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Pablo Bluth: Sep 7, 2007; I've made a huge mistake.

Ratjaculation posted:

Someone told me today that Top Gear is being canceled because they can't go on without the Stig. I don't think he understood Top Gear one bit.

The original black Stig 'died' when he crashed off an aircraft carrier. This is clearly ripe for a homage to Harold.

# ¿ Sep 7, 2010 18:38

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# ¿ Apr 29, 2024 09:38

Pablo Bluth: Sep 7, 2007; I've made a huge mistake.

"Heres hoping that Jordan remembers to put her underwear on before the cameras roll, or the programme is going to consist of two over exposed twats gawping listlessly at each other." Brooker on Piers interviewing Jordan.

# ¿ Sep 8, 2010 22:38

Pablo Bluth: Sep 7, 2007; I've made a huge mistake.

If you want to see the future, they've published the first draft of the Project Canvas technical specs. I'm not sure what exactly it means other, other than the word Encryption appears a lot.
http://www.projectcanvas.info/index.cfm/technology/technical-documents/

# ¿ Sep 10, 2010 20:09

Pablo Bluth: Sep 7, 2007; I've made a huge mistake.

In case nobody noticed, The Empire have pinched Mad Men from Auntie. Season 5 on DVD then.

# ¿ Oct 5, 2010 22:23

Pablo Bluth: Sep 7, 2007; I've made a huge mistake.

Brooker on Kyle.

# ¿ Oct 9, 2010 06:45

Pablo Bluth: Sep 7, 2007; I've made a huge mistake.

BBC3 is to broadcast a six part drama series about Lesbians. With lots of sex.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2010/oct/09/lip-service-bbc3-lesbian-drama

I think we can be confident that no heterosexual males will be watching...

# ¿ Oct 9, 2010 08:11

Pablo Bluth: Sep 7, 2007; I've made a huge mistake.

I've just watched the first few minutes of Lip Service. The acting is so wooden, it makes the Hollyoaks dialogue look Shakespearian.

# ¿ Oct 13, 2010 19:26

Pablo Bluth: Sep 7, 2007; I've made a huge mistake.

Jawidar posted:

They only won �1,250 - I know the BBC is tightening its belt, but that's ridiculous.

There was for a long time no cash prizes on BBC shows. It was deemed inappropriate to go giving away licence fee payers money. But totally appropriate to spend the exact same amount of a dishwasher, and to give that away.

I think weakest link was the time they changed the rule, but even now, you'll notice any cash prize tends to be modest.

# ¿ Oct 28, 2010 19:39

Pablo Bluth: Sep 7, 2007; I've made a huge mistake.

It looks like Iannucci might get a political drama picked up by HBO. (still won't get a rip-off Sky sub)

# ¿ Oct 29, 2010 21:54

Pablo Bluth: Sep 7, 2007; I've made a huge mistake.

Does anyone else watch Merlin?

When it first started, it suffered a bit from predictable plots and klunky dialogue, but as it nears the end of it's third season it's improved immensely. It's still no Deadwood, but it livens up Saturday evening when ITV are busy spewing out x-factor dross.

# ¿ Oct 30, 2010 21:07

Pablo Bluth: Sep 7, 2007; I've made a huge mistake.

Doctor Who is Doctor Who. A fairer comparison is the Robin Hood series that was in many ways a sibling to Merlin.

That stank. It started with predictable plots and klunky dialogue, and three years later finished with predictable plots and klunky dialogue.

# ¿ Oct 30, 2010 22:07

Pablo Bluth: Sep 7, 2007; I've made a huge mistake.

Brown Moses posted:

Did no-one watch the Psychoville Halloween special last night? I thought they did an excellent job of having a perfect balance between horror and comedy.

I didn't know it was on. You're supposed to use this thread to give an advance heads-up...

But we now have iplayer, so I'll let you off.

# ¿ Nov 1, 2010 19:57

Pablo Bluth: Sep 7, 2007; I've made a huge mistake.

DaWolfey posted:

The best american sitcom of all time is The Larry Sanders Show.

Second place is one that only lasted one series called Action which is such a shame because it was loving hilarious, if you've never heard of it I strongly suggest you give it a watch.

I would point out that Arrested Development is both the funniest and cleverest US sitcom, but it's clearly not the thread to be having this argument.

Instead: The Trip. I finally watched it, and it's brilliant.

# ¿ Nov 24, 2010 01:02

Pablo Bluth: Sep 7, 2007; I've made a huge mistake.

