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Yeah it makes me feel old when I try to find 1990s and early 2000s TV stuff on youtube and it's not there. I wonder how many 18 year olds have heard of Rik Waller
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How the hell are most of the gambling ads allowed on television.
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stev posted:Bizarrely enough Hallmark (the greetings card company) has really cornered the market for lovely American cheesefest Christmas movies. According to IMDB there are 174 of them and each and every one of them is fully awful. I went to my mum's for Christmas this year, and she was watching a Hallmark christmas movie she'd recorded on her sky Q box. At some point, that movie ended and we started watching the ChristmasMovies24 channel, which was showing a different Hallmark christmas movie, but with most of the same cast, and I was incredibly confused as to why the movie I had been sort of paying attention to suddenly had a completely different plot
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Dec 26, 2020 00:33
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Watched Eastenders bc I was assured that Ian Beale was going to die. 52 wasted loving minutes. On the plus side a serial killer I remember from like 10 years ago is back I guess so hopefully he murders the lot.
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Dec 26, 2020 01:16
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ShaneMacGowansTeeth posted:I went to my mum's for Christmas this year, and she was watching a Hallmark christmas movie she'd recorded on her sky Q box. At some point, that movie ended and we started watching the ChristmasMovies24 channel, which was showing a different Hallmark christmas movie, but with most of the same cast, and I was incredibly confused as to why the movie I had been sort of paying attention to suddenly had a completely different plot My mum went through her Hallmark/Christmas movie phase years ago, until she got to the point she could tell the movie by the first few minutes of it. Then we got her Netflix, then she exhausted everything on there english language soap opera wise. Then started on Mexican, Brazilian, whatever soap operas. Currently watching some Korean one. Watched a Korean one with her last time we met, and it was just over emotionalized insane. goatface posted:How the hell are most of the gambling ads allowed on television. Does Channel 5 not still do a fuckton of casino phone ins during the night?
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Dec 26, 2020 02:06
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happyhippy posted:Does Channel 5 not still do a fuckton of casino phone ins during the night? I don't get Channel 5, but didn't the other channels (ITV mainly?) quit doing those after the phone in scandals?
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Dec 26, 2020 11:01
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goatface posted:How the hell are most of the gambling ads allowed on television. Because they all have the "when the fun stops stop" banner, and occasionally have someone say "gamble responsibly" so it's fine. It's really disgusting how many of these parasites have rebranded themselves as 'ethical' because they let you cash out or set limits. It's not loving ethical, they still depend on addiction to turn a profit.
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Dec 26, 2020 12:08
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Mickolution posted:I don't get Channel 5, but didn't the other channels (ITV mainly?) quit doing those after the phone in scandals? ITV quit because no woman regularly carries Rawlplugs in her purse and the bad publicity was more trouble than it was worth in terms of regulatory pressure. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2007/jan/15/broadcasting.ITV
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Dec 26, 2020 12:21
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Is there a way to get smart tvs to access freeview via Internet connection instead of aerial? The signal here is kinda spotty to the point BBC channels can cut out and we're missing some of the channel 4 stations like 4 seven and 4hd+1 We've got 5G so bandwidth won't be an issue.
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Dec 26, 2020 12:55
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I think if you started every show via youview as a ‘as live’ then it would default that way?
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Dec 26, 2020 13:17
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You could get a dish installed and go with Freesat.
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Dec 26, 2020 13:41
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Watched that thing about SM:TV. Largely fluff but a good reminder of how talented Ant & Dec (and Cat) were early on. And how the best children's TV doesn't talk down to them.
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Dec 26, 2020 14:07
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DrVenkman posted:Watched that thing about SM:TV. Largely fluff but a good reminder of how talented Ant & Dec (and Cat) were early on. And how the best children's TV doesn't talk down to them. What’s it called? I didn’t watch a ton of that show as I’m the age of Going Live etc but I’d see a bit of it in uni and could see they were better than most kids stuff.
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Dec 26, 2020 17:20
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crispix posted:Channel 5 seems to show a lot of these starting around mid-November. The acting can be so bad that they have comedy value for about 3 or 4 minutes The writing is so bad too. So many of those lines are not everyday sentences.
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Dec 26, 2020 18:32
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I watched the movie of The Secret the other day (against my will) and Jesus Christ it was awful. Some handsome weirdo comes round and starts saying rubbish philosophy at this destitute family until the mum fucks him, then it turns out he knew her dead husband. Also she has a fiancé this whole time who seems like a perfectly nice guy but he hasn’t read The Secret so gently caress him I guess.
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Dec 26, 2020 18:43
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DrVenkman posted:Watched that thing about SM:TV. Largely fluff but a good reminder of how talented Ant & Dec (and Cat) were early on. And how the best children's TV doesn't talk down to them. Did it cover the April Fools heart attack? Also, any particularly large crisp in our house still provokes cries of "eat it"
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Dec 26, 2020 18:49
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Mr Lee mr lee, mr lee mr lee mr lee
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Dec 26, 2020 20:23
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Jakabite posted:I watched the movie of The Secret the other day (against my will) and Jesus Christ it was awful. Some handsome weirdo comes round and starts saying rubbish philosophy at this destitute family until the mum fucks him, then it turns out he knew her dead husband. Also she has a fiancé this whole time who seems like a perfectly nice guy but he hasn’t read The Secret so gently caress him I guess. Okay what the hell is the secret doing with a movie??
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Dec 27, 2020 02:57
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So, Big Fat Quiz, am I right in thinking in the final round they edited Jeff Bezos' name in over someone else? Sean Connery or something?
