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Bah, Monday evening on the week leading up to Christmas and there's gently caress all on the Telly. 
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Graviton v2 posted:Anyone know if UK on demand ratings count towards the official ratings these days? The regular BARB ratings that are published in newspapers and often quoted by the media are just the TV ratings and are published the morning after a show is broadcast (aka overnights). Broadcasters also receive a consolidated report 8 days after transmission that includes 7 days worth of on demand viewing figures. Over time hopefully these consolidated figures will become more important as popular shows can rack up tens and even hundreds of thousands of extra views over the course of a week. Anyway, yeah don't worry your viewing is measured. reality_groove fucked around with this message at 18:20 on Dec 20, 2010 |
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Dec 20, 2010 18:17
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reality_groove posted:The regular BARB ratings that are published in newspapers and often quoted by the media are just the TV ratings and are published the morning after a show is broadcast (aka overnights).
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Dec 20, 2010 18:46
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QI  This week's episode will be on Christmas Eve, have Danny Radcliffe as a panelist, and here's a preview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SipLcrPmPOQ Too bad I'll have to wait an extra day or two to see it 
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Dec 20, 2010 20:02
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Daniel Radcliffe always looks really twitchy and nervous whenever I see him make a public appearance (barring stage work, I'm assuming), it's kind of distracting. Although he does seem like an intelligent, decent enough lad so more power to him, I suppose.
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Dec 20, 2010 20:23
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Adrianics posted:Daniel Radcliffe always looks really twitchy and nervous whenever I see him make a public appearance (barring stage work, I'm assuming), it's kind of distracting. Although he does seem like an intelligent, decent enough lad so more power to him, I suppose. I think he's really sweet, I saw an interview with him there the host asked how he felt about all the female attention and he said 'Oh gosh, it's really rather marvellous' and giggled a bit. The actor that played Ron whose name escapes me at the moment is the same - just Hermoine that seems to be a cow.
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Dec 20, 2010 20:30
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I've not really heard anything bad about Emma Watson either, she seems alright to me.
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Dec 20, 2010 20:40
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I couldn't find an active thread for The Daily Show, but, poo poo. Media Guardian posted:More4 is cutting back from five editions of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart per week to just one.
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Dec 20, 2010 20:48
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Brokyn posted:QI Ah, I see someone else took note of the Chris Addison/Andy Parsons School of Fashion. Wanna see that chest hair boooooooyyy
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Dec 20, 2010 20:55
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad posted:I couldn't find an active thread for The Daily Show, but, poo poo. 
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Dec 20, 2010 20:57
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Lol Ricky playing Duck Hunt on a NES, where did the Beeb get that? Even gotta box.
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Dec 20, 2010 21:03
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I know you all pretty much hate Tramadol, but a bit of goon support in terms of viewing figures wouldn't go amiss for Episode 5 (the 28th) - I filmed/animated one of the sketches for it. I heard the viewing figures dropped off quite sharp for Ep2 so I'm not sure where it will be by the "christmas" episode. The series has been hit and miss for me - I liked the stuntman sketch quite a bit, but stuff like the Knight Rider one did seem to go on for ages. I think the funniest by far has been the George Micheal's Highway Code. But then I find wanking funny.
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Dec 20, 2010 21:32
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad posted:I couldn't find an active thread for The Daily Show, but, poo poo. I watch the Daily Show in 4oD before I go to bed almost every day. The weird sudden edits in the Global edition makes it the worst one to watch. They also focus on the correspondant reports which are the worst bit, and have less of John Stewart's monologues, which are the best.
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Dec 20, 2010 22:46
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I watch the Daily show every day too, pissed about this. Going to have to install a loving proxy and watch it in america then I guess!
