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When I saw that he was on the phone to the ITV board at lunchtime I knew he’d be gone by teatime. Felt pretty smug. Presumably they had a chat, said “you should go” and then he quickly calls Brillo to get a job at Gammon Bastard News before going “okay, I will.”
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thehustler posted:When I saw that he was on the phone to the ITV board at lunchtime I knew he’d be gone by teatime. Felt pretty smug. Absolutely this. He'll treble his pay and be able to preach exclusively to a choir of people who won't be offended by his bullshit. On that topic, I've been wondering about all these people going to work for commercial TV or radio stations (e.g. Simon Mayo) - how are these companies affording their massive salaries and how can they justify it? Scala, the station which pays Mayo, just announced their record-high listening figures at around 300k. Meanwhile Radio 2 has thirteen MILLION listeners. Can the advertising revenues for such a small listenership really pay for multiple high-six figure salaries?
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Mar 10, 2021 10:23
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About 20 minutes of advertising an hour.
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Mar 10, 2021 13:23
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I like when the thread title comes back into relevance again.
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goatface posted:About 20 minutes of advertising an hour. And part of a huge media group.
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Yeah, if you otherwise have a shedload of kids being paid gently caress all to do the rest of the presenting/producing/engineering you can afford a few big names.
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EL BROMANCE posted:I like when the thread title comes back into relevance again. I get excited for a tiny moment as I think at last, he's croaked.
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Seven more sleeps to Taskmaster 11...
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Pablo Bluth posted:Seven more sleeps to Taskmaster 11... Nice, it's going to overlap with series 3 of Taskmaster Norway/Kongen Befaler.
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I've been doing quite a lot of daytime TV of late and I'm fascinated by the show Money for Nothing. A woman takes things people are about to dump at the skip and pays someone an outrageous amount of money to make something usually very ridiculous looking with it. The thing that fascinates me is people sometimes buy them   
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Do you want to solve a murder? “I always know I ‘ave zem when zey do the evil voice!”
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I was never the biggest fan of the show, but this doesn't bode well. Look forward to seeing Lee Hurst back on the Beeb soon boys. https://twitter.com/nicktolhurst/status/1370256264509464577?s=19
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DrVenkman posted:I was never the biggest fan of the show, but this doesn't bode well. Look forward to seeing Lee Hurst back on the Beeb soon boys. Well that’s horribly dystopian.
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Don't worry it will be replaced by funny right wing comedians, like, uh
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The_Doctor posted:Do you want to solve a murder? This has been done before, can't remember what it was called. The best part about it was each week two people got voted into going to a haunted house style investigation site, with one being eliminated at random. There was one guy who everyone hated and kept being voted for. He came back every single week and eventually won the whole thing. Edit: The Murder Game
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But we already live in Murder Island could they not rename it?The_Doctor posted:Well that’s horribly dystopian. From the government that brought you Brexit, Windrush Scandals and killing everyone with inept mismanagement of a pandemic, don't you make fun of us you big meanies!
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The_Doctor posted:Do you want to solve a murder? Sounds like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armchair_Detectives It wasn't that good, only saw a few episodes of it though. It is like 3-2-1 puzzle wise, where it could be all of the suspects from the red herrings and actual clues, and was really just a random guess in the end.
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happyhippy posted:Sounds like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armchair_Detectives I saw it a couple of times and I was really put off by the presenter. She really give the impression she'd rather be doing anything else :/ The_Doctor posted:Well that’s horribly dystopian. I actually noticed on the BBC news coverage of the Harry thing last week that the correspondent interspersed nearly every sentence with something about how great the queen was, how she epitomises service to the nation and all that guff
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crispix posted:I saw it a couple of times and I was really put off by the presenter. She really give the impression she'd rather be doing anything else :/ Definitely. She's a good comedian and totally wasted on this. Then again you have to do what you can get to get noticed.
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The Circle is my guilty pleasure but not a fan of the celeb version at all, it doesn't work without actual stakes and everyone just playing for fun, plus there's no one really interesting, think I'll sit it out till the regular series comes back.
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I’m rewatching Avenue5 this weekend. I know it’s a US co-production but it’s so good and I can’t believe people didn’t like it very much.
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thehustler posted:I’m rewatching Avenue5 this weekend. I know it’s a US co-production but it’s so good and I can’t believe people didn’t like it very much. Coincidence, watched it for the first time here over the last few days. And I love it, can't wait for the second series. However I can see how people don't like it, there is not enough 'Armando Iannucci' in it imo. It's as if the characters were dialed back a bit from how they should be. And the conversations have flashes of Armando gold in them, but seem to be tamed down, maybe for the US audiences. The Captain should be more Basil Fawlty stressed out, and Malcolm Tucker angry. Rebecca Front's character, Karen, should totally be more Karen instead of trying to side with the captain all the time. The passengers should be more extreme narcissistic selfish fucks, not just stupid. The Jack Black wannabe is a complete waste though.
