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Ms Boods posted:
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Bozza posted:I saw this on Tuesday with Rufus Hound who was surprisingly brilliant in it. I worked on it when it was up here last year, i ended up seeing it for free, it was bloody fantastic. End of act one for brilliant especially how they involved the actual stage crew. It was one of the few shows that if i was asked to retrospectively pay for my ticket i would have absolutely no hesitation in doing so, and there are drat few shows i can say that about.
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May 18, 2013 17:41
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Rapey Joe Stalin posted:The Tin Man joke is perfection itself. I separate the wheat from the chaff by showing them the gymnastic routine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajqTObkwU6g Also, Chairman Mao's 'Virginia Plain' gives me chills. Mark Heap's Brian Eno!! 
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Captain Mediocre posted:For radio fans, Down The Line is back on Radio 4 for a new series. There's already been 3 episodes aired, all on iPlayer still I think. I never liked Down the Line but I will always view it with fondness after the crack investigative journalists over at the Mail broke the story it was satire.
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May 18, 2013 19:52
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Never forget (eurovision trigger warning) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAJ62IG3gBo
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Wrapped up Ashes to Ashes recently and thought I'd drop in to tell those who had misgivings/criticisms about the show were mostly right. I enjoyed it, mostly series 2 but parts of the other two as well. Certainly the over-arcing plots for series 1 and 3 were sorely lacking and the writing just felt sloppy or stupid. However I did enjoy getting to see more Gene Hunt et al and Drake grew on me also. The gags about the quattro and other stuff were great. So I'm eager to fine another British drama that will make me feel whole again if there are any left, here's what I've watched so far: Liked: Doctor Who, Ashes to Ashes Really Liked: Secret Diary of a Call Girl, Pride and Prejudice, Peep Show, Jekyll, Broadchurch, Downton Abbey, Skins (series 1 and 2), Utopia Loved: Cracker, State of Play, The Shadow Line, Luther, Sherlock, Life on Mars, Spaced, The Thick Of It I'm afraid I've tapped all the greats and won't find anything else that makes it into the loved category  .
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May 19, 2013 15:03
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Corte posted:
Have you tried Misfits? The first 2 series are excellent. (Opinion varies after that.)
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May 19, 2013 15:14
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Unkempt posted:Have you tried Misfits? The first 2 series are excellent. (Opinion varies after that.) I have indeed and stopped watching something during or after 3 I believe, great suggestion though so sorry I forgot to include it in the list.
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May 19, 2013 15:26
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My favourite BBC show has to be 'point of view'. Angry pensioners writing the BBC to complain about how their presenters pronounce the word 'kilometre'. Love everything about it.
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May 19, 2013 15:49
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Corte posted:I'm afraid I've tapped all the greats and won't find anything else that makes it into the loved category If you want to go back even further, theres the original TV adaptations of I, Claudius and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier Spy. In this era you'd also stumble across the documentary series The Ascent of Man, which I'd easily put alongside Carl Sagan's Cosmos in terms of quality. Seriously, British TV is insanely rich when it comes to quality over the last few decades. Don't even let me get started on radio, where you still get all sorts of wonderful things involving big names.
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I've never seen them, but I often hear about the channel 4 Red Riding films as good corrupt police telly, which going by your Loves could be worth a try?
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Gorn Myson posted:In this era you'd also stumble across the documentary series The Ascent of Man, which I'd easily put alongside Carl Sagan's Cosmos in terms of quality. If we're putting forward documentaries, The World at War is possibly the greatest documentary series ever made.
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ScipioAfro posted:I've never seen them, but I often hear about the channel 4 Red Riding films as good corrupt police telly, which going by your Loves could be worth a try? I have never seen Red Riding, primarily because a friend whose opinion I trust described them as "properly harrowing". I don't look for that in my viewing.
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VogeGandire posted:If we're putting forward documentaries, The World at War is possibly the greatest documentary series ever made. About the 2nd World War. Something so sad about the middle aged men who fought in it talking about it that gets lost with the passage of time.
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SeanBeansShako posted:About the 2nd World War. Something so sad about the middle aged men who fought in it talking about it that gets lost with the passage of time. Yeah, it's rather bizarre to think it was only 28 years after the war had ended, and it was well within living memory for most people at that time. It's also incredibly jarring considering one of the people they interviewed for it was Karl bloody Dönitz.
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May 19, 2013 18:38
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Ponce de Le0n posted:Never forget (eurovision trigger warning)
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Corte posted:I'm afraid I've tapped all the greats and won't find anything else that makes it into the loved category And all I can say to that is... Sounds to me like Edge of Darkness and House of Cards will be right up your alley. You've just about chipped at the veneer enough to enable you to scratch the surface.
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Paperhouse posted:Didn't realise Bombhead was in Eurovision The ghost of Mr C trolled him for one last time and told him to do eurovision for his dead mam (still rotting in his front room). Ahh hollyoaks you are a very strange show. 
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Corte posted:Wrapped up Ashes to Ashes recently and thought I'd drop in to tell those who had misgivings/criticisms about the show were mostly right. I enjoyed it, mostly series 2 but parts of the other two as well. Certainly the over-arcing plots for series 1 and 3 were sorely lacking and the writing just felt sloppy or stupid. However I did enjoy getting to see more Gene Hunt et al and Drake grew on me also. The gags about the quattro and other stuff were great. Something reminded me of "Our Friends in The North" the other day. So I suggest that.
