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Friday's Graham Norton show was excellent. Meryl Streep is amazing and seemed to be having a blast.  James McAvoy and Mark Ruffalo also rode unicycles.
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Bogmonster posted:For what its worth, I thought the second and third series of that were much better, primarily because they god rid of the awful hollyoaks actress from the first series. I may just have terrible taste though. Yeah I got into it for the..third series maybe? Possibly the second actually. Anyway it was really good and I enjoyed it a lot.
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Anyone see the awful talent show the week before The Voice resumed? It was called something like 'I Did It Their Way' (except in a way that makes more sense) and featured hopefuls performing Frank Sinatra songs for the chance to go on some bad tour of other Frank Sinatra acts. It is to The Voice what Britain's Got Talent's singers are to X Factor. Only one real performance in them, and continued exposure would just yield diminishing returns. The part that got my goat the most was the piety of the contestants. The show had chosen to ignore all the MGM era Sinatra that he enjoyed most success with, and focus on the only Frank we ever hear about - the boozy, womanising Las Vegas mob associate. Yet, all contestants' VTs were somehow obliged to inform us how they are so HARD AT WORK and DEDICATED they don't have time to have a social life or enjoy any of the pursuits so associated with the fetishised depiction of Frank Sinatra. What followed were some bland acts and some smarmy acts and it was all too much for me to watch it till the end. This obsession with how much effort everyone makes, and how none of it is spontaneous is the opposite of how you make stars. X Factor 2014 second placer Fleur East today, having signed a record deal, was quoted as saying 'Now the hard work really starts!'. Who cares? Come into our world like an alien from another planet, not like you had work yourself to the bone just to catch the bus to Fame Island. It's why no one wears tshirts with Alan Turing's face on.
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I saw that while I was at my parent's house. They were bad. They were meant to be doing it in their own style, but about two thirds of them just sounded like they were on Stars in Their Eyes and trying to do an impression.
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twoot posted:Friday's Graham Norton show was excellent. Meryl Streep is amazing and seemed to be having a blast. To be fair, who wouldn't swoon for the Streep?
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I've watched: Luther The Fall The Game Sherlock Shadow Line Hunted The Hour Red Riding Any other great British drama series that have come along in the past 5 years worth checking out? PaybackJack fucked around with this message at 14:28 on Jan 13, 2015 |
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Jan 12, 2015 18:17
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If you liked The Shadow Line, Hugo Blick the writer/director/producer did another recently, An Honourable Women, which is about Israel/Palastine. It's very much the same, maybe a bit better.
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PaybackJack posted:I've watched: I'd add Southcliffe to that list, but be aware that its pretty harrowing.
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Mr. Squishy posted:If you liked The Shadow Line, Hugo Blick the writer/director/producer did another recently, An Honourable Women, which is about Israel/Palastine. It's very much the same, maybe a bit better. Wait, people didn't like The Shadow Line? That was awesome. Bogmonster posted:I'd add Southcliffe to that list, but be aware that its pretty harrowing. Sounds good.
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I don't know if I'm more offended by Ken Morley's language or his son's grammar.
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PaybackJack posted:I've watched: Broadchurch! Series 2 just started! (Speaking of, is there a thread for it? I couldn't find one.  )Also, not from within the past 5 years, but State of Play was very good and had a great cast! thexerox123 fucked around with this message at 03:05 on Jan 13, 2015 |
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I really enjoyed What Remains, a miniseries on BBC One with an amazing cast about a murder in a big house in which lots of different people live. Really creepy and awesome, if a touch melodramatic. (But that's what we all love, right?)
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thexerox123 posted:Also, not from within the past 5 years, but State of Play was very good and had a great cast! Red Riding, a mini-series of 3 films was also pretty good (and seems more relevant now than it did then.) Might get you down a bit though..
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Black Mirror is not a traditional drama but well worth watching if you haven't seen it. Also Utopia, unless you don't like blood.
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Jonnty posted:Red Riding, a mini-series of 3 films was also pretty good (and seems more relevant now than it did then.) Might get you down a bit though.. Both are dope though.
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If you're into crime, Messiah's a bit older but well worth it.
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People also dug The Missing, but as it's about an abducted child, I wrote it off as too depressing to consider watching.
