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Bloody Ray Purchase! TBF Matt Berry pronouncing things is a good chunk of why What We Do in the Shadows is good too.
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I really liked Man Down, the Channel 4 one with Greg Davie, Roisin Conaty + Mike Wozniak.
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Unkempt posted:I really liked Man Down, the Channel 4 one with Greg Davie, Roisin Conaty + Mike Wozniak.
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Unkempt posted:I really liked Man Down, the Channel 4 one with Greg Davie, Roisin Conaty + Mike Wozniak. Man Down is a shitload better than it has any right to be. There's a bunch of sitcoms that seem to be just a vehicle for one particular person to Do What They Like with a load of people they like being in it and Man Down is 100% one of them Pablo Bluth posted:I wouldn't put it high on my all time list, but you suddenly reminded me of Cuckoo (with the mention of Greg). Man that show is hosed I have no idea why it carried on going with Taylor Lautner but it's maybe the only example of a show where it's like that (as in the entire premise of the show got hosed by someone leaving in series 1 and it KEPT GOING after it)
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Taear posted:Man that show is hosed Carrying on with Taylor Lautner was one thing (and worked out fine imo). Carrying on with Andie MacDowell for another season after Taylor Lautner left was ridiculous.
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Betjeman posted:People just do nothing was a bunch of caricatures having wacky japes, and would have been far stronger being a standard sitcom. Gotta disagree, it works so well because it took the formula that worked so well in a broad sense and applied it to something niche that absolutely 100% resonates with people involved in most hip hop/electronic music scenes while not alienating a general audience. You can absolutely see the love of what they do in every scene, rather that it just being actors reciting lines that someone else wrote. That it got big is great, but I’m so glad it didn’t compromise the core of the show. The film was a bit meh and way more standard sitcom.
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Dec 14, 2023 19:39
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stev posted:Carrying on with Taylor Lautner was one thing (and worked out fine imo). Carrying on with Andie MacDowell for another season after Taylor Lautner left was ridiculous. It's just....weird, you know? How did it manage to struggle on
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Dec 14, 2023 19:47
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SeanBeansShako posted:Saxondale is another suggestion for me for a lesser known Steve Coogan vehicle too. Tommy will be 70 in a couple of years :/
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Dec 14, 2023 20:36
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I enjoyed Back with David Mitchell, and Bluestone 42. I have a vague memory of enjoying Roman's Empire but maybe it's actually poo poo?
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Still Game is a great comedy sitcom.
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We interrupt sitcom chat to bring you 'what poo poo are we warming up to slop into your eyes xmas 2023 edition' so grab your biro and copy of the radio times and get ready: THIS CHRISTMAS ON BBC ONE Strictly Final Christmas Specials: Beyond Paradise, Ghosts, GB Sewing Bee, Live at the Apollo, Bad Education Lot No.249 Nigella in Amsterdam Probably a pixar movie on in the morning? The King's Speech (not the film) The Eastenders murder mystery special or whatever depressing stuff they have planned THIS CHRISTMAS ON ITV (X) The Winter King Christmas Specials: Masked Singer, Inside M&S, Emmerdale, Corrie, The Real Fully Monty Jingle Bell Balls Something Undone Platform 7 Probably lots of gameshows? I presume some Deal or No Deal? THIS CHRISTMAS ON CHANNEL 4? ALL4? JUST 4? Christmas Specials: Bake Off, Taskmaster, The Piano, Gogglebox, 8 out of 10 Cats, Late Night Lycett, Mog's Christmas Probably the snowman? A Big fat quiz Mo Gilligan show Jamie Oliver cooks the Mediterranean An alternative christmas message from either a representative of Hamas or let's say First Dates Fred. THIS CHRISTMAS ON CHANNEL 5 No idea, a yorkshire vet thing maybe? THIS CHRISTMAS ON SKY Christmas Specials: Brassic, Rob & Romesh, A League of Their Own, Buzzcocks Sports Funniest Moments Based on a True Story Dynamo Live suicide special Unofficial Science of Die Hard James Acaster - Cold Lasagne Hate Myself 1999 MEANWHILE ON STREAMING(BOOOOOOOO) Hannah Waddingham Christmas Variety Special (Apple TV+) Candy Cane Lane, Reacher S2 (Prime) Indiana Jones 4, What If? S2, The Santa Clauses S2, A Haunting in Venice, The Naughty Nine (Disney+) Chicken Run 2, Harlan Coben's Fool Me Once, Rebel Moon, The Crown S6, Maestro, Emily in Paris S4 (Netflix)
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On Talking Pictures they're running the Worzel Gummidge Christmas special.
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This one's a cracker, catch it if you haven't yet
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Thin Blue Line is immortal purely for delivery of the line 'your cock-up, my arse!'
