[UK] The Great British programme discussion: Piers Morgan Memorial Pier

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Some Strange Flea: Apr 9, 2010; AAA; Pillbug

meme posted:

Nope, he actually adressed that in the episode- It was on the BBC, so they could use everything for free

Music is free thanks to some sort of neat arrangement the BBC has with the music industry, but the clips are mainly free because they fall under Fair Use. Nothing particularly special about the BBC in that regard.

# ¿ Mar 24, 2011 01:08

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# ¿ May 16, 2024 11:59

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reality_groove posted:

[siren] MY FAMILY HAS BEEN CANCELLED [siren]

You can all leave your bunkers now. A new world awaits us.

Kris Marshall can finally have that part of his soul back. We are entering a golden age of BT advertisements ladies and gentlemen.

# ¿ Mar 25, 2011 12:43

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Flatscan posted:

People also used to enjoy public hangings, maybe we should bring those back too?

The loony left would never let Big Gallows get past the pilot stage.

# ¿ Apr 6, 2011 17:02

Some Strange Flea: Apr 9, 2010; AAA; Pillbug

David Mitchell being forced to cut off Clive Anderson is a pretty clear demonstration of one of the big reasons 10 O'Clock Live shouldn't be live.

# ¿ Apr 21, 2011 23:05

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Kin posted:

Mitchell has the ability to converse with people without it sounding awkward

Yes but Jimmy Carr was quite a bit better at one-to-one interviews from the few weeks they let him do them and why they relegated him to feed-line-punch-line mannequin is beyond me.

If they get another series and are dead set on keeping the same line-up, then let Brooker do the culture rants, have Mitchell do the round table debates and political rants, Carr does the one-on-one interviews and opening monologue and Laverne doing the "proper" presenting and the occasional VT. And for gently caress's sake don't do it live. It's fifteen weeks later and still none of you can get through a single segment without tripping over a word. You are BAD at it stop trying you massive tongued fuckers.

# ¿ Apr 29, 2011 21:39

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Wormophile posted:

I've now got a hankering to watch that again. Big Fat Quiz Of The Year has never lived up to that first one.

Third!

Although weirdly it only seemed to become a "big thing" that year. And it definitely hasn't been as good since.

# ¿ Jun 13, 2011 17:21

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Wormophile posted:

I am very ignorant

I thought it was the first for a really long time until I saw the Wiki page for it. Apparently Gordon Ramsey was in one with Rob Brydon!

Welp!

# ¿ Jun 13, 2011 17:27

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MisterLizard posted:

I met him years ago when I was a kid, he came to our school and did a Q&A session with our class. We all got to chat with him and he was awesome. I hear he's still great but has fallen in with the 'global warming is a lie' brigade.

When our class went to some maths talk he did he told a joke about Chinese people.

I mean we all laughed because he had been pretty cool throughout and we were school kids who didn't exactly care about PC but still.

# ¿ Jun 23, 2011 12:56

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ChuckDHead posted:

A show with too many presenters featuring Lauren Laverne? Well that's something new.

Actually, was 10 O'Clock Live good by the end of the show's run? I gave up after episode 3 and had meant to check back in with it around the 10-15 mark, but I never got round to it.

The quality curve was basically still bouncing all over the place but it was generally rising.

Really.

Very.

Slowly.

# ¿ Jun 24, 2011 18:48

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Hoops posted:

He's a comedian. I watched his swimming the channel thing and when he was away from the public he was fine, much quieter.

Although I didn't see too much of it, my understanding is that he came close to approximating a human being during the 24 Hour Party "Panel Game Show" Show thanks to tiredness.

# ¿ Jun 25, 2011 15:37

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I hope there is a clause in the show rules that allows Penn and Teller to, upon hearing the secret to a trick, tell the performers to go and gently caress themselves.

# ¿ Jul 25, 2011 19:58

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ChuckDHead posted:

that one episode where she finds out that her twin sister is doing porn using her name.

Which is now edited to the point that I think it's possible someone watching for the first time would not understand what was happening!

Also there is an episode of Friends called The One with the Free Porn which to my knowledge has never been aired on E4. It involves Emily coming back from London after leaving following the fake party Rachel threw for that guy Joshua while she was working at Bloomingdales, and is also the episode where Phoebe finds out that she is going to be having triplets as opposed to just a regular old baby. These things happened, and you are probably only just now realising that you have never seen these things happen! This gap in continuity has not, to my knowledge, ever been noticed by anyone in the country ever and I take full credit for it!

# ¿ Aug 3, 2011 16:18

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Graviton v2 posted:

whatever shithole agent who is making those jedward fucks still a part of media?

With Jedward in the BB house people across the country know exactly where they are.

