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SeanBeansShako posted:Oh hey, The Thick Of It is on LoveFilm Instant. I can finally get around to watching it. You can get the complete box set for only £13. That's just over £2 a disc.
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Z-Magic posted:You can get the complete box set for only £13. That's just over £2 a disc. Argh don't preassure me dammit. I'm still saving up to get Saxondale on DVD too.
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Mar 14, 2012 15:26
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Taff posted:One of the candiates is called Ricky Martin. Brilliant and he looks like Paul from Him & Her
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Mar 14, 2012 16:47
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I just noticed that there is a second season of White Van Man up on iplayer. I remember the first series was surprisingly fun and fairly well received. Not heard anything about the new one in this thread though, is the second series still worth watching or what?
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Kuno posted:I just noticed that there is a second season of White Van Man up on iplayer. I remember the first series was surprisingly fun and fairly well received. Not heard anything about the new one in this thread though, is the second series still worth watching or what? It is pretty amusing, starts off slow for the first minutes in the opening of the 2nd episode then wham back on track.
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SeanBeansShako posted:It is pretty amusing, starts off slow for the first minutes in the opening of the 2nd episode then wham back on track. Did you just see "Britain's First Photo Album"? John Sargent fires a Brown Bess.
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Z-Magic posted:Most of their BBC 6 radio stuff is on http://adam-and-joe.livejournal.com/ so if you're experiencing withdrawal symptoms you can go back and start from the beginning (hope this doesn't count as Nice one and all, but gah, my eyes.
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Kuno posted:is the second series still worth watching or what? Yes, do it.
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Mar 14, 2012 23:17
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David Starkey on 10'O Clock Live acting like a tit again. I remember when he was that nice old guy in the documentaries you'd watch in history lessons...
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Krypt-OOO-Nite!! posted:David Starkey on 10'O Clock Live acting like a tit again. "Give Starkey enough rope... and he'll try to lynch a black person with it." My favourite Starkey thing is this article from the Daily Mail. Z-Magic fucked around with this message at 00:17 on Mar 15, 2012 |
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Z-Magic posted:"Give Starkey enough rope... and he'll try to lynch a black person with it." What the absolute gently caress, I am well immunised against the Daily Mail by now having had it as the household paper all my childhood but this is perhaps the most offensive article I've ever read from it. The anti-intellectualism contained in that link is loving staggering.
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Mar 15, 2012 00:47
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Tony Robinson clearly must make sure he doesn't claim the prize and take his head first.
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Mar 15, 2012 00:59
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So has the thread collectively stopped watching 10 O'clock live or is there a seperate thread? I know it's pretty weak but it's something to watch on wednesday at least, and I usually enjoy one or two of the segments. Brooker's bit on Kony was pretty good and I learned some stuff from it. The bit with the weird culty adverts for invisible children was new to me, and pretty funny. Edit: the interview with Starkey and the lady comedian was a bit of a trainwreck, but it prompted a discussion in the meme hovel at least.
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The Jimmy Carr sketch about the Olympics budget should have ended after the first line. It took me by surprise, I laughed, but then he spent several minutes explaining the joke. They seem to think everything needs to be a "segment" when he and Lauren obviously do much better with one-liners (eg. "horses are loving massive").
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I thought last nights episode was great. Charlies Kony2012 bit especially. It still needs less Carr, but during their roundtable bits which I think are getting better as they get more relaxed with saying whatever they think of, he provides a good counterpoint.
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I tend to watch the show on 4oD the next day and find that the ability to skip the 'Jimmy Carr in a costume' segment improves the show massively. But yes, yesterday's was weirdly good.
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I think Brooker is becoming better at what he does. His delivery can grate though, which was never the case with screen/newswipe. Mitchell carries the show at times. Overall, I thought the Kony bit was strong, the discussions are getting better and I do quite enjoy it. 89% of the Jimmy Carr character comedy is absolute gash though. The other 20% is hit and miss.
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Derv1sh posted:89% of the Jimmy Carr character comedy is absolute gash though. The other 20% is hit and miss. Erm...
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meme posted:So has the thread collectively stopped watching 10 O'clock live or is there a seperate thread? I know it's pretty weak but it's something to watch on wednesday at least, and I usually enjoy one or two of the segments. Brooker's bit on Kony was pretty good and I learned some stuff from it. The bit with the weird culty adverts for invisible children was new to me, and pretty funny. There's something weird about 10'clock live. By every conventional measurement the show is terrible but I still watch it every week and enjoy it despite myself. It has some painfully cringeworthy moments, especially where Jimmy Carr is involved, but on the whole there isn't really much else quite like it in terms of delivering an occasionally humourous perspective on some pretty serious current events. Everything about it tells me I ought to hate it but I kind of like it.