SeanBeansShako posted:

When is the next episode of Peepshow online anyways?

The first episode isn't on TV until tonight. Assuming that the early online showing of ep1 was a gimmick, I'm not expecting ep2 to be available anywhere until next Friday.

# ¿ Nov 26, 2010 10:13

Pablo Bluth: Sep 7, 2007; I've made a huge mistake.

chazzared posted:

Have I missed everyone talking about The Trip?

No you haven't. Everyone was too busy mass debating the merits of certain US sitcoms.

# ¿ Nov 27, 2010 13:59

Pablo Bluth: Sep 7, 2007; I've made a huge mistake.

Brokyn posted:

I've noticed it's bounced between all the BBC stations, so I don't know what that means. But dang I want this show to go through every letter of the alphabet.

It's not been bounced so much as upgraded. It started out with new episodes being shown on BBC Four, with the episode then being repeated on BBC Two a week later. Due to it's success, it was eventually moved to the main channel, BBC One. It's often repeated on the channel Dave (a commercial venture, in which the BBC own half)

# ¿ Dec 3, 2010 09:19

Pablo Bluth: Sep 7, 2007; I've made a huge mistake.

hookerbot 5000 posted:

One thing is that it can change a lot depending on the guest host. They got rid of their permanent host years ago after a cocaine and prostitute scandal which was a bit sad but kinda had to be done because it's hard to take the piss out of MP's doing skeezy things if prostitutes are selling stories about you.

HIGNFY S23E06 Angus Scandal Episode Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFDYlOEVSaI

# ¿ Dec 3, 2010 10:10

Pablo Bluth: Sep 7, 2007; I've made a huge mistake.

There's always a few bits of dialogue or plotting in every episode that make me go "really? you couldn't have had the writers do one more rewrite?" but overall I quite enjoy Merlin. It's undoubtedly superior to the similar Robin Hood that the Beeb attempted.

It's picked up a lot this season, with the solid Morgause & Morgana arc in addition to the Monster Of The Week stories. As for cheap; S4 won't be around until 2012, the BBC needed to save money and they didn't want to cut the budget for the show.

# ¿ Dec 4, 2010 21:44

Pablo Bluth: Sep 7, 2007; I've made a huge mistake.

We might all be waiting for Uther to die, Arthur to take the throne and for Merlin to come out the magic closest, but you can't get there too quickly at risk out running out of plot / Arthurian legends.

It's possible that once Arthur rules Camelot, with Merlin by his side, and with the round-table installed, the writers might find a new direction to take the show. However, it's just as likely, if not more so, that it represents the point at which it jumps the shark, and it loses what made it what it was.

# ¿ Dec 4, 2010 22:17

Pablo Bluth: Sep 7, 2007; I've made a huge mistake.

If I appear to go insane over the next few days. it's because I'm starting an Apprentice Binge. Despite avidly watching all the previous seasons, I've not found time this year, something I'm about to rectify.

# ¿ Dec 5, 2010 22:42

Pablo Bluth: Sep 7, 2007; I've made a huge mistake.

I got half way through the first episode of the apprentice, but I've now been sucked in by Popatron.

# ¿ Dec 5, 2010 23:07

Pablo Bluth: Sep 7, 2007; I've made a huge mistake.

I finally managed to make it all the way through something Brooker while visiting my family; normally my dad wanders in to the room half-way through a clip of some ITV poo poo and asks "what's this rubbish, isn't there something better on?".

My mum sat through all of it, but I don't think she really appreciated it.

# ¿ Dec 28, 2010 00:15

Pablo Bluth: Sep 7, 2007; I've made a huge mistake.

thebardyspoon posted:

Finally something worth watching, Whistle and I'll Come to You is just about to start in case anyone both forgot and is reading this.

I watched that, and sadly found it all rather forgettable. It all felt a bit by-the-numbers, a greatest hits of scary story plot points.

# ¿ Dec 28, 2010 00:21

Pablo Bluth: Sep 7, 2007; I've made a huge mistake.

In case anyone missed it, here's a summary of tonight's new Primeval episode: stand around gorping at that dinosaur waiting to get eaten by it.

To save me typing, just assume that'll be the plot next week too.

# ¿ Jan 2, 2011 00:50

Pablo Bluth: Sep 7, 2007; I've made a huge mistake.

