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Adrianics posted:Boat Story on the Iplayer is really good. Both leads are fantastic, the villains are genuinely scary, the on-location shooting is gorgeous and more than anything it has a great sense of humour. The trailers did it a disservice then, it didn’t look like much of anything.
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eating only apples posted:the intended audience of come fly with me would certainly care about a lack of diversity, i'm sure You know I do think that Dell_Zincht is right about the intention of lucas/walliams As in "they didn't even consider it, didn't ask any black people and didn't think it'd be taken as racist" This is NOT me saying it's okay it's more pointing out how sheltered they are
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Dec 4, 2023 14:07
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At the risk of " You have to hand it to them", the pair have at least now apologised for it with less caveats or reluctantance than others guilty of blackface.
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Dec 4, 2023 14:22
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The_Doctor posted:The trailers did it a disservice then, it didn’t look like much of anything. Oh yeah, definitely looked like Generic UK Prestige Small-Town Drama #6184 in the trailers, but have been very pleasantly surprised. It's very Fargo-esque, and I am not capable of greater praise.
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Dec 4, 2023 16:22
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Dell_Zincht posted:Because once again, those characters weren't black or Asian in order to mock their ethnicity - certainly in CFWM's case they were expected to be showcased as the show was set in an airport, the very place you would expect to see people of various different cultures. yes, it's probably been more than a year and you appear to have learned nothing lol 
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Dec 4, 2023 16:24
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I tried watching ITVX on my Roku box to resume a movie I'd started on my desktop whete I have adblock. It went something like: Sponsored by Candy Crush Eight adverts give or take An itvx indent Sponsored by Candy crush An itv preview for something Sponsored by somebody other than Candy Crush Exactly numbers/orders might be off; by that point I was watching it like some performance art of hating your customer. Finally the movie started after I don't know how long, but it decided to forget where I was and show from the start. I'd finished my breakfast by that point, so turned it off, lesson learnt.
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Pablo Bluth posted:I tried watching ITVX on my Roku box to resume a movie I'd started on my desktop whete I have adblock. It went something like: For us there's a 50/50 chance that loading a new ad will just crash the app altogether. It's a horrendous piece of poo poo.
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Dec 4, 2023 17:50
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Channel 4 catch-up thing is weird on my smart TV, it doesn't play most adverts but just black screens for (presumably) the right amount of time. Preferable in many ways to seeing/hearing the advert but always a bit disconcerting that it might have just stopped entirely (if the screen goes grey rather than black that is usually the case)
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Dec 4, 2023 20:01
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You’ve hit the jackpot. The current ESPN+ ad break in the US is a loop with awful music for the service you’re already watching it on. You will see this approximately 400 times during one game. Originally it was a ‘we’ll be right back’ page with no sound, the glory days.
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Dec 4, 2023 20:06
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Pablo Bluth posted:I tried watching ITVX on my Roku box to resume a movie I'd started on my desktop whete I have adblock. It went something like: Plug a PC into your TV and watch it on the website Adblocker blocks all the ads. Doesn't even attempt to load them.
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Dec 4, 2023 20:54
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It's not a problem, I was just musing on how bad it had got over the number of adverts. Also the fuckers over the Channel 4 who pause the adverts if you tab out to another windows. I was trying to be supportive, but on goes the ad blocker.
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Dec 5, 2023 00:08
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EL BROMANCE posted:You’ve hit the jackpot. The current ESPN+ ad break in the US is a loop with awful music for the service you’re already watching it on. You will see this approximately 400 times during one game. Originally it was a ‘we’ll be right back’ page with no sound, the glory days. Oh gently caress that loop with the ad for the service? With all the footage from sports? I'm so bored of it.
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Pablo Bluth posted:It's not a problem, I was just musing on how bad it had got over the number of adverts. Also the fuckers over the Channel 4 who pause the adverts if you tab out to another windows. I was trying to be supportive, but on goes the ad blocker. I actually paid for ad-free channel 4 because I wanted to watch Frasier on my iPad without loving around with browsers and they still put fuckin adverts in it, just that they're trailers for other shows. JUST SHOW ME THE PROGRAMME loving hell.
