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I saw Nina Conti play at my student union about 10 years ago, and she was loving awful then. And then like two weeks later she appeared to my astonishment on Comic Relief. Ever since then I have remained shocked at the fact that she manages even her meagre level of fame - and her act has moved on not one iota.
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Not watched this week's HIGNFY, but Osman is fantastic on Pointless.
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Oct 13, 2013 00:00
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There's a lot more subtlety to Miranda than it gets credit for. For one thing, it's a conscious homage of seventies sitcoms instead of just lazily being one like Mrs Brown's Boys. It's also basically an extremely lonely and depressed woman trying to work through her psychological problems and indulgently avoiding them through fantasy in about equal measure. It is, for instance, transparently obvious in the show that Miranda Hart loathes her own mother, probably second only to how much she loathes herself (her pretty and successful public school friends are third in the hate-list). Pretty much the driving force for the plot of the series is her pining over a boy she fancied in University but never asked out. In the first episode, she goes on her first date ever (with anyone) with him. Miranda Hart is over 40. Another episode involves her booking a holiday for one to Thailand and then backing out because she mentally can't handle the pressure, but then can't bare to face her friends so she books a week in a local hotel instead. One episode is entirely her getting counselling.
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Feb 11, 2014 03:08
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Bobby Deluxe posted:They show you the murder at the start, which is absolutely baffling for a howdunnit series like Creek. They only did that in the first episode.
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Mar 9, 2014 04:08
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I thought The Men Who Made Us Spend was bloody terrible. It's full of mock outrage and desperate point-scoring on its targets. The bloke seemed incapable of accepting the basic fact that new iPhone models are qualitatively better than their predecessors, using the incredible fact that he chatted to three idiots in the line to buy one as proof. His other docs are the same as well - in The Men Who Made Us Thin he was moralising on how terrible it was that drug companies are working on pills that let you eat what you like and not get fat, as if a pill like that wouldn't be loving amazing. The presenter also has an incredibly irritating sing-song cadence to his voice. There's a great documentary to be made on the roots of modern consumerism, except that doc has already been made and it was Adam Curtis' Century of the Self, and this looks like that if it was made by five-year-olds. Comrade Fakename fucked around with this message at 15:38 on Jul 16, 2014 |
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Jul 16, 2014 00:48
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Surprised there's no talk about Babylon, it's back after the pilot and pretty great. It certainly works better as a proper series than as a one-off.
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Nov 21, 2014 05:56
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It's pretty funny that The British Comedy Awards astonishingly managed to cajole Stewart Lee into turning up this year, only to not give him any awards and then give a lifetime achievement award to the Mrs Brown's Boys bloke.
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Dec 25, 2014 16:53
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pentyne posted:WILTY has become increasingly hilarious as David Mitchell is slowly losing his mind and abandons all attempts at pretence and Lee Mack is just given nothing but implausible premises and does his best to make it funny while it's blatantly obvious that no one believes it. ftfy
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Feb 7, 2015 07:34
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DrVenkman posted:A few days later and I'm still laughing at the Guardian TV writer who got paid to write that no comedy is actually funny, you're just tricked into laughing and in this day and age, no one likes to be tricked. I'm not sure what kind of dead-inside person you have to be to believe that. Pretty rubbish post without a link.
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Feb 9, 2015 17:11
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Jesus, Lenny Henry looks good on Comic Relief. If it wasn't for some flecks of grey in his beard he could pass for being in his late twenties.
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Mar 13, 2015 20:11
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Murder in Successville is amazing. I just loved that Made in Chelsea guy saying "Yeah, well, I murdered an innocent woman."
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May 9, 2015 19:45
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I had literally never even heard of the Made in Chelsea bloke but I thought he was hilarious.
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May 10, 2015 01:31
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Yeah, I don't think they've ever shown the semis on BBC1 or 2 since they started doing them.
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May 20, 2015 00:06
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What is it about 90s music that makes people angrily insist that widely popular music was terrible and Damon Albarn was tantamount to a child murderer? I've seen this exact argument like five times in he past week because of TFI Friday. And as for the other discussion going on, they should reboot Tomorrow's World but "Top Gear-ify" it. It seems crazy that we don't have TW on any more with all the crazy poo poo that's being invented these days.
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Jun 14, 2015 16:59
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I watched the first couple of episodes of People Just Do Nothing, but I found that the fact that the main bloke had cribbed his performance from David Brent was so blatant that I just couldn't continue. By the way, am I the only one who loves Fake or Fortune? It's basically like the closest they could come to making a real-life CSI show. Fiona Bruce and Philip Mould are hilariously sort of like Emma Peel and Steed, and Bendor's their Chloe-in-24-style computer guy who stays back in HQ. They even have a recurring villain in the form of the Wildenstein Institute who repeatedly blocks obviously real paintings from being authenticated. All the show is missing is Fiona Bruce going  and shouting "WILDENSTEIIIIN!"
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Jul 14, 2015 19:43
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The success of the GBBO is down to the fact that it takes the proven talent show format, but then makes it super-middle class, thus capturing the large audience who find programmes like the X Factor too low class, even if only subconsciously.
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Aug 11, 2015 15:44
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A new series of Who Do You Think You Are? has started, and the intro brings us this chilling image, that strikes into the hearts of all decent people:
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Aug 14, 2015 18:58
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There are those who said this day would never come: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGG5OhEcpOQ What are they to say now?