There's a new BBC2 sitcom starting a week tomorrow. It's called Episodes (thus making it impossible to google). It's a BBC-Showtime co-production, set on the set of a fictional British Sitcom disastrously being remade in the US. It's written by one of the Friends creators (David Crane) and somebody who has a string of short-lived sitcoms (Jeffrey Klarik) and stars Matt LeBlanc. I can't help feel it might be a humongous train-wreck.

# ¿ Jan 2, 2011 19:45

Pablo Bluth: Sep 7, 2007; I've made a huge mistake.

I just found a trailer over at Showtime.
http://www.sho.com/site/episodes/home.do

# ¿ Jan 2, 2011 20:52

Pablo Bluth: Sep 7, 2007; I've made a huge mistake.

Tried to watch Zen. Got bored and watched Bruce Parry instead.

# ¿ Jan 3, 2011 01:14

Pablo Bluth: Sep 7, 2007; I've made a huge mistake.

Flayer posted:

Zen was amazing, really good! Very stylishly shot, coolly paced and with an interesting and morally ambiguous hero who fit the theme well and didn't leave it feeling cheesy. Looking forward to next week.

I wanted to like it, and I left it on for the first hour, but I found it all a bit boring.

# ¿ Jan 3, 2011 09:58

Pablo Bluth: Sep 7, 2007; I've made a huge mistake.

Good episode of Buzzcocks tonight.

# ¿ Jan 3, 2011 23:33

Pablo Bluth: Sep 7, 2007; I've made a huge mistake.

Royality posted:

I did enjoy Brian and Dara cracking up though as they went through the hubble-quality pictures of galaxies captured by 'John from Surrey' and other surely-famous astronomers.

You only have to look at the winners of the Astronomy Photographer of the Year award to realise there is some seriously good work taken by amateur from their back-gardens.

It was also entirely predictable that the quality of photos by this existing band of elite amateurs would swamp anything taken by more casual astronomers. I was surprised they didn't include a few more token beginner photos by the less experienced.

# ¿ Jan 4, 2011 20:09

Pablo Bluth: Sep 7, 2007; I've made a huge mistake.

I think Prof Cox might have enjoyed his talk with the ISS crew.

# ¿ Jan 5, 2011 22:53

Pablo Bluth: Sep 7, 2007; I've made a huge mistake.

Russell Brand, Frankie Boyle, and James Corden (three loud-mouths all desperate to be the alpha male) vs Andy Parsons, Jonathon Ross and Alan Davies (three people incapable of staying on topic and not introducing unfunny 'comedic' diversions)

# ¿ Jan 6, 2011 20:28

Pablo Bluth: Sep 7, 2007; I've made a huge mistake.

midge posted:

I left the UK a year ago. Does it have any decent comedy from the last year I should download?

The Trip.
The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margret (but amazing but had it's moments)
The new on-line Alan Partridge shorts.

Pablo Bluth fucked around with this message at 00:17 on Jan 8, 2011

# ¿ Jan 8, 2011 00:14

Pablo Bluth: Sep 7, 2007; I've made a huge mistake.

Every single time I see Sandi Toksvig I think "Didn't she die?", then remember I'm thinking of Linda Smith. Every time.

Pablo Bluth fucked around with this message at 00:12 on Jan 15, 2011

# ¿ Jan 14, 2011 23:41

Pablo Bluth: Sep 7, 2007; I've made a huge mistake.

Band of Brothers was a BBC co-production, so they can go tell Murdock to swivel. In theory, Sky's exclusive HBO licence doesn't stop future collaborations between the two either.

# ¿ Jan 16, 2011 15:18

Pablo Bluth: Sep 7, 2007; I've made a huge mistake.

pisshead posted:

I'll keep you all informed as to when the jokes/minute ratio in Episodes rises above zero.

It's not unrelentingly funny, but I'm finding myself enjoying it.

# ¿ Jan 18, 2011 00:03

Pablo Bluth: Sep 7, 2007; I've made a huge mistake.

'Who is Sarah Palin?' Nice and topical

# ¿ Jan 20, 2011 23:17

Pablo Bluth: Sep 7, 2007; I've made a huge mistake.

Lets not repeat WNN!

# ¿ Jan 20, 2011 23:26

Pablo Bluth: Sep 7, 2007; I've made a huge mistake.

Listen to Mitchell, that's what I was wanting.

# ¿ Jan 20, 2011 23:34

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# ¿ Apr 29, 2024 09:38

Pablo Bluth: Sep 7, 2007; I've made a huge mistake.

Too many. segments which. mean they. don't have. time to. be anything. but superficial.

# ¿ Jan 20, 2011 23:39

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