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sebzilla posted:+1 very good television +2 It's one of my favourite shows of all time. Just so funny, warm and well observed. Also the photography is gorgeous, and it's always summer. Just the perfect thing to put on if you need cheering up.
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Squibsy posted:Unintentional advert juxtaposition is one of the biggest sources of comedy in my cynical and miserable life tbqh Very fond memory of the first time I got properly into Close Encounters of the Third Kind, quietly digesting it through the long credits which immediately cut to the loudest possible tv promo for Stallone's OVER THE TOP
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sebzilla posted:+1 very good television Lovely opening theme music too.
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Detectorists was good and enjoyable I found it very wholesome. Crispix wants a triumph tr7 now, I can feel it.
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I’ve watched the Detectorists a couple times end to end. At a certain point in each run I wind up googling for detector clubs in my area, then take a look at photos from their most recent outing and say, “Woooof, looks like I got a couple more years in me before this.” I’m probably primed and ready for trains, though. Make a warm, cozy model train sitcom with acoustic guitar and loving pans across real/fake countryside and ill probably dump my kid’s college fund (and then some) into a garden-scale figure-8 in my garden.
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Sep 3, 2022 22:04
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fischtick posted:I’m probably primed and ready for trains, though. Make a warm, cozy model train sitcom with acoustic guitar and loving pans across real/fake countryside and ill probably dump my kid’s college fund (and then some) into a garden-scale figure-8 in my garden. Get into the millenial stepping stone hobby - Lego.
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Sep 3, 2022 22:22
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SeanBeansShako posted:Lovely opening theme music too. i thought it was lovely how they put a performance of it in an episode i'm nearly through series 1 and i love it really funny and doesn't stretch credibility. Russell is fantastic given how minor the character is
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Sep 3, 2022 23:00
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Heavy_D posted:I swear that if you watch 4oD at really antisocial late-night hours, you get far fewer ads. I always supposed that they have a quota of impressions for ads per day, and if you can watch when other viewers have chewed through them, they don't have much left to serve (except McDonalds which seems to have a bottomless bag of ads). Personally I think some of the worst offenders are where they're screening 10 minute Adult Swim shows and still put an ad break in the middle. If you watch stuff way after it was originally on you usually just get the Channel 4 advert and that's it. If you watch it on a browser the advert breaks just don't happen most of the time, but sometimes they do (I guess using a different ad server?) All4 is the weirdest for adverts out of all of the terrestrial channel OD services, just super strangely placed and paced.
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crispix posted:i thought it was lovely how they put a performance of it in an episode The 'casino' ep of What We Do in the Shadows goes into the opening credits by having Matt Berry start to play the 'You're Dead' bass line on the piano and it's a gag that was completely charming to me.
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HopperUK posted:The 'casino' ep of What We Do in the Shadows goes into the opening credits by having Matt Berry start to play the 'You're Dead' bass line on the piano and it's a gag that was completely charming to me. He also played the Toast theme in another episode
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He apparently loves to play that piano during recording, and Kristen Schaal recognized a song he was playing and the band happened to be staying with her at the time. He tells the story on a YouTube video he did with Amoeba Records recently.
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what yous think about GLADIATORSH returning to TV?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?! 
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Looking forward to it being a weird obsession for present Alan Partridge that is for certain.
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crispix posted:what yous think about GLADIATORSH returning to TV?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?! Are they bringing back Wolf again? Guy must be pushing 60 by now, so I hope so.
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EL BROMANCE posted:He apparently loves to play that piano during recording, and Kristen Schaal recognized a song he was playing and the band happened to be staying with her at the time. He tells the story on a YouTube video he did with Amoeba Records recently. Yeah it was a pleasant surprise to me to look into him after watching Shadows and find out that if anything they have toned down the level of musical ability to make Actual Vampire Laszlo seem more plausible.
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crispix posted:what yous think about GLADIATORSH returning to TV?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?! I'm intrigued, but I hope they do a better job of it than before. I used to watch American Gladiators back when it was shown on late night ITV around 1990. It was a big loud competative show where the hosts, commentators and contestants were all going crazy for the spectacle. Then the show came into our TV, with an audience that looked like they couldn't care about what was going on and presenters that I felt gave a bland performance. It definitely felt like a British version. I may give it a go, just to see if they can put some of the energy of the original US version into it.
