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Irisi posted:I like the side characters more than the main character, who is an utter drip. No idea what all these women see in him. I find the main character is like, supposed to be the typical "pretty boy", and every piece of the puzzle is there except the piece that's supposed to represent his face. He has this weird mouth area that just makes him look goofy
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pressedbunny posted:A video of the Chuckle Brothers and you're questioning the relevance of Tinchy Stryder? HAHAHA seriously But Stryder was awesome back in 05, when grime beats were made on a playstation music creation disk. I'm so nostalgic about those days
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Oct 24, 2014 14:34
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pressedbunny posted:Wasn't the smaller Chuckle Brother had up for dogging or sumint? I recall something about him getting beaten up by the husband of a woman he was shagging at a service station. This is where I get to repeat the rumour that a friend of an old girlfriend claimed that she meet the little one at party and hosed him. Which i've never believed to be honest, I mean what sort of party do you go to where the little chuckle brother is just hanging out in the kitchen...?
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Oct 24, 2014 18:39
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Just saw Cameron on my television feigning a hissy fit. This is the man whose biggest selling point is his prime ministerial gravitas?  I posted this in the wrong thread because I am retarded. Channel 4 News is great though. Amen. gorki fucked around with this message at 19:10 on Oct 24, 2014 |
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Oct 24, 2014 19:06
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I get all my news from the Wright Stuff and Question time.
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Oct 24, 2014 19:17
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Why has nobody adapted any Christopher Brookmyre books for TV?
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Oct 24, 2014 23:29
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Jose posted:Why has nobody adapted any Christopher Brookmyre books for TV? They did adapt Quite Ugly One Morning, a few years ago. James Nesbit was horribly miscast as the journalist Jack Parlabane. They're great fun as books, but I think the humour comes mainly from the dry, dark-hued style of writing and main characters' inner thoughts. Not sure how well they would work as a TV drama, some of the situations Parlabane and DeXavia come up against would come across as embarrassing farce if played straight on screen. You would need a really, really top-notch screenwriter and director to get the tone right, and get the dialogue spot on; what works well on a page would come across as a preachy, sub-Charlie Brooker style rant on screen. And you'd also need a budget of about £16 million per episode, especially for a novel like A Big Boy Done It and Ran Away, with its' hilariously incompetent terrorist destruction of a hydroelectric power plant, or the one where the oil platform/school reunion goes horribly, horribly wrong.
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Oct 24, 2014 23:58
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So in that detecorists show about the guys who use metal detectors, am I meant to feel sorry for Mackenzie Crook's character? Because I really don't.
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Oct 25, 2014 10:08
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It is pretty drat predictable too. They'll find the drat Saxon King burial site but somehow be hosed over half of the stuff because the impossibly attractive young lady hanging around with them is a plant for their rivals. Also, Crooks character will wake the gently caress up about the pregnancy/cheating thing. Calling it now.
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Oct 25, 2014 15:28
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Have any other panel guests ever come out and talk about how poo poo it is to guest on Mock the Week. I was watching old episodes and I noticed that after a season or two most recurring guests never return.
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Oct 25, 2014 18:12
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pentyne posted:Have any other panel guests ever come out and talk about how poo poo it is to guest on Mock the Week. I was watching old episodes and I noticed that after a season or two most recurring guests never return. Yep. quote:
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Oct 25, 2014 18:45
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pentyne posted:Have any other panel guests ever come out and talk about how poo poo it is to guest on Mock the Week. I was watching old episodes and I noticed that after a season or two most recurring guests never return. Russel Howard's Good News is back though, which is good news, he's great.
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Oct 25, 2014 19:06
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Irisi posted:They did adapt Quite Ugly One Morning, a few years ago. James Nesbit was horribly miscast as the journalist Jack Parlabane. Almost as bad as the time they cast David Jason as Rincewind
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Oct 25, 2014 19:28
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Jose posted:Almost as bad as the time they cast David Jason as Rincewind Also as Albert in Hogfather.
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Oct 25, 2014 19:39
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What about when they cast nick frost as john self in Money
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Oct 25, 2014 19:42
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chippocrates posted:Also as Albert in Hogfather. I thought that casting was alright.
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Oct 25, 2014 20:10
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Going to check out some of the non-Rincewind Discworld specials. Charles Dance as Vetinari seems utterly perfect.
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BizarroAzrael posted:Going to check out some of the non-Rincewind Discworld specials. Charles Dance as Vetinari seems utterly perfect. I was pretty surprised at how good the Going Postal special was. I expected some cheap adaptation but it was actually pretty good. Plus, Charles Dance is the perfect benevolent dictator.