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I enjoyed it but I felt like the show had already said everything to had to say after the first five episodes or so and drifted away from it.
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Holy gently caress I finished the first series of The Terror last night and it was loving phenomenal. Like, holy poo poo, that style of show feels like it was made for me. Getting on in years a bit I just have no time for stuff that's about the plot instead of the people - if my entertainment isn't saying something about what it means to be human and/or it's insulting my intelligence it can get hosed - and The Terror ticked all of those boxes. Just excellent. Anybody have any impressions of season 2? Is it as good? Is it still worthwhile? Does it keep up the thing of respecting the audience's intelligence? That's the crux of it for me.
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Akuma posted:Anybody have any impressions of season 2? Is it as good? Is it still worthwhile? Does it keep up the thing of respecting the audience's intelligence? That's the crux of it for me. There ain't no season 2 here and there never was!
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Annabel Pee posted:The Circle is my guilty pleasure but not a fan of the celeb version at all, it doesn't work without actual stakes and everyone just playing for fun, plus there's no one really interesting, think I'll sit it out till the regular series comes back. I'm surprisingly really enjoying it. Though it cracks me up that no one is at all suspicious that loving Will.I.Am is there.
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Akuma posted:Anybody have any impressions of season 2? Is it as good? Is it still worthwhile? Does it keep up the thing of respecting the audience's intelligence? That's the crux of it for me. By most accounts season two is crap, especially compared to the first - I too have just finished it on a rewatch and it's still fantastic the second time, picking up details I'd missed during the first. The premise of season two is interesting enough and had potential but unfortunately it's nowhere near as engrossing, and I tuned out probably half way through. They should really have dropped 'The Terror' and used a clean title as I think a lot of expectations were set high by season one.
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DrVenkman posted:I'm surprisingly really enjoying it. Though it cracks me up that no one is at all suspicious that loving Will.I.Am is there. I really like the Circle as a concept altogether. As a person (like probably everyone on this forum) who has lived almost their whole life communicating with people via text as well as a sociologist it's very interesting to see how teeny tiny things absolutely set people off. A woman doesn't know little mix songs?? Must be a fake. But a woman immediately leaves an argument instead of trying to calm stuff down? That's fine, to them. I kinda feel like when we get to season 3 the magic might be gone and it'll be boring like after season 5 of Big Brother. I say that because at that point most of the people going on know how it works and the producers know how they WANT it to work, which makes all the personalities sorta insane and the dynamic falls apart. There's a chance it'll be fun still if that hasn't quite happened yet. I'm constantly blown away by how little they know though. Like you mentioned the celebrity one having a fake will.i.am and nobody goes "He's a bit famous for this, isn't he?" or in the normal one in season 1 where they said someone was "really political" because he knew who the loving Prime Minister was. Calling a guy super intelligent because he knows the planets as well. I guess what I'm saying is Circle shows me how little people examine those around them and how people build their conceptions based on super tiny things. Which is interesting, to me! Taear fucked around with this message at 15:27 on Mar 14, 2021 |
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The second season of Terror is a flat out ghost story thingie and the supernatural stuff is in the front and centre of the show, starting from the beginning of the first episode. Plenty of (not that well made) body horror and less drama. It's a very very different thing from season 1 and should have been named differently.
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Well poo poo, thanks folks. What a shame.
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Pablo Bluth posted:We forgot Pottery Chat: I can't fault giving the win to Jodie based on the episode's products. It could have gone to either her or Peter. Adam really did screw himself with the decanters.. so as Sal fell with her lip, Adam fell with his wrong era and country art style, and terrible decanters. Jodie did deserve to win based on that performance though, I agree
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Pablo Bluth posted:We forgot Pottery Chat: I can't fault giving the win to Jodie based on the episode's products. It could have gone to either her or Peter. Adam really did screw himself with the decanters.. I figured Peter might have gotten dinged because his stoppers were molded instead of sculpted (assuming there's a difference). Adam really should have put some balls or rocket fins on the bottoms of the decanters, and they failed spectacularly at decanting. Poor guy; always the pottery bridesmaid, never the pottery bride.
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Sabine Schmidt from Top Gear has died. She was just 51.
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Not sure how I feel about putting 'influencers' on THE CIRCLE. The fun was in watching regular people pretending to be someone else (or indeed just being themselves) not some guy known for doing wack comedy on YouTube. I didn't see the second episode yet, but one thing that cracked me up in the first was the woman pretending to be her husband when she was on a group chat with other guys decided they weren't being 'lads' and went barrelling in with "So what you think of the totty then fellas" much to their confusion.
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One cool touch I thought with The Terror was that episode 2 was titled "Gore". Things are really ominous at that point and I expected the worst, but then I realised it was referring to the real person who was on HMS Terror, Graham Gore. Then it double bluffs and ends with him meeting an incredibly gory end What a fantastic show that was. I need more character driven 19th century Royal Navy horror dramas.
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