Cerv posted:I don't think that even my mum - who religiously watches literally every crime drama on broadcast TV including repeats of Miss Marple she's seen 100 times - is interested in "Death in Paradise but we've replaced the show's USP with Devon". I was unaware Devon claimed Looe overnight.
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Death in paradise's appeal for me is that you get to see an aging sitcom actor who hasn't been on tv in a while star very gentle procedual show. Its kinda similar to Doc Martin but with murders and nicer palm trees. They should do a crossover imo.
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Feb 25, 2023 02:02
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I wanted to like DIP but the pace was killing me, I assumed it was a half hour show for some reason and when I saw the runtime after waiting for the episode to end and there still being like 20 minutes left, I bailed on it.
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Feb 25, 2023 02:16
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Mr Phillby posted:They should do a crossover imo. only if Martin Clunes is horribly murdered in the first five minutes, I can't stand him
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Feb 25, 2023 02:30
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In this week's Apprentice there was a scene where Avi and Rochelle were speaking to some guy and he had a megaphone. At the end of the scene, suddenly Avi had his megaphone It was so weird, like they'd been approached by security during a scene where they used a megaphone (who took it off them and gave it back at the end)
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Feb 25, 2023 09:50
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I liked Death in Paradise when it was the silly boy from My Family. And Danny John-Jules, of course.
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Feb 25, 2023 10:31
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Mr Phillby posted:Death in paradise's appeal for me is that you get to see an aging sitcom actor who hasn't been on tv in a while star very gentle procedual show. There should be a word for the very mild pleasure you get from watching Death In Paradise/Midsomer Murders/Grantchesterand playing spot-the-actor on it. The shows are basically 40% pretty scenery, 20% incredibly implausible murder, 40% going on an IMDB hunt for the actor playing the dodgy businessman with a trophy wife who got murdered using a rare poison derived from a tropical frog. You then discover that you recognise him from an episode of Taggart aired in 1998 in which he was a druggie who got stabbed and thrown in the River Clyde, an episode of Endeavour in which he was a minor gangster who got shot in a seedy nightclub, an episode of Vera where he was an ex soldier who got beaten to death, etc etc. There are several hundred actors in the UK who make a living out of getting murdered on police procedural shows and I salute them for the contribution they make to society.
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Feb 25, 2023 11:00
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I am not ashamed to admit I play this very game. If they're Scottish, Taggart is of course an excellent place to start. English I tend to start guessing on The Bill or Hollyoaks. Doctors is a good guess for anyone.
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Feb 25, 2023 11:05
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Death in Paradise is my go to easy TV. It's the perfect level of compelling to allow you to engage as much or as little as you want without ever inducing any feelings of stress or anxiety about what's happening on screen, and it's got pretty scenery and fun characters and absolutely no-one is going to want to dissect it with me when I get to work on Monday morning. The perfect casual entertainment for when I'm feeling down.
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Feb 25, 2023 11:09
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Red Oktober posted:I am not ashamed to admit I play this very game. Everyone's been on doctors.
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Feb 25, 2023 11:14
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All this talk of murdering has got me thinking of rewatching Foyles War which I absolutely adored at the time.
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Feb 25, 2023 11:46
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If you want to get into the BBC writing pool, they ask you for a Doctors spec script.
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Feb 25, 2023 11:47
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The_Doctor posted:If you want to get into the BBC writing pool, they ask you for a Doctors spec script. I actually have a friend who got into the writing pool by submitting a Doctors spec script that was an existing Doctors script they had just replaced the name of the illness in.
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Feb 25, 2023 14:10
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Julio Cruz posted:only if Martin Clunes is horribly murdered in the first five minutes, I can't stand him That’s how they dealt with. Ben Miller’s character, so it’s a possibility!
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Feb 25, 2023 14:21
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Taear posted:In this week's Apprentice there was a scene where Avi and Rochelle were speaking to some guy and he had a megaphone. lol that was a great episode. the middle-aged lady who was confused and a bit frightened because they hadn't explained to their punters that they were paying for an immersive experience in a prison "i thought we were getting a history tour and magician show?" 