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Oct 25, 2014 20:18
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there's a new storyville on iPlayer, called The Condemned, about a Russian prison, set in a forest larger than Germany, 7 hours from the nearest city, which houses only murderers. nice place. lol. (it's very good)
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Oct 25, 2014 21:00
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BizarroAzrael posted:Going to check out some of the non-Rincewind Discworld specials. Charles Dance as Vetinari seems utterly perfect. I don't remember much of anything else from Going Postal or whichever one it was, but yeah, he is perfect for that role.
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Oct 25, 2014 21:14
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Given Vetinari's description in the novels, I would have instantly said Charles Dance or Tim Curry to play him. And since Tim Curry was already cast as Trymon, all's the better.
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Shelf Adventure posted:So in that detecorists show about the guys who use metal detectors, am I meant to feel sorry for Mackenzie Crook's character? Because I really don't. I'm really enjoying it so far. Like the other poster said, its a little predictable, but its still funny watching the main characters have absolutely no awareness of the obvious things going on around them. Its beautifully shot too. And it has Toby loving Jones.
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Oct 26, 2014 12:17
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Hijo Del Helmsley posted:Given Vetinari's description in the novels, I would have instantly said Charles Dance or Tim Curry to play him. They cast Jeremy Irons as Vetinari in the Colour of Magic which was spot on, and then he referred to Rincewind as a "little scamp" or something which totally ruined it immediately.
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Oct 26, 2014 15:47
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The Colour Of Magic was a poo poo show from the moment go. Clearly they got people who didn't really 'get' the books. I've only seen the promo stuff and a few bits on YouTube mind but I never want to loving see it in full as it sounds like a train wreck.
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Oct 26, 2014 15:58
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Julio Cruz posted:They cast Jeremy Irons as Vetinari in the Colour of Magic which was spot on, and then he referred to Rincewind as a "little scamp" or something which totally ruined it immediately. yeah irons was the better fit for that part, in my own opinion. the whole thing was ruined by David Jason as the protagonist, as previously mentioned, even though that casting was apparently the only way pratchett would let it happen at all. I didn't enjoy any of the Sky Discworld offerings.
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Oct 26, 2014 16:02
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I didn't seek them out despite loving the Discworld books when I was younger since I assumed any Sky original programming would be terrible. Sounds like I made the right choice.
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Oct 26, 2014 16:14
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Hogfather and Going Postal are okay, I watched and enjoyed them to a degree. TCM though is simply awful, go watch the cheesy Channel 4 Wyrd Sisters animated adaption instead.
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Oct 26, 2014 16:45
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SeanBeansShako posted:Hogfather and Going Postal are okay, I watched and enjoyed them to a degree. TCM though is simply awful, go watch the cheesy Channel 4 Wyrd Sisters animated adaption instead. I had no idea this even existed, is it on 4od?
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stickyfngrdboy posted:I had no idea this even existed, is it on 4od? Not sure, I found it and Soul Music on the YouTube a few years back. The animation style is kind of off for Soul Music but still good fun.
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Oct 26, 2014 16:56
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There's a really good dispatches lined up tonight, all about the dole. 8pm on Channel 4
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Also, while watching Wild China with the boyf last night, I saw it was filmed before the Beijing games, which is 6 years ago now 
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Oct 27, 2014 17:42
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Did you know: time passes. Messed up but true.
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Oct 27, 2014 18:24
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Well thanks Anton Chekhov but I've been talking about it for weeks as though its the next big under the radar hit
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Oct 27, 2014 18:32
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A few in this thread were losing their mind over the twists and turns of I, Claudius when it was repeated. The series is available in its entirety on youtube.
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Has anyone watched supernatural on channel bbc4, its like one of those porn series from eurotrash but without the porn
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Burqa King posted:Has anyone watched supernatural on channel bbc4, its like one of those porn series from eurotrash but without the porn Youre not selling it to me tbh
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Oct 27, 2014 20:35
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Eurotrash had something other than porn?
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Oct 27, 2014 21:07
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There was also honest smut, and occasionally music with smutty lyrics. And uh... nope, pretty much everything else was about fetishes as far as I remember. Fetishes, odd europop and Jean Paul Gaultier.
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pressedbunny posted:Eurotrash had something other than porn? Eurotrash and the Channel 5 pornos were highly popular things to discuss when I was at school.
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