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Taff posted:Every shot of Utpia is beautiful, I could make love to it. The colours look like they've been painted on, don't they? Especially the yellows present in almost every scene, and the vivid blues of most characters eyes. I think I love the look of it more than I love the plot or characters (though the fact that 11-year old Grant thinks under the bed is a safe place to hide the manuscript is hilarious, poor little poppet). The torture continues to be awfully grim, and I do marvel at how Arby -with his doughy, blank face and his waddling walk- has come to represent some terrifying, utterly unstoppable force of evil. It's a remarkable performance.
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I was put off Utopia by the adverts but I think I might now have to check it out. On a completely unrelated matter, why do the confused.com adverts have so much boob jiggle going on nowadays?
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CherryCat posted:why do the confused.com adverts have so much boob jiggle going on nowadays? would you say the issue makes you confused...dot com
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Jan 23, 2013 04:12
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CherryCat posted:I was put off Utopia by the adverts but I think I might now have to check it out. "SEX SELLS!!!!" 
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Jan 23, 2013 07:01
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The first episode of Black Mirror (as already pointed out), is from Caprica. The third episode is in between the epitaphs of Dollhouse. Not that I'm complaining - whatever people though of those shows, they had something interesting to say.
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I hate waiting a week for more Utopia! I love it it's like a cross between The Shadow Line and Jam.
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CherryCat posted:On a completely unrelated matter, why do the confused.com adverts have so much boob jiggle going on nowadays? In the first few ads of the new campaign (which were pretty sexless) they botched the old joke of "pulling large objects out of nowhere" by having this particular nowhere being under the mascot's skirt. After everyone made the smutty jokes you'd expect, they assumed what their audience wants is constant cartoon sex. I'm guessing.
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Mark Williams has the lead role in a truly ridiculous (even by the standards of BBC daytime TV dramas) murder mystery drama shown after Doctors. It's called Father Brown. Williams' nasal Brummie voice just did not fit the priest character at all. His gimmick is that he has an old, squeaky bike. Anyway, the plot was just so incredibly ridiculous and convoluted that it actually made me laugh. Well worth a watch if you've a day to kill and are tired of fiddling with yourself. edit: It'll probably help if you have a joint whilst watching. sex pervert fucked around with this message at 17:59 on Jan 23, 2013 |
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Jan 23, 2013 17:55
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Rarity posted:My heart sank when Becky turned out to be a spy. You can't trust anybody What, in Utopia? Did I miss something?  -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- EDIT-Welp, I think I was burnt out by that point. Marathoning 'Boardwalk Empire' as well as watching this makes my brain speckle all over the place. I didn't consider that she was playing for another team. Could it be a third party? VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV Rondette fucked around with this message at 18:40 on Jan 23, 2013 |
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Jan 23, 2013 18:31
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Rondette posted:What, in Utopia? Did I miss something? The second-to-last scene, where Becky goes to a payphone and tells someone 'It's me; the manuscript exists. The boy knows where it is.'
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Rondette posted:What, in Utopia? Did I miss something? When Wilson and Grant are in the van she calls someone and says the boy knows where the manuscript is. It could have been innocent but none of the rest of the group know Grant is a kid.
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Jan 23, 2013 18:37
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad posted:And the father says, "The Aristocrats!" Best version of this: (Not work safe, not wife safe, definatly not granny safe, not ... anyone safe really.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGA0dIz9-Wk
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For anyone interested - Utopia's facebook page http://www.facebook.com/C4Utopia/photos_stream has a page out of TUE as well the few TUE blog/site screengrabs. I'm surprised Channel 4 haven't launched some kind of an ARG to tie in with the show.
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freudorbison posted:I'm surprised Channel 4 haven't launched some kind of an ARG to tie in with the show. quote:'The Utopia Inquiry' will allow viewers to watch trailers and answer questions based on the debates raised by the programme, including ID theft, the nanny state and the things people surrender for the benefits of modern life. Not quite an ARG, but it fits the same role I suppose.
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Anybody interested in not watching the news tonight might be interested in Bob Servant Independent, which starts tonight at 10 on BBC Four and stars Brian Cox, and is one of BBC Scotland's new comedy and drama programmes for this year.
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osici posted:When Wilson and Grant are in the van she calls someone and says the boy knows where the manuscript is. It could have been innocent but none of the rest of the group know Grant is a kid. I think there may be a 3rd group involved. The bad guys we've seen so far already know the manuscript exists because they saw Grant nick it from them.
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sex pervert posted:Mark Williams has the lead role in a truly ridiculous (even by the standards of BBC daytime TV dramas) murder mystery drama shown after Doctors. It's called Father Brown. Williams' nasal Brummie voice just did not fit the priest character at all. His gimmick is that he has an old, squeaky bike. Based on a bunch of books. They've been adapted a bunch of times http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father_Brown
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Attenboroughs' Africa is the best, you guys. A crocodile just ate an entire pelican whole, like it was a particularly tasty Hula Hoop.
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Irisi posted:Attenboroughs' Africa is the best, you guys. A crocodile just ate an entire pelican whole, like it was a particularly tasty Hula Hoop. Now there's sharks! Everybody loves sharks!
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onoflalks posted:Anybody interested in not watching the news tonight might be interested in Bob Servant Independent, which starts tonight at 10 on BBC Four and stars Brian Cox, and is one of BBC Scotland's new comedy and drama programmes for this year. All the old, dumb jokes, and I still laughed at them. I put it down to Cox's performance if I'm honest. It looked nice too.
