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Bad news for Mongrel fans:quote:Mongrels friends, it is my unbearably sad duty to announce that we will not be returning for a third series on BBC THREE, a decision that has been made based on the fact that apparently you need more than two people watching a programme to make it successful. Crazy talk. I’d like to take this opportunity to thank everyone at BBC Comedy, BBC THREE and BBC Worldwide who have supported us so strongly... over the years, and helped us put our silly puppet show on the digital screens of the nation.
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Welp, I can pry the 7 off my remote now, looks like I won't be needing it any more.
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Jan 18, 2012 18:48
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Such a shame the BBC would rather squeaze out turds like Royal Bodyguard rather than comission us more Mongrels.
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Jan 18, 2012 20:15
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SeanBeansShako posted:Such a shame the BBC would rather squeaze out turds like Royal Bodyguard rather than comission us more Mongrels. Unfortunately there are too many retards that watch turds like Royal Bodyguard.
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Jan 18, 2012 20:17
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Flatscan posted:Unfortunately there are too many retards that watch turds like Royal Bodyguard. The ratings system can gently caress right off. It isn't like the BBC should give a drat anyways as they aren't shilling products to a certain group of people.
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Jan 18, 2012 20:18
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SeanBeansShako posted:The ratings system can gently caress right off. It isn't like the BBC should give a drat anyways as they aren't shilling products to a certain group of people. "they're making programmes nobody watches why is my license fee justified?" is the answer.
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Jan 18, 2012 20:35
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad posted:"they're making programmes nobody watches why is my license fee justified?" is the answer. The cynicalness about British Telly must be strong enough energy wise to create a star at this point. At least we got some good stuff in the seventies and eighties before it all went to pot  .
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Jan 18, 2012 20:37
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I love Professional Masterchef, but man the non-pro version makes a nice change from French, French and more French. There's actual international cuisine in this one!
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Jan 18, 2012 21:19
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Someone please tell this goon why Ben Elton is hated, I would but I can't even summon the strength of will to consider his comedic career for any longer than five minutes. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3461387
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Jan 18, 2012 21:58
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keep punching joe posted:Someone please tell this goon why Ben Elton is hated, I would but I can't even summon the strength of will to consider his comedic career for any longer than five minutes. Wikipedia's still blacked out then?
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Jan 18, 2012 22:33
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Wait, what happened to Ben Elton to make him so disliked?
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Jan 18, 2012 22:58
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SeanBeansShako posted:Wait, what happened to Ben Elton to make him so disliked? quote:Ben Elton. Do you know this guy? He started out as an "alternative" comedian, railing against Thatcherism and the like, and now earns a fortune writing the librettos for truly awful West End musicals. I mean, his name has become a byword for shameless hackery. He's the biggest sell-out of his generation. Cerv fucked around with this message at 23:17 on Jan 18, 2012 |
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Jan 18, 2012 23:07
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Cerv posted:It's not what happened to him, it's who he is / what he did. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSuMSu20avs Ben Elton was never a 'right-on' comedian, he was a 'do whatever will get me the most money' comedian. He's kinda the opposite of Robert Newman who started out as a lad comic and now does stand-up shows about things like Peak Oil and US Imperialism. Z-Magic fucked around with this message at 23:23 on Jan 18, 2012 |
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Jan 18, 2012 23:19
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They just did face to face noms and Michael Madsen came out with this "I can't stand another minute in this house with Denise. I feel she is emotionally disturbed"
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Jan 18, 2012 23:48
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Z-Magic posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSuMSu20avs Jesus christ. I didn't know. This is awful. gently caress you Ben Elton.
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Jan 19, 2012 01:20
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Hey, so why does the BBC care about ratings?
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Jan 19, 2012 11:59
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It is a waste of money for any media company to produce media that nobody is paying attention to.
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Jan 19, 2012 13:02
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Trin Tragula posted:It is a waste of money for any media company to produce media that nobody is paying attention to. What's in the public interest isn't necessarily what the public is interested in.
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Jan 19, 2012 13:05
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Z-Magic posted:What's in the public interest isn't necessarily what the public is interested in. I don't think Mongrels counts.
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Jan 19, 2012 14:39
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Sion posted:Hey, so why does the BBC care about ratings? If they produce a load of stuff that nobody watches then it becomes really easy for people opposed to paying the TV license (ie. tories / douchebags) to go "why are we paying for this when nobody cares about it?" and then the invisible hand of the free market steps in and Rupert takes over.
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Jan 19, 2012 14:55
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad posted:If they produce a load of stuff that nobody watches then it becomes really easy for people opposed to paying the TV license (ie. tories / douchebags) to go "why are we paying for this when nobody cares about it?" and then the invisible hand of the free market steps in and Rupert takes over. I thought the point of the TV license was to basically let the BBC make and produce TV and radio that no one else would touch with a barge pole. Shouldn't the BBC be about really niche stuff that wouldn't get a voice anywhere else due to the UNIQUE WAY WE'RE FUNDED?
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Jan 19, 2012 17:07
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Z-Magic posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSuMSu20avs It's a shame that they took the Stewart Lee stand up section on Ben Elton off Youtube.
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Jan 19, 2012 17:44
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Sion posted:I thought the point of the TV license was to basically let the BBC make and produce TV and radio that no one else would touch with a barge pole. Shouldn't the BBC be about really niche stuff that wouldn't get a voice anywhere else due to the UNIQUE WAY WE'RE FUNDED? It should be, but see the above point about tories/douchebags.
