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SeanBeansShako posted:Matt Berry really does a good Dickens. If you go to 4oD, there's a deleted clip of him as Toast reading from Bob Marley's autobiography.
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I still can't get over how funny Ray Purchase riding on the 'Beefeater Anti-Gay Tours' bus is.
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Nov 8, 2014 15:11
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Maybe I should post this here: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3531278&pagenumber=16#post437288138 If somebody needs a break from their TV and wants to talk about it in a pub. (this Wednesday, Cittie of Yorke , London)
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Nov 10, 2014 21:19
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Kevin McCloud wrote Grand Designs episode based on fans’ drinking gamequote:Grand Designs host Kevin McCloud made an episode of the architecture show “deliberately designed to get people as drunk as possible” after discovering its fans had invented a drinking game based on it. Did anyone here play during that episode?
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Nov 13, 2014 20:57
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twoot posted:Kevin McCloud wrote Grand Designs episode based on fans’ drinking game It's hard to know what episode he's talking about, given that all the squares on the Grand Designs bingo card get filled in during pretty much any episode you can name. In my mothers' household they all cheer every time the female half of the couple doing the build gets pregnant, generally in winter, while living in a caravan on-site, next to a house with no roof and windows. Seriously, they should prescribe Kevin McCloud on the NHS as fertility treatment. The amount of women who get pregnant with him around is both hilarious and a touch alarming. (I wholeheartedly love Kevin, and if I ever inexplicably get £300,000 to build my tiny dream house in the Campsie Fells I'll call him in and we can have a lovely, drinking game-based building experience together)
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I just marathoned Utopia. That show is just brilliant- masterfully shot, edited, acted. Even down to the symbology of colours and shapes in the shots. The question marks at the end of S2 were neat. Imagine the emotional rollercoaster I was on when I found out both season 3 isn't going to be made but David Fincher of all people is bringing it to the US. Reznor better not do the drat music though. That would be a bit too much. But it's Fincher, so it's basically guaranteed. Any other Utopia fans here? ⇓ Oh hey, thanks! Paradox Personified fucked around with this message at 19:10 on Nov 15, 2014 |
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Nov 15, 2014 18:07
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Maybe someone more in tune with BBC television can help me figure this out, but does Milton Jones have some incriminating pictures of the Mock the Week production heads or can they not find anyone else willing to guest on the show? Jones is literally the least funny person I've ever seen on a BBC show, and that includes the random American celebrity guests who are clearly out of their element and are awkward as hell.
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Nov 16, 2014 00:37
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pentyne posted:Milton Jones .... is literally the least funny person I've ever seen on a BBC show You clearly have a special TV that auto-censors Andy Parsons. Where can I buy one of these devices?
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Nov 16, 2014 01:15
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Aw, I like Milton Jones and his weird one-liners.
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I like Milton Jones, but I don't think he's in any way an effective satirist. Then again it's Mock the Week, a barely veiled "how much of my show material can I shoehorn into this half hour" competition where nobody cares about satire anyway.
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It amazes me that mock the week can be Have I got news for you for idiots, when have I got news for you has been have I got news for you for idiots for years. Parse that one.
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Apparently 100 years means it's ok to cash in on the death of a generation with an overly sanguine x-factor advert break. Got to sell those groceries. I'm looking forward to the American troops liberating a concentration camp and giving the survivors Coca-Cola(tm) in 32 years time.
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Nov 16, 2014 02:56
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I don't watch tv on the tv so adblocker means I hardly ever watch ads. Channel 4 has flip-flopped between allowing it and not and it is currently in not-mode so I go elsewhere. I'm wondering if the knife-edge that I'm balancing on will tilt either way because it's all about critical mass and I'm not sure of the current temperature of the net. I watched wilty all day and in my head I sounds like david mitchell!
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Rapacity posted:I don't watch tv on the tv so adblocker means I hardly ever watch ads. Channel 4 has flip-flopped between allowing it and not and it is currently in not-mode so I go elsewhere. I'm wondering if the knife-edge that I'm balancing on will tilt either way because it's all about critical mass and I'm not sure of the current temperature of the net. I watched wilty all day and in my head I sounds like david mitchell! If you disable adblock for the first set of ads on 4oD then re-enable it once the content has started, it will block all subsequent ads off that particular programme. I don't look at much 4oD because of that faff, but I can't resist looking at the advance showing of Toast of London every week. The one that will air on Ch 4 this week features a product that I would buy in a heartbeat if it were to become a reality.
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Rapacity posted:I don't watch tv on the tv so adblocker means I hardly ever watch ads. Channel 4 has flip-flopped between allowing it and not and it is currently in not-mode so I go elsewhere. I'm wondering if the knife-edge that I'm balancing on will tilt either way because it's all about critical mass and I'm not sure of the current temperature of the net. I watched wilty all day and in my head I sounds like david mitchell! At least the ERGONOMIC MANAGEMENT KEYBOARD times are long over thanks to adblock.
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I will say the new version of Do They Know It's Christmas is miles better than the one a few years back. thankfully there is no Ebola rap verse, and the new lyrics are fairly inoffensive. Sir Bob is still of course a GIGANTIC numpty
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Nov 16, 2014 21:42
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I don't understand why they can't write a new charity christmas song for all the celebrities to sing instead of reheating an old one which was always poo poo anyway. It's a noble thing to do (as long as the money actually ends up where it's meant to) but gently caress that song.