Do not underestimate the psychological benefits of knowing that Jedward are definitely not nearby.

# ¿ Aug 19, 2011 02:13

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I am thoroughly convinced that one of them is significantly less of an idiot than the other but I couldn't possibly say which. Even if I knew which one I couldn't tell your their name.

I hope that at some point they get split up and get to exist as two sides of the same coin as opposed to the world's most ludicrously haired mobius strip.

# ¿ Aug 19, 2011 15:32

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FreakyZoid posted:

B...but Stewart Lee says that musical comedy is lazy and rubbish.

He said in an episode of Comedy Vehicle that he really liked Tim Minchin but I'm not entirely confident in my ability to distinguish between the various degrees of irony Mr Lee embodies.

# ¿ Aug 30, 2011 18:31

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Yet Another High-Stakes Ant and Dec Gameshow starts tonight. It's scheduled opposite Doctor Who so I guess they think it's really something special! Which is weird because from what I gather it seems to be a series of random choices and needlessly expensive stunts! I liked Poker Face. Poker Face was good why couldn't they have just kept doing that?

Also the last super dramatic gameshow I remember on ITV1 Saturday night primetime was ~~The Bong Game~~ ~~Deal or No Deal~~ The Colour of Money and it was shiiiiit so I really don't have much hope for this at all.

# ¿ Sep 3, 2011 18:40

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Watching RoB on +1.

We're actually getting behind-the-scenes personal stories from the massive mob and from the two motorbike riders.

This is really overproduced jesus christ.

# ¿ Sep 3, 2011 20:09

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Oh my god someone won and they started an upbeat pop song.

This is literally You Bet meets X Factor in the worst possible way.

# ¿ Sep 3, 2011 20:14

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Atomic Dog posted:

It's beyond parody. "More people picking RED at home, which is interesting."

Nicked that from Million Pound Drop.

Fake Edit: Holy poo poo round 2 is just a straight up raffle.

THE HOFF.

----

Real edit: Super dramatic jack-in-the-box cranking.

Some Strange Flea fucked around with this message at 20:26 on Sep 3, 2011

# ¿ Sep 3, 2011 20:18

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I compared this show to You Bet based on the motorcycle stunt but none of these other games are even remotely exciting.

Dramatic getting-into-a-car-and-seeing-if-it-starts. High stakes gift box unwrapping! :tviv:

And now we're in the studio introducing the final 8. Genuinely surprised they didn't get E4 voiceover guy to do it.

Ant and Dec are playing up the "you've been playing perfectly" angle so much that you could convince me that this is Derren Brown's The System v2.

# ¿ Sep 3, 2011 20:42

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If someone said to me, "Flea, say you want to mix up 24 briefcases such that no-one would be aware of their contents. How would you do it?" I don't think "fully choreographed dance routine" would be near the top of the list.

# ¿ Sep 3, 2011 20:59

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N3RDSTER posted:

It's nice that they put on and draw attention to a massive countdown timer until there is actually some content in the show. I'm safe in the knowledge that while I'm out of the room and posting this I won't miss anything.

Sorry, you missed the DUEL.

Eight pizza slices, four red and four black (sponsored by Domino's). Players alternate picking slices and first person to have all slices of their colour revealed wins.

In other words: Drawn out 50/50 chance.

Here comes the big roulette wheel now...

# ¿ Sep 3, 2011 21:37

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ChuckDHead posted:

It's still about as much of a game as Deal or No Deal.

Deal or No Deal is a game in which a man called The Banker attempts to pinpoint the exact level of cowardice of a person based on their reaction to a series of random events, but people get confused because it is viewed from the perspective of the individual people.

It is much, much more of a game than either of those other two things!

# ¿ Sep 5, 2011 22:39

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ChuckDHead posted:

Seriously agreeing, I can't wait to be rid of the Glee adverts. One of these days I'm going to figure out why I don't like Glee. I like musicals, but not Glee.

Musicals are stories told using music. Glee is just a story that happens to be about music.

Also it made this, listening to which actually makes me angry.

# ¿ Sep 19, 2011 20:30

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Strom Cuzewon posted:

Goofy 4th wall breaking recap

I liked the recap at the start of episode 2, in which we find out that the magic people are called Angelics (never actually mentioned in episode 1).

# ¿ Oct 7, 2011 18:48

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The problem with a ventriloquist (or any kind of character, really) is that the vast majority of what they say and do is about them, which is a bit lame if you don't give a poo poo and want to hear funny people say funny things. I can't remember offhand anything she said that wasn't "I'm a puppet!"

I imagine she was there because they already planned to talk about ventriloquism but god drat.

