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I wanted to like Utopia, but I started to watch the fifth episode and realized I was just doing so out of some sort of "I've started so I'll finish" obligation. So I stopped.
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Pablo Bluth posted:I wanted to like Utopia, but I started to watch the fifth episode and realized I was just doing so out of some sort of "I've started so I'll finish" obligation. So I stopped. Scientifically known as The Magnusson Principle.
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Mar 3, 2013 23:07
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Pablo Bluth posted:I wanted to like Utopia, but I started to watch the fifth episode and realized I was just doing so out of some sort of "I've started so I'll finish" obligation. So I stopped. A second series has been commissioned so the drop off in viewers for that should be remarkable.
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Mar 3, 2013 23:10
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Cerv posted:I think most people were the same. Really? I thoroughly enjoyed the show from beginning to end.
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Mar 3, 2013 23:14
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It started off great, became idiotic and nasty through the middle and finished on a high note. I'll watch the second series, probably, as long as Wilson Wilson, twat girl and Jamie McDonald are in it.
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Mar 3, 2013 23:24
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Has anyone been watching The Alternative Comedy Experience on Comedy Central? I remember a bit of talk about it a while back but I don't get the channel. Just noticed that its available on iTunes and wondered if anyone could say whether its been worthwhile so far?
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Mar 4, 2013 01:27
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Imagine Stewart Lees Comedy Vehicle, except there are 3 comedians per episode and in between segments you have Lee interviewing them briefly. I think its excellent, but far too short. It feels more like a show in which you are introduced to lesser known comedians with bite-sized segments.
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Mar 4, 2013 01:36
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I don't get why Comedy Central didn't make it six hour-long episodes rather than 12 half-hour episodes because it's too short
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Mar 4, 2013 04:05
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I totally forgot about it and haven't watched it. So thanks!
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Mar 4, 2013 12:29
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I've just been catching up on Black Mirror and I thoroughly enjoyed all of them this series, although "enjoyed" might be the wrong word. I still don't think any of them topped The Entire History of You from the last series though. Anyway, did anyone catch that in The Waldo Moment, the Jason Flemying character was called Jack Napier - that was the joker's name in the Michael Keaton Batman film wasn't it? Also, it was apparently based on an idea for Nathan Barley? I wonder what that would have looked like.
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Mar 4, 2013 20:58
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Going to be watching 'Broadchurch' in a bit. Mainly for 'OOO that's my home-town!' related oddness.
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Mar 4, 2013 21:15
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I tried to link it last time I posted here but I hosed it up. Ricky Gervais is bringing back David Brent for Comic Relief. I've seen a trailers and I'm really dreading it. I wish Gervais would gently caress off and hide forever. He really is producing a load of wank these days.
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Mar 4, 2013 22:16
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sex pervert posted:I tried to link it last time I posted here but I hosed it up. Ricky Gervais is bringing back David Brent for Comic Relief. I've seen a trailers and I'm really dreading it. I wish Gervais would gently caress off and hide forever. He really is producing a load of wank these days. I have high hopes for the brent stuff, because Gervais plays likeable oval office much better than he plays loveable simpleton
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Mar 4, 2013 22:22
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sex pervert posted:I tried to link it last time I posted here but I hosed it up. Ricky Gervais is bringing back David Brent for Comic Relief. I've seen a trailers and I'm really dreading it. I wish Gervais would gently caress off and hide forever. He really is producing a load of wank these days. Seriously, what happened. I know personality wise he was a bit of a git but his talent seems to have dried up. Unless Merchant has been running the show for all of his good stuff?
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Mar 4, 2013 22:56
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Going by the trailers he's still got it, though. I don't spew hate towards Gervais like a lot of people but I'll definitely admit that both Life's Too Short and Derek are pretty huge misses. At least with Brent he's doing what he knows. I'd say Merchant is a key element to everything good Gervais has done if it wasn't for Life's Too Short. And Cemetery Junction.
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Mar 4, 2013 23:09
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Merchant was definitely the funnier of the two on the old XFM radio shows. I think half of Gervais's problem is just being so ubiquitous for such a long time. I think if Merchant had been in the limelight s much as Gervais's the we'd probably all hate him too. That and Ricky Gervais's gives every impression of being a nasty, spiteful little man since he became famous.
