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So has the thread collectively stopped watching 10 O'clock live or is there a seperate thread? I know it's pretty weak but it's something to watch on wednesday at least, and I usually enjoy one or two of the segments. Brooker's bit on Kony was pretty good and I learned some stuff from it. The bit with the weird culty adverts for invisible children was new to me, and pretty funny. Edit: the interview with Starkey and the lady comedian was a bit of a trainwreck, but it prompted a discussion in the meme hovel at least.
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SeanBeansShako posted:White Van Man is one of those comedies where you know both the writers and actors are actually enjoying their characters. I stopped watching ideal around the second series, and came back to it for the last few episodes and understandably, couldn't get into it. Would you recommend putting in the effort to watch it all?
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Mar 27, 2012 21:13
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And if you've not seen it, I thought Stalin: 1941 and the man of steel was pretty good. Kept me watching for a full 90 minutes at least, worth a go.
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Apr 17, 2012 08:05
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whatever happened to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad? He knew his telly onions, worked for sky I think. Did he go when the UK megathread guys started to leave?
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Jun 29, 2012 22:59
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sex pervert posted:I happened to flip through channels shortly after six and caught about a minute of it. It all looks very different now with fancy camera work and too many young people. I did notice Marilyn is still in it! Honestly I am so jealous of these soap actors like Marilyn, Ken Barlow and Ian Beale with their cushy jobs for life I know- These guys have one of the most secure jobs on television that will likely continue until their death. Or the heat death of the universe. I have to watch it every time I go to my dad's house and I'm sick of the constant drama. I know that sounds dumb but It'd be nice if there was a show on the telly that was just 24/7 relaxed-streetcam.
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Jul 25, 2012 15:56
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Last night I saw a Runescape advert on the telly. Uh. That was pretty surprising, and it got me wondering- how much does a 30s TV Advert cost?
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Jul 26, 2012 17:02
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Trickjaw posted:Now they are just making up countries.Djibouti? Damned if I can remember it but there's a catchy song about Djibouti. So it probably exists!
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Jul 27, 2012 22:52
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Independent olympic athletes should have been announced as "nowhereland"
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Jul 27, 2012 23:09
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I preface this by mentioning that I was very stoned on both occasions I watched it but that celebrity Bedlam show on channel 4 was pretty funny. The cloning skit especially was just the right kind of creepy and absurd for me and I saw a trailer for a political satire thingy type show called "the revolution will be televised" that might be good or poo poo. Someone tell me if I am correct or incorrect please. Edit: I've been enjoying the olympics a lot too, I dug the opening ceremony mostly and I've been getting goosebumps pretty much every time anyone wins anything. That Niger rower the other day is my personal highlight, comes in last like a minute behind the next slowest, everyone's cheering him on. Love it. meme fucked around with this message at 20:29 on Aug 10, 2012 |
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Aug 10, 2012 20:16
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TJO posted:The older lad with dyslexia was so touching when he was home with his grandfather or when he was crying about the classism of the people he was associating himself with. If he could just realise that he was lucky to have a support network in his family that other people in his situation don't have and then recognised that the system he aspired to is working against him because of who he was born as, and actually managed to join the dots up, he could probably be a really decent bloke. I'm watching it now and this is spot on. The moments when they are realising the arsehole world of back biting they're trying to enter are outweighed by the moments of arsehole backbiting. Who has the time or energy for that kind of thing really?
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Aug 10, 2012 22:29
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Didn't they cancel midsummer murders for being racist or something. I vaguely remember something in the papers?
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Aug 11, 2012 21:52
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GimpChimp posted:To be fair who doesn't want to see bourgeois white Anglo people kill each other. Well yeah but not one at a time, maybe if Midsummer was just a gladiatorial arena it'd be worth watching
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Aug 12, 2012 18:20
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I quite enjoyed The Revolution Will be Televised. Some bad sketches, some quite funny sketches, some annoying bits, some bits that made me laugh. Yeah it's very right on but it's a BBC3 satire show, what do you want? I'd rather see poo poo satire than whatever that one show with the young scally lookin' fella or a rerun of little Britain. This thread reacts worse to things that are bad versions of things it likes than it does to things that are just offensively poo poo. It won't revolutionise anything, but it is just a loving TV show. I thought the bits when they put on a character like in the Lib Dem conference were reasonably funny and showed promise. But I'm a sucker for that kind of humour anyway. I guess I just enjoy subterfuge
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Aug 23, 2012 17:46
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So, good cop tonight? Pretty gripping stuff and dark, too. Good drama!
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Sep 6, 2012 23:57
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StrawmanUK posted:Born and raised in St Helens. Currently a scouser! Got a lot of family in St Helens. Used to drive to Birchalls for a pie every sunday! currently scousing at liverpool uni! Edit: Or Pilkingtons? the place with the amazing pies.
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Sep 16, 2012 01:04
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad posted:Imagine how relentlessly terrifying he could be as Vetinari. I see him more as a Vimes, myself.
