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Fatkraken posted:Off topic, but I LOVE Drop the Dead Donkey, the only example I know of of the topical sitcom. It was set in a newsroom and featured up to the second stories based on the previous weeks news. I don't know if it was largely written in advance and the topical jokes spliced into the script or if it was literally put together wholecloth in a week My memory might be failing me, but I think the topical jokes were added in to the meeting/round up bit at the start of the show, with the odd reference put in occasionally throughout the rest of the show. The actual story of the episode was written in advance. So I think it was filmed on the day of the evenings show.
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Did they just recycle a Frankie Boyle joke?
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Noonsaliwah posted:Yep, his name is Mark Williams and those sketches were from The Fast Show. That was some quality entertainment when I was 10, but god I don't want to imagine how bad it's aged. He also seems to be a massive engineering nerd (like Chris Barrie and Robert Llewellyn) as he has presented a bunch of programs about the industrial revolution that regularly pop up on the cable/satellite channels.
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Speaking of Brooker, it seems that How TV Ruined My Life is not on this week  Gotta make way for the cricket world cup I guess.
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Feb 19, 2011 18:51
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I used to love Automan as a kid  Thanks Charlie for pointing out how homo-erotic it was.
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delicious beef posted:Slightly offtopic but hopefully not too much - has anyone got or played with one of the Sony internet tvs that have lovefilm and iplayer and stuff built in? There's a cheapy one with a PS2 in Richer Sounds I was thinking of buying and I was wondering if they're worthwhile. I bought one in the January sales and I am highly delighted with it. Few things... 4oD is currently not available, although apparently it is on the way. I have a Virgin Media 20MB broadband connection and it streams just fine, although it does choke up on the LoveFilm HD content. Speaking of LoveFilm, only a small selection of Films are available to stream to your TV, all in Standard Definition. You can only watch Trailers in HD at the moment. BBC iPlayer content is not in HD. Depending on the model, you may have a wired ethernet port, although it should have a usb connection so you can get the sony wireless card for your tv. If you fancy streaming HD content, go wired. Also, download PS3 Media Server, you can stream most video formats from your PC to your TV. Thats about all I can think of at the moment, although if you have anymore questions I will try to answer them!
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marnold posted:Sort of going through a withdrawal of british comedy. Ideal, with Johnny Vegas. Best thing to have come out of BBC 3 in my opinion.
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NaDy posted:I literally don't understand how they could have let the Sri Lankan government to get away with this. How can we justify going into Libya and do nothing for the Sri Lankans? I'm so bloody confused with governments in general, they've all left me so jaded. How much oil does Sri Lanka have? Exactly.
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Jun 15, 2011 18:21
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Metrication posted:Does anyone remember that series with Sue Perkins and a guy who was a food critic (I think) and they recreated the diets of various eras? That would be Giles Coren, Victoria Corens brother. I think it was called The Supersizers go... They also did one where they tried to live 'The Good Life'
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Shanty posted:Three? What the heck. Are they doing the Thor story as a three-parter or is this some entirely new batch of lunacy? From here. I think they are new episodes, the synopsis (spoiler tags for your pleasure)... In Episode 1, Dirk discovers the link between a client who believes the Pentagon are trying to kill him, and a seemingly unrelated client who’s horoscopes appear to be coming true. In Episode 2 Dirk returns to his old university to protect a valuable woman-shaped robot which is stolen, plunging Dirk and Macduff into a murder mystery where they’re the prime suspects. Episode 3 sees Dirk’s old clients being murdered at random, with him as the only connection.
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DominoDancing posted:QI Series J started yesterday. Was it just me or was it really weirdly edited? The klaxons didn't go off once (except for that little joke on Victoria Coren at the end), yet somehow Jimmy Carr and Alan Davies had negative scores. Probably because the QI score rules were written by the same chap that writes the rules for Mornington Crescent. Real answer is that they probably film about 2 or 3 hours of material, so the editor decides what gets shown
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Metrication posted:'There are legends on the railway and then there are leg ends' My thought when I watched that was 'and you are a bell-end'. I got a real David Brent vibe off that manager guy.
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Bob Godfrey, creator of Roobarb has died, 5 days after the narrator Richard Briers RIP There goes another bit of my childhood. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21552718
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Xachariah posted:Has there ever been a traditional family sitcom anyway? Most of the comedy in family sitcoms is due to wacky family members. What about Butterflies? From what I remember, that had a typical family, with none of the members being particularly wacky. Although I do remember it being slightly dark and depressing, also.