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Are people genuinely enjoying Still Open All Hours, or is it just a case of nostalgia mixed with happiness that David Jason is still working? The whole thing feels like Roy Clarke was frozen at the end of the original run and thawed out to write this. It just feels awfully dated, but I guess that's its charm? It was a struggle to watch the first episode, all the jokes were tired and the inclusion of the 'yoof character' felt unbelievably forced and out of place.
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Still Open All Hours is David Jason's way of getting revenge for Ronnie Barker saying he would never be a leading man.
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EL BROMANCE posted:Are people genuinely enjoying Still Open All Hours, or is it just a case of nostalgia mixed with happiness that David Jason is still working? The whole thing feels like Roy Clarke was frozen at the end of the original run and thawed out to write this. It just feels awfully dated, but I guess that's its charm? It was a struggle to watch the first episode, all the jokes were tired and the inclusion of the 'yoof character' felt unbelievably forced and out of place. The latest private eye says this very thing. Apparently the original writers wrote the comeback, which might indicate why it feels dated.
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Jan 13, 2015 12:57
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PaybackJack posted:I've watched: Black Mirror Utopia
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Gorn Myson posted:If he can make it through Southcliffe, he can definitely make it through Red Riding. I have seen Red Riding. I actually didn't like it very much. Not the content, I just didn't find it as compelling as the other shows on my list.
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Inside Men was pretty good, although I missed the last episode. About a mint robbery. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWGCVlFB-CA
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Got a 4-DVD set of The Tripods, the BBC '84-5 sci-fi series. It isn't worth a thread on its own but I'll do an effort post in this thread if enough of you request one. 
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Josef K. Sourdust posted:Got a 4-DVD set of The Tripods, the BBC '84-5 sci-fi series. It isn't worth a thread on its own but I'll do an effort post in this thread if enough of you request one. I bloody loved those books as a kid, go for it
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PaybackJack posted:I've watched: Happy Valley and Line of Duty. BBC1 crime dramas from last year, if Sarah Lancashire and Keeley Hawes don't at least get nominated for a couple of BAFTAs I'll be appalled. Both turned in astonishing performances in both shows.
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Josef K. Sourdust posted:Got a 4-DVD set of The Tripods, the BBC '84-5 sci-fi series. It isn't worth a thread on its own but I'll do an effort post in this thread if enough of you request one. there were two things that scared the ever-living crap out of me as a kid. One was one of the big metal tentacles from one of the Tripods putting those metal squares on my head. The second was Thundercracker from Transformers popping up behind the trees in my back garden and blasting me to death
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Irisi posted:Happy Valley and Line of Duty. BBC1 crime dramas from last year, if Sarah Lancashire and Keeley Hawes don't at least get nominated for a couple of BAFTAs I'll be appalled. Both turned in astonishing performances in both shows. Definitely echo this. Both absolute crackers. Southcliffe and Honourable Woman are both fantastic too .
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justcola posted:About a mint robbery. Sound tres boring.
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justcola posted:Inside Men was pretty good, although I missed the last episode. About a mint robbery. Sounds interesting, you have to do this sort of thing at night, usually. Did they do it after eight?
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I Liked the This Is England tv show. Although I'm not sure how much someone not from the UK would appreciate it.
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There was a clip on the comedy central website with a story being told by Russell Kane. It was awful. Rather than a drunk person telling a story about a person or event that they were passionate and eager to talk about, and it being funny because they were drunk and "embellishing" it, it was a story about someone he didn't seem to give a toss about which was peppered with lol funny abusive wacky one-liners and it was totally outrageous because he was wasted lol. It may have just been him missing the point though.
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DaWolfey posted:There was a clip on the comedy central website with a story being told by Russell Kane. If this is going to be the case, not going to give a poo poo.
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DaWolfey posted:Russell Kane. That's all you needed to say. Guy is a total twat.
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It'd be a drat sight better if they actually got comedians with an interest in history. I'd love to see Al Murray do it. Or David Mitchell.
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Junkenstein posted:Looks like a British Drunk History started this week. Any good? Rob Beckett was funny, but the story he was telling was so messed up to begin with it wasn't hard. Hijo Del Helmsley posted:It'd be a drat sight better if they actually got comedians with an interest in history. I think a blind- drunk David Mitchell trying to talk about history would be the greatest thing ever put to screen.
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