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thehustler posted:Oh gently caress that loop with the ad for the service? With all the footage from sports? I'm so bored of it. It’s killing me. Gf makes me mute the tv every ad break now and I don’t blame her.
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Pablo Bluth posted:It's not a problem, I was just musing on how bad it had got over the number of adverts. Also the fuckers over the Channel 4 who pause the adverts if you tab out to another windows. I was trying to be supportive, but on goes the ad blocker. I pull the tab out into another (slightly visible) window and it runs the ads in the background then.
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Dec 5, 2023 10:31
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Heavy_D posted:I pull the tab out into another (slightly visible) window and it runs the ads in the background then. I think that still only works if it's the active window. Might be wrong though, it's a while since I tried to watch C4 on a PC
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Here's something the thread might know. On I'm a Celebrity this year we've got Nick Picard and he's been in Hollyoaks for nearly 30 years. Does anyone know how much money he'd be earning? Like is it a "normal amount" for a highish end job (I'm thinking 55-60k a year), is it going to be huge amounts (the simpsons actors get 300k, so in the realm of that) or is it even lower than the 55k? If he was suddenly hosed off from hollyoaks would he be in a place where he probably doesn't need to work again? In a similar vein if you're an actor that's in like 2 episodes of the bill, 2 episodes of Holby City, an episode of doctors etc etc etc is that enough to live on? Do you get loving loads (comparitively) I know we have industry people in here and I figure they might have an answer.
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The Simpsons actors get that per episode. I think for Hollyoaks - it's a lot of episodes per year, relatively low budget, not an international staple - they probably get substantially <1% of that. goatface fucked around with this message at 21:33 on Dec 9, 2023 |
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goatface posted:The Simpsons actors get that per episode. Yea I know.
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https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/celebs-tv/how-much-coronation-street-eastenders-660757 This is a few years out of date now, but it's talking about £450-2000 per episode they appear in for an episode of hollyoaks.
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goatface posted:The Simpsons actors get that per episode. they're not real, op, they're just cartoons 
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goatface posted:https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/celebs-tv/how-much-coronation-street-eastenders-660757 This is a few years out of date now, but it's talking about £450-2000 per episode they appear in for an episode of hollyoaks. Thanks! I feel like this is kinda less than I was expecting
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Dec 10, 2023 14:48
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I know that the actors who play Ian Beale and Phil Mitchell are both on like £300k each. It must be one of the most cushty gigs ever.
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The Perfect Element posted:I know that the actors who play Ian Beale and Phil Mitchell are both on like £300k each. It must be one of the most cushty gigs ever. I imagine it's a bit scary as one of the big named characters because new writers could come in and go "time for a shakeup, lets kill phil"
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Life Life I NEED LIFE
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I'd like to get into more British sitcoms, any favs? Especially from say late 80s, the 90s, 2000s. I did like Fawtly Towers though for sure. I like Spaced, Dark Place of course, I enjoyed The Office and Extras at the time though not as into the doc style now, haven't seen many British sitcoms. Also I dig Red Dwarf. On the US side I love say Seinfeld, Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Frasier, Cheers, NewsRadio, Curb, and indeed How I Met Your Mother, etc. I also dig sketch but looking into sitcoms currently. A few I have been meaning to see are Matt Berry's Toast ones, Black Books, and I'm Alan Partridge. Goodnight Sweetheart sounds interesting. Heavy Metal fucked around with this message at 05:57 on Dec 14, 2023 |
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Two big ones you didn’t list but might’ve seen already are Blackadder and Peep Show. Also look into Derry Girls, Father Ted, IT Crowd, Phoenix Nights, Stath Lets Flats, 15 Storeys High, Gavin and Stacey, Bottom, Fleabag, Coupling, Detectorists, Inbetweeners, Friday Night Dinner, Game On, Grandmas House, Nathan Barley, Might Boosh, People Just Do Nothing, Green Wing, This Country, Uncle. Decent mix of 90s onwards and variety of production and mainstream/alternative. For humor that isn’t sitcoms, anything involving Chris Morris so The Day Today and Brass Eye. Partridge is involved in the former, and I’d watch that then Knowing Me Knowing You before I’m Alan Partridge personally, he’s a character that’s adapted and changed as time goes on and it’s fun to get the whole (televisual, at least) history. Anything involving Armando Ianucci too, so If you liked Veep then The Thick of It primarily. Any of the ‘Cunk On’ shows. Taskmaster s7 is a show firing on full cylinders that’s a great combination of comedy and gameshow. Sketch comedy like Limmys Show probably holds up better than most of the 80s and 90s stuff (altho Smack The Pony might stand out too), and Look Around You for satire. I’m not sure if Goodnight Sweetheart will have aged that well, I recall getting quite bored of it at the time and having the main plot be the lead character having an affair felt weird even back then. Half the attraction was probably seeing Rodney from Only Fools and Horses do something different. Maybe Allo Allo would be more fun, it’s definitely something.
