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Fatty posted:I'll take robots any day over DJs telling me that Steve in Durham is having spag bol for dinner. It's even made its way onto 6Music. listeners calling in about something completely inane can be funny, but it's so rare that I'd prefer DJs didn't feel compelled to do it all the time as a crutch to actually engaging with the audience crispix posted:he's atrocious on Radio 2 - I can't listen to it anymore with him presenting. He has absolutely no rapport with people who call in, he trips over his words constantly, his "bits" that he's come up with are at best tedious and one is infuriating (someone calls in and hums a bit of a tune they can't remember); he also did one where he asked people listening to use their car horn if they were sat in traffic which is dangerous and illegal. I gave up when he was telling an anecdote and forgot the point of it - how the hell do you even do that?! he's missing Chris what's his name that was his sidekick on Radio 1, but he was never my cup of tea on Radio 1 either and I don't just think it was those very early starts
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And just think, he's only being paid £300k of LICENCE FEE PAYER MONEY to deliver his special brand of mediocrity directly to your ears!
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I'm also going to say that Chris Evans having had a near 30 year career in radio is a loving crime because he's so loving bad at it
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ShaneMacGowansTeeth posted:I'm also going to say that Chris Evans having had a near 30 year career in radio is a loving crime because he's so loving bad at it it's not all bad. keeps him of the tv.
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Billie Piper's second worst ex.
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2nd episode of Canadian Pottery Throwdown had them making a chess set, but in their own style. At least 3 of the sets I'd easily pay good money for. They haven't done a chess set in our one have they? Now they've settled into a regular episode it's pretty much the same vibes you've come to expect. Plenty of crying and hugging and people supporting each other.
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DrVenkman posted:2nd episode of Canadian Pottery Throwdown had them making a chess set, but in their own style. At least 3 of the sets I'd easily pay good money for. They haven't done a chess set in our one have they? They did it in the UK version in Series 3, when it switched to being on Channel 4, I believe. Again, many of them were superb.
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Where are you all seeing Canadian Throw Down ? More4 or dailymotion links?
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Mr. Squishy posted:Where are you all seeing Canadian Throw Down ? More4 or dailymotion links? I got it off the tv_bunny reddit. Watched the first episode last night. Did not enjoy Seth Rogen in it.
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I don’t think I’ve ever taken a dislike to a character faster or more vehemently than Emma in One Day. Fantastic acting, but I don’t know if she’s meant to be a villain in the story. Sat watching it like someone’s salting a graze.
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What did you think about Dexter, then? 🙄
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thehustler posted:What did you think about Dexter, then? 🙄 He’s a soppy rich oval office? What are your views on the characters?
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I thought he was majorly flawed at first, but aren't we all, and there was some development the entire way through, and that's such a strong reaction you've had about Emma. What is it about her that you found so distasteful? Did it change as the series progressed?
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I don’t suppose anyone in here has any tv listings from the 90s to hand? I’m doing one of my dumb projects where I’m trying to recreate a weeks worth of TV I grew up with on my Plex server using scheduling software (I’ve got other channels running already, but this will easily be my most complex one) and I’m trying to find original air times for shows. TVRB has me covered for BBC and ITV nicely, but it’s spotty for C4 and pretty barren for Sky One which is the other source I’m using. A couple of photos of some pages would be super useful. I’m being loose with accuracy to a degree, but the more knowledge I have the better! And yes, I’m including neighbours in the classic ‘twice a day’ airing configuration. Now to add far too many 90s episodes of it to my server…
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This is from 1998 https://archive.org/details/image00861/image00893.jpg
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Awesome! I searched archive org (a whole lot of my programming which never got dvds etc is coming from there*) but somehow didn’t see that. Did see some newsletter called The Old Radio Times a bunch though, ha. Thanks. E: when I started looking for stuff it was mid November last year, looks like this was literally uploaded a week or two after. It’s like they read my mind! E2: and they’ve uploaded a handful of relevant issues. * I’m so mad that there’s a plethora of loving Noel’s House Party on there, so I guess I have to put that in now. EL BROMANCE fucked around with this message at 00:44 on Feb 20, 2024 |
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Noel’s House Party was required viewing at the time.
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Yeah we fuckin loved it in my house.
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Can’t beat a bit of house party and gunging.
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Yeah I enjoyed it too, but it now feels like a shame that needs to be hidden.
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We are just too miserable a people now.
