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Did you actually watch all of Citizen Khan? It certainly isn't a very good comedy but accusations of it being offensive are ridiculous. It is literally the tamest, most diluted and boring sitcom the BBC has ever put out. People who didn't watch it just hear 'muslims!' and proceed to get outraged over some presumed slight. But quite why they decided to make a sitcom about a minor character from poorly received shows Down the Line/Bellamy's People in the first place is totally beyond me.
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Test Pilot Monkey posted:Red Dwarf X will start on Thursday 4th October at 9pm Eugh. I feel like Pennywise the dancing clown yelling "you're too old, you're all too old".
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Aug 30, 2012 11:50
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Captain Mediocre posted:Did you actually watch all of Citizen Khan? It certainly isn't a very good comedy but accusations of it being offensive are ridiculous. It is literally the tamest, most diluted and boring sitcom the BBC has ever put out. People who didn't watch it just hear 'muslims!' and proceed to get outraged over some presumed slight. Yeah it wasn't very good. Has Paxo left Newsnight? He hasn't been on for a couple of months.
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Aug 30, 2012 12:11
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Captain Mediocre posted:Citizen Khan I have just watched it now, knowing full well it was going to be tame, bland, lowest common denominator and utterly inoffensive because it's a BBC 1 primetime show. And I was right. text posted:However, Citizen Khan is awful and borderline offensive. How can the BBC air such a shite show in 2012, it's like a bad sitcom out of the 80s. Offensive because it's bad, or offensive-to-muslims? The only people who should be offended are people who wanted something funny.
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Aug 30, 2012 12:47
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Captain Mediocre posted:Did you actually watch all of Citizen Khan? It certainly isn't a very good comedy but accusations of it being offensive are ridiculous. It is literally the tamest, most diluted and boring sitcom the BBC has ever put out. People who didn't watch it just hear 'muslims!' and proceed to get outraged over some presumed slight. Citizen Khan was bad, but I wouldn't say DTL or Bellamy's People were poorly received. They weren't very popular, but they were very funny And there's been worse and more watered down than Citizen Khan. My Family springs to mind
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Aug 30, 2012 15:24
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TomWaitsForNoMan posted:Citizen Khan was bad, but I wouldn't say DTL or Bellamy's People were poorly received. They weren't very popular, but they were very funny Or In with the Flynns. Not that I've ever seen it, but the adverts make me recoil in horror.
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Aug 30, 2012 17:44
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 Ian Beale's hat of homelessness has now been removed.
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Aug 30, 2012 19:34
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Shelf Adventure posted:
The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > The TV IV > [UK] The Great British programme discussion. Ian Beale's hat of homelessness
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Aug 30, 2012 20:20
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iPlayer has an absolutely fantastic Who Do You Think You Are with Patrick Stewart, looking into his father's experiences with WW2.
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Aug 30, 2012 20:51
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Giedroyc posted:Eugh. I feel like Pennywise the dancing clown yelling "you're too old, you're all too old". The characters that have most visibly aged are the hologram and the android.
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Aug 30, 2012 20:51
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Good Cop was great!
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Aug 30, 2012 21:59
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c0burn posted:Good Cop was great! I found the title very misleading. He wasn't a good cop at all.
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Aug 31, 2012 09:42
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TomWaitsForNoMan posted:Citizen Khan was bad, but I wouldn't say DTL or Bellamy's People were poorly received. They weren't very popular, but they were very funny The worst one I can think of is the one with Jasper Carrot and that kid in the wheelchair who "narrated" it.
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Aug 31, 2012 11:34
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Captain Mediocre posted:Did you actually watch all of Citizen Khan? It certainly isn't a very good comedy but accusations of it being offensive are ridiculous. It is literally the tamest, most diluted and boring sitcom the BBC has ever put out. People who didn't watch it just hear 'muslims!' and proceed to get outraged over some presumed slight. Adil Ray is a pretty charismatic guy who also works for BBC Asian Network. I think maybe they gave HIM a show rather than specifically his character. I watched it and it felt like Mr Khan's Boys, but not as rude, especially given its timeslot.
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Aug 31, 2012 12:11
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Some very gratuitous nudity (boobs) in this weeks Parade's End, at just ten minutes past the watershed as well. Still excellent. e: to clarify there was a tiny amount of artistic justification and I don't care. Just a bit surprising, perhaps they are going for the whole outraged article with large picture in Daily Mail advertising strategy. distortion park fucked around with this message at 22:49 on Aug 31, 2012 |
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Aug 31, 2012 22:43
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It's a HBO co-production and by their standards, it's very chaste.
