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The Perfect Element posted:Started the new Alan Partridge live show on Prime. Got about a third of the way through and turned it off. It wasn't particularly funny, in fact actively awkward at times, and AP in an arena just creates too much cognitive dissonance for me. went to see it live when it was at the O2 and found it funny at the time but watched the Prime recording and agree that wasn't great. elevated by being there live I imagine
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Feb 16, 2023 01:01
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Wow, Paul Putner's YouTube channel is a great deep dive into old British telly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kcgv8kyHoTw
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I watched an ep of The Gold because I recognized a Joy Division song in the trailer. Quite good! If you like a lotta republicanism in your crime shows. If they're not calling each other villains they're talking about entrenched privilege
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Bogmonster posted:Wow, Paul Putner's YouTube channel is a great deep dive into old British telly. God you’d be lucky to get a £5m jackpot on the lottery now without a rollover.
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It's funny watching reddit talk about the apprentice and how it's SO CLEAR this series that they're basically randomly firing people from the losing team. I get why, it's not about the tasks any more so they're getting rid of whoever. But man they could make a fun show out of what they do have and instead they're wasting it on the faux business-with-sugar poo poo, I hate it.
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also lol @ Dragons' Den *has unique patent-protected product, proven sales record, healthy business, over 30 years in skilled trade BUT also does manual labour for living and has scouse accent* "we're all out, good luck" *is 18 years old, has a business that can be reproduced for about a grand BUT is david dickinson's grandson* *HOW MUCH CASH YOU WANT??????"
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crispix posted:also lol @ Dragons' Den I enjoy dragons den because it teaches you to hate capitalism and how business works
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Feb 16, 2023 10:38
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It makes me sick when the contestants fawn over the dragons and talk about how much they'd value their experience and input. They don't care. They're not going to be involved in the business if they invest in it. They're invested in hundreds of tiny failed projects at this point. They're just a soulless well of cash. Run.
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Feb 16, 2023 10:48
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Mr. Squishy posted:I watched an ep of The Gold because I recognized a Joy Division song in the trailer. Quite good! If you like a lotta republicanism in your crime shows. If they're not calling each other villains they're talking about entrenched privilege Irish republicanism? Didn't realise they were linked to Brink's-Mat, though the timing makes sense. Makes it even more "Long Good Friday," which can't be a bad thing.
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Mickolution posted:Irish republicanism? Didn't realise they were linked to Brink's-Mat, though the timing makes sense. Makes it even more "Long Good Friday," which can't be a bad thing. Not Irish, just an anti-aristocratic bent in the dialogue. It reminds me of The Shadow Line where there's a campaigning philosophy not so subtlety playing out in a genre piece. The first ep ends with a monologue about Cromwell. e: i really did enjoy it! Check out The Gold!
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Mr. Squishy posted:Not Irish, just an anti-aristocratic bent in the dialogue. It reminds me of The Shadow Line where there's a campaigning philosophy not so subtlety playing out in a genre piece. The first ep ends with a monologue about Cromwell. Ahh ok, thought they were trying to crowbar issues of the time into it. Anti-Royal republicanism is a bit strange but I'll definitely watch it. I just hope it doesn't go like a lot of UK dramas I've seen in recent years where they rely way too much on twists and cliff hangers. Both can be done well, but both can also be a bit lazy.
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stev posted:It makes me sick when the contestants fawn over the dragons and talk about how much they'd value their experience and input. They really should let you see how every other business went down on the website shouldn't they
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The_Doctor posted:God you’d be lucky to get a £5m jackpot on the lottery now without a rollover. In contrast it’s wild how big the mega millions etc jackpots get here in the US when it keeps rolling over. It’s like ‘end world hunger’ levels of money. Ok not that much, but still obscene amounts of money. quote:The only Mega Millions jackpot larger than Friday's prize is the $1.53 billion won in South Carolina in 2018, Mega Millions said. The largest jackpot in the U.S. to date was a $2.04 billion Powerball won by a single ticket in California in November This is all really recent too.
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Yeah, I was buying tickets for both of those. We did win a few dollars, but only about $4 or so.