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I like older series, some are even on DVD's nowadays. The Prisoner! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRPDO63rI1E Survivors! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPKk204nOTk Children Of The Stones! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-V6dSNlh0_k Sapphire and Steel! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gjHmEUiaxo The Tomorrow People! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xez4o1ujOPI Tales Of The Unexpected! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gwg7ZVOu5e0 The Sweeney! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D99O6oTJVHo I, Claudius! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_65NrdFzPY Colditz! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5W7cFJFfLYg Reilly, Ace Of Spies! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-11Sk7DeYyw and Threads! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MCbTvoNrAg
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justcola posted:I like older series, some are even on DVD's nowadays. This is always an excellent recommendation. I should really re-watch it again.
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If you're going to watch Threads, you need to psyche yourself up. That's some heavy poo poo.
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VogeGandire posted:If you're going to watch Threads, you need to psyche yourself up. Yeah I watched Threads only a couple of weeks ago (my parents wouldn't let me watch it when it first aired) and it's pretty loving harrowing. I think it had much more impact at the time, when there was a seemingly genuine threat of nuclear war, but it's still heavy viewing now.
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I watched most of Threads this weekend, but while it was totally grim, it was nowhere near When the Wind Blows. At least in Threads people were shown to be trying to sort things out, ration food, move survivors around, create work, man hospitals - everything's hosed but at least some human activity is still going on. In WtWB the world just... ends. They stay in their house alone, waiting, but nobody ever comes. They just quietly die, completely isolated from and unnoticed by the rest of the world. 
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Prism Mirror Lens posted:I watched most of Threads this weekend, but while it was totally grim, it was nowhere near When the Wind Blows. I thought it was funny! The wig, the glasses, the catchphrase. Brilliant!
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You're aving a larf The BBC documentary on Australia last night was brilliant, full of genuinely interesting stuff (like camels hunting with helicopters!) rather than the Hebrides pattern of Euan McGregor saying the same thing over and over again. The Supreme Court fucked around with this message at 11:55 on May 20, 2013 |
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The Supreme Court posted:You're aving a larf How do the camels fly the helicopters?
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BECAUSE THEY GET THE HUMP.
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So am I right in assuming that Skint is what Joseph Goebbels would have made if he hated the poor instead of jews?
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I'm from Scunthorpe, i hope my brother doesn't appear on Skint.  It really is a shithole.
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I know that there was some considerable Nick Grimshaw hate earlier on in the thread. Well, he's managed to kill two birds with one stone and somehow managed to lose 900,000 listeners to the Radio One Breakfast Show, and at the same time increase the audience's average age. Pretty good going, considering that the move to get rid of Chris Moyles was to lower the average age of the listeners. I could also go one about what a loving wasteland Radio One has become outside of a small window on Friday night, but it's kind of pointless. I'm in goddamn radio limbo, wish I could get Rinse FM in my car
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For those of you wondering, the horrible nuclear war bit of Threads starts here, although the set up for the whole thing beforehand thinks makes it much worse.
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Gonzo McFee posted:So am I right in assuming that Skint is what Joseph Goebbels would have made if he hated the poor instead of jews? I was really annoyed at how the announcer introduced the show tonight as a challenging, issue tackling documentary. It really loving isn't. It's an oggle at the poors fest and every time it's broadcast there is unleashed on Twitter a loving tsunami of moral outrage. If you're going to broadcast poverty porn with a twitter hashtag before breaks then fair enough, you're exploitative cunts. Just don't pretend it's a moral social project.
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sex pervert posted:I was really annoyed at how the announcer introduced the show tonight as a challenging, issue tackling documentary. It really loving isn't. It's an oggle at the poors fest and every time it's broadcast there is unleashed on Twitter a loving tsunami of moral outrage. If you're going to broadcast poverty porn with a twitter hashtag before breaks then fair enough, you're exploitative cunts. Just don't pretend it's a moral social project. Isn't this exactly what they did with "My Big Fat Gypsy wedding" before it became clear that people were openly calling for gas chambers a bit too seriously? Hope whoever greenlit the project gets blackballed from the industry and dies in a asphyxiation related wank death.
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ShaneMacGowansTeeth posted:I know that there was some considerable Nick Grimshaw hate earlier on in the thread. Well, he's managed to kill two birds with one stone and somehow managed to lose 900,000 listeners to the Radio One Breakfast Show, and at the same time increase the audience's average age. Pretty good going, considering that the move to get rid of Chris Moyles was to lower the average age of the listeners. I could also go one about what a loving wasteland Radio One has become outside of a small window on Friday night, but it's kind of pointless. I'm in goddamn radio limbo, wish I could get Rinse FM in my car Ben Cooper is a bit of a shite station controller Radio 2 is way better than Radio 1 anyway sex pervert posted:And as usual, about 3 in 10 of the morally outraged mouthbreathers on Twitter focus their rage on the TV set. https://twitter.com/mrgunde/status/336632401625223169/photo/1 I wish my lovely 32" telly would morph into a huge 50"/60"/70"/42"/9 mile screen
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sex pervert posted:And as usual, about 3 in 10 of the morally outraged mouthbreathers on Twitter focus their rage on the TV set. https://twitter.com/mrgunde/status/336632401625223169/photo/1 I wonder why people focus on the fact these people own TVs, instead of the fact that many of them are struggling to get enough food to live.
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FelixMeOneMoreTime posted:I wonder why people focus on the fact these people own TVs, instead of the fact that many of them are struggling to get enough food to live. No they should sell everything in their house and sit in entirely empty rooms eating frozen chicken kievs, because if you don't have a job you're not allowed to be entertained. You have to be reminded of it at every waking moment because the only purpose in life is to be part of a self-employed sales team travelling to shopping centres, selling broadband packages or loft insulation. I never understood how having a large television was a bad thing. They're more energy efficient than the CRT ones, and were either bought at a shop and put money back into the economy or bought/given off somebody who didn't need it as they themselves had upgraded to a new set. Anyway, I rewatched Armando Iannucci Show last night, forgotten how good it was. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPOZnz0Jmc4
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