the end of the trick he actually reveals how it's done just to be a bit more impressive. It felt like he just HAD to show off, even at the expense of the trick itself. It was pretty easy to guess how the numbers and envelopes worked anyway, but to then outright admit you're using stooges? The cheapest, least artistic magic effect there is? The sealed card trick guy was amazing, though. Not so much the other card guy - he was OK and I guess he sorta fooled P&T, but I saw a bunch of his moves. Fool Us has been great entertainment, though. Hope another series gets commissioned.
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Aug 1, 2011 13:20
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That's the last episode until Christmas, when they'll have two specials, one of which will look at how the winners got on in Vegas.
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Aug 1, 2011 13:24
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henpod posted:Did anyone watch Dragons Den last night? The new Dragon looks pretty much like a real life Cruella De Vil. Those are shoulderpads right? Because she just looks wrong on the ads. Like, misassembled. She also seemed to have the posture of a zombie.
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Aug 1, 2011 13:26
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During the show she did sort of look like she might actually be a puppet being controlled by half a dozen of Jim Henson's best men. But she also had some of the best lines in the episode. She's way more entertaining than James Caan ever was.
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Aug 1, 2011 13:42
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To be fair, she did have a stroke a few years back, or so I hear. True about the best lines though, she got a lot more technical about websites than I've ever seen on Dragon's Den before. Never thought the Dragons would ask what language a site was written in.
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 Tell me what you need Marketing andMove on what nextStrategy withmove on, nextLet the man speak! But yes, she is way better than Caan. Theo is still the king in there though. Duncan just seems to be getting surlier and more pissed off. henpod fucked around with this message at 15:54 on Aug 1, 2011 |
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Aug 1, 2011 14:51
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Yeah, Bannatyne was snippy as hell. I couldn't believe he cut that guy off for trying to negotiate the best offer he could.Brown Moses posted:That's the last episode until Christmas, when they'll have two specials, one of which will look at how the winners got on in Vegas. Penn's Twitter said the same, then he corrected himself to say there's an episode next week. Now I don't know what to believe. Edit: ah, he recorrected - there's an episode on Aug 27, then a Christmas special. Leovinus fucked around with this message at 15:27 on Aug 1, 2011 |
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Aug 1, 2011 15:23
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Ronnie Corbett's Comedy Britain is on next week instead.
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Aug 1, 2011 15:27
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Leovinus posted:Yeah, Bannatyne was snippy as hell. I couldn't believe he cut that guy off for trying to negotiate the best offer he could. At least it's better than the US one. They're showing it on Dave and the cunts on that show rarely accept anything less than a controlling percentage of the individual's business. It's loving sickening.
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Yeah, I'd hate to go into business with someone that just literally wouldn't let me finish a sentence. She makes Deborah look like a pussycat. Peter Jones is totally still the dreamiest though... And girl needs to lose those shoulderpads, ouch.
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Kin posted:At least it's better than the US one. They're showing it on Dave and the cunts on that show rarely accept anything less than a controlling percentage of the individual's business. It's loving sickening. i.e you give them some equity in exchange for a loan of however much money. You still have to pay the loan back, but they keep the equity.
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Is it me or did they bollox up the Latin on The Hour? I'm pretty sure terrere means 'to seize' not 'seize!', and that it should be at the end of the sentence...
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Aug 1, 2011 18:39
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BeeZee142 posted:And girl needs to lose those shoulderpads, ouch. Seriously, she's like Dynasty meets Dragonball Z.
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Aug 1, 2011 18:59
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I hope somebody else enjoyed My Life as a Turkey on BBC2 as much as me earlier. It's was Natural World special about a biologist who lived with some wild turkeys and took on the role of mother hen to them after they hatched until they eventually flew the coop. It sounds a bit weird, and a bit poo poo, but it wasn't and it was just adorable and hilarious watching this guy walk about the northern Florida wilderness with a flock of feathered raptors in tow.
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N3RDSTER posted:I hope somebody else enjoyed My Life as a Turkey on BBC2 earlier. It's was Natural World special about a biologist who lived with some wild turkeys and took on the role of mother hen to them after they hatched until they eventually flew the coop. It sounds a bit weird, and a bit poo poo, but it wasn't and it was just adorable and hilarious watching this guy walk about the northern Florida wilderness with a flock of feathered raptors in tow. I caught it and found it quite moving. It was beautifully shot and scored, and the fact that the guy himself was the narrator and sole human in the thing made it feel like it was some strange, half-real, half-mythic folktale. The guy certainly didn't seem like he was entirely part of the modern day world, that was for sure.
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Mr. Squishy posted:About Lee/Herring, I just want more of this. Thank you for this. I laughed my man boobs off. Agree Lee and Herring shows are both vastly different styles but i love them both equally. Always a good gig with these two. Looking forward to checking out the what is love show when it's running our way.
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The introduction for Dragon's Den is ridiculous.
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Speaking about dragons den bannatyne tweeted and then removed an offer of £25,000 for the “capture” of an individual or “Double if his arms are broken first” who was trying to extort him for £30k over twitter, earlier today. http://nevali.net/post/8384193183/the-duncan-bannatyne-tweet
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I quite like the idea of annoying millionaires that much via lovely websites. So much that it becomes an actual news story. I mean really. What the gently caress people.
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Aug 2, 2011 23:47
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Brown Moses posted:It did make me wonder how smart the audience was when only a few of them seemed to realise the black guy in sun glasses wasn't obviously someone wearing a rubber mask. I didn't know it was until he spoke near the board. His mouth didn't work properly and then it twigged. I was sort of assuming that he'd turn the camera around and he'd be at the destination, but yea it was a very dull trick. That "cuban" guy was also titanically boring. It went on for loving ages!