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Mar 4, 2013 23:26
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I really like Derek, and I find the message a pleasing counterpoint to Gervais' public persona.
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Mar 5, 2013 00:43
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Good news then, Rapey Joe, because Channel 4 has ordered a second season
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Mar 5, 2013 01:00
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Feats of Strength posted:Didn't see this in the OP, but a friend of mine showed me this show called Stella Street from the late 90's (all of which seems to be on youtube) it's a pretty good comedy where all the characters are played by two comedians, the whole premise of the show is a bunch of celebrities (Michael Caine, Jack Nicholson, Joe Pesci, The Rolling Stones etc.) all move into the same suburban street, well worth a watch! Oh wow, it's all the decent impressions from Dead Ringers! And they're allowed to swear! I'll enjoy this.
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Rapey Joe Stalin posted:I really like Derek, and I find the message a pleasing counterpoint to Gervais' public persona. Yeh I feel the same, my Grandad has recently been put in a home so that certainly makes it more poignant for me.
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Mar 5, 2013 15:17
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It's interesting how Derek divides opinion. Derek is literally one of the worst programmes I've ever seen (he's pulling his "mong" face, falling in ponds and trying to rescue baby birds for Christ's sake - it's like 'Of Mice and Men' for the under fives). Care homes should be interesting venues for comedy/drama, but I doubt whether the residents in Derek have said more than 20 lines between them all series. To make up for it, Gervais literally did a black and white montage of them dreaming of their younger days, set to the words of a Radiohead song. Either he's lost his mind or he's working on a different satirical level than I've ever seen before.
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Mar 5, 2013 19:10
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Weekly wipe...spoilers? I don't know. It's a spoiler about why the sixth episode will be bad. Why the cock would you make the sixth episode in a 6th episode series a compilation episode of the last five 30-minute episodes. Ridiculously bloody lazy. (I'm talking about weekly wipe).
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Mar 5, 2013 23:45
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Jawidar posted:It's interesting how Derek divides opinion. Derek is literally one of the worst programmes I've ever seen (he's pulling his "mong" face, falling in ponds and trying to rescue baby birds for Christ's sake - it's like 'Of Mice and Men' for the under fives). Care homes should be interesting venues for comedy/drama, but I doubt whether the residents in Derek have said more than 20 lines between them all series. To make up for it, Gervais literally did a black and white montage of them dreaming of their younger days, set to the words of a Radiohead song. Either he's lost his mind or he's working on a different satirical level than I've ever seen before. Yeah, Derek is utterly bizarre. I won't deny that there are some amusing bits in the two episodes I've seen, but the whole program just feels so patronising and soaked in melodramatic pathos that its quite aggravating to watch.
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Noreaus posted:Weekly wipe...spoilers? I don't know. It's a spoiler about why the sixth episode will be bad. Why the cock would you make the sixth episode in a 6th episode series a compilation episode of the last five 30-minute episodes. Ridiculously bloody lazy. (I'm talking about weekly wipe).
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Mar 6, 2013 00:21
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This has been the case for many of Brooker's Wipes. I recall Newswipe had it's Compilation episode pulled forward to the 5th so they could give the Lybian Earthquake the coverage it deserved.
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Still the most frustrating thing about the Railway is the passengers, especially the ones who turned up to Euston to go up to Manchester when there were no trains running due to advertised track works then blaming the unions  Noreaus posted:Weekly wipe...spoilers? I don't know. It's a spoiler about why the sixth episode will be bad. Why the cock would you make the sixth episode in a 6th episode series a compilation episode of the last five 30-minute episodes. Ridiculously bloody lazy. (I'm talking about weekly wipe). They did that with Newswipe too and it didn't make much sense then, either. Mr Phillby posted:This has been the case for many of Brooker's Wipes. I recall Newswipe had it's Compilation episode pulled forward to the 5th so they could give the Lybian Earthquake the coverage it deserved. He had a herniated disc and they moved it forward because of that. lets go swimming fucked around with this message at 04:31 on Mar 6, 2013 |
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Mar 6, 2013 04:20
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Derek is just shite. It fails at being a heartwarming drama and it fails at being a comedy. I don't know what it's supposed to be. I don't think Ricky Gervais knows what it's supposed to be. It's just shite.
