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Horizon's 50 years old apparently. There's a fair bit on the iplayer right now, one of my favourites is a one on one interview with Richard Feynman in the early 80's. Link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p018dvyg/horizon-19811982-9-the-pleasure-of-finding-things-out. Honestly the amount of directorial padding in the more modern ones is almost upsetting; if filmed today it would be full of loads of close ups of eyes, ears, half framed heads and blurred things.
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Josh Lyman posted:I've been watching 8 out of 10 Cats Does Countdown and I think I'm in love with Rachel Riley. Isn't she paired with Joe Wilkinson on 24 Hours To Go Broke? Thought I'd give it a look.
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May 23, 2014 22:09
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loving hell, time hasn't been kind to the Fast Show. This is tripe.
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May 23, 2014 22:19
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goatface posted:Glasgow, get the train every day. Yeah, this is the best option, my cousins come and stay with me in Glasgow and travel over to Edinburgh for the Fringe a couple days every year. Trains and buses shuttle between the cities every ten minutes during the day, and every hour or so at night. Much cheaper, and you don't end up in jail for headbutting the millionth person who tries to shove a bloody flyer in your face while you're walking through the streets.
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May 23, 2014 22:42
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Yeah my mum's upstairs neighbour was a student flat, the landlord kicked the students out over the summer and was making an absolute fortune renting it out to festival types. Thousands for your bog standard shabbily furnished tenement student flat. Some theatre group stayed there one year and had a party and puked out the window into my mum's garden.
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May 23, 2014 22:53
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I thought penny dreadful was awful.
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May 23, 2014 22:55
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Irisi posted:Yeah, this is the best option, my cousins come and stay with me in Glasgow and travel over to Edinburgh for the Fringe a couple days every year. Trains and buses shuttle between the cities every ten minutes during the day, and every hour or so at night. Much cheaper, and you don't end up in jail for headbutting the millionth person who tries to shove a bloody flyer in your face while you're walking through the streets. Looking online it seems like the average train cost is about about £25 return, does that seem about right? What about bus travel times? Sorry to ask lots of questions.
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May 23, 2014 22:57
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stickyfngrdboy posted:I thought penny dreadful was awful. Better or worse than the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen movie? I'm still tempted to watch it. PriorMarcus posted:Looking online it seems like the average train cost is about about £25 return, does that seem about right? Buses are very regular, you can get a Citylink or a Megabus from Buchanan Street bus station to St Andrews Square very easily. That's what I did when I was a student living in Glasgow returning home to visit. Significantly cheaper than the train and not much longer a journey.
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May 23, 2014 23:02
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marktheando posted:Buses are very regular, you can get a Citylink or a Megabus from Buchanan Street bus station to St Andrews Square very easily. That's what I did when I was a student living in Glasgow returning home to visit. Significantly cheaper than the train and not much longer a journey. Yup, this is the way to go. Megabus do a daily return from Glasgow to Edinburgh for a quid, and it's only an hour on the bus.
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May 23, 2014 23:09
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Ddraig posted:loving hell, time hasn't been kind to the Fast Show. This is tripe. I loved it. I was in my 20s when it was first on and it was a proper TV event, promptly followed by hitting the pub/club, and I felt that was the only bit missing tonight (because I'm old) What did make me feel sad was seeing Mark Williams presenting some poo poo quiz show the other day. He used to drink in the pub I ran in Brighton and was a top fella, I did a double take seeing him on that shite. --EDit-- Fringe/Fest talk- I live in Dunfermline which is about 30 minutes on the train (fiver) and costs gently caress all for festival rental/hotel Yermaw Zahoor fucked around with this message at 23:14 on May 23, 2014 |
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May 23, 2014 23:12
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PriorMarcus posted:Looking online it seems like the average train cost is about about £25 return, does that seem about right? On the Glasgow to Edinburgh journey we used the Megabus. It left Glasgow Buchanan bus station every 45 mins or so, took about an hour and if you booked a month in advance it cost the princely sum of £1.50, which leaves much more money for beer and chips at the festival. On the way back from Edinburgh we took the Megabus back if we were going home before midnight or after 8 in the morning. If we were making a full night of it we had to take the notorious 0500 hours early morning train and it cost about thirteen quid for a single, so £25 sounds about right, yeah. Oh, and Penny Dreadful was daft, but Timothy Dalton chewed all the scenery quite delightfully, and Eva Green is always worth watching too. Worth a look if you're not in the mood for anything too serious.
