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Hijo Del Helmsley posted:Call The Midwife getting into some heavy stuff. A couple of weeks ago there was a Thalidomide-affected baby being left by a sink, and a lad gassing himself because he'd got his girlfriend pregnant, is it jumping the shark?
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FrensaGeran posted:I'm a bit disappointed that there wasn't any fanfare on Stephen Fry's last episode of QI. I know he hadn't made the decision to leave during the taping of it but still, bit anticlimactic. Hopefully he'll be a guest on a future Toksvig episode. Could totally see that happening. Also if Davis wanted a night off perhaps they could bring him in.
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Feb 23, 2016 11:49
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What the gently caress is going on with Dragon's Den? Are they showing programmes fortnightly now?
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Feb 23, 2016 12:12
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FrensaGeran posted:I'm a bit disappointed that there wasn't any fanfare on Stephen Fry's last episode of QI. I know he hadn't made the decision to leave during the taping of it but still, bit anticlimactic. Hopefully he'll be a guest on a future Toksvig episode. Also I didn't laugh out loud in surprise at the spoilered phrase nun rape and none of you can prove that I did.
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Feb 23, 2016 13:18
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House Louse posted:A couple of weeks ago there was a Thalidomide-affected baby being left by a sink, and a lad gassing himself because he'd got his girlfriend pregnant, is it jumping the shark? And don't forger the Rusty coat-hanger self-performed abortion earlier on in the series. I actually have a genuine love for Call the Midwife. Great Sunday night telly. Apart from the Doctor's son. That kid can gently caress off.
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Feb 23, 2016 13:40
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House Louse posted:A couple of weeks ago there was a Thalidomide-affected baby being left by a sink, and a lad gassing himself because he'd got his girlfriend pregnant, is it jumping the shark? Woah, I always thought it was some twee as gently caress show for middle aged ladies. My mum's friends are always going on about it. And the latest misery porn books they've been reading. I thought last night's Benidorm was the last one, but apparently it's been renewed for two more seasons. It's really gone downhill. ITV are terrible at comedy and will run poo poo into the ground like no other channel. Let's not forget what TV Burp was like at the end.
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Feb 23, 2016 13:56
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SEX BURRITO posted:Woah, I always thought it was some twee as gently caress show for middle aged ladies. My mum's friends are always going on about it. And the latest misery porn books they've been reading. Call The Midwife is ABSOLUTELY misery porn. It's very BBC misery porn, though. Plus it openly supports the NHS, which is nice. 
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Feb 23, 2016 14:01
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SEX BURRITO posted:Woah, I always thought it was some twee as gently caress show for middle aged ladies. My mum's friends are always going on about it. And the latest misery porn books they've been reading. Was Benidorm ever any good? I've never watched it, mainly because it's always looked like complete shite.
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Feb 23, 2016 14:21
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Paperhouse posted:Was Benidorm ever any good? I've never watched it, mainly because it's always looked like complete shite. It was never, like, The Wire or anything but it was reasonably funny in a lowbrow kind of way early on. Like half the original actors have left by now though (and two died in real life) soooo feedmegin fucked around with this message at 15:01 on Feb 23, 2016 |
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Feb 23, 2016 14:59
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SEX BURRITO posted:There is a UK politics thread somewhere, but I'm scared to go in there. We don't bite (unless you're a Tory) 
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Feb 23, 2016 15:05
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Paperhouse posted:Was Benidorm ever any good? I've never watched it, mainly because it's always looked like complete shite. The first couple of seasons are pretty good. It really sums up what it's like to be British and trapped in a crappy all inclusive resort. I think the early episodes were co - written by Steve Pemberton from League of Gentlemen, so they were quite observational. Yeah it's very low brow though. It's a guilty pleasure. I went on a hen party in Benidorm once so I have a weird fondness for the place.
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Feb 23, 2016 17:27
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Rondette posted:What the gently caress is going on with Dragon's Den? Are they showing programmes fortnightly now? I have never understood why the BBC fucks around with this show's scheduling so much. I have also missed whole series because they never seem to advertise it.
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Feb 24, 2016 00:44
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Anyone who loves a good crime drama should watch Shetland on Iplayer this next two weeks before the finale on the 4th. The last episode was incredible.
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Feb 24, 2016 02:08
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I just saw a corpse blink in Happy Valley. Thought it was the lead-in to some kind of guilt-ridden hallucination or something, but nope, just bad editing.
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Feb 24, 2016 02:09
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I enjoyed the new Fresh Meat. That might have more to do with me having the most embarassing crush on Kimberley Nixon than anything else, but whatever. Good programme.
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Feb 24, 2016 02:54
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Yep, I also enjoyed Fresh Meat. It was probably good that they took time off for a while, there seemed to be a lot of talk about it going a bit stale during the last season, but it didn't feel that way at all. I also admit that I didn't really remember how season 3 left the characters off.
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Feb 24, 2016 19:04
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I've recently been getting into Gary: Tank Commander as its on Netflix, and it's pretty good. I assume this was on BBC Scotland so that's why I never saw it when it came out? So it's weird to see Greg McHugh go from tanned, camp, cheerful Scot in that to dour, nerdy and slovenly Scot in Fresh Meat. Still, that's acting I suppose.
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Feb 24, 2016 20:38
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Yeah, it was huge here for a while. It's alright. Surprised it was made by The Comedy Unit yet didn't have any of the TCU mainstays.