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Feb 25, 2023 15:54
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also i'd say you're spot on about that man either being a security guard or just someone who happens to live/work nearby who was fed up listening to an idiot bellowing on a loudspeaker all day
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Feb 25, 2023 16:00
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also i heard joaquin phoenix got started as a depressed teenager on children's ward
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Feb 25, 2023 16:05
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Listening to the latest Chartmusic podcast and Taylor Parkes’ continuing tales of horror of subjecting himself to 70s telly continued to amuse. This time: the Australian remake of Love Thy Neighbour. It initially sounds like they tried to be less overtly racist than the original but did this by simply removing any diversity from the cast entirely so the ‘culture’ clash instead comes from a feeble whinging pom ex-pat who’s move to Oz next door to Regular Aussie Man. Hijinks ensue, etc. Apparently there was also an Aussie remake of Are You Being Served - I dread to think…
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Feb 25, 2023 16:43
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"My Wombat is dripping wet Mr Peacock!"
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Feb 25, 2023 16:48
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It was wild seeing Doc Brown turn up in Andor
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Feb 25, 2023 16:50
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Yeah, that show had a lot of pleasantly surprising casting. Mon Mothma's husband being played by the guy from Monarch of the Glen for instance.
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Feb 25, 2023 22:17
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Up to the shopping list episode of the apprentice in Brighton. It's 2023, and they aren't allowed to Google what something is? But they can ask random people if they've heard of something? So why can't they ask a random passer by to look something up? I know it's a game show, but this sort of manufactured drama is just ridiculous. They could at least be upfront with the rules to us. And then Karen and Tim are sneering and looking down their noses at them for not knowing what a loving trug is? And faffing around about saving 50p on a £2 record. Was the show always like this? I could have sworn it used to be more sensible.
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Feb 26, 2023 02:47
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Austen Tassletine posted:Up to the shopping list episode of the apprentice in Brighton. It's 2023, and they aren't allowed to Google what something is? But they can ask random people if they've heard of something? So why can't they ask a random passer by to look something up? I know it's a game show, but this sort of manufactured drama is just ridiculous. They could at least be upfront with the rules to us. And then Karen and Tim are sneering and looking down their noses at them for not knowing what a loving trug is? And faffing around about saving 50p on a £2 record. Was the show always like this? I could have sworn it used to be more sensible. The treasure hunt task has always made no sense. It's fun though
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Austen Tassletine posted:Up to the shopping list episode of the apprentice in Brighton. It's 2023, and they aren't allowed to Google what something is? But they can ask random people if they've heard of something? So why can't they ask a random passer by to look something up? I know it's a game show, but this sort of manufactured drama is just ridiculous. They could at least be upfront with the rules to us. And then Karen and Tim are sneering and looking down their noses at them for not knowing what a loving trug is? And faffing around about saving 50p on a £2 record. Was the show always like this? I could have sworn it used to be more sensible. It was always exactly like that. Haha look at these cunts who don't know what a cloche is or the best shop to buy a loving top hat. Clearly they'll never run a successful business.
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I've always been surprised that you didn't have more people try to game that task. My understanding is that they must get a discount on the item they buy, hence haggling for 1p off a £2 item. But there's also a thing where if you don't manage to get the item at all, you get charged at the price it should have cost. So why bother getting the cheap items, just get the biggest discount you can on the expensive stuff. Though I did like it when they did this task in a market I Marrakesh. That's a place where real haggling takes place.
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Tsietisin posted:I've always been surprised that you didn't have more people try to game that task. At least in the past it'd be random amounts so you couldn't really game it. Like "at least £50 or what we feel it's worth" which makes you not want to get fined for ANYTHING This year they just went "yep it's £50 per item" although I guess the contestants didn't know that. Also big deals about them being late? Also ignored this time
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crispix posted:lol that was a great episode. the middle-aged lady who was confused and a bit frightened because they hadn't explained to their punters that they were paying for an immersive experience in a prison oh my god I loved that moment so much, absolutely nothing but respect for how Simba threw himself into that role but had nowhere to go. [angry]IT'S NOT WHAT YOU EXPECTED??