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May 23, 2014 23:12
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What about Billie Piper's Oirish accent? (full disclosure, I haven't watched it yet, it might fill my usual Monday GoT spot on NowTV this week, though)
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May 23, 2014 23:16
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marktheando posted:Better or worse than the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen movie? I'm still tempted to watch it. Give it a watch man, I was really looking forward to it but was hugely disappointed. Could be just me though.
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May 23, 2014 23:22
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Yermaw Zahoor posted:
The Link? It's like Only Connect for idiots. He's not very good at presenting it, either. (Was the pub the Lion + Lobster? Saw him in there a couple of times.)
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May 23, 2014 23:24
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stickyfngrdboy posted:Give it a watch man, I was really looking forward to it but was hugely disappointed. Could be just me though. I will. I was pretty much sold on it just because of Timothy Dalton and Eva Green.
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May 23, 2014 23:24
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Unkempt posted:The Link? It's like Only Connect for idiots. He's not very good at presenting it, either. It's terrible, and he's badly suited to it (though his suit was nice) Hope it's paying well Nah, the Coopers Cask, and the Hop Poles, oh and the Druids Arms and the Marine Tavern. I did see him in the lion & Lobster a lot though as it was right next to his house (my mates lived in the flat above, I wasn't stalking him, honest) I miss Brighton. Yermaw Zahoor fucked around with this message at 23:31 on May 23, 2014 |
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May 23, 2014 23:28
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Yermaw Zahoor posted:
Ha, I used to drink in the Cooper's all the time about ten years ago. Don't remember seeing him in there. (I miss Brighton too.)
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May 23, 2014 23:32
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Unkempt posted:Ha, I used to drink in the Cooper's all the time about ten years ago. Don't remember seeing him in there. I'm talking 1998-2000 (AKA the good old days) Back to TV, Have I Got News For You was good tonight. For real John Cooper Clark, Ross Noble and Kirsty Wark. Were all great, and Paul merton did some ace Smiths puns/jokes
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May 23, 2014 23:42
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Unkempt posted:The Link? It's like Only Connect for idiots. He's not very good at presenting it, either. Wait... why would you dumb down Only Connect? That's like doing Mastermind, but the questions are all Primary 5 level. Besides, we've got plenty of poo poo gameshows, like that one Ben Shephard does in early evening on ITV with the giant coin pusher machine.
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May 24, 2014 00:40
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Gaz-L posted:Wait... why would you dumb down Only Connect? That's like doing Mastermind, but the questions are all Primary 5 level. Ah, so like Celebrity Mastermind.
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Mr. Squishy posted:Ah, so like Celebrity Mastermind. John Humphreys does kind of come off like the really polite teacher at Parents' Night in those. EDIT: VVV Just like my mum. Well, she actually likes it, but mostly because those kind of shows make her feel smart, as she can get most of the answers right.
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May 24, 2014 00:51
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Gaz-L posted:that one Ben Shephard does in early evening on ITV with the giant coin pusher machine. That one is really weird. Whenever I'm at my parent's house there seems to be some celebrity version featuring people from TOWIE and daytime TV. My mum says she hates it, but she keeps leaving it on...
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May 24, 2014 00:52
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The Chase is pretty good though, because it's gimmick is basically "Be smarter than this verified very smart person".
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May 24, 2014 01:10
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Pointless is by far the best game show. Ejector Seat is by far the worst.
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Hijo Del Helmsley posted:The Chase is pretty good though, because it's gimmick is basically "Be smarter than this verified very smart person". I thought it's gimmick was "what silly word can we slip into the questions and make Bradley 'I play a hardboiled copper in my other job' Walsh corpse?"
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PriorMarcus posted:Pointless is by far the best game show.  . They should give em a consaltion 500 quid or something surely.e: to explain if the person gets to the final round they must get a pointless answer to get the pot otherwise they get nothing. Seaside Loafer fucked around with this message at 06:24 on May 24, 2014 |
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May 24, 2014 06:19
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Seaside Loafer posted:I like it but people hardly ever actually win dont they which makes me sad The beautiful Pointless trophy is theirs to keep regardless 
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Gaz-L posted:like that one Ben Shephard does in early evening on ITV with the giant coin pusher machine. I've seen that, literally end-of-the-pier stuff.
