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I know it falls foul of the children's rule but wasn't Five on the production committee for The Tribe?
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Ive gone back and found the episodes of Taskmaster that I'd missed, and I think it is by far the funniest show on TV at the moment. Tim Keys cheating is absolutely superb. I cant usually stand Rosheen but she's great here, and Romseshs anger works just right.
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Aug 29, 2015 14:17
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The Big Taff Man posted:I cant name 5 shows on Channel 5, let alone when you add in that they have to be great, made by them and cant be a kids show. Last time I checked, 5 was the CSI channel.
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Aug 29, 2015 14:53
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Szmitten posted:outTHERE As a 16 year old at the time, I remember it fondly.
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Aug 29, 2015 15:06
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Hijo Del Helmsley posted:I saw someone putting out a challenge on Twitter that's harder than it sounds. Night fever The mole Fort boyard 100% Whittle Naked Jungle (kidding) The royal institution Christmas lectures for a few years back in the day There's probably 5 in there you can all agree on.
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Aug 29, 2015 19:46
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I'm yet to be convinced that Channel 5 is not some kind of front for an extremely long con of some kind.
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Aug 29, 2015 21:25
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CydonianKnight posted:Night fever Had to  a friend about the history of FB and it's link to Crystal Maze (and CW to Games Workshop) today so yeah. Go google it, it's a bit bonkers.
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ConanThe3rd posted:Fort Boyard is an import. The mole is a Belgian show. But maybe bought formats count?
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ConanThe3rd posted:Fort Boyard is an import. Well in which case this game is impossible as since I don't think channel 5 has an in-house production capability, and almost all of its formats (with the exception of some of its news output) will have been commissioned by the channel but made by independent production companies. I thought by "import" we were meaning shows like CSI where direct episodes are copied and screened, rather than format buying (a la Fort Boyard UK which was made by Grundy/Freemantle but based on french Adventure Line) where we make our own British episodes.
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thehustler posted:The Mole was fantastic. Jonny Gould and David Langel/Josh Chetwynd wearing tuxedos for the first game of the world series was a personal highlight
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ShaneMacGowansTeeth posted:Jonny Gould and David Langel/Josh Chetwynd wearing tuxedos for the first game of the world series was a personal highlight Haha, yes. I also enjoyed their rating of national anthems
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And the time the ASG didn't finish till about 6am and they were clearly exhausted but kept going anyway. I'm a baseball fan today because of that show.
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Julio Cruz posted:And the time the ASG didn't finish till about 6am and they were clearly exhausted but kept going anyway. I'm a baseball fan today because of that show. Channel 5 deserve credit for introducing a generation of (invariably) students to US sport 
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Aug 31, 2015 15:17
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Jawidar posted:There was a World Series game that didn't end till gone 7, once; Jonny wasn't able to present Brainteaser that day. I remember that game, forget what year it was but I was living with my mum at the time and she was all getting up to go to work as I was finishing watching that. half 7 finish maybe? They frequently had to give up early on some of the less important games during the regular season if they didn't finish before around 6am. Channel 5 used to use a lot of studios at ITN on Gray's Inn Road because they didn't have many of their own, and ITN could turf them out to set up for early news shows. I think there was some very quick negotiation for that World Series game. Wasn't it on at the weekend? I seem to remember they ditched Milkshake for it.
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Wikipedia says that it was Game 3 of the 2005 series, which apparently was a Tuesday (so Wednesday morning our time). Game lasted nearly six hours. Hilarious looking back what a ragtag operation it was (and all the better for it). quote:If a game ever went past 5am, alternative studio arrangements had to be hastily made. An example of this was during Game 5, the last game of the 2000 World Series, in which the presenters, suddenly in a tiny studio without the benefit of monitors to watch the post game presentation, mused on who the MVP may be 
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I know David Jason often got the plaudits for Only Fools And Horses, but Nicholas Lyndhurst has some amazing comic timing. His reaction shots alone can make a scene all the more funnier. Been laid up for the weekend and threw the show on and ended up watching most of it, skipping a few. It's amazing how steeply it goes off a cliff towards the end. Whatever gifts John Sullivan had they had truly left him by the time they brought it back around. Even David Jason seemed to forget how to play Del (It's not his fault so much, but his heart clearly wasn't in it). And the addition of the kid is the worst kind of hackneyed sitcom bullshit. Still, as a time capsule of Britain spanning the early 80s up until 2000s it's pretty interesting viewing. Though I had to do a double take as Albert repeatedly refers to the 'Paki shop'.