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Just started watching this year's apprentice. Literately ten minutes into it and I already despise it and remember why I stopped watching it a year or two ago. Lord/sir/Mr sugar's shite jokes and the cringing insincere obsequiousness is borderline unwatchable. What utter cunts.
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if I knew anyone IRL who was as much of a oval office as the average Apprentice contestant I'd do everything I possibly could to avoid spending an hour in their company
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Oh gently caress off. "I'm sick of all your bickering", after telling them all to point the finger at each other? Christ alive, gently caress him, gently caress this show, gently caress the BBC for spaffing my license fee on this bollocks. loving cunts.
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Feb 17, 2023 02:49
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They all seem pretty nice if you just watch the bit in the house. I think them showing the house is bad because it proves how loving totally fake the rest of it is
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Yeah I tend to have sympathy for the contestants if anything these days. Sure they're a bit thick for applying in the first place but every second of footage is manipulated to make them look at incompetent and vile as possible. The only real monsters are Sugar's lot (and the producers).
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Rich: And I would ask you this: who is the real sick man in this so called "reality" TV show? Is it the contestants, ordinary folk like you and I, swearing, shouting and undermining one-another in a desperate, naked bid for fame and fortune? Or is it The Businessman, in his suit and tie, manipulating the format and editing the footage to make them all look like pricks? Stu: It's both of them Rich: Yup Stu: Yeah PS: thanks for the Curious Orange clip The_Doctor, obviously right up my street
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they did a jimmy savile joke in the intro to a TMWRNJ episode that only made sense over a decade later when we all learned about his necrophilia :/
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God I hate Ricky Gervais.
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he is a horrible oval office, op
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Mr. Squishy posted:Not Irish, just an anti-aristocratic bent in the dialogue. It reminds me of The Shadow Line where there's a campaigning philosophy not so subtlety playing out in a genre piece. The first ep ends with a monologue about Cromwell. My god, I watched the first two last night and I see what you mean! The class system stuff is fairly heavy handed, but I really enjoyed it, though and looking forward to watching the rest later on.
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https://www.tvzoneuk.com/post/jeopardysfryhostrp1 Congrats to Stephen Fry, who is hosting a pilot for Jeopardy UK. We need more quiz shows!
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Nice one, hopefully that works out. I watched some of the US one recently and I love how simple it is. Just lots of questions. There's not enough quiz shows like that any more. The Chase is great, but it would be nice to have another quiz show for them to repeat endlessly. Don't see how they'll link the two, but in the US, the chasers are Jeopardy champions. Also, I hope it's a 30min show. Not everything has to be an hour!
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Jeopardy is a great format, but they really need to nail the questions. Because the format is so simple and there is very little focus on contestants compared to more flashy quiz shows, balancing easy 100s and super obscure 500s is crucial for compelling viewing experience.
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If it's not 3 hrs long and on a ferris wheel, with Michael McIntyre presenting, then I ain't watching.
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It'll be an hour with 20+ minutes of banter. It's just so cheap.
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goatface posted:It'll be an hour with 20+ minutes of banter. It's just so cheap. Just make 2 episodes!! I think the US one goes straight into questions and pauses to speak to the contestants between rounds. Works pretty well. Pointless is the worst for banal chat. The first round is painfully slow and it's not helped by the fact that a couple could be on 3 times. I don't like the bonus round at all either, but at least it's cut some time from round 1.
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There used to be a gameshow on channel 5 that was just headshots of contestants and did absolutely zero banter.
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100% maybe? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wra2ePwi-e8 Good god, this is a lot more rapid-fire than I remember.
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TelevisedInsanity posted:https://www.tvzoneuk.com/post/jeopardysfryhostrp1 Jeopardy is the dumbest quiz show format.
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It’s a show I always DVR, but rarely watch despite liking it.
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old-school 15-1 is still the gold standard of TV quiz shows imo loads of questions, zero banter
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I like Jeopardy but feel like most of the charm of the show has kind of gone since Trebek died. Mickolution posted:Don't see how they'll link the two, but in the US, the chasers are Jeopardy champions. One of them was part of a winning University Challenge team as well bizarrely.
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