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Personally, I'm in the middle of applying for a dating show just so i can tell goons about it, but not mention which one, so that I can gain external validation when goons latch on to the most dashing and erudite man around, and assume that he's me based on my post history.
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According to Digital Spy, Brian Blessed has been cast as Stephen Toast's dad in the upcoming Series 3. Fire the nuclear weapon, indeed. http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2015-09-29/brian-blessed-to-play-stevens-dad-in-the-hit-matt-berry-comedy-toast-of-london (Apologies if this has already been mentioned; I'm trying to catch up with this thread).
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Oct 18, 2015 20:19
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Ms Boods posted:According to Digital Spy, Brian Blessed has been cast as Stephen Toast's dad in the upcoming Series 3. The best TV news I have heard in a while. A whole episode should just be Berry and Blessed chewing all the scenery.
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Oct 18, 2015 20:21
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Nettle Soup posted:There was one come dine with me episode on a few years back where they had this absolutely vile gay bloke, he cooked first and then basically trolled for the rest of the week, and because he marked everyone low he ended up winning it. It was fantastic... I should find it again. there's a couple of weeks where voice over man makes a contestant redo all their marks on the last day because they've been deliberately marking everyone low to boost their own chances. it's a shite system and i'm embarrassed for the nation that they think viewers couldn't cope with a Condorcet method Strom Cuzewon posted:Personally, I'm in the middle of applying for a dating show just so i can tell goons about it, but not mention which one, so that I can gain external validation when goons latch on to the most dashing and erudite man around, and assume that he's me based on my post history.
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Oct 18, 2015 20:36
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Let's be honest, we all secretly wish we were on Take Me Out, don't we?
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Oct 18, 2015 21:10
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Strom Cuzewon posted:Personally, I'm in the middle of applying for a dating show just so i can tell goons about it, but not mention which one, so that I can gain external validation when goons latch on to the most dashing and erudite man around, and assume that he's me based on my post history. I immediately guessed Take Me Out too. *turns off light*
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Oct 18, 2015 21:19
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Rarity posted:Let's be honest, we all secretly wish we were on Take Me Out, don't we? We convinced our flatmate to be on TMO, the producers loved him, but he backed out at the last minute because they wanted him to play violin as his talent. He's really lovely at the violin, but still what a wasted opportunity. Apparently everyone gets laid at the afterparty either way
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Oct 18, 2015 21:20
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Rarity posted:Let's be honest, we all secretly wish we were on Take Me Out, don't we? I did apply for it but never heard back 
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Oct 18, 2015 21:32
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SeanBeansShako posted:The best TV news I have heard in a while. A whole episode should just be Berry and Blessed chewing all the scenery. I would be very happy with a Stephen Toast satnav; I know there are Brian Blessed ones. Although, admittedly, they would stop being funny in situations where I was well and truly lost/hosed, like last week when I ended up in the middle of Portsmouth when I meant to go around the fucker. (It was a lot like that scene in Clueless where the girl learning to drive accidently gets onto the interstate).
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Oct 18, 2015 21:40
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WeAreTheRomans posted:they wanted him to play violin as his talent. He's really lovely at the violin, but still what a wasted opportunity. Maybe he shouldn't have told them he could play violin. Unless one of you told them. That wasn't very nice.
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Oct 18, 2015 21:45
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Steve2911 posted:Maybe he shouldn't have told them he could play violin. I think he realised that afterwards. Weird thing is he used to play football for a living so I'm sure he could have just done some keepy-uppies or something, but I guess forward planning is not his forté
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Oct 18, 2015 22:35
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Paperhouse posted:I did apply for it but never heard back I've heard they don't accept former Apprentice contestants.
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Oct 18, 2015 22:55
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netally posted:I immediately guessed Take Me Out too. Why must you hurt me so. TMO is right out because I have no demonstrable talents. Unless I can just rant about Batman, which I've actually had a lot of success with.
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Oct 19, 2015 00:30
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There was a guy on CDWM last week (It was the same episode with Blobby Williams) who was absolutely vile. He was just an Alpha Male, moaning about all the food and asserting himself by pretending to have 'banter' with the group which was basically just him making constant fat jokes. When it was his turn for dinner he presented Blobby with a Pig mask to wear, then had the gall to claim that he was really a very loving person and that he was just trying to make things interesting. I would usually feel sorry for someone who was clearly so insecure in themselves that they have to go bullying everyone, but he was just nasty. It also made me wonder why they haven't put all of these worst people together in an episode yet either.