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Dec 21, 2010 00:17
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slotbadger posted:I *promise* the ending [of Ashes to Ashes] wraps things up nicely. Trin Tragula posted:I strongly advise that you give it more of a chance. Thanks, guys. Don't worry, I am. I toughed it out through new Doctor Who series 2 (and was glad I did), I can make it through this one. It actually feels kind of like Who s2—where the show suddenly drops precipitously in quality following an amazing previous series, while you're also adjusting to the loss of a favorite lead actor/character. But you just have to take it like medicine until you get to get to the good stuff. Also, PriorMarcus, love the avatar. So far Ashes to Ashes s1 is not as positively hard to watch as Who s2 was, it's just... not good. It seems like it's mostly just trying to just retread Life on Mars, only it's totally camp and nothing seems to have any meaning behind it. Also whatever sexual tension they're trying to push between Gene and Alex is implausible, contrived, fake, and most importantly, boring. It's.... oh my god... it's like the cut-rate American knockoff of Life on Mars. I mean if there weren't already a cut-rate American knockoff of Life on Mars, this is what one would be like. It turns the balanced tone of the original broad and campy, superficially apes the trippy stuff by just throwing in some meaningless clown images, and shoehorns in an obligatory sexual tension with the leads. I hope they will change course with that one. I also hope they change the 80's-tastic opening in the next series, because it is fairly funny at first but I imagine the self-parody would get pretty jarring once the show gets more serious.
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Dec 21, 2010 00:18
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad posted:I couldn't find an active thread for The Daily Show, but, poo poo. Glad to see they're cutting the awful poo poo from the channel.
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Dec 21, 2010 02:10
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Taear posted:Glad to see they're cutting the awful poo poo from the channel. Hey, hey, hey. Well, I guess if you don't live in the U.S. then you don't experience the Daily Show for its real primary function, which is therapy. I think of it like a bomb shelter for sane people. Anyway, polished off A2A series 1...  Alex had the exact same first-season arc/finale as Sam, only this time I couldn't give a poo poo. And she never felt the need in 8 episodes to ask any more about Sam and his activities in the 1973-world? I should think she would want to know as much as she could about it. And nobody else asks HER about the fact that she's babbling about the same kinds of things that he was?... And every attempt by this show to be sexy or romantic is just... gross... Its idea of a hot hookup for Alex runs from the Guv, to Alex's godfather  , to that rich toad-looking guy from episode 1 or 2. Well, looking forward to better developments in series 2. Positive notes... I liked Shaz?And yeah, people here are either not interested in talking about the show, in which case sorry, or they're keeping tight-lipped to protect me from spoilers, in which case thanks... But I guess I just felt the need to rant about it for a bit.
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Dec 21, 2010 06:10
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Cichlid the Loach posted:
It's just been such a long time since I watched it, and it's not a program I would watch repeatedly like Life on Mars, so I've pretty much forgotten most of what happened and when. If/when you start watching State of Play I'll be able to rant like a pro. I don't remember being overly bothered by the love matches though - I wanted her and Gene to get together. Maybe you're missing the Gene Genie sex appeal?
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Dec 21, 2010 10:19
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The first Top Gear special on BBC 2 tonight at 8pm.
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Dec 21, 2010 13:08
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Brown Moses posted:The first Top Gear special on BBC 2 tonight at 8pm. Thanks for this, I genuinely had no idea.
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Dec 21, 2010 13:14
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Apparently there's a double bill of Tramadol Nights tonight - wonder if C4 are just trying to get rid of it now - so I guess my sketch will be on the second ep, 10:30 tonight (if it's not been cut). Will own up to which one it was after it's aired 
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Dec 21, 2010 13:55
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Ugh, downloaded a bunch of stuff onto iPlayer desktop for holiday abroad but none of them are playing. It just goes 'A problem occurred while downloading this programme' Paperhouse posted:I've not really heard anything bad about Emma Watson either, she seems alright to me. There used to be a bit of goss around the girls' boarding schools before she went off to uni. Nothing severe though.
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Brown Moses posted:The first Top Gear special on BBC 2 tonight at 8pm. Except for people in Northern Ireland and Wales. You've got to wait until Saturday.
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Dec 21, 2010 16:42
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Dec 21, 2010 16:47
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hookerbot 5000 posted:It's just been such a long time since I watched it, and it's not a program I would watch repeatedly like Life on Mars, so I've pretty much forgotten most of what happened and when. If/when you start watching State of Play I'll be able to rant like a pro. Yeah, I'll count on that once I get my State of Play discs from Netflix! hookerbot 5000 posted:Maybe you're missing the Gene Genie sex appeal? I must be. I mean, he's a fantastic character (at least he is in LoM... in A2A it feels like the writers are casting about for his character but can't quite find it) but I don't think anyone would describe him as sexy. Maybe if Alex weren't so much younger and SO very conventionally attractive, it wouldn't seem so preposterous a match.
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad posted:Except for people in Northern Ireland and Wales. You've got to wait until Saturday. Whaaaaaat? gently caress BBC NI. Fake edit: It's on BBC NI tonight...
