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WastedJoker posted:So, uh, Martin Freeman does a pretty good accent in Fargo eh? Oh yaah. I was particularly impressed by it, because the last time I remember him attempting a general American accent, it was on Bruiser ages ago and he was pretty terrible at it.
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So if you like documentaries about horrible stuff I'd recommend Teen Killers: Life Without Parole. Bunch of guys who murdered people in their teens, now in their twenties and thirties, just talking about it, with family input on the side. It's pretty hard watching for a BBC3 thing, but very well done. Most of the killers end up seeming like normal people, even sympathetic in some ways. But that Torey guy, christ. 
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Similarly the Life And Death Row series on BBC3 was suprisingly well done. The second was especially good. http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03z1yy3/Life_and_Death_Row_Judgement/
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Did that goon show up?
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I ran out of films on a return overseas flight out to America the past few days (being in the same month, BA was still on the same set of selections in both directions), so went fiddling through the television offerings. Most of it was bleh, but they had the series finale of Toast of London (the one where Michael Ball plays Andrew Lloyd Webber's hitman). Yay! I love Matt Berry. Guy next to me on the plane was already at the whole experience as not only was it his first time flying to the UK, and he was a bit of a nervous flyer -- it was really turbulent and that was adding to his stress. He'd tried to watch a movie, but right in the opening few scenes of The Wolf of Wall Street is an aircraft 'in distress' as the warning informed him, so he was looking for something a bit lighter. He went full-on  though because he asked what I was watching as I kept laughing ('Yes, I can hear you, Clem Fandango.'), decided to check it out as he'd 'never seen a British tv show before' outside of the usual PBS or BBCAmerica fare, and got to see two vaguely '70s style men doing voice over for a kissing scene in a German porno.
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What an age we live in when we can watch tv on a nice monitor of our own on an international flight. My local bus service has an automated voice loudly declaring every upcoming stop including a few details about shops/attractions near to each stop. I can pay for things by waving a plastic card over a gadget. I think it's a Wall-E future for us all! Did anyone watch The Magic of Mushrooms? Didn't think much of the presenter and it felt like some of the show was handled by apprentice directors but the actual information in the show was great. Also, is it bad that I'm sort of missing Saturday Night Takeaway? I can't help but like Anton Deck.
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WastedJoker posted:Did anyone watch The Magic of Mushrooms? Didn't think much of the presenter and it felt like some of the show was handled by apprentice directors but the actual information in the show was great. I rather enjoyed it, other than using the same time lapse and "mushrooms falling past a camera in slow motion" footage about 8 times. As for the presenter, I thought he was perfectly amiable and I always prefer having someone doing science shows with a strong science background, the ones that use popular presenters rather than scientist-presenters are almost always insufferable.
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Fatkraken posted:I rather enjoyed it, other than using the same time lapse and "mushrooms falling past a camera in slow motion" footage about 8 times. As for the presenter, I thought he was perfectly amiable and I always prefer having someone doing science shows with a strong science background, the ones that use popular presenters rather than scientist-presenters are almost always insufferable. I just thought there were a few to-camera bits where he looked/sounded tentative. Maybe it's just the way he speaks. Edit: just to add, cordyceps fungi will never not be terrifying.
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Ms Boods posted:Words about plane entertainment How limited is BA's selection then? The Delta plane we were on to the States had a massive list of recent & classic film plus a ton of HBO and US/UK TV.
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WastedJoker posted:Also, is it bad that I'm sort of missing Saturday Night Takeaway? I can't help but like Anton Deck. Yes, unless you are a nan. Especially if you can tell them apart.
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Trickjaw posted:Yes, unless you are a nan. Especially if you can tell them apart. No seriously. When they were on Comic Relief, they appeared at the back of the audience, Ant on the left. They did their intro bit, ran to the stage and crossed over in the audience pit so that when they were on stage they'd be the right way round. My brother said this to me as a joke but now that I look, Ant is almost always on the left. You know, excepting the good old Byker Grove days.
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SeanBeansShako posted:Pretty much agree with both suggestions again. how exactly? he's still regularly in movies & would probably sell out doing tours standup and regularly pals around with seinfeld etc. I think the internet echo-chamber has distorted your view of his "fall from grace" as it were. Unless something has happened since i last heard what he's up to, is he doing panto now?
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Well not in the finacinal and job sense, more in the general feelings and opinions of some people. It is pretty obvious he is out there working and making money but he is about as popular as crabs from what I have heard online and in meatspace. Might just be my circle of offline and online contacts though.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Ant is the one on the left. Always - you can remember that A comes before D to tell them apart. That's why the selfie they put up a few months ago was so shocking... THE PHOTO YOU NEVER THOUGHT YOU'D SEE.
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Goldskull posted:How limited is BA's selection then? The Delta plane we were on to the States had a massive list of recent & classic film plus a ton of HBO and US/UK TV. Depends on your flight; there are actually lots of great films to choose from, but since I was on the same route within a 10 day period, I had watched all the ones I wanted to see (including Cool Hand Luke). BA's TV selections to and from the States, though, has always been a bit bleah in terms of stuff that interests me personally -- sometimes a Doctor Who episode, the occasional Blackadder, but a lot of it is US sitcoms and cartoons. I wasn't familiar with most of the shows on this run (I think most of them were American series, including Curb Your Enthusiasm, so I was surprised to see the Matt Berry stuff. If anyone is interested in BA's televisual offerings, here's the link (you can plug in various destinations to and from Heathrow) https://www.britishairways.com/en-gb/information/entertainment/in-flight-entertainment
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RIP Bobo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPALRwCSv6U
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Well, that's me watching Long Good Friday sometime this week!