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Mr. Squishy posted:All the old, dumb jokes, and I still laughed at them. I put it down to Cox's performance if I'm honest. It looked nice too. I spent most of the time Jonathan Wilson was on screen trying to place which football personality he sounded most like.
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Irisi posted:Attenboroughs' Africa is the best, you guys. A crocodile just ate an entire pelican whole, like it was a particularly tasty Hula Hoop. It started off with the depressing turtle slaughter 
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Mr. Squishy posted:All the old, dumb jokes, and I still laughed at them. I put it down to Cox's performance if I'm honest. It looked nice too. Yeah, it wasn't "Good" but I liked it. I also loved every time they mentioned an east coast placename. End the Glasgow Comedy Mafia's grip on Scottish telly!
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goatface posted:It started off with the depressing turtle slaughter But then we got to see springboks "pronking" (adorable bouncing about, just for the hell of it), which kind of made up for the baby turtle genocide...
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goatface posted:It started off with the depressing turtle slaughter Why didn't they just use their weapons like Splinter taught them?
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Semprini posted:I think there may be a 3rd group involved. The bad guys we've seen so far already know the manuscript exists because they saw Grant nick it from them. I'm fairly sure she's heavily implied to be calling Miriam, the same MI5 woman that The Tramp was in touch with via phone box. They even used the exact same design of phone box so as to deliberately reference that scene.
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Well this sounds like it's going to be an relentlessly predictable 'elf and safety gorn mad laughter desert.Televisual posted:Studio filming has begun on The Wright Way, a new six-part sitcom for BBC One from writer Ben Elton. Danny "BBC Three" Cohen, Ben "The Establishment" Elton and Cheryl "Citizen Khan" Taylor*? Oh dear. *Minor "if it's not poo poo" Disclaimer: She is also responsible for the commissioning of Spaced, Black Books and Gavin and Stacey.
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Any news on either the Ideal or Alan Partridge movies at all? I need something to take my mind off the slow death of BBC comedy.
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The NTAs were tonight as well, here's the winners (does anyone gives a poo poo? Probably not).
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad posted:Well this sounds like it's going to be an relentlessly predictable 'elf and safety gorn mad laughter desert. I wonder, during this show's run, how many times the words "IT'S HEALTH AND SAFETY GONE MAD, STU" will be repeated in this thread.
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Rarity posted:My heart sank when Becky turned out to be a spy. You can't trust anybody I thought it was an interesting development to stop the show from becoming The Goonies. I like Utopia because it's about 80% black comedy and 20% conspiracy drama.
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onoflalks posted:The NTAs were tonight as well, here's the winners (does anyone gives a poo poo? Probably not). I don't understand why Mrs Brown's Boys isn't just treated with waves of vitriol. It's the worst show I've ever seen, and I don't say that lightly. I can't believe it's getting a loving movie I mean (not to sound like a snob, but) I get why the general British public would like it, because it's bawdy as gently caress and has crossdressing AND funny Irish swearing, but I can't stand it. The small moments when they go meta or keep a cameraman fuckup in are the only funny parts. Is this really what we want to present to the world as our best sitcom? Something that has every cheap, lame, outdated British comedy cliche in the book? I know it's a pointless, slightly rude moan but do audiences really not want ANYTHING original or new?
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Bown posted:I know it's a pointless, slightly rude moan but do audiences really not want ANYTHING original or new? Commissioners don't think they do, no.
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Bown posted:I don't understand why Mrs Brown's Boys isn't just treated with waves of vitriol. It's the worst show I've ever seen, and I don't say that lightly. I can't believe it's getting a loving movie While I share your distaste for it, I think its mostly a generational thing. My parents bloody love it, but these are people who think fish puns and Carry On are the pinnacle of comedy. Same goes for Miranda. Just accept it's not aimed at you and forget about it.
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Captain Mediocre posted:While I share your distaste for it, I think its mostly a generational thing. My parents bloody love it, but these are people who think fish puns and Carry On are the pinnacle of comedy. Same goes for Miranda. Just accept it's not aimed at you and forget about it. I'll not whine about Mrs Brown's Boys, but if Miranda loving Hart is allowed her own show, there is no plausible reason why I shouldn't have my own show either.
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I wouldn't worry about a TV award, they're mostly just there for TV channels and production companies to slap themselves on the back for a good job and they're plenty flawed. Even major awards in other countries are pretty useless. According to the Oscars, the best movie of 2004 was Crash and according to the Emmys, The Wire isn't even worth thinking about. I don't particularly like Mrs Browns Boys but I can understand why someone would enjoy it. Its the closest thing that comes to re-creating a rough silliness of old school sitcoms. I find it endearing in a way. Its not my cup of tea, but I can see why people enjoy it.
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onoflalks posted:Commissioners don't think they do, no. Then again the same men sweep acts like Jimmy Saville under the rug for several decades and have almost comically mismanaged the modern BBC. Understandibly even Bank Managers and Traffic Wardens spit at them on the streets. Still, the BBC might be getting shitter it looks like it might be a good year for Channel 4 since Utopia and Big Fat Diary have made some good splashes. I have my fingers crossed we'll get some good comedy from them this year too.
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SeanBeansShako posted:Still, the BBC might be getting shitter it looks like it might be a good year for Channel 4 since Utopia and Big Fat Diary have made some good splashes. I have my fingers crossed we'll get some good comedy from them this year too. Oh bless your little cotton socks. Clearly you haven't been watching 'Paddy McGuinness Rips off Tarrant on TV', 'Sketch comedy group gets schtick stretched to six episodes' or 'The Inbetweeners USA for some reason'.
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