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Aug 31, 2012 22:53
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Titanic was a 12!
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Aug 31, 2012 23:39
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Paperhouse posted:Titanic was a 12! Given the number of films Kate Winslet's been topless or naked in, it's possible the censors simply didn't notice. On TV talk, my dad was watching a recording of that Secret History of Islam programme and got annoyed that me and my mum kept discussing how much plastic surgery the female US talking head had undergone. And I loved the use of black & white film; nothing says cultural superiority like a middle-class tool talking about flaws in the history of a religion over Pathé film in the background.
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Media Guardian spitting out sick burns against Daybreak and Breakfast http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2012/aug/31/overhauled-daybreak-bbc-breakfastMediaGraun posted:Daybreak gets a relaunch – but does BBC Breakfast need one too? I kind of hope the new Daybreak will be less of a laughing stock because I feel bad for the people who work on it, they're nice people and it sucks that their show is bad.
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quote:Earlier in the week it was Beverly Callard, talking about her role in an upcoming touring theatrical production of Little Voice. Even if it turns out to be the greatest touring theatrical version of Little Voice the country has ever seen, it's hard to see how Callard would have been booked had the show still been in London. Yes, how dare they report on something that might be of interest to all those grubby provincial peasants? Just because they aren't physically in London doesn't mean that they can stop behaving as though the sun shines out of Buckingham Palace's arse. I mean, really. Thin end of the wedge. If this carries on then there's a risk the BBC might start making programmes that might actually be relevant to people in the provinces! And that would never do.
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Trin Tragula posted:Yes, how dare they report on something that might be of interest to all those grubby provincial peasants? Just because they aren't physically in London doesn't mean that they can stop behaving as though the sun shines out of Buckingham Palace's arse. I mean, really. Thin end of the wedge. If this carries on then there's a risk the BBC might start making programmes that might actually be relevant to people in the provinces! And that would never do. That's not really the point they're making. It's not that this theatrical production is of less interest to Londoners than provincials, rather that this theatrical production is of less interest to everyone than the kind of guests they could get to come into the studio if they weren't filming it in Manchester. Like it or not, the nature of a show with regular 5-minute interviews means it really does need to be based in London if they are going to maintain the quality of guests, guests who don't need a 5-minute slot badly enough to travel half a day for it. Doesn't matter which side of the M25 you're from as an audience member.
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Sep 1, 2012 14:44
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Why did they decide to up it all and move to Salford anyways? before Ideal I never even heard of the place myself...
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad posted:Media Guardian spitting out sick burns against Daybreak and Breakfast http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2012/aug/31/overhauled-daybreak-bbc-breakfast Remember when channel 4 're-launched' "RI:SE" and it became even shitter somehow?
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Sep 1, 2012 15:06
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Gonna have to disagree, did a Google lookup to see who replaced Iain Lee on RI:SE as I thought it ended with him, and C4 said this:quote:Join RI:SE anchor Mark Durden Smith and Edith Bowman - plus Colin Murray, Kirsty Gallacher, Chris Rodgers, Liz Bonnin and Henry Bonsu - as they present an exciting and unique blend of news, sport and weather updates. 'That sounds crap' thinks I, and then I realise that that was the original show and Iain Lee was the relaunch. I'm sorry, but there was nothing funnier than Lee taking the piss out of Kate Lawler to her face for 2 hours before work in the morning. Crap telly, sure, but so much fun.
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Sep 1, 2012 15:32
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I also loved Iain Lee on RI:SE and was sad when they stopped making it
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Sep 1, 2012 15:38
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I don't think the quality of BBC Breakfast has declined much. Its always been poo poo. I once e-mailled to complain about their constant coverage of Strictly Come Dancing. They did not care. Breakfast TV is a bit redundant nowadays. I usually just watch something on Sky+ from the night before. Lorraine Kelly could be awesome though.
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I like the on screen chemistry between the presenters. It's always so very obvious that every woman who has to sit beside him thinks that Bill Turnball is a complete bellend.