# ¿ Oct 16, 2011 22:53

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Derren Brown's latest thing (on right now) is seeing whether or not he can hypnotise someone into murdering a celebrity at a public event.

He just got four participants to throw (what they believed to be) acid into the faces of four others.

Apparently.

# ¿ Oct 21, 2011 21:13

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Noreaus posted:

Whereas Stephen Fry has moved by inches into "smug arsehole who has a habit for making 'ladyboy' jokes" territory and I have trouble finding him as enjoyable as I used to. Also, did anyone else try to watch that "Fry's Planet Word" thing? Single most patronising piece of non-content I have ever chosen to try to watch.

Planet Word isn't really all that insightful. I can watch it easily enough but I don't come out the other end thinking that I know more about things that I didn't know before.

Last night's QI was actually really good though. Prof. B. Cox is a pretty funny guy and now I know things about some of Saturn's moons! Also Ewoks (thanks very much Ross Noble).

# ¿ Oct 22, 2011 15:08

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goatface posted:

He's an annoyingly militant atheist.

Stephen Fry, Brian Cox, Noel Fielding or Lorraine Kelly?

# ¿ Oct 22, 2011 15:44

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They should do an episode of Hollyoaks which is actually like the adverts. Hugely metaphorical and absolutely nonsensical.

I would definitely watch at least one episode of that.

# ¿ Oct 23, 2011 20:02

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Yeah, it's a bit weird! The actual point of this experiment is being a little broken by the fact that by having Derren Brown actually standing right there, in a gameshow studio, you automatically create the impression that the whole thing is fake or otherwise harmless. Derren Brown's own name and reputation is a massive factor in a lot of his big stunts and it kind of irks me that he doesn't seem to make even the slightest nod towards that. I feel like the whole thing would have made more sense if Derren Brown was standing back stage and it was hosted by Dale Winton or something.

Shooting Stephen Fry had the same problem. Telling the guy right beforehand "here is a gun, there are real bullets in it, after Stephen Fry is finished talking please give the gun to Derren Brown, DON'T SHOOT THE GUN" and then having someone say "I want you to kill Stephen Fry" is basically a huge sign screaming "Setup!"

But then people started yelling "smash the TV" and "trash his room" unprompted and suddenly he might have a point here after all!

# ¿ Oct 28, 2011 22:35

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Sauce posted:

Dammit, just twigged this is a Stanford experiment clone - Derren you hack!

Kin posted:

Exactly, on top of this is was a perhaps a bit of commentary on gameshows (like x-factor and big brother) in general and how they instil the exact thing that Derren was trying to prove.

Derren mentions both of these points in a short follow-up video on the Channel 4 site, where he also says that yes, the gameshow setting was heavily geared towards drawing out the type of behaviour shown and that they wouldn't necessarily behave that way in the real world.

Also I don't get what the imaginary-coinflip A or B thing right at the start had to do with anything at all but it was pretty cool and it's nice to see the return of mentalism jiggery-pokery!

# ¿ Oct 28, 2011 23:28

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meme posted:

to add to the Mitchell discussion, whatever happened to the Bubble? I loved that program, did it get cancelled? I remember there was a guy who uploaded them all to youtube, does anyone have the link? it was something like "The Ball of Air".

I think it was cancelled because 10 O'Clock Live happened and Mitchell wasn't able to work on both.

# ¿ Dec 30, 2011 18:14

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I tend to watch the show on 4oD the next day and find that the ability to skip the 'Jimmy Carr in a costume' segment improves the show massively.

But yes, yesterday's was weirdly good.

# ¿ Mar 15, 2012 21:09

Some Strange Flea: Apr 9, 2010; AAA; Pillbug

This is the way the Burp ends.
Not with a bang but with an unfunny drawn out shart.

# ¿ Mar 24, 2012 21:09

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HoldYourFire posted:

Obligatory comment about "The one with the free porn" goes here.

I don't have Sky so I'm curious. Does that one go out on Comedy Central?

# ¿ Jul 13, 2012 18:53

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Trickjaw posted:

Ah, I see we have moved into 'Bored BBC commentators play trivial pursuits' territory

I bet you didn't know which country has one the most gold medals per capita though?

I mean you still don't but I bet you're curious now.

# ¿ Jul 27, 2012 22:32

Some Strange Flea: Apr 9, 2010; AAA; Pillbug

Smash cut to the Bee Gees right as the country announcer yells out Fiji.

Amazing.

# ¿ Jul 27, 2012 22:54

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Charles and Camilla are loving blitzed.

# ¿ Jul 27, 2012 23:00

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# ¿ May 16, 2024 11:59

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Bolt looked like he was going to do a runner with the Jamaican flag and no-one could stop him.

# ¿ Jul 27, 2012 23:09

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