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Sion posted:The BBC is funded in a unique way in that to own a television in the UK you have to pay a TV licence. Not only is the UK system not unique, but more countries in the world have television licenses than not, although a lot of them allow their state channels to advertise as well. Unusually, France is currently moving back to a ban on advertising on the state channels. The "my license fee pays for this crap" is a near-universal lament.
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Trin Tragula posted:James Blunt's always struck me as a decent bloke since I saw this great interview with him where someone had a passive-aggressive pop at his hiring a backing band and general lack of street cred, and he came back with something along the lines of "well yeah but I've never pretended to have street cred, I was an Army officer, and then I left, and I'd enjoyed playing guitar so I wanted to be in a band, but when you're an officer in the Life Guards you don't exactly have many muso friends..." No street cred? The man sold his sister on eBay.
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fuf posted:Can anyone confirm my suspicion that Britain is the only country that has these kinds of "comedy quiz shows" (Mock the Week, HIGNFY, Shooting Stars, Never Mind The Buzzcocks, etc). Actually the panel quiz show is an American invention dating back to Depression-era radio, but it's only really still popular in the UK. NPR (radio) still does "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me". I remember "Front Page Challenge" in Canada growing up but apparently that was finally cancelled in 1995.
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slotbadger posted:I heard that. I think it was on Robin Ince & Josie Long's Utter Shambles, which is an excellent podcast. I don't think Jupitus thought it was out of order, he's pretty loving blunt with himself about being a fat gently caress. If you listen to the Perfect 10, he's constantly on diets and usually off alcohol too. I think it was either on Buzzcocks or QI when he recounted being on "Casualty" playing a heart attack victim. At one point between takes he joked, "well this will be good practice for when the real one comes," and the medical consultant on the set looked up from his copy of The Lancet and said, "you're not wrong there, mate."
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Oct 22, 2010 21:28
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Lady Demelza posted:And Jonathan Ross, this is not your finest moment. Three telescopes and a library of astronomy books, and he can't recognise any of the stars? How can anybody who has lived in the northern hemisphere not know what the Big Dipper is (no matter what they locally call it)?
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Zorba the Greek posted:I have the biggest loving crush on him. http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/aug/28/invisible-wife-syndrome-celebrity-relationships Gia Milinovich posted:While Wonders was on TV, it seemed that everyone was declaring their love for Brian: young girls, older women, gay men, even throngs of straight men admitted to having a bit of a man crush on him. At one point, on Twitter, Sarah Cawood asked Lauren Laverne to set her up with Brian, as he'd been on her show that morning... All I could think was, "Really? He used to be a bus spotter. Sure, he's cute, but he really is a massive nerd." Later that day, the baby threw up on me, so I tweeted to Sarah Cawood that I'd be very happy to share my husband with her 50/50, if she took over the baby vomit cleaning duties. Unfortunately, she declined.
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Per posted:I come from a small country that has often imported British panel show concepts. I'm wondering why the US hasn't done the same thing. Panel shows got their start on American radio and were hugely popular on US TV in the 50s and 60s. For whatever reason, it's not a format that interests Americans any more despite periodic attempts to revive it (eg. The Marriage Ref).
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Sep 16, 2011 21:41
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A5H posted:So did anyone see this on the news yesterday? He claims that he's not a hoaxer but he's not really a trader either, he's just some idiot that the BBC selected at random to appear on telly as a "financial expert". http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/8792829/BBC-financial-expert-Alessio-Rastani-Im-an-attention-seeker-not-a-trader.html Telegraph posted:Mr Rastani works and lives with his partner Anita Eader in a £200,000 semi in Bexleyheath, south London. The house, complete with a mortgage from Royal Bank of Scotland, belongs to her not him.
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Fatty posted:Looks like James May is getting in on the slow programs bandwagon Is this on tonight?
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