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Loved the end of In the Flesh, really well done. However did I catch that right as the 'twist' was that the main character committed suicide and his father made him a zombie to save him?
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happyhippy posted:However did I catch that right as the 'twist' was that the main character committed suicide and his father made him a zombie to save him? No.
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Oh my god this is why most tv is poo poo because nobody pays attention to anything. I put it down to people faffing on their phones or Facebook or something at all times. Edit: how the gently caress would a middle class dad make somebody into a zombie what the gently caress
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Akuma posted:Edit: how the gently caress would a middle class dad make somebody into a zombie what the gently caress I think Happyhippy means that they didn't cremate him - which he wanted, and instead they buried him. There is a bit in episode one or two that addresses it. I can't quite remember if there is an insinuation there that they buried him on the off-chance he'd come back or not though  edit-spoilers just in case.
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I wasn't sure about In The Flesh as I'm genuinely quite sick of anything involving zombies right now, but wow that was amazing. Its a well made, sincere and beautiful.
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Rondette posted:I think Happyhippy means that they didn't cremate him - which he wanted, and instead they buried him. There is a bit in episode one or two that addresses it. I can't quite remember if there is an insinuation there that they buried him on the off-chance he'd come back or not though They do explicitly say that the people who came back were the ones buried before the rising, so unless his dad can predict the future it's just ironic/fortunate (depending on how you look at it) that Keiran wasn't cremated. Also it wasn't just Ren+Rick writtten in the cave it was Ren+Rick 4 ever, Keiran was barred by Rick's dad for giving him a mix CD, they "messed around" the last night before Rick left and I'm sure there's a few other explicit but subtle clues I still can't get my head around BBC3 making something worth watching
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Tsaedje posted:
Why? the fades was good, our war was class, some of their docs are decent, you just have to get used to their "throw it at the wall and see if it sticks" method of commissioning.
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Ideal was pretty good, the music it used was well chosen. It is not the channels fault a lot of stuff on it is pure wank.
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SeanBeansShako posted:Ideal was pretty good, the music it used was well chosen. It is not the channels fault a lot of stuff on it is pure wank. They canceled Ideal and I'm pretty sure it is.
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Him & Her was a really lovely and funny comedy show from BBC3 that I'm sure was talked about in this thread. They do make really good shows now and then, but they are quite few and far between
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"I am under a cow. I am not OK. I can feel an udder on my leg." I am deliriously excited for Alpha Papa.
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The Intern was a piece of poo poo. It really was just Fairy Jobmother with wacky Beadle's About setups. It was pretty loving obvious that the interns knew they were being played too, and it's not surprising: the actors who played the pissed off customers who just happened to get their car towed/have their dog run away/get chained to the bed/get caught cheating on their spouse during the candidates' 1 week trial were terrible. I think they must have got them from the same agency that Kinder use to get "actors" for their adverts. And Olivia loving Colman was narrating it. I'm so sick of her chocolate loving digestives voice. I wish she'd gently caress off. And Hilary Devey was just there to make the show look like it was a MAKING A DIFFERENCE type show. She kept going on about how she's proving that there are opportunities out there for young people to get top jobs. Well yeah, for ones who are taking part in a television programme. The rest will be sent to Poundland to stack shelves full-time for months so they don't lose their dole money. Piss off, Hilary. edited for retarded grammar sex pervert fucked around with this message at 23:06 on Apr 4, 2013 |
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sex pervert posted:I think they must have got them from the same agency that Kinder use to get "actors" for their adverts. There's a modelling agency called Ugly. If there isn't an acting agency called Dumbfucks, anyone got a spare fiver to help me start one?
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Dogging Tales is an interesting documentary on C4 at the moment. If you've ever wanted to hear what a fat trucker wearing a sheep mask thinks of watching his wife get reamed by 8 strangers, it's worth a watch. The night-vision shakycam filming mixed with a variety of oddly-shaped animal-masked people loving in forests makes it seem like a cross between Blair Witch Project and an amateur porn video made by Chris Cunningham.
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sex pervert posted:And Olivia loving Colman was narrating it. I'm so sick of her chocolate loving digestives voice. I wish she'd gently caress off. We do NOT disparage Sophie.  Doctor Chin posted:like a cross between Blair Witch Project and an amateur porn video made by Chris Cunningham. You've sold me on this description alone.
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I'm really tiring of "business people" worship on TV and shows that are basically business-themed pantomimes built around egotistical business ballbags who further inflate their egos on telly by making pricks out of mere mortals with 5 figure incomes. The Intern didn't really need Hilary Devey in it. She added nothing to the show. She was just shown being chauffeured around in a Rolls Royce Phantom and having the occasional chat with the poor gits who were taking part in the thing. Also, I'm really sorry, but every time I see that woman, I see what I imagine to have been the moment of her conception, which is Dot Cotton being hosed over one of her washing machines by the Grinch. Now you will too. Enjoy.
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sex pervert posted:I'm really tiring of "business people" worship on TV and shows that are basically business-themed pantomimes built around egotistical business ballbags who further inflate their egos on telly by making pricks out of mere mortals with 5 figure incomes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ss-59fi4nM Summarizes my entire attitude to all of them.
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VogeGandire posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ss-59fi4nM Sums it up nicely, failed Big Brother entrants with nicer suits. Does Alan Sugar even have a business outside of being the business guy on lovely reality shows these days? I imagine anyone who does 'win' the low-level job with him ends up vetting applications for the next series of The Apprentice, deciding who is suitable to replace them next year.
