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One of those programmes came to our school one year looking for contestants. I was already too old and jaded.
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Dell_Zincht posted:We obviously went to very different schools, because nearly every kid in my school wanted to be on Knightmare I mean my friends wanted to be, but nobody else. Because my friends were weird and autistic like me Knightmare is nerd poo poo, everyone else wanted to be a footballer
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May 29, 2021 21:38
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You don't have to have been autistic to be into Knightmare and want to be on it and it's a bit weird to insinuate otherwise. It was exceptionally mainstream. There weren't exactly a lot of channels. Edit: me and my friends wanted to be footballers and played in a five a side and had our own kit and poo poo and we still wanted to be on Knightmare
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May 29, 2021 23:41
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I always wanted to go on Finders Keepers - the one that had the cross section of a full house that you have to find stuff in, nobody even seems to talk about that one in the nostalgia-fests!
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May 30, 2021 00:06
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I liked that one too and i can still remember the music but come on, fun house had go-karts and gunge
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May 30, 2021 00:16
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eleven extra elephants posted:I always wanted to go on Finders Keepers - the one that had the cross section of a full house that you have to find stuff in, nobody even seems to talk about that one in the nostalgia-fests! Good grief, I forgot all about that show! There’s some surprisingly hi def uploads on YouTube, because apparently Challenge TV had it at some point? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5v5blLb0FVU
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May 30, 2021 00:33
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I had very strong feelings that almost everybody on Finders Keepers was total poo poo at the game because they had no system. No system!
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May 30, 2021 00:46
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I always have the issue then people are talking about Finders Keepers about whether they talking about the ITV Neil Buchanan show, or the earlier BBC Richard Stilgoe show based on Battleships.
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May 30, 2021 07:30
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I've posted this before recently but my god I hate that CGI Einstein advert trying to flog smart meters, let the man rest in peace!
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May 30, 2021 21:06
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there's one with the bust of shakespeare flogging some subscription TV service too
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May 30, 2021 21:17
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Akuma posted:You don't have to have been autistic to be into Knightmare and want to be on it and it's a bit weird to insinuate otherwise. It was exceptionally mainstream. There weren't exactly a lot of channels. This is just competely different from my experiences of school in Manchester. Football was one group of (the majority) of people and then other people liked everything else. In other news I watched the friends reunion and honestly I'm not sure why James Corden is in it. Those bits are so short and feel pointless, I don't get why they bothered Taear fucked around with this message at 22:11 on May 31, 2021 |
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May 31, 2021 22:06
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Taear posted:This is just competely different from my experiences of school in Manchester. The same company that made his show made the reunion I think. It's a shame because surprisingly THE FRESH PRINCE reunion handled it much better by just having the main people sit there, talk about the show and try and move past any issues. You can see how the dynamic of the group is different when it's just them Vs when it's them on stage even when they touch on the same topics in both (such as Schwimmer and Aniston).
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Anyone else finding Inside No 9 a little weak this series? The first one, I completly admit, I just didn't get. Maybe if you're familiar with Commedia dell'arte, it was great, I don't know. But the other 3 were just a bit forgettable or something and I thought last night's one was a bit stupid. I hate to sound like some sort of entitled fan (especially after ep 2), but it just hasn't grabbed me this series at all.
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Jun 1, 2021 11:27
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I don't think it makes you an entitled fan to want the thing you watch to be good. Honestly given the nature of anthology shows I'm surprised that INSIDE NO. 9 has held up as well as it has.
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DrVenkman posted:I don't think it makes you an entitled fan to want the thing you watch to be good. Honestly given the nature of anthology shows I'm surprised that INSIDE NO. 9 has held up as well as it has. True, just wanted to make it clear that wasn't where I was coming from. As for it dropping off, that's also true, but this has been very sharp. Hopefully the last two in the series are better.
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Inside No 9 is one of those shows that I wish I enjoyed more than I did. The majority of episodes I saw had one amusing or clever concept stretched out torturously over 30 minutes, which winds up feeling like an eternity. A lot of them feel like they'd work better as sketches or 5-10 minute shorts. I think I made it as far as the Witch Hunter episode before giving up on the whole thing. I keep meaning to go back and watch the ones everyone says are great but eh.
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DrVenkman posted:It's a shame because surprisingly THE FRESH PRINCE reunion handled it much better by just having the main people sit there, talk about the show and try and move past any issues. You can see how the dynamic of the group is different when it's just them Vs when it's them on stage even when they touch on the same topics in both (such as Schwimmer and Aniston). Matthew perry looked so utterly hosed up. They blamed it on dental surgery but ouch. :/
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Call the midwife has consistently been the best thing on television for 10 years . Quite impressive .
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Ben Soosneb posted:Call the midwife has consistently been the best thing on television for 10 years . Quite impressive . Look, just because this thread is a little quiet right now, there's no call for trolling of this magnitude...
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Taear posted:Matthew perry looked so utterly hosed up. They blamed it on dental surgery but ouch. :/ I haven't watched the reunion and I don't think I will. Some things are better just left in the past.
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Jun 2, 2021 08:00
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The Beeb have cancelled Holby after 23 years. I wonder what police/hospital drama will replace it ..
