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Oh god, I Bought A Rainforest on iPlayer is one of the most depressing programmes I've ever watched. Interesting - but so dispiriting.
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Searching for Sugarman's on there too, which apparently was really good.
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Jun 1, 2014 22:58
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Mr. Squishy posted:Searching for Sugarman's on there too, which apparently was really good. It's a fantastically well made documentary but a load of the claims they make in it don't quite add up.
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cloudchamber posted:It's a fantastically well made documentary but a load of the claims they make in it don't quite add up. He was massive in Australia in the 80s, apparently. Didn't know about his fame in SA but he was hardly an unknown, either.
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Jun 2, 2014 00:29
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stickyfngrdboy posted:He was massive in Australia in the 80s, apparently. Didn't know about his fame in SA but he was hardly an unknown, either. He was bug enough in Australia that his record company released a recording of one of his tours which mentions his South African fame in the sleeve notes: http://sugarman.org/alive.html#sleeve posted:The buyer demand generated by this airplay simply could not be met. Sussex had long gone bankrupt and, after warehouse stocks in America and South Africa were exhausted, import stores were turning away hundreds of willing purchasers. As word of mouth enhanced the popularity of the singer/songwriter and his bleak observations of hopelessness, a giant cassette network sprang up with friends taping their taped copy for friends who then ...
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Jun 2, 2014 00:38
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Yeah, it's a shame that there are some bits that didn't seem real. It's still pretty interesting, though. The director died recently 
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Jun 2, 2014 02:44
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Yermaw Zahoor posted:http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p01zfq9r/matt-berry-lone-wolf#group=p01zv79p Somebody please commission this for a full series of 60 minute episodes.
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Jun 2, 2014 04:11
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Oh my god it's back. The single worst TV show EVER commissioned has returned for a second series. Ladies and children first into the shelters, because it's the second coming of all that is wrong. Badults is back.
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Jun 2, 2014 21:58
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Hijo Del Helmsley posted:Oh my god it's back. I couldn't remember what this was and i realised my mind must have subconsciously wiped all memory of this terrible show because it was that terrible
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Jun 2, 2014 22:01
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Hijo Del Helmsley posted:The single worst TV show EVER... I don't know man, have you watched Ejector Seat yet?
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Jun 2, 2014 22:02
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Hijo Del Helmsley posted:Oh my god it's back. I knew it's going to be Badults from the first sentence. That's not good at all. 
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Jun 2, 2014 22:14
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Yeah well Ray Mears is on at the same time so it's not hard to avoid.
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Jun 2, 2014 22:15
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Hijo Del Helmsley posted:Oh my god it's back. Things like this make me glad I made sure to not watch it after reading in this very thread how bad it was. I wouldn't have thought anything that bad would get a second series, but shows what I know I guess.
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Jun 2, 2014 22:23
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Did anyone watch the last episode of The Island? It was pretty good but they had a summary reel at the end and its a bit wtf; why didn't you show them building the drat rafts, crab pots or table!
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Jun 3, 2014 11:21
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Sri.Theo posted:Did anyone watch the last episode of The Island? It was pretty good but they had a summary reel at the end and its a bit wtf; why didn't you show them building the drat rafts, crab pots or table! Yeah that was annoying, I just figured that none of them had actually filmed anyone making that stuff. A shame either way.
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Jun 3, 2014 16:46
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They had 28 days worth of footage to fit into six forty-five minute episodes, there just wasn't enough time I guess. I'd have liked it to have been longer, I was surprised to realise that it was the final episode yesterday.
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Big Finish Productions, a British company specializing in audio plays that include Doctor Who and Blake’s 7, is releasing a four episode “season” of original audio episodes for the 1970’s series Survivors by Terry Nation. The series was about a plague that wipes out most of the civilized world and focuses on survivors in England and Scotland. I ordered a copy because I’m a sucker for end-of-the-world stories and would be happy to post a review of it for this thread if anyone’s interested. It comes out at the end of June.
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Jun 4, 2014 14:18
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Badults may be bad, but it's no Coming of Age. 
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Jun 4, 2014 14:24
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lionlegs posted:Oh god, I Bought A Rainforest on iPlayer is one of the most depressing programmes I've ever watched. Interesting - but so dispiriting. I watched the first episode but I couldn't bear how pompous, naive and overwhelmingly middle-class the guy is. I did like how the actual rainforest scientist he went to see completely called him out on his imperialism and childish ideas (not to his face, of course, that wouldn't be British). I just cannot believe he literally thought all he had to do to prevent logging in an underfunded national park was to buy the bit of forest that connects it to the main road and put a no entry sign up.
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Jun 4, 2014 15:53
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Yermaw Zahoor posted:http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p01zfq9r/matt-berry-lone-wolf#group=p01zv79p The way Matt Berry says 'pictures' leaves me weak at the knees...when BBC Four finally comes to their senses and commissions that history documentary off me at last, I will request, nay, demand that Matt Berry narrate it.