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Feb 24, 2016 20:43
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SEX BURRITO posted:The first couple of seasons are pretty good. It really sums up what it's like to be British and trapped in a crappy all inclusive resort. I think the early episodes were co - written by Steve Pemberton from League of Gentlemen, so they were quite observational. The first 5 series had the same writer. After he said he didn't want to write anymore Pemberton offered to help out, but then Pemberton left the show later on anyway. I've not seen any of the recent ones. I liked the earlier ones though, it was fun understated comedy, like 'The Smoking Room'.
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Feb 24, 2016 22:43
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crispix posted:I have never understood why the BBC fucks around with this show's scheduling so much. I have also missed whole series because they never seem to advertise it. yes. I never even knew this series had started. iPlayer will let me catch up on the last 3 or 4 if I'm lucky.
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Feb 24, 2016 22:50
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Manic X posted:yes. I never even knew this series had started. iPlayer will let me catch up on the last 3 or 4 if I'm lucky. I think there are only a few episodes 
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Feb 24, 2016 22:53
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That's good news, it means I can catch up!
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Feb 24, 2016 22:55
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SEX BURRITO posted:There is a UK politics thread somewhere, but I'm scared to go in there. If you are raving communist who believes that everything the government does is unfair, then you will be fine. Happy Valley is brilliant. The opening scene with the psychologist was a great way to move the time forward in the show, although the idea of wank dripping off the walls made me feel ill.
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Feb 25, 2016 15:04
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Fresh Meat had its moments. I hope more dramas start calling posh characters Tomothy.
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Feb 25, 2016 20:26
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Fresh Meat is great and I had no idea people weren't into the last series cos it was obviously the best one yet.
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Feb 25, 2016 21:17
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Al2001 posted:Fresh Meat is great and I had no idea people weren't into the last series cos it was obviously the best one yet. Oh I loved series 3 as well! I didn't enjoy the ever repeating Kingsley/Josie storylines, apart from that is was superb though. But just venture back two and a half years in this very thread and you'll see what I mean.
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Feb 25, 2016 21:29
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I saw the premier of Fresh Meat and thought it looked like a good show, and then just forgot about it. I really should go back and watch it. Just got soo many series that I'm half-way through right now. Arrow and Better-Call-Saul being the priority.
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Feb 25, 2016 23:51
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I just can't bear any amount of Jack Whitehall
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Feb 25, 2016 23:57
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^I sort of tolerate him. He's not funny.
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Feb 26, 2016 00:00
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I lost interest after the first or second series. It seemed like all of the characters had transformed from sympathetic gently caress-ups into spiteful twats.
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Feb 26, 2016 01:11
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Gapey Joe Stalin posted:I lost interest after the first or second series. It seemed like all of the characters had transformed from sympathetic gently caress-ups into spiteful twats. A well observed comment on growing up maybe? Tsaedje posted:I just can't bear any amount of Jack Whitehall I actually quite like him in Fresh Meat because he plays himself and it works for the character. Not really a fan of him doing anything else though.
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Feb 26, 2016 02:09
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Series one and about half of series 2 were great. The backend of S2 was a bit weak. Series three was a half-assed lovely drama based on the previous two seasons. It was jarring and awful.
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Feb 26, 2016 02:42
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I know there's threads for both of the things I'm about to mention but the US is way ahead and I don't want enormous spoilers. First the X Files. It's a bit wank. It feels sort of like fanfiction. In fact no - it feels like the episode of the Simpsons that Mulder and Scully are in. There's something faintly off about it, maybe it's that things tend to happen really loving fast and characters are totally changing in the course of an episode or two. The gravitas of it is somehow gone. Doesn't help that it's on Channel 5 and even though I can fast forward through the adverts it feels like there's loving loads of them. Also it's cool to see the Shannara Chronicles on TV. Strange that they're starting on the second book but I really liked those books when I was a kid and it's fun to see them on TV. Once again though it's on loving channel 5 so not only is it packed with adverts it isn't even in HD! It's fun to see something like that on TV though, I never thought I would. There's a paticular scene around half way through the book that I'd always wanted to see done in film or TV and I hope they do it justice. Being a kid I was really scared by it. Everyone's a little too pretty and teenagery I guess but Johnathan Rhys Meyers is there! Taear fucked around with this message at 05:08 on Feb 26, 2016 |
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Feb 26, 2016 02:43
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I thought the new Mid Morning Matters were a bit strange. I felt like they could have been a lot better, but I suppose there is only so much you can do with a series where the set doesn't change. I definitely think shorter episodes worked a lot better. It disturbs me a great deal that Steve Coogan is now Alan's age. 
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Feb 26, 2016 16:40
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They could do with doing something outside. An OB or something farcical in the technical area or something
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Feb 26, 2016 16:49
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According to Popbitch (who sometimes know about these things), the official viewing figures for the debut of Mid Morning Matters were 16,000 people.
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Feb 26, 2016 17:07
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I keep seeing that there's a new series of Mid Morning Matters and thinking ooh I should check that out. Then I just totally forget. It's one of those shows you love while watching, but nobody is going to go out of their way to see it. Community is back on UK Netflix. Hurray I can resume my watching.
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Feb 27, 2016 02:45
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I think Mid Morning Matters is fantastic. So many little gags, yet feels improv. No desire for the format to change whatsoever.
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Feb 27, 2016 04:17
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SEX BURRITO posted:Community is back on UK Netflix. Hurray I can resume my watching. 
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That would take someone at Yahoo being smart enough to do a rights deal, rather than pointlessly hold on to a property and do nothing with it.
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