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Oct 19, 2015 09:41
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Mr. Squishy posted:Last night I watched half of River, which seems to be a show about an old man cop (he's got shelves filled with LPs, and needed his young partner to set up a television for him) but he's schizophrenic. Or maybe psychic, I'm not sure. He's constantly seeing dead people, which is obviously a help when you're trying to solve their murder. And Eddie Marsan as some waxed moustached Victorian psycho. Everything about it seemed very off, like we're not meant to sympathize with the mean boss because he thinks that a constantly hallucinating DI should be off the streets. It was okay, but I'm certain we'll have Ghost of The Week for the next 4 weeks then the finale where River figures out his dead partner's brother knows what happened/had something to do with the murder. Then Wilson Wilson will die in time for series 2. Taear posted:My friend's hairdresser was on Dinner Date and won. She went on a few more dates with the guy but it turned out he was a bit strange and loved just doing everything on his own. A lot of the main contestants (those who get to pick the dates) seem to have media industry jobs and probably get on based on who they know. I've got a mate who does PR and she's always in Glamour and Elle and that as girl-stopped-randomly-on-the-street. With Dinner Date, I hate the indignity of the contestants who lose finding a meal for one at the door and being forced to eat it, microwaved, out of the tub. We can't just have a winner, we must have LOSERS. NO ONE WANTS YOU LOSERS YOU MUST DINE AND DIE ALONE. Also it took me getting in trouble 3 times before I realised I shouldn't put my views on the men of Dinner Date on twitter, because they are all vanity searching bastards and will be in touch in short order.
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Oct 19, 2015 12:58
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I used to work in the media, so a lot of my friends are in the industry. I'm always seeing facebook posts or getting e-mails like 'Who wants to be on so and so lovely reality show? You'll get free wine and get to be on TV!!!!' They've always got dozens of replies from wannabe model types who will do anything for a few more Instagram followers. So, yeah, most shows aren't representative of the general population. Dinner Date is sad but addictive. They could at least treat them to a nice Waitrose ready meal at the end.
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Oct 20, 2015 16:20
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netally posted:I used to work in the media, so a lot of my friends are in the industry. I'm always seeing facebook posts or getting e-mails like 'Who wants to be on so and so lovely reality show? You'll get free wine and get to be on TV!!!!' They've always got dozens of replies from wannabe model types who will do anything for a few more Instagram followers. So, yeah, most shows aren't representative of the general population. I got an email once asking if I wanted to be the victim in a hidden camera show 
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Oct 21, 2015 15:02
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Padje posted:I got an email once asking if I wanted to be the victim in a hidden camera show And...?
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Oct 21, 2015 17:28
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Padje posted:With Dinner Date, I hate the indignity of the contestants who lose finding a meal for one at the door and being forced to eat it, microwaved, out of the tub. We can't just have a winner, we must have LOSERS. NO ONE WANTS YOU LOSERS YOU MUST DINE AND DIE ALONE. I'd have a nice homecooked meal in the fridge to reheat the instant the cameras buggered off, personally.
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Oct 21, 2015 18:40
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There's also that once you're on as a contestant for one of these shows you're 'in the system' and get invites to others. My friend who was on UC started getting asked to Only Connect, for instance.
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Oct 21, 2015 19:25
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Red Oktober posted:There's also that once you're on as a contestant for one of these shows you're 'in the system' and get invites to others. My friend who was on UC started getting asked to Only Connect, for instance. There only seems to be like... 5 people total that I've ever seen on Only Connect. Maybe it's just a certain type of nerd just looks like a werid, formless egg to me. I definitely recognised a beardy dude from UC though. I think his uni/college won
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Oct 21, 2015 20:32
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I like to watch Only Connect tho it never makes sense to me. My other half once said its the only quiz show where she doesnt feel like she learns anything, and actually feels stupider watching it.
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Oct 21, 2015 21:03
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The Big Taff Man posted:I like to watch Only Connect tho it never makes sense to me. My other half once said its the only quiz show where she doesnt feel like she learns anything, and actually feels stupider watching it. I love it for being the only show to have latin and Mortal Kombat in the same round. Also I'm loving how they've started getting clever with the questions - mulitlanguage missing vowels, homonym missing vowels, and the round two category that was "answers from the first round". It's like IWBTG, but in quiz form.
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Oct 21, 2015 21:50
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Gotta love a show that starts a series by reading a letter calling their use of Greek letters pretentious, before unveiling their new Egyptian Hyroglph based system.
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Oct 22, 2015 00:45
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Only Connect is so much harder than University Challenge, it actually feels like an achievement when you get something (other than in the missing letters round, obv).
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Oct 22, 2015 01:19
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I can usually solve half of the walls and get a few of the early round questions, but for some reason I'm like 100% on the missing vowels rounds. I could do that poo poo as a job
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Oct 22, 2015 08:38
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The Only Connect researchers come up with stuff that I really dig, like "64", "Sunshine", "World" and "Land" on the wall, and superhero secret identities. And that time the ArmsTech president from Metal Gear Solid made it in because his name, in common with the dwarf in R2-D2, was Kenneth Baker, but it wasn't made apparent that it was a reference to a fictional character.