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Mate, I think you're forgetting about Del-Boy falling through the bar, the 9/11 of British comedy. Personally I can't watch the episodes with Grandad. Not only are they poo poo, but I find something repulsive about that actor/character. Albert's the man though, and war heroes get a pass on casual racism
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WeAreTheRomans posted:Mate, I think you're forgetting about Del-Boy falling through the bar, the 9/11 of British comedy. Though I couldn't help have that bit in my head when I was watching it, the buildup to that scene is still really well done. And Trigger's reaction makes it. I don't think the Grandad era is poo poo (First series is so-so), but Grandad has this grating delivery that sounds like a perpetual whine that's really hard to get past.
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Only fools was fantastic for its time. It should never have made a comeback, but prior to the last episodes it was consistently funny.
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The theme tune opens with someone singing about a pony in their pocket. To me, a pony is a pony and trap - crap. (Yes, I know it's supposed to refer to money.) I'm surprised they haven't made endless Christmas specials where Del Boy moves back to gentrified Peckham with hilarious results. The actors don't appear to be very busy. I did meet that Trigger guy at a car show once. Along with Beppe from Eastenders.
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netally posted:The actors don't appear to be very busy. I did meet that Trigger guy at a car show once. He certainly isn't doing much at the moment.
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Can you confirm: Did he make a face?
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Aug 31, 2015 20:37
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I'm probably late to the party but I just binged watched all of Catastrophe and it was really good.
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Hijo Del Helmsley posted:Can you confirm: Did he make a face? Yes, whenever the local radio DJ asked him a question. Oh, how the crowd erupted in laughter. Did anyone watch the Harry and Paul tribute? It was pretty good. I've only really seen their older stuff, so it's interesting to see how they've changed. Plus, anyone who takes a pop at Ricky Gervais is ok by me.
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Jawidar posted:
Haha, same here. And also the Supersonics on the basketball side. But that was more because of... grunge. 
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The Big Taff Man posted:Tila Tequila has been kicked out of the Celeb Big Brother house for previously "posing in front of Auschwitz in Nazi gear and claimed to be 'Hitler reborn'." It's literally on her wikipedia page.
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So ITV in the Face is in the Final Furlong with UTV and props to Harris on handling the issue of the Troubles with due care (in both directions). Didn't know UTV was looking to sell up shop though. Starting to get a bit last bastion of humanity over here in STV.
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Gapey Joe Stalin posted:That actor, unkind as it may be to say, was a repellent monstrous loving freak. He looked like Captain Black transmuted into something approximating flesh. His acting was still wooden though. That was John Hensley. I watched The Sopranos last winter and he was in the episode "Happy Wanderer", in series two. He was so bad that he was outperformed by the clunky CGI Ma Soprano that they put in to wrap up the character after her actor died. 
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ConanThe3rd posted:So ITV in the Face is in the Final Furlong with UTV and props to Harris on handling the issue of the Troubles with due care (in both directions). Didn't know UTV was looking to sell up shop though. Starting to get a bit last bastion of humanity over here in STV. It's already on the way to being done. STV remains the last independent part of ITV after Channel went a few years back.
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That said if STV goes there's something far more worrying going down than the balance sheets not adding up.
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Is Penn and teller no longer on ITV, it seems like it's only on some US station?
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This ITV dinosaur documentary that is half talking heads and half a drama about dinosaurs attacking people is weird, but kind of good.
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Do the heads ever talk about how Dinos and man never co-existed?
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Crankit posted:Is Penn and teller no longer on ITV, it seems like it's only on some US station? Despite doing quite well ratings wise, certainly better than some of the poo poo ITV have put on on a Saturday night, they cancelled Fool Us. The CW in America picked up the rights to air the show last summer, and it did so well for them that THEY renewed the show, bringing back Jonathan Ross, but it's all filmed in Las Vegas now. Already been renewed for another season next summer too.
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Daedo posted:Despite doing quite well ratings wise, certainly better than some of the poo poo ITV have put on on a Saturday night, they cancelled Fool Us. That's good, I've been watching some of the new stuff on youtube, and i've been a little confused because they film it in vegas, and then they're talking about the acts if they fool Penn and Teller going to vegas... but they're already there.
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I hope they do a second series of taskmaster, it's brilliant
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Taskmaster might be my favorite show right now. It certainly was the one I looked forward to most each week.
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Dave Gorman takes over from Taskmaster. Sad to lose TM, because it was so great, but I'm glad Goodish is back. It's hilarious and also very interesting.
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Wow, Taskmaster is over already? Time to try out Dave's online service, I missed a couple. Excellent show, Alex Horne deserves a lot of credit, partly for conceiving and planning it, partly for each off-handed sarcastic comment. No way they won't recommission it, seems like it has to be a good return on the money, but I wouldn't be surprised if the lineup changes, if only for matters of practicality. Really hope Tim Key stays, he doesn't get the TV work he should. But yay for Goodish, I hope at least one episode has him mocking Sir Alan Lord Sugar again.
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