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Rondette posted:The first time I remember 'Literally' being used as a thing was in some early series of Peep Show. I wonder if it's modern genesis sprang from that. Here's a bit from Frasier in 1993 (tried to find youtube but script came up first) code:
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Mr Beens posted:I've not watched the show, but a coroner doesn't perform autopsies you are thinking of a pathologist. Coroner has many different duties, dependent on the country. In most cases though, they are responsible for determining cause of death and making recommendations to the police and prosecution. They will usually have a pathologist working under them, and in some places they even run their own courts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coroner
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Norwegian Rudo posted:Coroner has many different duties, dependent on the country. In most cases though, they are responsible for determining cause of death and making recommendations to the police and prosecution. They will usually have a pathologist working under them, and in some places they even run their own courts. I know - the guy I was replying to was criticizing the show because the coroner character didn't do the autopsies, just got handed the results. Which is the way it works in the UK.
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Mr Beens posted:I know - the guy I was replying to was criticizing the show because the coroner character didn't do the autopsies, just got handed the results. Which is the way it works in the UK. I wasn't contradicting you, just building on you point.
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Mr Beens posted:I've not watched the show, but a coroner doesn't perform autopsies you are thinking of a pathologist. Yeah, I realised my dumb mistake after some later googling, but I still stand by saying it was a rubbish programme  Though apparently it's daytime tv, I just came across it on iplayer so my expectations were a bit too high.
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Prism Mirror Lens posted:Yeah, I realised my dumb mistake after some later googling, but I still stand by saying it was a rubbish programme It goes on in the coveted post-Doctors slot. I caught a bit of it when I had a late lunch at work. I didn't enjoy it really.
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Has anyone seen that Rent A Cop thing on BBC3? Maybe I'm really stupid but I'm halfway through the first episode and I still can't work out whether it's real or perfectly pitched satire. The guy is like David Brent meets Reno 911. In the first 5 minutes he's said "Do I see myself as a businessman? Not really, I don't have a dicky bow tie and I don't read the Daily Mail. Actually I don't really read at all", interviewed an "ex-special forces" employee wearing a balaclava who said they're pretty much doing the same thing but without the guns and "mega-violence" and talked about his secretaries pornographic phone voice "like on the chat lines". It's completely surreal.
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Nov 30, 2015 14:22
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Supposedly it is real and he is relatively well known in Darlington.
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Nov 30, 2015 14:27
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Don't Tell The Bride is moving to Sky One next year. A dark day.
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Dec 1, 2015 12:12
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Padje posted:Don't Tell The Bride is moving to Sky One next year. Didn't it just move to BBC1 this year? Must be tanking ratings.
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Padje posted:Don't Tell The Bride is moving to Sky One next year. Knowing how these things are, I'll put good money on it not lasting a season.
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Padje posted:Don't Tell The Bride is moving to Sky One next year. I hope they make it extra wacky and get even dumber manchildren as guests. Does anyone remember a terrible game show with a wedding theme? I think it was early 90s, and people had to do challenges to win wedding poo poo. One of them involved being in a sinking canoe in a swimming pool and having to displace water with a bucket. It's gotta be on YouTube somewhere.
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Hijo Del Helmsley posted:Didn't it just move to BBC1 this year? It had a 6 episode run on BBC1 then a full series started on BBC3 the week after. The BBC1 version was The Same, but more tragic, with mid-30s people who had a sad reason for not being married (like disability caused by childbirth, or having no money due to chasing your dream of 'touring singer' in pubs that don't appear on google maps in villages you'd live next to and yet never have heard of). The BBC3 one went back to mid-20s people who were impulsive and deranged. I guess they planned on two different season types until Sky stole it. netally posted:I hope they make it extra wacky and get even dumber manchildren as guests. That would be Bob's Your Uncle! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEWT5aZW1-c
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Padje posted:It had a 6 episode run on BBC1 then a full series started on BBC3 the week after. The BBC1 version was The Same, but more tragic, with mid-30s people who had a sad reason for not being married (like disability caused by childbirth, or having no money due to chasing your dream of 'touring singer' in pubs that don't appear on google maps in villages you'd live next to and yet never have heard of). The BBC3 one went back to mid-20s people who were impulsive and deranged. I guess they planned on two different season types until Sky stole it. The BBC1 version of the show was probably just a trial to see if it was worth transferring to the main channel once BBC3 shut down. They realised it was a trash show and probably told the people who make it (an independent production company) that they were not going to renew it on BBC1 so they shopped it around and Sky bought it. For Sky to have "stolen" it the BBC would have needed to want it in the first place.