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Dec 21, 2010 19:50
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Really? gently caress the BBC website for lying to me: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00x2pq7quote:NEXT ON: Oh wait if you've got freeview then it's all cool, my bad.
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Dec 21, 2010 20:40
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That doesn't even make sense. It's on digital but not analogue... bizarre. i'm watching on Analogue and it's on. Must be a mistake on the site.
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Dec 21, 2010 21:01
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Cichlid the Loach posted:
Honestly, you'd be amazed. Try googling 'Is Gene Hunt Sexy?' for pages of Gene-lust, the phenomenon was massive when Life on Mars started because everyone wanted to discuss why women would fancy a misogynistic, racist alcoholic. The answer - because he is awesome.
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Dec 21, 2010 21:10
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Holy poo poo, and the yanks have the cheek to complain about regional British accents.
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hookerbot 5000 posted:Honestly, you'd be amazed. Try googling 'Is Gene Hunt Sexy?' for pages of Gene-lust, the phenomenon was massive when Life on Mars started because everyone wanted to discuss why women would fancy a misogynistic, racist alcoholic. The answer - because he is awesome. I... think I'll take your word for it. No, I know that there's no accounting for women's tastes—being one myself. Lord knows I've gotten flutters for some utterly unaccountable men. But, of course, if you Googled "Is Sam Tyler sexy?" you'd just get a page with giant text reading "What are you, loving blind?"  (or "Yes, you twonk," if that wasn't clear enough)Flatscan posted:Holy poo poo, and the yanks have the cheek to complain about regional British accents. What's this about? I admit watching LoM I had to rewind a LOT to catch some lines, and I found myself wondering if any Brits have the same problem with any regional American accents. Sometimes they really are two totally different languages that just happen to be more or less mutually intelligible.
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Cichlid the Loach posted:What's this about? I admit watching LoM I had to rewind a LOT to catch some lines, and I found myself wondering if any Brits have the same problem with any regional American accents. Sometimes they really are two totally different languages that just happen to be more or less mutually intelligible. Tonight's Top Gear special.
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echoplex posted:Apparently there's a double bill of Tramadol Nights tonight - wonder if C4 are just trying to get rid of it now - so I guess my sketch will be on the second ep, 10:30 tonight (if it's not been cut). Will own up to which one it was after it's aired Tuned in to it at the moment. Bit gutted that there is no Morgana show because of the double bill
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Dec 21, 2010 23:03
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So, who is Janine gonna murder? Just her husband, her husband AND his lover, or her husband, his lover and her baby?
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What's all this drama with Vince Cable and BSkyB about? All of the news stations are calling for his head, and i'm trying to understand why without some kind of lovely news bias (such as the hypocricy of not condemning those undercover reporters posing as constituent yet insinuating condemnation towards Assange).
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Dec 21, 2010 23:09
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They don't like the idea that the government might actually be trying to take an interest in their nice little buddy-gently caress of a largely unregulated industry.
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Kin posted:What's all this drama with Vince Cable and BSkyB about? From what I gather it's because he said he'd do everything he could to stop Murdoch's buying up of the UK media, including blocking the deal for News Corp to buy 100% of BSkyB. If the BBC are throwing a shitfit about it too they're bigger loving idiots than I thought.
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The BBC are putting a rope made of public interest around their own necks. Got to love the shortsightedness of the Torygraph going after Cable even after they realised that if his full comments got out they would would be up the creek.
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Flatscan posted:From what I gather it's because he said he'd do everything he could to stop Murdoch's buying up of the UK media, including blocking the deal for News Corp to buy 100% of BSkyB. The report i caught on BBC had their bias as gently caress government specialist almost frothing at the mouth for him being completely fired. I even caught a disgustingly scoffing  from him when he was talking about part of it (i think he was bashing the lib dems). ITV had the typical dramatic clamoring about "why isn't he sacked", "what does an MP have to do to get sacked".If it's all about what you say then the whole loving thing is disgusting and i've now totally lost whatever little faith i had left in conventional TV news.
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echoplex posted:Apparently there's a double bill of Tramadol Nights tonight - wonder if C4 are just trying to get rid of it now - so I guess my sketch will be on the second ep, 10:30 tonight (if it's not been cut). Will own up to which one it was after it's aired Is it the Thomas the Tank Engine sketch by any chance?
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