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Not taken seriously it's rather amusing and a good watch but they really drop the ball on the "live" part which normally means there is some serious news content in there somewhere. Think more American Saturday Night Live than Newsnight or the like. I treat it as a mini big fat quiz of the year and watch it for entertainment value and the inevitable live TV cockup than an insightful dialogue between a Ritalin deprived audience and three comedians.
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This just popped up in the 5th episode season 1 of The Thick Of It:quote:Minister Abbot: What do you have to do to get on TV these days? Hilariously, this was made way before Charlies bleakly controversial submissions back in December.
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Anyone try White Heat? http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01d7m14/White_Heat_The_Past_Is_a_Foreign_Country/ Looks like something i'll hate but im open to suggestions.
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I love 6 Music but this whole birthday thing has been so horribly self congratulatory.
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Seriously. Stop being terrible during the daytime and we'll talk, 6music.
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Hey now that's fightin' talk don't say bad things about Radcliffe & Maconie. Also I am currently working on an interview show that has Piers Morgan on it and this thread title is thoroughly disappointing whenever I click on it.
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What's the great man like in person?
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Mr. Squishy posted:What's the great man like in person? Surprisingly pleasant (I say surprisingly because I was expecting him to be a total poo poo, I was surprised).
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The vibe I get from his HIGNFY appearance is that he's probably a perfectly charming and nice person as long as everything is going his way, but he can't handle being challenged or things not going exactly his way.
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he's still a oval office for the things he's done that were entirely of his own accord. I imagine he is pretty affable but then so was Hitler (hello Godwin)
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Trin Tragula posted:The vibe I get from his HIGNFY appearance is that he's probably a perfectly charming and nice person as long as everything is going his way, but he can't handle being challenged or things not going exactly his way. Basically, a smug spoilt man child. So what member of the former Labour government is the inspiration for Malcolm Tucker? I was thinking Mandelson but I suspect there might be more than one influence in the angriest fictional man in British politics?
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SeanBeansShako posted:Basically, a smug spoilt man child. It's Alistair Campbell AFAIK.
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I saw this on wikipedia a while ago, and according to it: quote:The character is not based on Alastair Campbell as many have suggested, but on Hollywood agents and producers, notably Harvey Weinstein the citation is a radio 4 interview which I've not heard though
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Metrication posted:It's Alistair Campbell AFAIK. Of course! The most obvious answer too. It is brilliant stuff which I'm buying all on DVD as soon as I can afford it to share.
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad posted:Hey now that's fightin' talk don't say bad things about Radcliffe & Maconie. I quite like Radcliffe and Maconie (I interviewed Maconie once, since we're dropping names, and he was a lovely chap). I still think their show is a bit dull though. But it's more about the playlist, which just seems to be a combo of the less popular ends of the Radio 1&2 daytime playlists jammed together. Then there's Steve Lamacq with his loving britpop. I swear I've heard Echobelly played a dozen times on 6music and never once heard the Velvet Underground.
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Don't you dare cuss Britpop. :/
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Speaking of, you'd have thought that Cameron and co. would have really leant on the old Cool Britannia thing for the Olympics this year; get Good Morning Britain pumping out for the opening ceremony as the Red Arrows do a fly-past, dig up what's left of Geri Halliwell for the papers, ANYTHING to stop people being so loving English about the whole thing. Also, replace Chris Moyles with Zane Lowe immediately. That week where the latter took over was the most listenable I've ever heard daytime Radio 1 in a long, long while.
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so I could say that I finally figured out what this god damned cube is doing. Get well Lowtax.
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spincube posted:Speaking of, you'd have thought that Cameron and co. would have really leant on the old Cool Britannia thing for the Olympics this year; get Good Morning Britain pumping out for the opening ceremony as the Red Arrows do a fly-past, dig up what's left of Geri Halliwell for the papers, ANYTHING to stop people being so loving English about the whole thing. Well they are doing this: http://www.spin.com/articles/blur-headlining-olympics-best-british-show Cameron's continuing his aping of Tony Blair by pretending that there's been no good British music post-1997! e: This is a pretty good article on it: http://thequietus.com/articles/08044-blur-olympics-legacy-90s
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