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Oct 22, 2015 11:39
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WeAreTheRomans posted:And...? It was still an audition process, they wanted headshots, and one needed to go to london the next day. It wasn't that they wanted me specifically. My point was that TV is Dead Fake.
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Oct 22, 2015 12:16
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goatface posted:Some people just really want to be on the telly. I've been debating whether to mention this lady, as it feels a bit like bullying, but she really wants to get on TV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6dqsvPF9Q0 Check out her comedy videos where she introduces her many comedic characters: https://www.youtube.com/user/yoginiclare/videos
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BizarroAzrael posted:The Only Connect researchers come up with stuff that I really dig, like "64", "Sunshine", "World" and "Land" on the wall, and superhero secret identities. And that time the ArmsTech president from Metal Gear Solid made it in because his name, in common with the dwarf in R2-D2, was Kenneth Baker, but it wasn't made apparent that it was a reference to a fictional character. They had one at some point that was about vampires and one of the clues was from Castlevania. I also do what WeAreTheRomans does pretty much. A few from the first two rounds (if that), about half of the walls and then the last round is a piece of piss
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Padje posted:Also it took me getting in trouble 3 times before I realised I shouldn't put my views on the men of Dinner Date on twitter, because they are all vanity searching bastards and will be in touch in short order. I actually ended up getting in a fistfight in a pub over an episode of Come Dine in my city. Commented on one of the contestants, two days later her boyfriend's hunted me down and we're having a FUKKEN SQUARE GO YE oval office on the Mill Street taxi rank. Heeee-larious.
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LampkinsMateSteve posted:I've been debating whether to mention this lady, as it feels a bit like bullying, but she really wants to get on TV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6dqsvPF9Q0 Owch, that Edinburgh show where she's a character called Lady Tena is just painful to watch. I dunno whether there's an audience watching. I couldn't hear a single laugh.
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Oct 22, 2015 20:52
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First Dates is some compelling watching. The dudes are mostly complete berks, the ladies are mostly quite lovely, it's really all quite something despite being edited to loving death and beyond. Could do with more shots of the food though.
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Paperhouse posted:They had one at some point that was about vampires and one of the clues was from Castlevania. I also do what WeAreTheRomans does pretty much. A few from the first two rounds (if that), about half of the walls and then the last round is a piece of piss The last round is only sometimes a piece of piss. If it's a category I'm familiar with, I'll answer it as fast as I would be able to read normal text. But every now and then I'll sit there agonising for the entire round and not get a bloody thing.
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I think they stopped updating the Only Connect game a while ago, but at one point you could play the ones from the episodes at the same time. I think it's a bit easier when you can actually select the groups yourself instead of watching someone randomly stabbing at squares.
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Watching the teams gently caress around with the wall is the most infuriating thing ever, when they include things that clearly don't belong in the groups or they keep trying to select the same group of four that's already failed.
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WeAreTheRomans posted:First Dates is some compelling watching. The dudes are mostly complete berks, the ladies are mostly quite lovely, it's really all quite something despite being edited to loving death and beyond. Could do with more shots of the food though. The opera singer and the poshnerd was a tragedy last night. She viewed herself as a catch for him and was willing to go down to his level and he rejected her because he's a massive nerd who keeps asking people why he's single when his expectations are completely out of whack. XMNN posted:I think they stopped updating the Only Connect game a while ago, but at one point you could play the ones from the episodes at the same time. I think it's a bit easier when you can actually select the groups yourself instead of watching someone randomly stabbing at squares. Completely. You can't play that round at home when without trial and error, you don't know which of the 5 cheese names belong in the cheese group, and which one ends up being in the 'anagrams of titles bestowed by the Queen' (that would be Edam)
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Padje posted:The opera singer and the poshnerd was a tragedy last night. She viewed herself as a catch for him and was willing to go down to his level and he rejected her because he's a massive nerd who keeps asking people why he's single when his expectations are completely out of whack Yeah seriously that dude wasn't bad looking but his banter was just incredibly obnoxious and off-putting, I visibly cringed everytime he was onscreen
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WeAreTheRomans posted:Yeah seriously that dude wasn't bad looking but his banter was just incredibly obnoxious and off-putting, I visibly cringed everytime he was onscreen I thought he was hilarious, but I imagine he'd start to grate on your pretty quickly.
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Paperhouse posted:They had one at some point that was about vampires and one of the clues was from Castlevania. I also do what WeAreTheRomans does pretty much. A few from the first two rounds (if that), about half of the walls and then the last round is a piece of piss I guess in my house the fun part is actually being able to answer some questions. Pointless and University Challenge are fine but Only Connect is just too specific and we all end up getting bored pretty fast. In Dinner Date news I was in a bar and a lady came up and asked if the bartender would be on it and take out a "lovely lady, really tall, like a model.". He's gay so he said no but it seems utterly bizzare that they'd recruit by just walking into somewhere and asking!
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