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I didn't known where to post this, but this thread is full of knowledgeable folk so I'm putting it here. I have a tune in my head, it's been there for as long as I can remember. I think it is the incidental or theme music to a British kids' TV show. One with a narrator, and a style similar to Mr Benn, maybe. It's about all I can manage. My interpretation of the tune, made using VST software, is here, and aside from not knowing if it's in the correct key, and not knowing how it ends exactly, it is exactly as I remember it (bassoon for a bit, trumpet for a bit, xylophone or something, maybe more added stuff I'm not sure). I was hoping one of you - please God at least one of you - will know what it is.
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stickyfngrdboy posted:I didn't known where to post this, but this thread is full of knowledgeable folk so I'm putting it here. I have a tune in my head, it's been there for as long as I can remember. I think it is the incidental or theme music to a British kids' TV show. One with a narrator, and a style similar to Mr Benn, maybe. It's about all I can manage. It's not Morph is it?
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Captain Mediocre posted:Like it or not, the nature of a show with regular 5-minute interviews means it really does need to be based in London if they are going to maintain the quality of guests, guests who don't need a 5-minute slot badly enough to travel half a day for it. Doesn't matter which side of the M25 you're from as an audience member. What exactly determines the quality of a guest, especially in the context of a breakfast show? Why are guests based in Greater London inherently of more quality than ones based in Greater Manchester? It's sub-One-Show lightweight welcome-to-the-day stuff that helps your toast go down a bit easier, they could put anyone on that sofa and make it interesting and entertaining if they put a bit of thought into what they were doing.
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If it's just incidental music that makes it really hard. Best I can think of is King Rollo or Towser, they are sort of Mr Benn style but their soundtrack was mostly sort of band based funk type stuff.
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Sep 1, 2012 21:50
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Trin Tragula posted:What exactly determines the quality of a guest, especially in the context of a breakfast show? Why are guests based in Greater London inherently of more quality than ones based in Greater Manchester? I think it's more a matter of population density than anything else. There are simply far more people within easy travel distance of London than there are Manchester.
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I used to watch RI:SE before school, it was very funny for early morning. I seem to remember being a bit in love with a sexy newsreader on there...
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Bloodbath posted:I used to watch RI:SE before school, it was very funny for early morning. I seem to remember being a bit in love with a sexy newsreader on there... Zora Suleman.   I was 14 or so. Watched every morning, never heard a bloody word of the actual news. Leovinus fucked around with this message at 02:00 on Sep 2, 2012 |
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To a certain extent, it's the existance of BBC News 24 that allows Breakfast to spend less time on the serious stuff and provide the more lighthearted wakeup telly.
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sex pervert posted:I like the on screen chemistry between the presenters. It's always so very obvious that every woman who has to sit beside him thinks that Bill Turnball is a complete bellend. I met him once and he was alright. He dissuaded me from studying journalism, so I owe him that I guess. goatface posted:I think it's more a matter of population density than anything else. There are simply far more people within easy travel distance of London than there are Manchester. Yeah this. Or because i can't bear the thought of a world beyond islington Captain Mediocre fucked around with this message at 15:36 on Sep 2, 2012 |
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Sep 2, 2012 12:40
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Leovinus posted:Zora Suleman. I like the BBC3 60 second news lady. "Coming up next is Family Guy."
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I don't care how attractive she is, that's never a nice thing to hear...
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Captain Mediocre posted:Yeah this. Or because i can't bear the thought of a world beyond islington Your fears are true, it is a wasteland. Stay where you are AND REMAIN INDOORS.
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stickyfngrdboy posted:I have a tune in my head, it's been there for as long as I can remember. I think it is the incidental or theme music to a British kids' TV show. One with a narrator, and a style similar to Mr Benn, maybe. It's about all I can manage. It is bothering me enormously that I don't know this, because it means my one true skill is flagging. I can sing you songs from Chips' Comic for flip's sake, I should be on top of this. So we might have to do some work to hunt this down. My first stop was King Rollo. That's definitely a bit sort-of Mr Ben-ish, and its theme tune isn't a million miles from your tune (though it's definitely not that). That series is full of incidental music, in the couple of episodes I've skimmed through on Youtube just now I heard about four entirely separate pieces, none of them yours, but it could be in there somewhere. I suggest starting with a programme you remember watching but that is at least slightly forgotten now, and keep thumbing through the related links in case you're reminded of any programmes you'd totally forgot you ever watched. You might find it.
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