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May 24, 2014 10:33
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Gaz-L posted:that one Ben Shephard does in early evening on ITV with the giant coin pusher machine. That's absolute rubbish, but if it's on, I have to watch it. It's just so ridiculous. Haven't seen ejector seat beyond a 5 second clip on YouTube. Is it as stupid as it seems? Hijo Del Helmsley posted:The Chase is pretty good though, because it's gimmick is basically "Be smarter than this verified very smart person". The Chase seems bloody difficult for teatime ITV. Seaside Loafer posted:I like it but people hardly ever actually win dont they which makes me sad It used to be a lot worse, before they had 3 questions within the final question.
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Mickolution posted:It used to be a lot worse, before they had 3 questions within the final question. Yeah, didn't Pointless go 22 straight episodes without a win once, so the jackpot was nudging £25000? Seem to recall the couple who won that jackpot just started cackling at each other. The money would be nice, but I really would go on it just to meet Armstrong and Osman, and get one of those delightful trophies. They're so pretty  And I like The Chase too, even if I find the early rounds a wee bit repetitive. The smart quiz chaser people are all genuinely a little bit terrifying. Especially the lady who looks like Miss Trunchbull out of Roald Dahls' Matilda.
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For those who were asking about a 4od/adblock workaround, I just found one. - Disable adblock - Start the video playing - As soon as it starts buffering (spinny circle animation), re-enable adblock For me it jumps straight to the programme. I assume this works with all browsers but I'm using Firefox.
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Gaz-L posted:I thought it's gimmick was "what silly word can we slip into the questions and make Bradley 'I play a hardboiled copper in my other job' Walsh corpse?" I really like the chase. Definitely one of the better gameshows. It's like Eggheads but not poo poo. Bradley is also genuinely brilliant. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBslkRsvRng On the other extreme you have In it to win it which has some of the biggest idiots in the country. Apparently the Dish ran away with the Cow. Rush Limbo fucked around with this message at 19:58 on May 24, 2014 |
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^Jump to 11.00 in that video for the best example. Walsh is trying SO HARD not to break. And thanks to whoever posted about 8 Out of 10 Cats Countdown. I checked out a few eps on 4oD and Riley really does slot into the panel show aspect beautifully. Susie Dent just kinda does what she normally does on the main show, but Riley bounces off the guys really well. Gaz-L fucked around with this message at 23:07 on May 24, 2014 |
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May 24, 2014 23:04
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goatface posted:Glasgow, get the train every day. this is the correct answer but you could save some more and just not bother with accommodation. see the very late stand up showcase at teviot the acts are hit-or-miss but worth a shot and different every time. places are open all night. then the penny black opens at 5 or 6. catch the odd nap in princes st gardens if it's not raining & pop into the commonwealth pool to shower & freshen up during the day.
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Gaz-L posted:^Jump to 11.00 in that video for the best example. Walsh is trying SO HARD not to break. That might have been me. We bought tickets to see Jon Richardson next week purely from his showings on that Ina similar note thanks to everyone for the reccomend actions of uncle. It's a great piece of comedy with a bit of black Humour in there Boo to the people who recommended Fresh Meat tho. It's dire.
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goatface posted:Glasgow, get the train every day. This is a good suggestion, though Falkirk is much closer, though it's probably rubbish.
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Cerv posted:this is the correct answer This is what I attempted on my only visit to the festival, occasionally bumming around the flats that were rented by friends who were running shows, sleeping in cupboards etc. (literally) My friend had the masterstroke/good fortune of getting with a local lass on the first night and staying with her for the rest of the time. However by the end of the three days I was dead on my feet. It's definitely one way to experience the festival though.
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My daughters suddenly well into Blue Peter. It seems to be not terrible nowadays which is odd because I remember it being dull middle-class gash when I was a kid. Even if I did get a badge for getting my drawing on the wall. All the presenters seem to be all young and cool instead of wankers like Anthea Turner at least. EDIT: The kids seem to be as awkward as always. Krypt-OOO-Nite!! fucked around with this message at 12:23 on May 25, 2014 |
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May 25, 2014 12:19
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Krypt-OOO-Nite!! posted:My daughters suddenly well into Blue Peter. Charlie Brooker is both the luckiest guy in the world and the world's biggest bastard for marrying Konnie Huq. She was the only reason I'd watch Blue Peter.
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That moment when all the girls in the audience got up to dance with Pharrell on Graham Norton. CRINGE
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