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Sep 16, 2012 18:50
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VogeGandire posted:Why do I seem to always end up watching The Revolution Will Be Televised? It's the most horrible, bile-inducing, left-wing-student politics possible. It makes me genuinely angry to watch. It blows, but it wins in the battle of "what should I watch, nothing is on, it's this or Citizen Khan."
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Sep 20, 2012 01:15
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Doakes posted:Wow, thirded. Small world. I think St Helens is just pretty goony in general
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Sep 22, 2012 22:17
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Yeah I'm another one who hates his standup but quite enjoys when he's on panel shows or as a character in a TV show. Edit: and holy poo poo, Mr Blobby. The whole thing was gold.
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Sep 26, 2012 18:04
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Celebrity juice, its fans tell me, is self aware and a parody of whatever it is supposed to be parodying. Sometimes I watch it and laugh, sometimes I watch it and weep. It's pretty much the most confusing show on TV. I can never tell for sure if it's serious and when I think it's a joke I have no idea what it's taking the piss of. Itself?
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Oct 3, 2012 19:53
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Shelf Adventure posted:Celebrity Juice seems to be huge with teenagers. Not saying you have to be a teenager to enjoy it, but it seems to help. Everyone I know who likes it is 30+ I don't know a single person my age who likes it. It is a weird show
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Oct 3, 2012 20:12
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I think he was probably conflating Fresh Meat with Friday Night Dinners, seeing as they are similar shows on the same channel and both have Inbetweeners actors as main characters
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Nov 6, 2012 01:00
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PriorMarcus posted:How are people getting AdBlock to stop the 4OD ads? I'm not sure, it works on my PC but not my laptop. If adblock doesn't do it without some fiddling maybe noscript will do the trick.
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Dec 3, 2012 23:47
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Howards Bellend posted:Can I just say how much I enjoyed the most recent episode of Him and Her without the sister in it? But she was in it! Admittedly, it was on the screen of a laptop, but her foul presence was still felt.
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Dec 11, 2012 11:00
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DominoDancing posted:Am I really the only one thinking that, considering the current public discourse, a journalist NOT asking Tarantino about violence in movies is simply not doing his job? I feel like the same questions get asked every time there's a shooting tragedy and there's no point in rehashing old ground- what do you expect Tarantino to say? "Yeah I'm sorry, violence is wrong, don't watch my movie"? We don't give a poo poo about this issue when kids aren't getting murdered it's just journalists trying to retroactively journo. No one blames Dark Knight Rises for that guy who shot up the cinema unless they're an idiot. And like Tarantino said, it was a junket to promote his new movie, not an interview with a critic, the journalist in question wanted either a nice sounding soundbite or a controversial one, they didn't really want an answer.
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Jan 12, 2013 17:27
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Squalitude posted:
It's not that. It's not the best show I ever watched but it's not insensitive or cruel.
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Jan 19, 2013 18:48
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Yeah, he knows the wipe format works, and he's got a nice secure time slot and he's experimenting with the formula a bit, something that he couldn't as easily have gotten away with when screen/newswipe was a little culty and had a smaller and kind of terrible internet people audience. Now he is successful he's trying different stuff. It doesn't all work but the thing about television is you don't know how something is going to be received until it is received and besides, it was short. And it prompted a discussion about Django unchained when we were watching it so we missed it anyway. But happily, reminded ourselves that it was a cool film.
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Feb 1, 2013 04:19
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Is there a Being Human thread? I went back a few pages in TVIV but didn't find one. I'm really enjoying this series, much better than last series, and I think I actually prefer the new cast.
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Feb 25, 2013 13:23
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This season is really interesting, you should watch it if you liked early being human because it's got lots of early being human stuff and far less apocalyptic melodrama about vampires taking over the world or whatever. Speaking of vampires taking over the world, why does no one seem to remember that vampires took over the world?
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Feb 25, 2013 16:18
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Flatscan posted:Because they didn't? Unless you count hanging around in a Welsh warehouse then getting blown up as taking over the world. Oh yeah, the future when they took over the world was a flashforward thing that the ghostsplosion fixed. Forgot about that since it's been a while since I watched it. My bad. Now things make more sense.
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Feb 25, 2013 20:07
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Junior G-man posted:So did anyone else catch Sue Perkin's new comedy thing Heading Out? clocked this last night looking for something to watch, figured I'd wait for someone else to say that it was good. I'll try it out later!
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Feb 28, 2013 12:11
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So I'm at a bit of an impasse now, I've seen almost all the telly I can think of, and I'm looking for more comedy. I've seen all the usual suspects apart from older stuff. I really dig my satires, I've seen Citizen Smith (which is probably bad or something but I dug it) and Spitting image and stuff like that, but didn't see Not the Nine O'clock news. Any recommendations?
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Jun 1, 2013 18:36
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VogeGandire posted:I will forever recommend The Thick of It to anyone who hasn't seen it. this is my problem, I've seen everything already! I'm more looking for older stuff, I'm a child of the 90's and I missed a lot
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