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Started on Taggart and it's pretty good so far! Though I have to say, it has easily the worst credits sequence of any show I've seen thus far. Showing its age, I guess.
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thepopstalinist posted:Started on Taggart and it's pretty good so far! Though I have to say, it has easily the worst credits sequence of any show I've seen thus far. Showing its age, I guess. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjV88-LLn_k Classic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-SLLOqp1zo
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^ Ohh poo poo, Scotch and Wry. Some of the finest comedy ever. Yeah the Taggart theme is loving classic. Did anyone watch that Fred West thing? I thought it was pretty good. It was kinda creepy how much Dominic West resembled him at times.
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thepopstalinist posted:Started on Taggart and it's pretty good so far! There's been a... Murrrr-duh!
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If only Robbie Coltrane wasn't such a creepy, pervy gently caress.
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thepopstalinist posted:Every year or two I catch the British TV Drama bug, and my favorite strain has always been UK "cop on the edge" shows, thrillers and (to a lesser degree) profiler procedurals. For whatever reason we across the pond rarely do them as well. Have you seen the original Edge of Darkness?
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Anyone seen the channel 4 series Ultraviolet with Jack Davenport and Idris Elba before? Getting some good conspiracy vibes off it at the moment. It's like Torchwood if it followed its original MO of being a "British X-Files" rather than gay alien sex-romp.
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Porphyrogenitos posted:Anyone seen the channel 4 series Ultraviolet with Jack Davenport and Idris Elba before? Getting some good conspiracy vibes off it at the moment. It's like Torchwood if it followed its original MO of being a "British X-Files" rather than gay alien sex-romp. I liked it, haven't seen it in years though. Thinking about it now, it definitely would have been a better model for Torchwood than the poo poo we got.
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Is that the one where they hunt vampires with wooden tipped bullets?
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And gas grenades based on garlic, and the guns have camera/mirror setups so they can ID vampires from a distance, etc.
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goatface posted:Is that the one where they hunt vampires with wooden tipped bullets? Now now, they're not vampires, they're Code Fives.  Also, their handling of the school episode was pretty good, if I remember rightly.
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Porphyrogenitos posted:Anyone seen the channel 4 series Ultraviolet with Jack Davenport and Idris Elba before? Getting some good conspiracy vibes off it at the moment. It's like Torchwood if it followed its original MO of being a "British X-Files" rather than gay alien sex-romp. IIRC it's really rather good, although bits of it seem a bit gimmicky.
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Cerv posted:Haven't seen that since it was first on in 98. Had completely forgotten Idris Elba was in it. Going to have to look it out again now. Whole lot's up on 4oD.
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thepopstalinist posted:Started on Taggart and it's pretty good so far! Though I have to say, it has easily the worst credits sequence of any show I've seen thus far. Showing its age, I guess. Might not be exactly what you're looking for, but Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy was pretty good and proceduralesque. Plus the film version is coming out sometime soon so there's always that. There's also Red Riding and perhaps The Sweeney. As for films you might like The Long Good Friday, Scum, Gangster Number One and Get Carter, although these are more about criminals than cops. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D99O6oTJVHo justcola fucked around with this message at 12:22 on Sep 11, 2011 |
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thepopstalinist posted:Wait really? That's a shame. Yeah. He was at a reading of a play in Glasgow that my sister and her friend were helping to run where he was doing some performance. He had trouble speaking to their faces and he is now known to all as "Shagrid." edit - Sue Perkins is a bit of a bitch too.
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Sion posted:edit - Sue Perkins is a bit of a bitch too. nooooo you can't do this to me stop it
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Wormophile posted:nooooo you can't do this to me stop it Might have been a bad day or something but she is pretty dang rude.
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Bobby Coltrane was Cracker anyway, not Taggart!
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Leyburn posted:Bobby Coltrane was Cracker anyway, not Taggart! An incorrect aspect ratio isn't kind to the big man, I must say.
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thepopstalinist posted:Every year or two I catch the British TV Drama bug, and my favorite strain has always been UK "cop on the edge" shows, thrillers and (to a lesser degree) profiler procedurals. For whatever reason we across the pond rarely do them as well. You could look for Mark Billingham's Thorne on Sky One starring David Morrissey.
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HoldYourFire posted:You could look for Mark Billingham's Thorne on Sky One starring David Morrissey. And if you like that then you might want to watch Maid Marian and her Merry Men, not only because it's a bit of a weird start for a crime writer, but also because everybody should watch it anyway.
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HoldYourFire posted:You could look for Mark Billingham's Thorne on Sky One starring David Morrissey. Or you could just reads the books since Thorne was pretty poo poo. Let's make it super gritty and have everyone be miserable all the time, that's fun to watch!