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CobiWann posted:Big Finish Productions, a British company specializing in audio plays that include Doctor Who and Blake’s 7, is releasing a four episode “season” of original audio episodes for the 1970’s series Survivors by Terry Nation. The series was about a plague that wipes out most of the civilized world and focuses on survivors in England and Scotland. I was a massive fan of the original series (not so much the remake), so I'd be interested. The series was pretty good, not just for portraying an england that never was after an apocalypse but in the way it was quite happy to kill off any character at the drop of a hat, usually in horrible ways. Puts some modern American shows to shame.
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The thread appears to harbour a considerable amount of love for Matt Berry and therefore may enjoy this bizarre music video that he features in for the track Reset by the awesome Three Trapped Tigers.
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CobiWann posted:Big Finish Productions, a British company specializing in audio plays that include Doctor Who and Blake’s 7, is releasing a four episode “season” of original audio episodes for the 1970’s series Survivors by Terry Nation. The series was about a plague that wipes out most of the civilized world and focuses on survivors in England and Scotland. Yes please because the recent remake was shite!
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Jun 5, 2014 17:14
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WastedJoker posted:I don't work for the BBC but I do provide technical support for them. Very interesting.
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Jun 5, 2014 22:02
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CobiWann posted:Big Finish Productions, a British company specializing in audio plays that include Doctor Who and Blake’s 7, is releasing a four episode “season” of original audio episodes for the 1970’s series Survivors by Terry Nation. The series was about a plague that wipes out most of the civilized world and focuses on survivors in England and Scotland. By 'end of June' read 'today'. Because Big Finish are a fickle god and release poo poo whenever they feel like.
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Kraxis posted:The thread appears to harbour a considerable amount of love for Matt Berry and therefore may enjoy this bizarre music video that he features in for the track Reset by the awesome Three Trapped Tigers. matt berry and three trapped tigers loving own
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Jun 5, 2014 23:03
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Kraxis posted:The thread appears to harbour a considerable amount of love for Matt Berry and therefore may enjoy this bizarre music video that he features in for the track Reset by the awesome Three Trapped Tigers. I'm not a fan of Matt Berry, and incase you were wondering I dont find him attractive
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Gaz-L posted:By 'end of June' read 'today'. Because Big Finish are a fickle god and release poo poo whenever they feel like. I know, just when I was about to buy some of their Blake's 7 stuff too.
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CobiWann posted:I know, just when I was about to buy some of their Blake's 7 stuff too. Where's my Benny Summerfield/Doctor Who crossover, BF?! 
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I'm watching the 'Welcome to Rio' series on BBC Iplayer and I have reached two conclusions. 1) The new BBC Iplayer is the biggest load of poo poo ever, why fix what wasn't broken? 2) The narration in this show is really bad. It's written from the perspective of the Favela residents, but the voice doesn't match up at all - And it's incredibly condescending, basically labeling the viewer as a 'dumb tourist'. There's a real disconnect to the viewer here and I'm not sure why they went with this angle.
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Supernorn posted:I'm watching the 'Welcome to Rio' series on BBC Iplayer and I have reached two conclusions. I watched this the other day and feel exactly the same way. What should have been an interesting insight was just irritating enough to make me not give a poo poo about any of it.
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Supernorn posted:I'm watching the 'Welcome to Rio' series on BBC Iplayer and I have reached two conclusions. I like the new actual video playing improvements. The navigation is terrible though.
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Jun 8, 2014 02:13
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WastedJoker posted:I like the new actual video playing improvements.
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Well yeah but they used to be in a nice list and you could look through, might be something you forgot about or wanted to see. Its poo poo.
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Jun 8, 2014 14:01
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There is still a list that you can look through. It's just formatted differently. You can even get a full a-z list of everything in a category just like you always could.
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Dicky B posted:What are you having trouble with because I just type the name of the program i want in the search box and then i watch it. It's a lovely redesign made to cater to ipads and mobile devices. On desktop it wastes tons of real-estate - both the left and right sides of the site are totally empty, with useful features instead hidden away that require you to go to a new page. The 'What's Popular' section is relegated to a tiny horizontal section, and is limited to 5 programmes. The schedule isn't on the front page anymore either, which is a bit annoying. I don't particularly agree with the 'less is more' route they've gone with it. The previous layout was way easier to navigate because everything you needed was immediately there. Kernel Monsoon fucked around with this message at 18:18 on Jun 8, 2014 |
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Supernorn posted:It's a lovely redesign made to cater to ipads and mobile devices. On desktop it wastes tons of real-estate - both the left and right sides of the site are totally empty, with useful features instead hidden away that require you to go to a new page. The 'What's Popular' section is relegated to a tiny horizontal section, and is limited to 5 programmes. The schedule isn't on the front page anymore either, which is a bit annoying. I don't particularly agree with the 'less is more' route they've gone with it. The previous layout was way easier to navigate because everything you needed was immediately there.
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Oh. The way someone complains about it every other page of this thread had me thinking there was some fundamental functionality that had been removed or something. This is all really nitpicky and doesn't matter at all.
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Dicky B posted:Oh. The way someone complains about it every other page of this thread had me thinking there was some fundamental functionality that had been removed or something. This is all really nitpicky and doesn't matter at all.
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