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Gorn Myson posted:Lets not forget "all grown up now". I thought that was the Daily Star.
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She was ok in broadchurch but if now people are going on about how amazing she is idgi.
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Wheat Loaf posted:I thought that was the Daily Star. Both.  Image of Charlotte Church at 15 alongside outrage at the Brass Eye Paedophile special. That's Daily Star, but the Daily Mail has had all sorts of similar stuff too like Kendall Jenner at 16. Konsek fucked around with this message at 23:29 on Jul 16, 2017 |
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Jul 16, 2017 23:25
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That's just an amazing pairing of stories. e: Also the fact that the word 'CHILD' is in all caps.
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Steve2911 posted:That's just an amazing pairing of stories. Well done that man. 
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Pissflaps posted:I was outraged last night that the best the BBC could come up with for their 9pm slot was a loving peter Kay clip show. I turned on the tele having spent the evening deep cleaning my flat and my first thought was that he had died that night. (just noticed you said 9pm and realised this was a different day. They repeated it last night around 11pm which is when I saw it. REPEATING IT!) Pissflaps posted:'Murdered for being different' was devastating stuff. I remember this from the time. Of all the harrowing drama I'll watch, I can't bring myself to put this on.
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its my wife's fault sophie lancaster got into goth culture woops edit: that sounds really blase but it's pretty much true, they were friends and all got into it together and my wife got poo poo going through that park all the time  the whole story of her murder still makes me feel such anger and venom thehustler fucked around with this message at 13:07 on Jul 18, 2017 |
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Jul 18, 2017 13:00
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Yeah that program might be a bit too harrowing for me to watch too, people are shitheads.
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It's the same as Three Girls - very well done but tough to watch.
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thehustler posted:its my wife's fault sophie lancaster got into goth culture It happened not long after we got married. She took it reeeeeaaally hard. I don't think we'll be watching the dramatisation.
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nether will we. The last thing the BBC did about it a few years ago with Julie Hesmondhalgh with the poems was incredibly sad. And yeah, she grew up in East Lancs and went to Hassie High as apparently everyone around there did
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Jul 19, 2017 10:31
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The marketing really rubbed me the wrong way, the whole sorry not sorry thing, the way they amped their outfits way up, the personality of the main character doesn't match up with Sophie at all... Like, I know TV dramas based on real events don't have to be totally accurate, but in this instance it doesn't seem true to the memory of the departed :/ I dunno
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Akuma posted:The marketing really rubbed me the wrong way, the whole sorry not sorry thing, the way they amped their outfits way up, the personality of the main character doesn't match up with Sophie at all... Yeah, I'm pretty sure I saw an interview with Robert Maltby who said the entire dramatization simplified a lot of it to the point where it's basically just "inspired by".
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Gyro Zeppeli posted:Yeah, I'm pretty sure I saw an interview with Robert Maltby who said the entire dramatization simplified a lot of it to the point where it's basically just "inspired by". This one in the Guardian? https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...rsimplification I feel so sorry for the poor guy, still living in the town and being in the shadow of the whole thing.
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I had nothing better to do, so I watched the first episode of the much-hyped (sort of) Mash Report. https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2017/jul/15/mash-report-bbc2-satirical-news-show-nish-kumar https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jul/18/politics-daily-mash-report-satirical http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2017-07-20/the-mash-reports-nish-kumar-how-can-i-launch-a-satire-show-when-politics-is-already-beyond-parody It's exactly what you'd expect: it starts, middles, and ends with a bit which is literally just reading Daily Mash articles out loud, and in between the host does the world's worst John Oliver impression while reading out a bunch of gags that the writers' room nicked off Twitter. They're supposed to have ten episodes. I'll be astounded if they get them. I'd rather watch Mrs Brown's Boys. Trin Tragula fucked around with this message at 00:19 on Jul 25, 2017 |
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Jul 24, 2017 23:27
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Does anyone remember Headcases which was deliberately advertised and boosted as Spitting Image for the 21st century, then it was loving awful and I'm pretty sure never aired a second episode?
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Jul 24, 2017 23:47
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I don't remember it.
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Jul 24, 2017 23:47
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I do. It was poo poo.