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Apparently the latest series of Curb Your Enthusiasm is on next week and I thought people would want to know. More4 on the 18th I think around 11? And there's a new series of An Idiot Abroad soon, isn't there? Looking forward to that too.
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McDragon posted:Apparently the latest series of Curb Your Enthusiasm is on next week and I thought people would want to know. More4 on the 18th I think around 11? Thanks for that, I would have assumed it would have gone straight to Sky Atlantic.
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Just gonna drop a quick post here to recruit for a site I've written up that we've mainly talked about in the TV Couch Chat thread. Main info is here , but to summarise well basically be running reviews of TV shows from the past couple of days, with a new edition each day. The feeds I use are pretty good for UK shows, so most things that are airing will be available for review. If anyone here is interested in signing up, click the link which gives a breakdown and some images as well as provides the sign up link. Cheers!
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The pHo posted:Just gonna drop a quick post here to recruit for a site I've written up that we've mainly talked about in the TV Couch Chat thread. Hey now, I've already got all your sub-quality UK digital channels covered  edit: vvv Agreed, just wanna make it clear this was just a joke. All you people should sign up right now! Rarity fucked around with this message at 15:10 on Sep 12, 2011 |
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But there's so much crap to share! I'm looking forward to writing up that Lee Nelson thing. No really.
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The pHo posted:I'm looking forward to writing up that Lee Nelson thing. No really. I like to imagine that fella going into a room after filming that show, locking the door and crying his eyes out and punching himself in the face mercilessly in guilt and shame. And if he doesn't there must be something wrong with his head.
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Has anyone who wasn't shown first or last in the episode ever got a deal on Dragon's Den? I'm quite enjoying this series of Shooting Stars. Every series since it's return seemed to start off strong and quickly turn poo poo, but this one is the first consistent series since the classic run in my opinion.
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I like shooting stars, but the way that Angelos hyperextends his fingers when gesticulating is really starting to affect my mental health and wellbeing.
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So BBC are showing some teasers for The Fades. It's on BBC3 but based on this, it looks like it might not be poo poo. http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2011/03_march/29/fades.shtml quote:Jack Thorne says: "The Fades was born from a trip into executive producer, Sue Hogg's office – she asked me what drama of the last ten years I wished I'd written – I said the American cable show Freaks & Geeks – I was wearing a Ghostbusters t-shirt, she said 'what about Freaks & Geeks meets Ghostbusters'. And I smiled and nodded enthusiastically.
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The pHo posted:Just gonna drop a quick post here to recruit for a site I've written up that we've mainly talked about in the TV Couch Chat thread. This sounds amazing, I'm in.
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Freaks and Geeks was on NBC, not cable. I don't trust this guy  Reality: awesome  I can see three people on the sign up queue, as soon as I can get to a real computer, I'll process the logins and get you on the mailouts etc. Welcome aboard!
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Kerbtree posted:Whole lot's up on 4oD.
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So, is anybody planning on watching This is Jinty? From the trailers it looks a bit like Little Britain taking place on Balamory or Craggy Island, and it's main selling point seems to be that David Tennant's in it, so I'm not quite sure what to think yet. I'm not exactly hoping for much, though. Sky One's only other new original comedy program (Trollied) is just okay.sex pervert posted:I like to imagine that fella going into a room after filming that show, locking the door and crying his eyes out and punching himself in the face mercilessly in guilt and shame. And if he doesn't there must be something wrong with his head. I actually have little against Lee Nelson from the two episodes I've seen. He's not hilarious, and he'd probably have been funnier if he had been created before Ali G or Devvo, but there's something almost strangely charming about his gleeful, cheery, almost innocent attitude to being an antisocial piece of poo poo. The pHo posted:Just gonna drop a quick post here to recruit for a site I've written up that we've mainly talked about in the TV Couch Chat thread. This could be interesting. I've been considering doing some writing of late, but the world doesn't need yet another blog about videogames, so I sort of shelved that. Do writers need to go using their real identities? ChuckDHead fucked around with this message at 16:14 on Sep 13, 2011 |
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Is it weirdly true that Lee Nelson is related to that fellow ontop of a certain column or is that just a silly joke? Also, now that they chopped Ideal I don't give a gently caress what happens to BBC3. All I ever see on it now is Family Guy anyways.
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SeanBeansShako posted:Is it weirdly true that Lee Nelson is related to that fellow ontop of a certain column or is that just a silly joke? Since Lee Nelson is a character portrayed by Simon Brodkin, I'm thinking probably not true. He performed at my uni a few years back, and I didn't bother going because from the poster, I assumed he was some poo poo DJ...
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