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Just watched the final episode of The Trip with Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon, thought it was brilliant. Can see why a lot of reviews have said it's trying to be too clever etc, but for me the reality of the relationship between the two characters works really well and creates the moments of pathos that any great comedy requires. Brydon's happiness in his life contrasted with Coogan's desperate desire to be taken seriously is excellent, and the ongoing rivalry and competition between the two works brilliantly to highlight their differences. Overall one of the better bits of television I've seen this year. Would be interested to see what anyone else thinks, for anyone who hasn't seen it I think all six episodes are still up on iPlayer. e: Oh yes, a comment two posts above my own. I read good. sebzilla fucked around with this message at 03:17 on Dec 7, 2010 |
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^^ Because he's a bit of a dick in Green Wing? And I guess in Alan Partridge too?eating only apples posted:Helen Baxendale She came into my work a few weeks ago with her family. Nice lady.
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Just watched the first episode of Zen on iPlayer, pretty good. Spent most of the time thinking "gently caress, Patrick from Coupling's got old fast" and laughing at the bizarre mixture of accents, though. Cracking music, though.
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Junkenstein posted:Did anyone catch The Great Outdoors? Never heard of it, but caught a minute towards the end and it looked like it might possibly be not terrible. Any opinions? Stars Brian off of Spaced. I like this a lot. Infinite pudding!
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themonkeythatcried posted:This seems like a good segue to allow me to say I have the biggest crush on Victoria Coren and I'm not quite sure why... Add me to this list, although I know exactly why. She is beautiful, intelligent, plays poker and used to review porn. Also, her brother is a total arse but very funny in those food history programs he does with Sue Perkins. Going out and getting hammered with them both would be awesome fun.
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Jan 18, 2011 13:12
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Pyrovile posted:Whenever I see the Gadget Show I'm always amazed at how many prizes they give away then instantly annoyed that they literally spend between 5 and 10 minutes just telling you what you could win. I would probably end up selling about two thirds of the stuff you can win. Crazy prize, I should go in for it more often really.
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Theshby posted:More specifically, the maximum amount of information an area of space can hold depends on the size of the surface area bounding it, not the the volume as you'd probably expect. I find this mind-blowing enough without needing to speculate madly on the nature of existence/blackholes/whatever. Black holes have negligible volume but a large surface area then, I guess. Due to the warping of the gravity and so on. Interesting stuff.
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Jan 19, 2011 12:45
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SeanBeansShako posted:I don't hate either man I only like things that are too niche for me to even have heard of.
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Rarity posted:I see that and raise you Nina in awesome lingerie. This show is full of hotness. Oh yes.
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Kin posted:Someone tell me what's wrong with Outcasts. I refuse to belive that a sci-fi show on BBC will be good in any way shape or form. 
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 Hooray for the Nazis! Please don't take this out of context and put it on youtube.
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How quickly does stuff normally go up on 4od? I want to watch Jamie's Dream School and find out if Starkey stops making such an arse out of himself.
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The eternal dilemma. Democracy is ostensibly a good thing, but the majority of people are morons. It's a knotty one.
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Metrication posted:Apparently Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps is being revived this year I enjoyed it when I was about 14, but even then the only good thing about it was Johnny's endearing retardedness. And Sheridan Smith's baps, I suppose.
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Irisi posted:And oh, I love Eurovision, I really do. It's just not the same without Wogan  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8tuRKUlUS4&feature=related
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Bring on the scary men pretending to play guitar, bring on the dancing girls in skimpy costumes and bring on the caustic commentary by a drunk Irishman.
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N3RDSTER posted:Tim Lovejoy probing Brian Cox about the mysteries of the universe while they're trying to do a muffin making cookery segment on Something For The Weekend has to be one of the most surreal thing's I've seen on TV in a while. It's worse if you remove this section.