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Jan 19, 2012 18:11
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Remember the BBC produces loads of stuff that other channels couldn't justify spending their money on. BBC4 is a commercial wasteland, but they still have the remit to do it. They have to pick their battles. If a weird little puppet sitcom isn't going to make it, then it isn't going to make it. Rather that than leave themselves defenceless against the naysayers like everyone's saying.
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Jan 19, 2012 19:19
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Mad Dogs is starting now.
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Jan 19, 2012 22:00
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I watched 15 mins of Gypsy Blood and had to turn it off because I knew it would piss me off too much. Apparently it got even worse after that so I'm glad I did.
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Jan 20, 2012 01:07
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SeanBeansShako posted:Mad Dogs is starting now. poo poo. thank the lord for sky go
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Jan 20, 2012 01:10
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I've just been re-watching Monkey Dust properly for the first time in a while. It's such a wonderful pot of bleak darkness, it's such a shame the BBC seem to want to completely ignore its existence. Wouldn't it be nice if the BBC Three stopped it's obsession with repetitive Family Guy every evening and showed Monkey Dust over and over and over again instead? I don't think I'd ever get bored. Free Ivan Dobsky.
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Jan 20, 2012 01:16
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Ben Soosneb posted:I've just been re-watching Monkey Dust properly for the first time in a while. It's such a wonderful pot of bleak darkness, it's such a shame the BBC seem to want to completely ignore its existence. I seem to recall they had problems licensing the music for Monkey Dust and that's why the second and third seasons were never been released on DVD.
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Jan 20, 2012 01:19
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lazyjane posted:I watched 15 mins of Gypsy Blood and had to turn it off because I knew it would piss me off too much. Apparently it got even worse after that so I'm glad I did. Whoever shot all the wanky arty filtered filler shots with twee piano and electronic music inter-cut with footage of some chubby gypsy kid getting sick after a fair ride, horses having sex and monologues about how if someone disrespects you you have to fight them, fight them and fight them some-more for your honour, needs a slap. My big fat gypsy wedding set the appropriate tone to be honest.
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Jan 20, 2012 01:30
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Sion posted:I thought the point of the TV license was to basically let the BBC make and produce TV and radio that no one else would touch with a barge pole. Shouldn't the BBC be about really niche stuff that wouldn't get a voice anywhere else due to the UNIQUE WAY WE'RE FUNDED? Inform, educate, entertain. If nobody's watching something or listening to something, it should be given a fair chance to find an audience, and then it should go away and something else should come along. If contextual ratings are low, this is a reasonable indication that people are not being informed, educated or entertained, no? The licence fee is not an excuse to keep shovelling crap onto the schedules because the Controller of BBC Three's first cousin's mother-in-law likes it and thinks "it's the sort of thing you chaps should be doing". *n.b. this assumes that the way in which ratings are calculated are reflective of the viewing habits of anyone other than the people who are on the research panels, which is a whole other skip full of worms.
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Jan 20, 2012 01:40
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Z-Magic posted:I seem to recall they had problems licensing the music for Monkey Dust and that's why the second and third seasons were never been released on DVD. It's been a while since I've seen it, but couldn't it just be changed? That's fairly standard proceedure as far as I know. Certainly is here in Ireland and I recently picked up Time Trumpet on DVD and the Bowie bit's been changed on there. That or my memory has completly given up on me.
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Jan 20, 2012 01:59
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Mickolution posted:It's been a while since I've seen it, but couldn't it just be changed? That's fairly standard proceedure as far as I know. Certainly is here in Ireland and I recently picked up Time Trumpet on DVD and the Bowie bit's been changed on there. That or my memory has completly given up on me. Skins misses the Wild World singalong from the series 1 finale. Quantum Leap is missing huge chunks of the music that's there to set the loving scene. And many more. When piracy is far better than the legal purchase. That's bad.
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Jan 20, 2012 12:36
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Mickolution posted:It's been a while since I've seen it, but couldn't it just be changed? That's fairly standard proceedure as far as I know. Certainly is here in Ireland and I recently picked up Time Trumpet on DVD and the Bowie bit's been changed on there. That or my memory has completly given up on me. They could and did change the music, I can't remember the specifics but I have definitely seen the same bit with different music. Possibly the series 1 DVD, I think it was one of those bits with the old couple dreaming of "the dykes again", which originally included some POD track.
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Jan 20, 2012 13:40
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Cerv posted:Changing it for DVD is disgusting vandalism. It should be banned, and the music rights holders told they have to just accept it. Lol, are you serious?
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Jan 20, 2012 13:45
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Mickolution posted:Lol, are you serious? They've already allowed the music to be used on the programme. Why should they be allowed to gently caress it up because of something as arbitrary as the delivery medium? I didn't say they shouldn't get paid.
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Jan 20, 2012 14:56
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Cerv posted:Yes.
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Jan 20, 2012 15:01
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Mickolution posted:Lol, are you serious? It's true, though. Quantum Leap is a travesty without a proper soundtrack. I always wondered how Daria would/did turn out given the sheer amount of.alternative pop music in it.
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Jan 20, 2012 15:09
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Cerv posted:Yes. But who decides how much they get paid? Is it decided when the initial show is made? At that point, neither parties knows how successful a show will be or how many DVD sales there'll be. Also, in the case of blanket agreements like the BBC have, they don't need to ask permission to use a piece of music, as far as I know, but do need permission to release it commercially, which is usually the stumbling block.
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Flatscan posted:Unfortunately there are too many retards that watch turds like Royal Bodyguard. I'm pretty sure that the audience for The Royal Bodyguard consists entirely of people who tuned in too early for Mrs Brown's Boys.
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