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Dec 27, 2020 22:31
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Heard suggestions that the original might have been Prince Andrew...
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Dec 27, 2020 22:40
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Seems odd their lawyers would quail at insulting him when everyone's been doing it for ages, but makes sense I guess.
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Dec 27, 2020 22:48
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What was the joke?
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Dec 28, 2020 00:25
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Why would they not just cut something like that entirely rather than awkwardly overdub it?
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Dec 28, 2020 00:28
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goatface posted:What was the joke? The round was for each horrible quote was it said by Trump or someone else. "How come the deeply troubled women, you know, deeply, deeply troubled, they're always the best in bed?" And Carr asks Trump or X, it’s really obviously dubbed with “Jeff Bezos” over whoever he’d really said at the recording. Is every single advert on 4OD now for online gambling or is that just for me? Cerv fucked around with this message at 00:49 on Dec 28, 2020 |
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Dec 28, 2020 00:47
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stev posted:Why would they not just cut something like that entirely rather than awkwardly overdub it? Because they had a board of stuff, they would have to cut the whole round or people would ask why they'd skipped a question.
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Dec 28, 2020 01:52
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Yea all my adverts on 4OD are gambling ones too. In related news to the cutting I still can't believe nobody knows the story of why the MasterChef the professionals contestant got cut out
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Dec 28, 2020 04:47
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Cerv posted:Is every single advert on 4OD now for online gambling or is that just for me? Same on ITV4. For a break I switch over to Talking Pictures (channel 81 on Freeview, shows old newsreels and movies from the 70s) where the adverts are for walking aids and mattresses.
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Dec 28, 2020 14:03
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Mr Phillby posted:My strong memories about channel 5 are: When Five started it had an endearing crapness to it, like they knew they'd never compete with the other terrestrial channels quality-wise, so they just kind-of embraced being low-rent and tacky. This had the effect of leading to some interestingly oddball programming choices, like in prime time you'd get stuff like Hercules and Xena, and late at night it would be shows reviewing porn and seasons of weird sixties exploitation films. Then later RIchard Desmond bought it and basically turned it into Daily Express TV, and it just became endless shows demonising people on benefits and gently caress-all else(oh, they had Big Brother for a while, when everyone had lost interest in it). I think Viacom currently owns it, but they evidently don't give enough of a poo poo to put anything worth watching on there.
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Dec 28, 2020 18:14
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Taear posted:Yea all my adverts on 4OD are gambling ones too. I think it’s related to the amount of sport at present - football matches on TV every day for 10 days, so peak season for them. Taear posted:In related news to the cutting I still can't believe nobody knows the story of why the MasterChef the professionals contestant got cut out Undoubtedly someone will have scoured their social media posts after filming and found that they said something racist/homophobic a decade ago or something. The exact same thing has happened in a US reality show recently. Edit: a google shows rumours that they told Marcus Waring to gently caress off. wooger fucked around with this message at 20:28 on Dec 28, 2020 |
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Dec 28, 2020 20:19
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wooger posted:Undoubtedly someone will have scoured their social media posts after filming and found that they said something racist/homophobic a decade ago or something. The exact same thing has happened in a US reality show recently. They're not going to cut them out for that. Your other posts in the thread suggest that you'd be okay with a racist being on the show anyway so I get why you've said this. Someone earlier in the thread mentioned the marcus waring "gently caress off" bit and it doesn't seem like that'd get the person cut out HOWEVER in that episode Marcus did seem extremely angry.
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Dec 28, 2020 22:02
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thoroughly enjoyed Amol Rajan looking extremely stupid on Christmas University Challenge
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Dec 28, 2020 22:05
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He was poo poo on House of Games too. Why go on UC after that?
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Dec 28, 2020 22:47
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from the general standard of all the non-student teams I assume they're all made up of the only 4 people who replied to the email
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Dec 28, 2020 22:50
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Taear posted:They're not going to cut them out for that. Your other posts in the thread suggest that you'd be okay with a racist being on the show anyway so I get why you've said this. 🙄 Whether someone posting something dodgy on social media years ago makes them an irredeemable racist who should be banned from TV forever is arguable. But they have literally edited out cast members on other reality tv shows this year for this exact reason.
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Dec 29, 2020 00:14
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Some of them are much better than others. You can see when one person in a "celeb" UC team is into it and the rest aren't, they can carry them against a whole team of people who just said yes to be on telly.
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Dec 29, 2020 00:15
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Did any of it top this? https://twitter.com/FinalBullet/status/1342975611430699008
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Dec 29, 2020 00:31
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Seeing the setup for Big Fat Quiz pretty much seals that the two 8 Out of 10 Cats specials were probably filmed at the beginning of the year.
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Dec 29, 2020 06:08
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EL BROMANCE posted:Seeing the setup for Big Fat Quiz pretty much seals that the two 8 Out of 10 Cats specials were probably filmed at the beginning of the year. Other than the fact that neither of those Xmas specials even had the slightest mention of Covid. They were 100% filmed back in February.
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Dec 29, 2020 06:26
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I watched the ...does countdown last night and tucked away on the last page of the credits it had a 2019 copyright date. Maybe they decided to just bang out 2 Christmas episodes (or more!) while they had the set decorated? Also, there's a Ghosts Christmas special on iPlayer and it's cute.
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Hamburlgar posted:Other than the fact that neither of those Xmas specials even had the slightest mention of Covid. Yeah we talked about the lack of covid mention back when they aired, but didn’t really have a frame of reference to what a ‘definitely shot in late 2020’ C4 panel show looked like then.
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