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justcola posted:The introduction for Dragon's Den is ridiculous. Also, there's something about Evan Davies' pointless interjections to tell us about something we've already seen or ask us about something which has yet to happen (i.e. "The mood in the Den has soured considerably with the revelation that Boris McFuckwit has no idea how much money his company has lost or even what he makes or sells or where he is or how he got there. Will Scary Grandma counter Easily Offended Scotsman's offer of FIVE POUNDS for an 80% stake of Willy's Willy Warmers Inc...?") which just pisses me off so much. I know what just happened, I saw it, it was on the telly just this very second! And I expect we'd find out what's going to happen if you'd just shut the gently caress up already!
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Gram-O-Phone posted:Also, there's something about Evan Davies' pointless interjections to tell us about something we've already seen or ask us about something which has yet to happen (i.e. "The mood in the Den has soured considerably with the revelation that Boris McFuckwit has no idea how much money his company has lost or even what he makes or sells or where he is or how he got there. Will Scary Grandma counter Easily Offended Scotsman's offer of FIVE POUNDS for an 80% stake of Willy's Willy Warmers Inc...?") which just pisses me off so much. I know what just happened, I saw it, it was on the telly just this very second! And I expect we'd find out what's going to happen if you'd just shut the gently caress up already! That's from the american "reality show" template. It's either because the average audience over there has the attention span of a tomato, to pad out the episode length, or both.
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Does anyone know what this is?Pipski posted:Any of you guys remember a 2-part pseudo-documentary from a few years back (I think about 2001) that was on terrestrial TV and portrayed a near-future, British, libertarian dystopia? It was about some software entrepreneur who wrote a replacement for Windows that functioned as a virus and somehow brought down governments, and then in part 2 absolutely everything was privatised, including the police. I'm going mad trying to find a copy, but I can't remember what series it was. Posted in the UK D&D thread. Only suggestions so far are Cold Lazarus and If... both of which have been ruled out. I have half a memory of this and it's doing my head in. Also, does anyone remember that BBC disaster show a while ago, where they had normal people try and make decisions about what to do if London was flooding or there was a hijacked plane heading towards Westminster?
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delicious beef posted:Also, does anyone remember that BBC disaster show a while ago, where they had normal people try and make decisions about what to do if London was flooding or there was a hijacked plane heading towards Westminster? I remember Remote Controller in Private Eye having a rant about the trend for overly long mash two titles together style names when in the past they'd have just picked one and gone with that.
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Brown Moses posted:Did anyone watch Penn and Teller on Saturday? I thought the trick where the guy managed to put Penn's card into a seemingly sealed pack of card was really great, especially as he did it right in front of Penn and still fooled both of them. I thought the worst trick they had on there was the man with 4 CD players and predicting the song that would play. I'm not even sure that can even be called magic, it was so obvious.
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Noo, channel 4 had stopped showing frasier at 8 am on weekdays  . I always watch that while I am getting ready to go to work. Now its been replaced by T4 twats and Friends . Not happy.
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henpod posted:Noo, channel 4 had stopped showing frasier at 8 am on weekdays Me too.Lets burn them down
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henpod posted:Noo, channel 4 had stopped showing frasier at 8 am on weekdays I think it's for the summer, hopefully it'll be back eventually. Though it does feel like they have done this to spite me as I'm off for 2 weeks, and I have to leave the house about 10 past 8 to get to work so I never catch a full episode.
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Aug 3, 2011 11:12
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I thought they lost the Friends rights a couple of years ago - how come they're still showing it?
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Aug 3, 2011 11:13
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The rights expire later this year, so it's your last chance to watch every single episode from start to finish.
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Aug 3, 2011 11:23
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I used to like Friends when I was younger and before Channel 4 just couldn't be bothered anymore and just started filling up the gaps in their channels with it. After what must be a decade of that, I cannot stand Friends anymore.
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Gorn Myson posted:I used to like Friends when I was younger and before Channel 4 just couldn't be bothered anymore and just started filling up the gaps in their channels with it. After what must be a decade of that, I cannot stand Friends anymore. This pretty much sums up my opinion of the show.
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Aug 3, 2011 11:45
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Friends was loving terrible. Seinfeld on the other hand, if they showed that back to back I would definitely watch that.
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Metrication posted:Friends was loving terrible. Seinfeld on the other hand, if they showed that back to back I would definitely watch that. They used to show it on BBC2, it was on at something like 11:15 at night with The Larry Sanders Show. Meanwhile we still seem to get a minimum of 4 episodes of Friends on every day on e4.
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This thread might not be the exact demographic for the show, but something quite funny came out of ITV's The Sooty Show today. I'm surprised to hear the little yellow puppet's still going, never mind injuring fallen-from-glory magicians.
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Incidentally on his twitter feed he's saying the Sooty thing happened ages ago, that he just popped in to hospital to have it checked, and that the whole thing has been hugely blown out of proportion by the Sun. Which doesn't sound like the sort of thing they'd do at all. Oh no.
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Gram-O-Phone posted:Also, there's something about Evan Davies' pointless interjections to tell us about something we've already seen or ask us about something which has yet to happen (i.e. "The mood in the Den has soured considerably with the revelation that Boris McFuckwit has no idea how much money his company has lost or even what he makes or sells or where he is or how he got there. Will Scary Grandma counter Easily Offended Scotsman's offer of FIVE POUNDS for an 80% stake of Willy's Willy Warmers Inc...?") which just pisses me off so much. I know what just happened, I saw it, it was on the telly just this very second! And I expect we'd find out what's going to happen if you'd just shut the gently caress up already! He's STILL using that loving 'about to show his hand' phrase too. He said it at least twice in this week's episode. metrication posted:Friends was loving terrible. S******* on the other hand, if they showed that back to back I would definitely watch that. Christ, don't use that word in here!
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