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Pablo Bluth posted:The Beeb have cancelled Holby after 23 years. I wonder what police/hospital drama will replace it .. Dawn Raids with Priti Patel
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Red Oktober posted:Dawn Raids with Priti Patel
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Pablo Bluth posted:The Beeb have cancelled Holby after 23 years. I wonder what police/hospital drama will replace it .. My wife is gutted, it's been our weekly "thing" to watch together since we moved in together nearly 10 years ago. It's been awful for a long time, to be fair.
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I've been watching Man Down, which is some amazingly surreal chaos.
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Jun 2, 2021 13:17
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Pablo Bluth posted:Holby Private Hospital. All white English staff and flawless medical facilities because Capitalism and not Socialist NHS. Elective non critical procedures only, of course. We’ve got the NHS for anything, you know, icky.
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Jun 2, 2021 13:29
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There won't be a replaced Hospital program, instead you will get a slice of life comedy about a cheeky floppy haired blond man being the prime minister and his many other antics.
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Jun 2, 2021 13:50
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A new series of Yes, Minister following the hyper-competent activities of a sexually attractive and universally beloved member of an extremely conscientious and caring Tory government. Episodes will concentrate on the terrible way their department fails to enact their flawless plans, and the endless battles they have with the civil service, press, and opposition MPs who are determined to undermine democracy and murder the queen.
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Pablo Bluth posted:The Beeb have cancelled Holby after 23 years. I wonder what police/hospital drama will replace it .. I hope they just repeat Bodies, uncut, in the same timeslot.
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Jun 2, 2021 14:49
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The_Doctor posted:I've been watching Man Down, which is some amazingly surreal chaos. It always makes me think of Cuckoo, which is still one of the strangest shows ever. Imagine the lead actor leaving in the first season and you KEEP GOING
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Jun 2, 2021 15:07
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Taear posted:It always makes me think of Cuckoo, which is still one of the strangest shows ever. I mean, one of the leads in Man Down leaves in the first season too. 
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Man Down is the only thing I've seen that I couldn't stand Rik Mayall in. I think it's mostly the writing but every second his character was on screen was undiluted cringe. It's a weird show. 70% of it wasn't particularly funny but the other 30% had enough flashes of brilliance to keep me going to the end.
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The_Doctor posted:I mean, one of the leads in Man Down leaves in the first season too. Eh it's a little different. I'm saying the change in Man Down is a bit like Norman Lovett leaving Red Dwarf. Whereas Cuckoo was more like if Lister left. Yea he's not EXACTLY the main character but hopefully you get me
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I'm amazed that Bridgerton is going forward with 3(!) more seasons now that Regé-Jean Page has left. I mean, I don't think they quite got what half the viewership were watching for.
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Taear posted:Eh it's a little different. I'm saying the change in Man Down is a bit like Norman Lovett leaving Red Dwarf. Lister absolutely IS the main character in Red Dwarf. The entire show in the early series revolved around him and if it wasn't for him going into stasis, none of the events that followed would have happened. The whole show right up to series 8 is about him trying to get home. Other characters may have had their own 'standalone' episodes but the plot always came back to Lister. I refused to watch Red Dwarf after Back to Earth though so it may be more of an ensemble piece now it's on Dave.
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Jun 2, 2021 15:42
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Dell_Zincht posted:I refused to watch Red Dwarf after Back to Earth though so it may be more of an ensemble piece now it's on Dave. The first episode of Back to Earth was so bad that even as a loyal Dwarf fan for about 20 years at that point I flat out refused to watch the next two episodes. I did for some reason give the Dave episodes a shot and, while they’re not the absolute best the show has ever been I’m still happy to place them higher in regards than s7 and 8. I’d say it’s worth giving them a shot. I also blame the show entirely on my lifestyle choices due to seeing Rimmer as a child and thinking he was a dweeb that shouldn’t be emulated, and therefore assumed Lister was an appropriate figure to be admired. I’m just getting out of bed and could kill a curry right now.
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The_Doctor posted:I've been watching Man Down, which is some amazingly surreal chaos. The wife has also just started watching Man Down and keeps on referring it to a "drama", which makes me wonder what exactly she's made of the UK since we moved here.
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I cannot imagine Red Dwarf without Lister (and Craig Charles).
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EL BROMANCE posted:I also blame the show entirely on my lifestyle choices due to seeing Rimmer as a child and thinking he was a dweeb that shouldn’t be emulated, and therefore assumed Lister was an appropriate figure to be admired. I’m just getting out of bed and could kill a curry right now. You were half right. Disrespect Rimmer. Admire the cat.
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Dell_Zincht posted:Lister absolutely IS the main character in Red Dwarf. The entire show in the early series revolved around him and if it wasn't for him going into stasis, none of the events that followed would have happened. The whole show right up to series 8 is about him trying to get home. Other characters may have had their own 'standalone' episodes but the plot always came back to Lister. The first two seasons also build a pretty solid plot and the entire plot is basically about Lister becoming a better, more complete person. The fact the writers split after two seasons mean that it never actually finished up, but there was stuff like him finding out from his future self that he gets together with Kerchansky, that they have two kids and that he dies as an old man as he flies a plane while having sex with a supermodel etc. I can't really remember much else, since I haven't seen them in years, but the first two seasons were all about Lister even more so than seasons three through eight.
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