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sebzilla posted:Are they bringing back Wolf again? Guy must be pushing 60 by now, so I hope so. Try 80, dude was in his mid 40s during the original run.
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Googled to see if they announced any new Gladiator names or not, they havent. Though the Daily Mail did a 'where are they now' on the original cast, and its a massive hit piece on them. Most the photos are either paparazzi snapping them from 500m away in the street or court mug shots. They should just make a The Running Man show. That should would be watchable, not hitting each other with giant ear buds.
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Your friends recommending an American TV show will be like “This show is amazing, but you have to patient - it gets really good around season 12” whilst your friends recommending a British show will be like “This show is great! acerbic, biting satire meets memorable characters and fantastic writing - they only made 6 episodes”.
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njsykora posted:Try 80, dude was in his mid 40s during the original run. He’s 69, will be 70 at the end of the month.
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The_Doctor posted:He’s 69, will be 70 at the end of the month. Nice
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We just finished watching Sherwood, and while I am 100% on board with it politically, it was also very stupid and loads of stuff the characters did made no sense. Now on to Shetland, in my mission to watch all of the 'She****d' murder mystery series.
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They already did a damp squib of a Gladiators reboot in 2008, can't see this one doing any better. Especially if they refuse to use the original music again https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSbhIeEcr_g
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https://twitter.com/japelling/status/1566784548888797184
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I missed this but Stewart Lee's Snowflake was on at the weekend, is now on iplayer. Tornado to follow next weekend.
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reality_groove posted:Tornado to follow next weekend. I'm guessing it won't be now, dammit.
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EL BROMANCE posted:I'm guessing it won't be now, dammit. My god, it was spooky how absolutely every single BBC channel immediately switched to Huw Edwards in black and all the radio stations cut to a single newsreader. I know they've had this planned since 1968 or whatever, but still, it was a little eerie. (Also, if this fucks with Strictly or Bake Off next week, my mum and aunties will NOT be pleased. Nothing should get in the way of Sponge Cakes and Sequins Season on the TV)
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Irisi posted:My god, it was spooky how absolutely every single BBC channel immediately switched to Huw Edwards in black and all the radio stations cut to a single newsreader. I believe cremation works quickly enough that they can make her remains into flour by then.
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well thank gently caress we don't rely on broadcast TV these days
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Irisi posted:My god, it was spooky how absolutely every single BBC channel immediately switched to Huw Edwards in black and all the radio stations cut to a single newsreader. Not all the radio stations went to the rolling news, I think a couple in Scotland and Northern Ireland stayed on their original programming, and I think 6Music and the rest of the stations today have been on full obit procedure today. This is probably still the best look at how BBC Radio looks at big news events
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I assumed they all joined so surprising to hear a few didn’t. The various U.K. broadcasting nerd forums will have kept track of it all. The radio schedules online/on Sounds app still showed regular programmes for a few local stations until well after they joined Radio 4, which was odd. Commiserations to all those kids who listen to Capital who got LBC for the entire day, as well.
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Did any switching/automation fail this time around ala Dance Anthems?
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I miss the days where C4 would’ve had a live stream of Shaun Ryder at 6pm where they’d ‘hope’ he wouldn’t call her a oval office in his obituary.
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6music this morning was still boringly solomn, but I swear in his boredom mark Radcliffe was playing songs to remind you of other more upbeat songs. Stevie Wonders -Pastime Paradise with a talk about how Coolios Gangsters Paradise being just as famous seemed weirdly deliberate. Also think he played an elastica song which seemed less down best. Does anyone know if we get no popmaster until the mourning period ends? Sorry radio not Tv but all BBC.
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Greatest Hits radio is doing their regular playlist, but interspersed with maudlin messages about Brenda. The DJs certainly sound bored reading them out.
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Capital and Gem in the East Midlands were trying to be solemn but stay within the bounds of their playlists so that just came across as really really horny.
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Oh yeah, lots of love songs, which gives some unfortunate implications.
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6 Music is usually my alarm. On Friday it was replaced with Five Live which got me out of bed much faster - literally intolerable. Over the weekend they seems to have been doing ambient music with no DJ segments, which has the opposite effect. I go back to sleep and only wake up after the whole hour has finished. Will be bad if the same thing happens on a work morning...
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That Virgin Atlantic “I am what I am” advert has changed the ending of the song and it bugs me no end.
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