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Dec 7, 2017 16:30
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Travel Man Xmas Special this year is Richard with Jon Hamm in Hong Kong.
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Dec 7, 2017 16:42
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I need to do the 2017 version of buying the 2 WEEK XMAS SPECIAL edition of the Radio Times and going through each page with a highlighter pen. Which I guess is getting the PDF version and use the highlighter tool. It’s just not the same! (A lot less to highlight too, but actually surprised that there’s at least a few things I care about. Woo!)
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Dec 7, 2017 17:09
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Looke posted:Not dead yet sadly, however she was about to leave the hospital for good but then was shot by a rampaging gunman, so if we’re lucky... Holby is one of the few things I go out of my way to watch to blow off stress -- I'm hoping that if it wasn't Elliot or Joseph, that Guppy (from Casualty) is the gunman. Yeah, I'm about playing the long game, and it had better be someone surprising from the past like that.
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Dec 7, 2017 18:02
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Ms Boods posted:Holby is one of the few things I go out of my way to watch to blow off stress -- I'm hoping that if it wasn't Elliot or Joseph, that Guppy (from Casualty) is the gunman. God drat Guppy, what a character I don’t know if you’ve seen today’s episode yet But poor Henrik, I thought his son was just a dickhead, not a killer
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Dec 7, 2017 23:19
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EL BROMANCE posted:I need to do the 2017 version of buying the 2 WEEK XMAS SPECIAL edition of the Radio Times and going through each page with a highlighter pen. Which I guess is getting the PDF version and use the highlighter tool. It’s just not the same! (A lot less to highlight too, but actually surprised that there’s at least a few things I care about. Woo!) I should probably buy the Radio Times at Christmas. I always read it at my grandma’s house, and it is great when you’ve got Boxing Day fatigue and just want the nicely laid out TV listings. It always reminds me to watch Fiddler on the Roof and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. Especially since they’ve updated the previously good EPG on youview and it’s now sluggish and annoying.
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Dec 7, 2017 23:31
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EL BROMANCE posted:I need to do the 2017 version of buying the 2 WEEK XMAS SPECIAL edition of the Radio Times and going through each page with a highlighter pen. Which I guess is getting the PDF version and use the highlighter tool. It’s just not the same! (A lot less to highlight too, but actually surprised that there’s at least a few things I care about. Woo!) Doing it the old analogue way is a Christmas tradition, don't let that die out!
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Dec 7, 2017 23:47
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I'm enjoying I'm a Celebrity this year. I do hope Iain wins because it's always fun to see the loving shithead lads lose. gently caress Dennis and gently caress Jamie. The robot wars finale was absolutely great! It's a shame that the same few robots get into the final but I guess it's really expensive to build something that doesn't get totally smashed up in a few minutes.
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Dec 8, 2017 13:16
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Looke posted:God drat Guppy, what a character Just finished it this morning, when I should be working on a translation. Was disappointed when the villain was revealed for a brief moment, I thought it might be Johnny, especially considering how mopey Jacq has been whenever anyone mentioned her home life as 'a person from the past' had me thinking of old characters, not someone who was just in an episode a week prior! I know this was meant to be the usual yuletide carnage that you get on the soaps, but in recapping the episodes for Mr Boods, I can't stop giggling about the shotgun lobotomy for Ollie, Frederic channeling Gary Oldman during the stand-off, and of COURSE one of the recent newlyweds had to go down -- to be fair, I'd forgot about Rafe as well, and the choral of heavely voices during his surprisingly strong and LONG farewell, considering he'd been shot in the jugular...but then again I was introduced to Casualty decades ago as a comedy by my auntie.
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Dec 8, 2017 15:27
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Casualty is absolutely a comedy. Anyone who claims otherwise takes life too seriously.
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I’m not even watching I’m a Celeb because it’s not my thing at all but I’m following on twitter because I know Iain a bit and he could do with the boost. He should always have been more famous than things turned out and I’m unapologetic about that slightly arse-licky opinion.
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Dec 8, 2017 20:11
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Yes, I always liked Iain a lot. Had no idea he was even in this until the last day or so. My mate won some gameshow pilot he hosted a bunch of years ago (Sky?) don’t think it ever happened though. RI:SE > Big Breakfast. No apologies.
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Dec 8, 2017 20:33
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Taear posted:The robot wars finale was absolutely great! It's a shame that the same few robots get into the final but I guess it's really expensive to build something that doesn't get totally smashed up in a few minutes. Oh and the behemoth meme man's reaction to the pit opening under them was the funniest thing this series. I hopping as the show's revival continues we'll see more and more decent combatants and it'll just keep getting better and better.
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Dec 8, 2017 20:38
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thehustler posted:I’m not even watching I’m a Celeb because it’s not my thing at all but I’m following on twitter because I know Iain a bit and he could do with the boost. It’s a shame he had such a twatty persona on the 11 o clock show and whatever that breakfast TV thing was called. Hadn’t heard much about him until he was on the Adam Buxton podcast where he genuinely seemed a nice person. I hope he makes a comeback.
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Dec 8, 2017 23:11
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The 11 o'clock show was such a badly executed good idea.
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Mr Phillby posted:The final was absolutely phenomenal. Nuts2 taking out Carbine, Behemoth's last second win against Magnetar, that expensive flipperbot going up in flames, the ten robot melee- it just ruled all the way through. Eruption was totally hosed up at the start of the episode and seeing it survive all the way and win the grand final was awesome. Nuts 2 is great because their stupid joke robot accidentally had a weapon at the perfect height to hit unprotected tubes and chains on other robots and started most fights by neutering their opponent's weapon with one shot and then having their tiny robot bully it around the arena while they spun around.