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Aug 20, 2015 01:36
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I saw that Jennifer Aniston was doing a new ad for some face cream earlier, and despite the fact that Rachel From Friends was doing an ad for a beauty product, I was outraged - OUTRAGED - to see that she failed at any time to say "here comes the science". How could you forsake us, Rachel? It's within your power to make the 90s come back! I want to be a teenager drinking Hooch and wanking to Eurotrash again! Why won't you let the science come, Rachel?
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Aug 26, 2015 06:17
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It was nice seeing Trevor Noah on WILTY though, as it will probably be his last appearance on British television.
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Sep 5, 2015 18:05
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Pottering about on iPlayer last night, on a whim I decided to watch Asian Provocateur on BBC3, Romesh Ranganathan's new show. And it was actually pretty good - the premise is that Romesh, whose parents came from Sri Lanka, feels he is a "coconut" (brown on the outside, white on the inside) and is completely disconnected from his culture. So he basically does a bit of a travel documentary and goes around Sri Lanka seeing weird stuff. Romesh is very funny, seemingly constantly pissed off for being asked to do anything, but there's a bit of genuine pathos in Romesh's sadness in having his own culture be so alien to him. It's only 30 mins an episode too, so I'd say it's worth checking out.
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Oct 2, 2015 16:55
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Lucy Worsley's slow transformation into high-brow TV sex kitten is really weird. It definitely seems like she's encouraging it as well.
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Oct 16, 2015 00:23
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The weird thing about Lucy Worsely is not so much that she's being put forward as attractive, which she is in a "weird crush" sort of way, but that she doesn't seem to be being pushed or pressured into it at all, but instead seems to be very enthusiastically seizing that mantle herself, as if she's constantly ringing up BBC commissioners and pitching BBC 4's A Cheeky History of British Dildos. It's a bit odd for a respected academic. In other news I just watched the first episode of the new TFI Friday revival and it was bloody awful, just a ramshackle mess and not in a fun way.
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Oct 16, 2015 23:03
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WeAreTheRomans posted:It's very clearly a lovely Ch4 sci-fi where aliens serve as a metaphor for our feelings about immigrants. Yeah, it's so obvious, I wonder what the point of making them aliens is. I feel like if you're going to do something like that you should really have the budget to have "aliens" who don't look identical to normal humans.
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Feb 8, 2016 23:53
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PriorMarcus posted:For someone who never watches Sport or Movie channels would a Smart TV with Freeview, Netflix and maybe Amazon Video be a good substitute for Virgin or Sky? I feel it would be cheaper in the long run and basically give you access to all the same content, just not quite as early. I believe that NOW TV has basically all of Sky's non-sport or movie content. But frankly, I just  that stuff as I consider it to be more moral than giving money to News International.
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Feb 12, 2016 23:44
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EL BROMANCE posted:BBC programming these days to me is summed up by those shows that feature couples whose major dilemma is working out which £500,000 property to purchase while most people under 40 living in a city are destined to never escape renting. You mean Location Location Location, the Channel 4 show?
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Feb 19, 2016 23:36
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Catzilla posted:He's probably talking about Escape To The Country. Well, that and a couple of other similar daytime shows definitely encapsulate all of the BBC's programming.
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Feb 19, 2016 23:53
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Apparently, Victoria Wood has died.
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Apr 20, 2016 15:32
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This Russel T Davis Midsummer Night's Dream is pretty bad. Since he couldn't do the dialogue, he went all out and made everything else the most RTD thing ever.
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May 30, 2016 22:19
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Cerv posted:actually it was pretty good If William Shakespeare was alive today he'd know exactly how to improve the play: more touchscreens. And a completely pointless dictator subplot no one ever actually mentions.
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Jun 1, 2016 01:59
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mrfart posted:Euhm, Apparently he's a semi-professional rugby player in real life now. I rather enjoyed the Outnumbered special, not sure why it had been so under promoted. I just finished watching "The Entire Universe", which was pretty embarrassing. Eric Idle's material was so dated I thought he would break out jokes about Harold MacMillan.
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Dec 28, 2016 02:03
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Pretty weird that everyone's ready to poo poo on Stephen Moffat for this when the only episode of the three he wrote by himself is the one everyone agrees was the best, and the episodes that everyone hates were Mark Gatiss'.
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Jan 17, 2017 20:06
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The sexism against GB2016 was real, and loud, and loving terrible, but it is true that Sony then steered into that sexism in an attempt to delegitimise the reasonable criticisms of the film - especially the first trailer, which was bloody awful (and kind of racist).
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Jan 24, 2017 02:09
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Just something about the fact that they have the "contestant" openly gun down celebrities at the end is hilarious to me.
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Apr 23, 2017 01:27
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The last episode of Successville being a clip show was a pretty big disappointment.
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May 30, 2017 00:09
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Mark Watson was the host of the unforgettable Improvisation My Dear Mark Watson.
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Jun 18, 2017 00:00
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In much much better news: https://twitter.com/AccidentalP/sta...296955312246784
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Jul 13, 2017 09:48
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Robot Wars is life!
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Aug 9, 2017 14:24
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I like the Mash Report, but I think it could do with maybe one less chunk of the fake headline bits and one more chunk of Nish doing satire behind a desk bit. I do appreciate that they pretty much explicitly admit that everyone watching the show will be left wing though.
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The main character's mum literally being called "Leda Strike" is one of the most ludicrous things I've ever heard.
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