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onoflalks posted:Still the most frustrating thing about the Railway is the passengers, especially the ones who turned up to Euston to go up to Manchester when there were no trains running due to advertised track works then blaming the unions I would happily wait hours for a delayed train if the cause of that delay was that man's on-track fatality.
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Mar 6, 2013 13:53
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Apprentice Winner Shocked that the job she won reflects reality more than the fantasy she was sold during a Reality TV show. http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2013/mar/06/alan-sugar-apprentice-winner-tribunal I really like the part where she thought she was going to be doing work worth a £100,000 salary. What kind of work does she think actually deserves to earn that? edit: and the disappointment in being shunned by everyone else who didn't play a part in a pantomime to get their job.
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Kin posted:Apprentice Winner Shocked that the job she won reflects reality more than the fantasy she was sold during a Reality TV show. This is an outrage. How dare she be treated like- No, I can't even pretend to give a poo poo.
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Padje posted:I would happily wait hours for a delayed train if the cause of that delay was that man's on-track fatality. Valuing human life? BLOODY UNIONS 
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Kin posted:Apprentice Winner Shocked that the job she won reflects reality more than the fantasy she was sold during a Reality TV show. Obligatory Mitchell and Webb: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ss-59fi4nM TinTower fucked around with this message at 22:52 on Mar 6, 2013 |
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Mar 6, 2013 22:50
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Kin posted:Apprentice Winner Shocked that the job she won reflects reality more than the fantasy she was sold during a Reality TV show She got a job for a year that paid £100,000 because she bought 10 random items cheaper than anyone else. What loving else does she want?
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The First Great Western episode of The Railway was great because of the sheer amount of time I've spent at Reading station. I even recognised the station master at Twyford. I, rather morbidly, expected any death on the line to be at Southall because there seems to be two deaths a year at that particular stretch a line. And ye gods, commuters are arseholes. I've lost count of the number of times I've been stuck at a station due to weather, signal failure or whatever and never once felt the need to berate someone who worked there
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Kin posted:Apprentice Winner Shocked that the job she won reflects reality more than the fantasy she was sold during a Reality TV show. "Describing the first day of a four-month probationary period she... said: "No specific duties were allocated to me. I was provided with a desk and a phone but that was pretty much it." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVGdhAetJaQ  Really though, Stella came across as one of the few people on this programme since the first series who actually had a clue about business and wasn't a complete arsehole. I think she was also the last winner to get the job as a prize. Maybe Sugar had just run out of places to put people at that point. I can't help but feel a bit sorry for the girl. It's been clear to me since the second series of the show that it has frig all to do with business and everything to do with the BBC's ratings and keeping Sugar's gargantuan ego inflated like a horrific, stubbly hot air balloon.
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sex pervert posted:
Yes, I don't really know why anyone would enter that show any more. Still, I'll probably continue to watch it, if only for the hilarious times spent mocking it in the thread with some of you lot. And also  Tom I wish he had his own tv show.ANYHOO I was watching a (surprisingly depressing) show about Crufts last night on More4 and that new Marco 'Knorr' Pierre advert came on. There is something about the way he says 'MY SPAGHETTI BOLOGNESE' that cracked me up, so I made this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXNkzEwr2uM If I knew anything about video editing I would try and creep the whole thing up like that Olsen Twins thing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bq6ixGlCpzM
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Rondette posted:Yes, I don't really know why anyone would enter that show any more. It was really poor last year. I think the only people who apply to be contestants now are those with business ideas that are too shite for Dragons Den 
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Mar 7, 2013 11:12
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Big Narstie's Guide to Eastenders is fantasticquote:BEST FEMME FATALE ON EASTENDERS?
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Big Narstie is a modern day philosopher.Big Narstie posted:BEST LADIES MAN ON EASTENDERS? Gyro Zeppeli fucked around with this message at 15:17 on Mar 7, 2013 |
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