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I thought that Call Centre thing on BBC3 was an office style parody. Its real though, isn't it?
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Last episode and series of Rev was a massive downer. Up there with the ending of David the Gnome. St Saviours is closed and sold for development, Adam quits the church, sinks into depression and is to be kicked out of the vicarage, Colin's dog dies. At the end Adam and co break into St Saviours and have one last Easter service and christen his daughter. Even worse when you consider the BBC didn't go for another series so that's how they've left it.
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gently caress me Derek is so depressing. I can't believe they greenlit this. I love Gervais but this is awful.
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Mighty Steed posted:Last episode and series of Rev was a massive downer. Up there with the ending of David the Gnome. It's bloody miles away from when Adam was sharing joints with Colin on the bench.
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It's real, but everything seems engineered. Like, 'we want to show the quality control bank in this episode, so get one of the young girl callers who wants to get on the tele to ask out the fatty in that department and that will be our story'. Fatty can't believe his luck, we learn about monitoring calls, Joey Essex is the tea lady, the boss tells someone to  , repeat story next week.I hate it. Wasn't it meant to be moving to BBC2? What happened there?
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I keep banging on about Great British Menu but the newbie in this weeks episodes, Jason Hodnett, has been rolling out some pretty sick burns to Aktar and Mark Poynton's face is hilarious every time Jason gives Aktar some cheek. Also, Marcus Wareing is the best judge.
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Padje posted:It's real, but everything seems engineered. Like, 'we want to show the quality control bank in this episode, so get one of the young girl callers who wants to get on the tele to ask out the fatty in that department and that will be our story'. Fatty can't believe his luck, we learn about monitoring calls, Joey Essex is the tea lady, the boss tells someone to I don't think it will have been as engineered as that, but there does seem to be a bit more polish on things than in the first series. How you can hate it is beyond me, Nev's awesome. The tea lady is amazing and her dreams of being a tea lady masseuse/massager/massage/masseuser/masseuser was brilliant. WastedJoker posted:Also, Marcus Wareing is the best judge. He's on Masterchef as well, and my god he's a scary fucker.
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Total Meatlove posted:I don't think it will have been as engineered as that, but there does seem to be a bit more polish on things than in the first series. How you can hate it is beyond me, Nev's awesome. Some of it looks pretty set up like the focus on ping pong tournaments and stuff but i cant blame them for wanting to spice up answering calls all day. I dont see how its that bad to be honest, it features a load of young people in an office and a larger than life boss, there's going to be a bit of banter. I know goons tend to detest that when its unironic for some reason but it could be much worse, i liked the lad with a stammer being given a chance even if it was for the cameras. I guess they could have a series about quiet lads and ladies that answer phones and every once in a while cynically say something sarcastic and this thread might love it but i think the call centre is better than average for bbc3 because its not another pointless "look at them getting drunk! look at them!" show (those are weird in themselves because they are oddly prudish considering the subject matter), id imagine a ton of bbc3's target audience actually work in them.
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I love Nev. Hard to dislike him because he seems to really care about his workers. I feel sorry for the tea lady girl though. She's not the brightest and doesn't seem to know when she's being teased
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confirmed viacom buying channel 5. richard desmond making out like a bandit on the deal. don't suppose they can make it much worse
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Has there ever been a quality show on that channel? I watched some Paul Merton travel doc years ago, but that was pretty pants to be honest (and I like Merton)
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WastedJoker posted:I love Nev. Hard to dislike him because he seems to really care about his workers. I think you see how much he cares when the woman in episode 2 who lost her son said she got given as much time as she wanted in compassionate leave.
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Someone has the daggers out for Clarkson. That slope thing last week and now the Eeny Meeny controversy. Feels like the Keys/Gray situation where someone was constantly releasing dodgy footage of them.
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WastedJoker posted:Someone has the daggers out for Clarkson. The BBC should probably sack Clarkson at this point, it looks pretty bad when you compare this with the recent issue of an NBA basketball team owner getting banned for life due to a racist comment. When America is more progressive than you, you've got some problems. I'm sure he'll survive this and future controversies though.
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There's a world of difference between saying you don't want your girlfriend to associate with black people and accidentally mumbling the bad word in a very well-known rhyme though. It's not like he said, "I'll have a can of friend of the family, I mean, Tango please" either - the word is in the rhyme and it could easily slip out even (or especially) if you're focusing on not saying it.
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I honestly can't imagine accidentally saying that, even if it is part of a rhyme. Especially if you work in broadcasting. He would probably be fired if this happened in America.
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Cerv posted:confirmed viacom buying channel 5. ftfy
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Blaisedell posted:I honestly can't imagine accidentally saying that, even if it is part of a rhyme. Especially if you work in broadcasting. He would probably be fired if this happened in America. Yeah, to say it accidentally would require you to use the racist version of the rhyme as standard. Which in and of itself means you have problems.
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According to Clarkson they recorded that bit a few times, twice with him mumbling through it and one time using the word "teacher" instead. I don't know why he wouldn't have always done this rather than trying to obscure a racist word. I was always taught it with the word "tinker" instead personally.
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