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Peep show, the Inbetweeners, Fresh meat are very British adult sitcoms and usually feature high up in best comedy lists Phoneshop is a little less known but I think it's the funniest comedy we've put out in the last 20 odd years. It is unashamedly south London and might not translate internationally Green wing for something surreal, kind of like a sketch show inside a sitcom Coupling if you want to see what happened when the UK tried to copy friends and ended up somewhere else because we just can't hug anything out. This one is pretty divisive as quite a few people hate it but I thought it was pretty good
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Goodnight sweetheart was rubbish middle aged, middle England fodder
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Betjeman posted:Goodnight sweetheart was rubbish middle aged, middle England fodder Recasting Phoebe halfway through killed it for me. I do like Liz Carling but Dervla Kirwan played the cheeky, often sarcastic cockney role better. Yvonne being recast barely mattered, though. Let's not even talk about the revival in 2016. Echoing everything said above, also Crashing is a somewhat lesser known PWB sitcom set in an abandoned hospital and is very very funny. Watch it before Fleabag if you haven't already seen the latter. Dell_Zincht fucked around with this message at 07:43 on Dec 14, 2023 |
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Betjeman posted:Phoneshop is a little less known but I think it's the funniest comedy we've put out in the last 20 odd years. It is unashamedly south London and might not translate internationally Hello from the US. I adore Phoneshop! We used to host a watching on Christmas Day for some random reason and everyone has always loved it. Amazing cast that got to ad lib a ton of great lines. I’ll add Friday Night Dinner to the list. Simple premise and it doesn’t try to be anything more than a slice of life sitcom but don’t hold that against the show!
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I watched Some Mothers Do 'Av 'Em, which still stands up thanks to Michael Crawford skill at physical comedy and stunt work.
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+1 for Phoneshop, I remember people calling it chavvy poo poo when it came out but I had more genuine laughs in that then loads of stuff at the time. This intro to an episode from S2 has more jokes in less than two minutes than some entire sitcom episodes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naSyBvwlXGU I'd also say you should check out Him and Her and Mum, both written by Stefan Golaszewski, as they're fantastic.
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A Touch of Cloth is an Airplane/Naked Gun take on UK cop shows, and well worth your time. Written by Charlie Brooker (now hugely famous as the creator of Black Mirror).
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all this talk of comedy and no limmys show, smdh
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Paper Lion posted:all this talk of comedy and no limmys show, smdh EL BROMANCE posted:Sketch comedy like Limmys Show probably holds up better than most of the 80s and 90s stuff
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For 90s, try The Brittas Empire. Don't watch past the end of series 5; it was written as the ending, and the revival for 6-7 with different writers was terrible. I have a soft spot for it; you might like seeing Chris Barrie doing something different. He was filming it at the same time as Red Dwarf. I also really enjoyed Rab C Nesbitt from that era; not sure if it'll translate though. Definitely watch with subtitles if you're not used to Glaswegian; all my mates had to, which seemed so strange to me - but not worth missing a joke. Testro fucked around with this message at 09:51 on Dec 14, 2023 |
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Testro posted:I have a soft spot for it; you might like seeing Chris Barrie doing something different. He was filming it at the same time as Red Dwarf Absolutely! Lord he rules. Thanks for all the recommendations, lotta cool stuff for the list.
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