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Pablo Bluth posted:Anyone else watching the Pottery Throwdown? It's okay. I'm not sure how they are going to come up with enough challenges for the full series. Like most of these shows, half the people aren't really qualified to do the challenges, and are just fodder. Someone knows how to make one vase, they ask them to make ten identical ones, that's a completely different skill. And maybe they are a perfectly fine artistic potter, but that's not what this show is going for. It's like 8 parts precision, 2 parts artistic. Also, the crying judge is a bit much.
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Yeah, you'd think the producers would maybe twig that it's more entertaining to see people creatively interpret a prompt than it is to see them make a fuckload of mugs.
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Padje posted:
Haha that's the one! It's even crappier than I remember. I love the local leisure centre pool and the awful early 90s wedding dresses. Don't Tell The Bride is a bit of an embarassment to the BBC to be honest. It's the sort of show anti - BBC types hold up as an example of poor quality programming we can do without. Ever since they starting sticking on grooms with actual learning disabilities it's just been painful rather than fun to watch. There's an adorable show on CBBC where kids plan their parents weddings. I'd totally watch that more often if it was on prime time.
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'You, Me and the Apocalypse' just ended! With a big sodding cliffhanger. It's not the worst one I've ever seen but it still bugs me that they ended what could have been a single series show - and isn't yet commissioned for a second series - with this. Granted, it could be a nod towards bleak apocalyptic endings but still, it's not great.
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So Jon Hamm just turned up on Toast. That's pretty cool.
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Dec 2, 2015 23:40
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Oh my God, Toast's Dad! Have we seen him before? I'm sure I'd remember HIM.
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EL BROMANCE posted:So Jon Hamm just turned up on Toast. That's pretty cool. I lost my poo poo last season when Josh Homme turned up. It was amazing.
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Mr Beens posted:For Sky to have "stolen" it the BBC would have needed to want it in the first place. Do you fit the dishes?
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Padje posted:Do you fit the dishes? Huh??
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Anyone else tired of Geordie Shore? I know I am, theyre all entirely too self aware now.
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The Big Taff Man posted:Anyone else tired of Geordie Shore? I know I am, theyre all entirely too self aware now. The show's corrupting our youths. Maybe. Some researchers think. According to The Mirror. http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/sexy-reality-shows-like-geordie-6944934
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The Big Taff Man posted:Anyone else tired of Geordie Shore? I know I am, theyre all entirely too self aware now. There was a time we weren't? From the first commercial ever aired it was TV poison.
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EL BROMANCE posted:There was a time we weren't? From the first commercial ever aired it was TV poison. We all love a bit of cheesy reality TV sometimes.
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Given how this thread loses its poo poo over a baking competition, I think there's enough cheesy reality crap without localising MTV shows.
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I watch the pottery show just for the innuendos
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EL BROMANCE posted:Given how this thread loses its poo poo over a baking competition, I think there's enough cheesy reality crap without localising MTV shows. Geordie Shore is much more civilised than the Valleys. Any way shouldnt you be *checks notebook* stalking Mr Biffo on aim rather than criticising poor gentle MTV
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The Big Taff Man posted:Geordie Shore is much more civilised than the Valleys. I live in Cardiff, so please don't get me started on that show. Bless Biffo, he's a good sort. They should've ordered Biffovision to series I tells ya.
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As a former resident of Wales I know as a fact that your life in Cardiff will be exactly like the Valleys
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EL BROMANCE posted:Given how this thread loses its poo poo over a baking competition, I think there's enough cheesy reality crap without localising MTV shows. There's a professional version of Bake Off coming soon!
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I assume they'll actually be baking things rather than just doing the icing sculpture bollocks?
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EL BROMANCE posted:Given how this thread loses its poo poo over a baking competition, I think there's enough cheesy reality crap without localising MTV shows. I eagerly await Pompey Shores. Wait, no I don't because it would be horrendous
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ShaneMacGowansTeeth posted:I eagerly await Pompey Shores. Wait, no I don't because it would be horrendous Less fake tan, more terrible tattoos and misery
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Detectorists is such a neat show, half an hour of relaxed happiness each episode.
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Any of you watched Judge Rinder lately, because he's had a case involving Dark Souls. http://www.gamesradar.com/dark-souls-bet-turned-so-sour-it-ended-tv-court/?tag=grsocial-20 quote:The reason they look so sheepish is because they brought Thomas to a real life (fake) court to ask for the £100 he owes them for not in fact completing Dark Souls on the hardest difficulty in a year.
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I think 'Don't Tell the Bride' is one of the first programmes I have ever genuinely hate-watched regularly. They always seem to be so dumb and the girls are always PRINCESS PRINCESS PRINCESS HOTEL RELAXING WAHWAHWAH TRADITION TRADITION and are so horribly unimaginative, demanding and shrewish beyond their years. I hope at least a few of them are putting it on because it is really depressing to watch them sometimes. And the lads are uniformly dopey too. I should probably be glad it is moving to Sky, I won't be able to watch it and my blood pressure will remain safe.
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