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Nov 16, 2014 21:53
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Is there somewhere I can go on Something Awful to discuss Ripper Street because I just watched s3e02 and I don't think I'll make it through the night if I don't read some fan discussion to allay/confirm my suspicions.
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Nov 17, 2014 00:19
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BBC4 seems to be repeating The Great War, a 26 part (count 'em) doc made for the 50th anniversary of WWI and so chock full of actual eyewitness accounts and interviews as well as reams of archive footage. It's a bit odd to modern sensibilities, instead of being interspersed with a recognisable personality tramping over a hill and talking about a battle that happened there it's JUST narration over archive and eyewitness accounts, a format I much prefer. It's information dense but quite lyrical too with quite a few poetry readings and such throughout the narration. Obviously in terms of the scholarship it's all 50 year old opinions so I don't know how well it gels with the current consensus among historians, but it's well worth a watch, informative and emotionally wrenching without being mawkish or overly sentimental.
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Nov 17, 2014 00:20
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Just swinging by to say holy poo poo the missing jesus christ my jaw literally dropped. I'm not usually this sucked in by TV shows so I dunno if it's me that's changed or the plot is just incredibly compelling but good God.
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Nov 17, 2014 01:01
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It is very good yeah, the end of the most recent episode was nightmarish though
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Fatkraken posted:BBC4 seems to be repeating The Great War, a 26 part (count 'em) doc made for the 50th anniversary of WWI and so chock full of actual eyewitness accounts and interviews as well as reams of archive footage. It's a bit odd to modern sensibilities, instead of being interspersed with a recognisable personality tramping over a hill and talking about a battle that happened there it's JUST narration over archive and eyewitness accounts, a format I much prefer. It's information dense but quite lyrical too with quite a few poetry readings and such throughout the narration. Obviously in terms of the scholarship it's all 50 year old opinions so I don't know how well it gels with the current consensus among historians, but it's well worth a watch, informative and emotionally wrenching without being mawkish or overly sentimental. It's also fantastic for including loads of first-hand sources which is, obviously, rather difficult now.
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Jonnty posted:Just swinging by to say holy poo poo the missing jesus christ my jaw literally dropped. What show are you talking about?
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Nov 17, 2014 03:28
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The Missing on BBC1. I've not been watching it, which looks like a mistake.
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I completely ignored The Missing even though I quite like whatever his name is who's in it. I think I'll watch it on iPlayer now.
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Nov 17, 2014 17:45
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Tonight's Channel 4 schedule: 20:00 - How the Rich Get Richer 21:00 - Sarah Beeny's How to Sell Your Home 
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Nov 17, 2014 18:25
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The Missing is actually very good and you should watch it
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Nov 17, 2014 21:35
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stickyfngrdboy posted:The Missing is actually very good and you should watch it But only if you don't mind ending up in a fetal position and rocking back and forth in utter dread by the end of each episode.
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Nov 17, 2014 22:06
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The Agenda on ITV is poo poo. God, ITV can't even get a political debate program right.
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Nov 18, 2014 00:08
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Irisi posted:But only if you don't mind ending up in a fetal position and rocking back and forth in utter dread by the end of each episode. Just caught up with the third episode and, well, what you said.
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Nov 18, 2014 00:17
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Irisi posted:But only if you don't mind ending up in a fetal position and rocking back and forth in utter dread by the end of each episode. It's been a great show so far, I can only hope the remainder lives up to the first 3 episodes and doesn't let us down with a poor conclusion.
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Nov 18, 2014 21:56
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Oh good, my favourite type of winter programme is back on: Enthusiastic BBC Historians Attempt To Live Like Peasants (also known as Tudor Farm, Victorian Farm, et al.). So good to watch, in my centrally-heated, fully plumbed house. This time they're living as 13th century peasants attempting to help build a medieval castle, while living in a hovel. It's great. I could watch them work and suffer in their cheerfully BBC-ish manner all day.
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Nov 18, 2014 22:18
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Irisi posted:But only if you don't mind ending up in a fetal position and rocking back and forth in utter dread by the end of each episode. I'll re-state my previous health warning: avoid The Missing if pregnant or trying to conceive.
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Nov 19, 2014 00:46
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stickyfngrdboy posted:It's been a great show so far, I can only hope the remainder lives up to the first 3 episodes and doesn't let us down with a poor conclusion. Yeah I'm a bit worried as the end of ep3 was mindblowing but verging on "silly" - hope it keeps the right side of the line. Don't have time to watch ep4 for ages though. grrrr.
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Nov 19, 2014 00:48
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I'm going to get on this The Missing tomorrow. I like a good ol' painful viewing experience.
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In other news I'm pretty sure I saw Clem Fandango walking the streets of Edinburgh earlier today. Like, not the actor, actually him. Almost stopped for a picture.
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Irisi posted:Enthusiastic BBC Historians Attempt To Live Like Peasants Would you mind naming this? I'm a dirty euro and wish-a to a-partake 
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Jesus, I don't even have kids, and the first episode of The Missing gave me the loving fear.
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