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Apr 5, 2013 00:20
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Actually they get an incredibly well paid job, and then whine about it.
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Rapey Joe Stalin posted:Actually they get an incredibly well paid job, and then whine about it.
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Jippa posted:The stuff of nightmares: Bioshock - The Next Generation
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Akuma posted:Are you referring to the lady that was paid well but was given almost literally nothing to do? Is doing a highly paid but unfulfilling job your idea of achieving your dreams? Depends how highly-paid we're talking. Because money can't buy happiness, but it can get drat close.
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Rapey Joe Stalin posted:Actually they get an incredibly well paid job, and then whine about it. Actually the last two series of The Apprentice awarded the winner with a "£250,000 investment" into their own business, so the title of the show is a complete misnomer now. Interestingly, they made this change to the format in the series after Stella (the one who's taken Sugar to tribunal) won it. And note that this is a £250,000 investment of "cash and value", and I think it's telling that we're not allowed to know how much cash is involved. The winner gets to make use of Sugar's assets: space in his warehouse and office, use of his legal team, sandwiches from the canteen. And of course, most expensive of all will be the "personal consultation with Sir Lord Sugar". I'd say there's very little actual cash involved. I guess we'll find out eventually when another poor, disillusioned idiot takes Sugar to court.
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None of the people who won 'apprentiships' stayed with Sugar for long. You basically win a 100 grand cash prize and get to sit in an office doing nothing for a year. There's a story about the woman currently trying to sue Sugar about how everyone in her office hated her as soon as she turned up because someone on £30K a year was made redundant to make room for her. Edit: Having said that, Sugar might well be willing to give them a permanent job if they were any good, but I guess, shockingly, hiring reality TV wannabes isn't the best way of doing things? Junkenstein fucked around with this message at 12:56 on Apr 5, 2013 |
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Two million people watched Dogging Tales, it got an 11% share between 10 and 11 last night. I can't wait to watch it. The Intern almost got out-watched by Peter Andre's thing on ITV2  http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2013/apr/05/dogging-tales-the-intern-channel-4
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Did anyone else watch Cracked Actor last night? (It was on at the same time as Dogging Tales, so maybe not ). Amazing to see (a very coked out) post-Ziggy Bowie discussing his personas in such depth. Wuzza wuzza.
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Jawidar posted:Did anyone else watch Cracked Actor last night? (It was on at the same time as Dogging Tales, so maybe not Oh sod, I knew I should have watched that. It had frigging David Bowie in and that wasn't pull enough what is wrong with me! Also, Dogging Tales might be too horrifying to witness for me after seeing that screen grab of it.
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Chris Finch from The Office is narrating a bottom of the barrel BBC daytime TV show called Countryside 999 right now. Just like when he did the advert for Kia cars, I keep waiting for him to The Bit from Deliverance. Funny stuff. Sad how the BBC only produces comedy by accident these days.
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sex pervert posted:Chris Finch from The Office is narrating a bottom of the barrel BBC daytime TV show called Countryside 999 right now. Just like when he did the advert for Kia cars, I keep waiting for him to The Bit from Deliverance. Funny stuff. Sad how the BBC only produces comedy by accident these days. I'd be disappointed he wasn't spurring Alfie Allen to make increasingly terrible decisions 
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Apr 5, 2013 17:29
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coming soon to BBC2, The Increasingly Terrible Decisions of Alfie Allen
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Anyone watch Have I Got News For You? Awkward silences over welfare reform and Ian Hislop being quite aggressive towards Joan Bakewell, I thought. Didn't realise he agreed quite so much with the tories, he was a raucous unfunny git tonight.
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moselle posted:Anyone watch Have I Got News For You? Awkward silences over welfare reform and Ian Hislop being quite aggressive towards Joan Bakewell, I thought. I tend to find Hislop's little diatribes sometimes funny, but more and more they seem to end with a studio audience full of  Funniest moment of this week's episode was during the ask-the-audience poll about class. It's not a good sign when heckles from the crowd are funnier than the meat of the show.
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What youtube video did they show? They've got months to catch up on. Harlem shake?
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Ancient Egypt Life and Death might have been an interesting lesson in every day life a few thousand years ago, but unfortunately I wont know because I refuse to watch footage of the great Egyptian sites shot through a loving fisheye lens. The needless swooping handheld shots (of a sarcophagi in a museum for instance) were irritating enough, but showing Abydos through a fisheye is just insulting. What a pissaway waste of money sending that camera crew to Egypt was.
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moselle posted:Anyone watch Have I Got News For You? Awkward silences over welfare reform and Ian Hislop being quite aggressive towards Joan Bakewell, I thought. Yeah. Hislop was being a complete oval office. The show stopped being funny about a decade ago and it's just plain unpleasant to watch now. It's devoid of comedy. Even the slightly less awful Paul Merton's shtick where he does his little mimes while pulling a funny face or suggests a wacky headline just makes me frown and wonder why the gently caress I'm sitting watching such a piece of poo poo.
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HIGNY is so tired now. It's on series 45 so not exactly surprising really.
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moselle posted:Anyone watch Have I Got News For You? Awkward silences over welfare reform and Ian Hislop being quite aggressive towards Joan Bakewell, I thought. Any sensible person agrees that something needs to be done about social welfare bill. It doesn't mean he agrees on the methods used by Gidiot and co. though. He did seem to be a little pernicious towards Joan though - the extended cut might reveal more. HIGNFY suffers from poor quality guests. The guests all seem scared to really cut loose with strong opinions and Merton is getting worse. Hislop deserves to stay because he will challenge guests.
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