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Wheat Loaf posted:Does anyone remember Headcases which was deliberately advertised and boosted as Spitting Image for the 21st century, then it was loving awful and I'm pretty sure never aired a second episode? I thought they finished out the first series and then quietly dropped it. Because it was bollocks.
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I checked Wikipedia:quote:the Daily Star simply called it "Hilarious" Seems legit.
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Trin Tragula posted:I had nothing better to do, so I watched the first episode of the much-hyped (sort of) Mash Report. Satire is tricky and shows like this need time. Like THE DAILY SHOW went through a long period before people paid any attention to it. Of course it's getting much harder to satirise something that already feels like satire anyway.
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Wheat Loaf posted:Spitting Image for the 21st century I thought that was Newzoids
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feedmegin posted:I thought that was Newzoids I thought it was 2Dtv?
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What really annoyed me about The Mash Report wasn't the writing but the use of applause for every punchline and to cover every edit point. It sounds so weird.
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The first news anchor section, with the woman with the purple/pink blouse - her delivery was straight out of The Day Today. And she even said "On the hour". The applause really got annoying though, yes. On the whole though, I thought it was ok! I quite liked the reading the tweets bit.
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DrVenkman posted:Satire is tricky and shows like this need time. Go watch the first episode of The Day Today and get back to me
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I think the pitfall for those shows that can't make the grade simply because satire is a pretty drat hard thing to pull off. From what I recall with those shows all the stuff was more bland or petty parody comedy or cheeky references. Nothing like The Day Today, Brass Eye or Spitting Image which are still incredibly clever if sadly dated now. But lets be honest, the concept of a Tory transportation minister hunting tiny ponies with a hammer in the London underground will always be gold.
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josh04 posted:I thought it was 2Dtv? Wow I'd forgotten all about that show. All I recall is lots of sketches about Posh n Becks done in a really ugly animation style. And jokes about Bush being dumb. Groundbreaking stuff.
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SEX BURRITO posted:Wow I'd forgotten all about that show. All I recall is lots of sketches about Posh n Becks done in a really ugly animation style. And jokes about Bush being dumb. Groundbreaking stuff. There was a recurring thing with Arnold Schwarzenegger squeezing women's breasts and chuckling, "Just a bit aff hahmless fun!" I also remember one about George Best's liver trying to run away from home but not being able to because Best had drunk all the petrol.
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It always takes me a great deal of effort to remember that 2Dtv and Monkey Dust are not the same thing.
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They are entirely different things.
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goatface posted:They are entirely different things. Seriously, one of them is actually good and holds up to this day still. It's not the ITV one.
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Against the Law was really very good. Normally mixing docu-drama with talking heads ends up a mess that completely fails to flow in either strand. But this time they pulled it off. Except the one scene when Mycroft Holmes turns up to chew on the scenery. Quite why Gatis keeps getting acting gigs I'll never understand. This wasn't even his mate Moffat hiring him for a change. Especially disappointing when it's in contrast to the wonderfully judged emotional performance from Daniel Mays.
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Top Of The Lake Season 2 is going well, so far. I loved the first season even if the ending was a bit pants.
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A colleague recommended 'The Joy of Techs' on Dave, and it's quite fun. It's a buddy comedy-duo gadget show.
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Sorry to jump back a bit, but I have found that Monkey Dust is the perfect show to give to friends who have only moved to the UK in the past handful of years - and who ask for a TV show that "truly encapsulates what it's like to be British". What I'd give for it to have run ever since.
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Matinee posted:Sorry to jump back a bit, but I have found that Monkey Dust is the perfect show to give to friends who have only moved to the UK in the past handful of years - and who ask for a TV show that "truly encapsulates what it's like to be British". That said, he did shag Victoria Coren, so its not like he didn't live a full life.
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Matinee posted:Sorry to jump back a bit, but I have found that Monkey Dust is the perfect show to give to friends who have only moved to the UK in the past handful of years - and who ask for a TV show that "truly encapsulates what it's like to be British".
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Cerv posted:Against the Law was really very good. Normally mixing docu-drama with talking heads ends up a mess that completely fails to flow in either strand. But this time they pulled it off. Gatis wrote the show. It's a passion project for him. Edit: produced/shepherded it sorry. He didn't write it. PriorMarcus fucked around with this message at 11:52 on Jul 30, 2017 |
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