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Been watching Pottery Throw-Down and it's been mellow, with good vibes all around. I think they should change the format so that after episode 6 or so nobody gets eliminated and they just hang out and make art.
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fischtick posted:Been watching Pottery Throw-Down and it's been mellow, with good vibes all around. I think they should change the format so that after episode 6 or so nobody gets eliminated and they just hang out and make art. YES I agree. No more eliminations. Just have people make art and that one judge weep because the beautiful plate touched his soul. I love him.
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HopperUK posted:YES I agree. No more eliminations. Just have people make art and that one judge weep because the beautiful plate touched his soul. I love him. I love Keith Brymer-Jones. One minute he's having a little weep over the beauty of a porcelain teacup decorated in the Rococco style, the next he is lumbering around the room, cheerfully grabbing wonky bowls made during the Timed Challenge and roaring "THAT'S A BIT RUBBISH!" as he smacks the misshapen clay into his Bucket of Failures. He is a man of contrasts and strong emotions.
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The_Doctor posted:It was wild seeing Doc Brown turn up in Andor He has one of the most eclectic careers ever, it’s brilliant. Given his interview on Parenting Hell, it was probably a longer approval process to do CBeebies Bedtime Story than Andor as well.
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Irisi posted:I love Keith Brymer-Jones. One minute he's having a little weep over the beauty of a porcelain teacup decorated in the Rococco style, the next he is lumbering around the room, cheerfully grabbing wonky bowls made during the Timed Challenge and roaring "THAT'S A BIT RUBBISH!" as he smacks the misshapen clay into his Bucket of Failures. When your art medium of choice has a random and non-zero chance of exploding even if you do everything right, it must impart a certain level of stoic realism and miraculous appreciation.
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Taear posted:At least in the past it'd be random amounts so you couldn't really game it. Like "at least £50 or what we feel it's worth" which makes you not want to get fined for ANYTHING The apprentice is always dumb but the late penalty fee this year was quidditch level "The point system makes no sense". If you were missing more than 2 items you would have been better off just fobbing off the time limit and working until whatever hour getting all the items. If the penalty is the same for being 1 minute late vs over an hour what's the point? Similarly with the lunchbox task. The team who "won" missed the brief and designed a lunchbox for the wrong age range. The "losing" team met the brief but got no orders. Obviously, it will never happen but I would love to see this taken to it's logical conclusion where a team completely disregards Alan's task and do their own thing. I would also murder for someone to run this marketing campaign on any of the "Desgin X for children" tasks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNuuiydKlI0&t=75s Complete with accusing Sugar of being a baby when he doesn't like it. Tea Bone fucked around with this message at 12:56 on Feb 28, 2023 |
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Irisi posted:I love Keith Brymer-Jones. One minute he's having a little weep over the beauty of a porcelain teacup decorated in the Rococco style, the next he is lumbering around the room, cheerfully grabbing wonky bowls made during the Timed Challenge and roaring "THAT'S A BIT RUBBISH!" as he smacks the misshapen clay into his Bucket of Failures. 
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Tea Bone posted:Complete with accusing Sugar of being a baby when he doesn't like it. I still really remember the guy who had the idea of "plan weddings online" and Sugar thought it was absolute insanity, like they'd suggested creating a website that sold teapots made of ice It was so loving baffling and it really made it stick that Sugar has no loving clue about the modern world
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this series of the apprentice has delivered imo men's skincare product  
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Oh it's a snake. i thought it was oozing out of a screw.
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Some Blackadder rear end alchemy going on there.
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Their pivot wasn't ambitious enough imo, instead of calling it "double concentrated" they should've marketed it as Frankenstein face paint in a novelty dildo, John Lewis would've been all over it.
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