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oh yes the bloke who played every gay man on television in the 1990s was in that
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crispix posted:oh yes the bloke who played every gay man on television in the 1990s was in that He's gone all antivax insane now I think - James Dreyfus is his name Or maybe antitrans insane? Ah yea it's the latter
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Boomers gonna boomer. Pretty sad about Zach Dingle, not watched Emmerdale for a while.
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for whoever was wanting something to watch, in addition to what's been posted I'd recommend giving Two Doors Down a watch on iPlayer. It's been going since 2016 but i only recently became aware of it. I've watched two series now and it's not bad. If you're Scottish or like me Scottish adjacent or even have just spent a while in close proximity to some Scottish people at some point, you'll see a lot of small observations that are quite funny
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crispix posted:for whoever was wanting something to watch, in addition to what's been posted I'd recommend giving Two Doors Down a watch on iPlayer. It's been going since 2016 but i only recently became aware of it. I've watched two series now and it's not bad. If you're Scottish or like me Scottish adjacent or even have just spent a while in close proximity to some Scottish people at some point, you'll see a lot of small observations that are quite funny Yeah, the early seasons that I watched all the exterior scenes were filmed in the small Glaswegian suburb that I grew up in, which really added to the surreal feeling that they were just filming my actual neighbours. I just kept looking at my mum saying "They've based this character on Jenny down the road, haven't they? They must know her, they must" and "Didn't Big Tam do that at the McLaughlins' Hogmanay Party in 1998?". It was all terribly disconcerting, not just for me, but for most of the suburb, we were all squinting at each other wondering who wrote the scripts for it.
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Chubby Henparty posted:Thin Blue Line is immortal purely for delivery of the line 'your cock-up, my arse!' Literally the only thing I remember from that show, and the delivery was perfect.
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Irisi posted:Yeah, the early seasons that I watched all the exterior scenes were filmed in the small Glaswegian suburb that I grew up in, which really added to the surreal feeling that they were just filming my actual neighbours. I just kept looking at my mum saying "They've based this character on Jenny down the road, haven't they? They must know her, they must" and "Didn't Big Tam do that at the McLaughlins' Hogmanay Party in 1998?". This is how watching the Royale Family feels for me Which is why I don't really like it, I don't want to watch those people doing that stuff, honestly.
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A Question of Sport stopping, a bit unfortunate as it was one of the quiz shows I am actually good at
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Starbucks posted:A Question of Sport stopping, a bit unfortunate as it was one of the quiz shows I am actually good at Nice Now they need to cancel league of their own And all football, anywhere, ever
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When I had depression a few years ago, one of the few things that lifted my mood a bit was A Question of Sport. I don't even like it, or know much at all about sport. But it was just so good natured and dull that I found it very comforting. RIP.
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How long was that in the new format? Two years? Maybe Paddy has a curse.
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Starbucks posted:Boomers gonna boomer. Pretty sad about Zach Dingle, not watched Emmerdale for a while. Same, probably not seen more than a couple of eps in the last 10 years but would often catch it before then and Zach was just the best.
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The Perfect Element posted:When I had depression a few years ago, one of the few things that lifted my mood a bit was A Question of Sport. The funniest episode was when they had that ballroom dancing chap, Anton du Beke on it. He swanned on, all cheerfully camp and over the top and you could see them all thinking "This bloke's just here for comedy value, he's not going to get anything right" And then he wiped the floor with the lot of them without even batting an eyelash. It was hilarious.
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Taear posted:This is how watching the Royale Family feels for me put kettle on, Anthony
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early Royle Family was really well observed and funny but it took a severe nasty turn soon after and the characters became caricatures of what they'd been in series one Irisi posted:Yeah, the early seasons that I watched all the exterior scenes were filmed in the small Glaswegian suburb that I grew up in, which really added to the surreal feeling that they were just filming my actual neighbours. I just kept looking at my mum saying "They've based this character on Jenny down the road, haven't they? They must know her, they must" and "Didn't Big Tam do that at the McLaughlins' Hogmanay Party in 1998?". Christine is hilarious and everyone in and around Scotland has already met her  Pat from The Backs has made me laugh out loud several times despite being a never seen character i did worry when I started watching that they were going to make a thing of Iain being gay but it's thankfully just part of the character rather than a gimmick for cheap laughs crispix fucked around with this message at 16:41 on Dec 16, 2023 |
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Lots of shows age badly; but we're all Nathan Barley now.
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I think we're all closer to the TV Go Home original.
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goatface posted:How long was that in the new format? Two years? Mum thinks he is. We were watching the new Family Fortunes with that Italian chef Gino from breakfast tv. And hes much more friendly and funny with the people than McGuinness was.
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Trin Tragula posted:Lots of shows age badly; but we're all Nathan Barley now. Even at the time I was thinking "I know this is sending people up but I've never met these people" Now I kinda have, but it was genuinely a bit too ahead of its time
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I watch it again every five years and each time it gets closer and closer to reality.
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