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SeanBeansShako posted:I'm still saddened Brian Blessed never took an interest in history after doing Blackadder, that would have been incredible. He narrates the odd DVD. We sell one at work about the Romans. e: Here it is http://www.amazon.co.uk/Roman-Invasions-Britain-DVD/dp/B0002XOZI8 sebzilla fucked around with this message at 18:18 on Mar 13, 2011 |
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marktheando posted:Oh I see. Jon Snow has been tweeting lots of bollocks recently about how hopefully this incident means a nuclear free future and how it's a wakeup call etc etc so I'm too annoyed with him to actually watch C4 news right now. Really? gently caress. I used to think you were cool, Jon Snow. 
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Can someone explain to me why iPlayer removes shows after a week and yet 4OD keeps them around forever and has even uploaded shows from before the advent of online streaming such as Whose Line Is It Anyway, Father Ted and so on?
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Paperhouse posted:guessing it's not cost effective for BBC to do that. 4OD must make a lot from advertising whereas there's none of that on iPlayer. There are probably other financial factors, that's just one I can think of. I wish iPlayer was the same as 4OD but with BBC stuff though, it'd be incredible I would happily pay £5 a month to see some classic BBC shows kept up there, and I bet a lot of other people would too. Weren't there rumblings about iPlayer moving to subscriptions recently, or was that just for non-UK watchers?
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cloudchamber posted:I doubt the BBC would be able to host a full BBC archive online without ending up in masses of debt, anyway. As said above, I'd happily pay extra for "archive content" on top of the regular license fee. Although since I don't pay the license fee that doesn't mean so much, but...
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SeanBeansShako posted:I sort of like the characters in Two Pints. I enjoyed Johnny's portrayal of a simple biscuit-loving person who was quite nice. But he's dead and everyone else is poo poo.
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Rarity posted:No no, the whole point is that we can feel glad that at least our dad isn't a coke-addicted ex-gangster with rage issues and our mum isn't sleeping with the landlord to pay the rent. It's the most feel good show ever! That's what Jeremy Kyle is for.
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Imagine if they'd scrapped Eastenders and used the money to continue Rome for its full intended span of four seasons or however many it was. That would have been ace.
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Muppetjedi posted:I've been meaning to post this for a while, but it's relevant to the early Screenwipe talk. That is awesometastic!
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My mum is about to appear on the BBC News, apparently. Bitching about library cuts or something like that.
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sebzilla posted:My mum is about to appear on the BBC News, apparently. Bitching about library cuts or something like that. Yeah, or not. Maybe at 10 or something. Or tomorrow. It's already been shunted back twice, was meant to be on Wednesday originally.
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Listening to Rob Brydon's April Fools "Ken Bruce" show on iPlayer, pretty funny stuff.
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cloudchamber posted:I assume he's talking about Crimson Petal and the White. Just caught up on this on iPlayer, it's really rather good.
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Time Commanders was brilliant and we should get more clueless businessmen to play Total War and lose badly for our amusement.
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Pablo Bluth posted:Balloons with Bill Bailey. It could have been his balloon modelling history of the British Isles Chapter One: the Celts come to Britain. *puff* *sqeeeek* *phhrp*
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SeanBeansShako posted:I'm amazed at the people who can pull off some stunning and just made it victories with the thing. They could use the Napoleon one now, to make it stand out from the old series. Although there's not so much obvious variety of units and army composition as there was in Rome, in my opinion, so it may not be as interesting when converted to a TV series.
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Brian Blessed would be amazing on Time Commanders. He loves his history.
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justcola posted:As for the royal wedding, what are people doing for it? If anything? I don't give a poo poo and it's on a bit too early to start drinking so I'll probably give it a miss. I am at work. Meh.
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SeanBeansShako posted:I could be working, not sure if anyone else will turn up at the musuem where I work at though. Museum staff working every bank holiday for ever (except today somehow)   I can't decide if we'll be busy because everyone is off work, or quiet because they're all watching the telly and getting pissed.
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It's me I'm the injunction guy and had sex with a woman.
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Hot drat, a new Giles Coren and Sue Perkins show. Probably the only Royal Wedding thing remotely worth watching. e: Although it's not a patch on them getting pissed, eating too much and throwing up everywhere. sebzilla fucked around with this message at 02:51 on Apr 28, 2011 |
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Young Voter's Question Time on Bin Laden's death...
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