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Dec 9, 2017 04:35
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goatface posted:The 11 o'clock show was such a badly executed good idea. I wonder how Iain feels about Ricky Gervais's career post 11 o'clock show compared to his. I'd be gutted if I were him, I'm sure. And while he's not really a twat he is one of those people who tends to use insulting jokes to fit in. Which works sometimes and collapses other times.
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Dec 9, 2017 09:43
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Taear posted:I wonder how Iain feels about Ricky Gervais's career post 11 o'clock show compared to his. I'd be gutted if I were him, I'm sure. Likewise, I wonder how the rest of the original cast of History Boys feels about James Corden getting arguably the best career out of all of them (I acknowledge that Cooper is a bigger deal in acting but as an all-round media personality, Corden's the one with the late night talk show in America and gets to host awards shows).
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Thgoatface posted:The 11 o'clock show was such a badly executed good idea. Daisy Donovan was wasted on it.
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Dec 9, 2017 13:24
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James Corden being famous makes zero sense and boils my piss
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Dec 9, 2017 13:29
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Taear posted:I wonder how Iain feels about Ricky Gervais's career post 11 o'clock show compared to his. I'd be gutted if I were him, I'm sure. Not to mention Sacha Baron-Cohen who got his own series off the back of the show, plus his own (terrible) Ali G movie. When people look back at early 2000s comedy, they’ll remember Ali G, but I doubt many people remember how he got started. If you look at the wiki page for the show it’s crazy how many big names contributed to it. Yeah, he definitely came across as being a bit of a snickering bully boy at times. A lot of comedy at the time was just mean and controversial for the sake of it. A hangover from lad culture I guess.
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Bape Culture posted:James Corden being famous makes zero sense and boils my piss I liked The Wrong Mans
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He was really, really good in One Man Two Guvnors.
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Dec 9, 2017 15:49
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Charlie Brooker got his TV writing start on the 11 O'Clock Show too, it's actually kind of hilarious how well everyone except the two leads did out of it. It's a bit like Matthew Holmes's on Garth Merenghi.
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ineptmule posted:I liked The Wrong Mans I enjoyed it too.
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SEX BURRITO posted:Yeah, he definitely came across as being a bit of a snickering bully boy at times. A lot of comedy at the time was just mean and controversial for the sake of it. A hangover from lad culture I guess. He's not a snickering bully boy. He's awkward as poo poo and thinks he needs to do it to fit in, but doesn't quite know how to do it or when. So it backfires.
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Dec 9, 2017 18:22
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wooger posted:Daisy Donovan was wasted on it.
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Wheat Loaf posted:Likewise, I wonder how the rest of the original cast of History Boys feels about James Corden getting arguably the best career out of all of them (I acknowledge that Cooper is a bigger deal in acting but as an all-round media personality, Corden's the one with the late night talk show in America and gets to host awards shows). Not Russell Tovey?
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The thing with his persona on the 11 O’Clock Show was that they sorta made him do it. Then he got like that all the time, was a massive twat and hosed his life up a bit. Then radio came calling, he stopped drinking and it all turned around. He’s been at so many stations but the output is just brilliant. He’s won a few Radio Academy awards lately.
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Dec 10, 2017 14:13
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Dec 10, 2017 14:14
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thehustler posted:Then radio came calling, he stopped drinking and it all turned around. He’s been at so many stations but the output is just brilliant. He’s won a few Radio Academy awards lately. The question is - redtop papers have been saying he's doing the jungle to pay for care for his Mum. Is that real? If it is then it seems like his radio career isn't doing him that well. Which is a shame, considering.
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Taear posted:The question is - redtop papers have been saying he's doing the jungle to pay for care for his Mum. Is that real? If it is then it seems like his radio career isn't doing him that well.
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Dec 10, 2017 16:04
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Radio Dj-ing doesn't pay that well if you're not in one of the overpaid breakfast slots on BBC Radio.
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Akuma posted:Have you seen the cost of elderly care? I have, I just assumed that if Iain was doing well with his DJing he'd be earning reasonable money that was all.
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His mum has MS and it’s been tough to get the right care for her over the years. He talks about it sometimes. Radio DJs always give you small snippets sometimes. It’s a strange relationship, the one between DJ and listener. Now I want to read Dead Air again...
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So, for a while I ran a vpn to trick my ps4 into thinking I was in the UK, thus allowing me to stream all4 and BBC stuff. My current roommates arent into that idea, so I'm wondering what my best options are for streaming British tv in the US. Do I have any?
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Gejimayu posted:So, for a while I ran a vpn to trick my ps4 into thinking I was in the UK, thus allowing me to stream all4 and BBC stuff. My current roommates arent into that idea, so I'm wondering what my best options are for streaming British tv in the US. Do I have any? What's wrong with them? Oh well. Kodi may be your best bet. You can side load it into Amazon fire sticks. Trickjaw fucked around with this message at 12:36 on Dec 11, 2017 |
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I’ve considered using [url= https://www.uktveverywhere.com]these guys[/url], the only drawback is on top of the $20 subscription (which is fine as that package has everything I’d want and it includes dvr which id need due to the time zone issues) you have to buy one of their boxes. But they’ve been around for a few years and generally get good reviews, just a shame there’s no way to trial it. I was hoping to find a decent enough iptv service that did subscriptions for just basic freeview but not found anything solid, and again lacking dvr. Kinda funny how ustvnow.com did exactly what I needed while in the U.K. and wanting US tv, even down to the free tier.
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