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https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/issues
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RIP Ewen MacIntosh (Big Keith)  https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-68357976 
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actually thought of him just this morning when i was leaving a message at work to say i'm on training for the rest of the week
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Yeah genome is a great project, I’ve been using tvrdb which has BBC and ITV stuff down really well, C4 is a little spotty and satellite is almost non existent. Betjeman posted:If you find this you must watch it Ha you know someone out there was taping every episode!
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Anyone watch The Way? Just finished it. Started out pretty good if a little silly and turned into utter dogshit by the end. Shame.
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Awful. Could have been really good. First episode was alriiiiight.
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Watching Landscape Artist of the year and there's a guy who says he's a political cartoonist. Look him up and he does the cartoon Pros and Cons that used to be in the comics thread and ended last year. It's mega right wing and god it was weird to see him on TV. I'd honestly always assumed Pros and Cons was done by an american
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thehustler posted:Awful. Could have been really good. First episode was alriiiiight. Glad it's not just me. Yeah, the first one was ok, definitely had potential and I was able to overlook some of the more cheesy bits. The third was terrible.
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In case anyone was curious about the schedules I was building up for my dumb pseudo 'all encompassing 90s UK TV station' that's comprised of stuff I can get my hands on, which means sadly leaving a lot of great/awful (but great) stuff out... Monday  Tuesday  Wednesday  Thursday  Friday  Saturday  Sunday  It's impossible to build something that totally accurately matches original first run air dates, so did my best to match up the ones that came to mind the most to me (ie Red Dwarf on Thursdays), do a few 'I would've been taping ITV while watching BBC then watch that tape during the boring 9 oclock news' things, and just other creative fixes. The plan is to try and get over say 80% of 'no repeats' content for a year of 'broadcasting', so some time slots get switched out when a show only has say 12 episodes. Luckily with the first series of Home & Away online and people with huge playlists of Neighbours episodes at variably lovely quality there's some daily time slots eaten up nicely. Think I managed to get the right feeling for where things would've been, the weekday morning slots are mostly dominated by school TV over the years (mainly C4, which changes year from Wednesday to Friday) and what I've been able to assemble/pretend that TV:AM/WAC had as their kids output for Monday. Saturday afternoon was always a good old shiftiest of things like Thunder in Paradise and Robocop, plus stalwarts like A-Team and Baywatch that just kept going. Didn't want to rely on movies too much (despite that's what real TV did a huge amount from looking through listings), but did a Saturday Night premiere, a C4 late night movie for things like horror and martial arts movies, and of course - the infamous Channel 5 late night Friday soft porn slot. Overnights were tricky as there's a lot of disposable TV from that era that just isn't available online, and for good reason, so had to use satellite reruns a bit more there and some live US sports that would broadcast at those times. Next step is filling the gaps in my collection for episodes I don't have, then I'll go about building the commercials and the most fun/difficult - building idents for my fake station.
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Get a few Manga Dubed OVAs for the Friday "Back from the chippy at arse'o'clock" College crowd.
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Ha yeah that C4 late night movie block will have some fun stuff in it for sure.
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I remember them showing Cyber City Oedo 808 late one night.
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Always appreciated the Anime on 4. When it comes to post pub entertainment, I was always a big fan of In Bed with Medinner.
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I could swear up and down seeing Eva on 4 in one of my primary school insomnia hazes but I might be getting the kiwi mascot of Kiwi Boot Polish mixed with the time it was on SciFi before that channel first gained a bad case of dyslexia and then not existing.
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I know we've talked about it before but it's a little hard to get invested in Pottery Throwdown when Donna is dominating it. The Canadian one had an interesting challenge last episode which was to make an abstract self portrait. It was good to see something where they couldn't just rely on favourite places/person/animal/memory and have to do something that's purely artistic.
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DrVenkman posted:I know we've talked about it before but it's a little hard to get invested in Pottery Throwdown when Donna is dominating it. This week's episode loving baffled me as well I just CANNOT understand why Jan went. I thought it was gonna be between Dan and Dave and then bam, Jan's gone. Yea hers was cracked but theirs were pretty hosed up, it's so strange to me Also we've been watching Landscape Artist of the Year. Done series 1/2 and the most recent - which I think is 9. Firstly Frank Skinner is a WAY better host than Stephen Mangan and secondly it's pretty wild how often people come back. Seeing people from other episodes as wild cards just sat painting is strange too. The pot they draw artists from must be legit tiny
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