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So, it turns out that Brian Blessed is a massive space nerd! He is on The Infinite Monkey Cage this week, talking about Space Tourism and how he desperately wants to go to Mars.
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thehustler posted:Susie Dent is the best thing about Countdown, obviously. I think you spelled Rachel Riley wrong.
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Ben Soosneb posted:Looks like a cracking bunch this year. I was hoping Toby was going to pull it out of the bag in the final round but he had a bit of a disaster throughout. Much laughing from our sofa when he'd realised his salty mistake. That's one of my pet peeves about the early rounds. Less chitchat about the social history baking, save that until the contestants have been thinned out a bit. More focus on their cakes please!
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Radiapathy posted:Hello thread. In the USA during the mid 80s, A&E used to play a British import show on weekday afternoons where teams had to complete a series of outdoor challenges using their ingenuity and a number of items left by producers of the show. Was it Now Get Out Of That? I completely forgot about that, until your post. I think I used to enjoy it too! In a similar vein, you may like The Adventure Game, a similar show but more aimed at children. Edit: Bonus Youtube. Catzilla fucked around with this message at 00:29 on Aug 29, 2013 |
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Captain Mediocre posted:For some unholy reason I was reading the comments under an article about this show the other day. Mostly anti-Oliver but one guy was defending the principle that home-made food is cheaper than frozen supermarket equivalents. He proudly did the maths to show that home made pizza is cheaper, if you spend £50 at once to make ingredients for ~60 pizzas. If you aren't smart enough to eat gradually deteriorating and mould-cultivating pizza every day for two months then poverty is what you deserve I guess. That doesn't sound right to me. For £5 worth of ingredients, I can make enough dough and sauce for 8 pizza's. It's only a cheese and tomato pizza, but it is a pizza. Besides, you do know you can freeze the pizza dough and sauce and you don't have to make 60 pizzas at once...
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Sep 2, 2013 22:39
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Irisi posted:Either way, it's rather grating. She's a marvellous baker, but the constant, piteous moping is getting too much. She is a philosophy student, so constant, piteous moping would be her natural state.
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Sep 24, 2013 21:57
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I don't think either Kimberly's or Ruby's cake was good enough to win in an earlier round, let alone the show stopper round of the final. And I can totally see Francis opening a cake decorating business on the back of this.
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Korak posted:So I've been looking for something new to watch with my partner. We both love Luther, Being Human, Sherlock, anything by Charlie Brooker. Have there been any new shows out that kind of match up with those types of shows that we may like? Have you tried Misfits yet? It's funny as hell, pretty dark in places and has quite high production values.
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jfjnpxmy posted:That was one hellacious rigged episode of Only Connect, tell ya what. I'm glad I wasn't the only one to notice that Victoria Coren appeared to give The Board gamers so much more leeway than the other team.
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Dec 9, 2013 23:03
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Don't forget Ideal a slightly surreal comedy with Johnny Vegas about a small time weed dealer (about the best thing BBC3 has done in my opinion)
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Jehde posted:Finished 15 Storeys High and moving on to Ideal, another great recommendation. Apparently blokes in a flat is my favourite type of sitcom. If you like physical comedy, Bottom is pretty great. On that note, did anyone watch the Rik Mayall tribute last night? I got pretty choked up at the end there.
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DaWolfey posted:Mongrels and The Smoking Room were the only good BBC 3 shows. Ideal
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Comrade Fakename posted:You mean Location Location Location, the Channel 4 show? He's probably talking about Escape To The Country.
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goatface posted:I remember getting angry at a daytime show where they were lauding a guy for buying a nice 4-bed inner city house and turning it into a massively overcrowded 7-bed student let that he could rent out for about three times as much. According to my sister (who watched a lot more daytime tv than I ever have) this was pretty much the core premise of the programme and they always ruined the houses. Ahh, Homes Under The Hammer, or as I like to think of it, a list of people who will be first against the wall when the revolution comes. Very rarely do people buy houses on that to live in.
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oceanside posted:Anyone got any recommendations for good 90s or early 00s crime dramas? Inspector Morse is worth watching also.
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On Black Mirror, did anyone spot the Bioshock reference in episode 2? "Would you kindly open the door...
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Lemon posted:Well, I'm not very bright, you see. It's been bugging me actually, I want to find a screenshot or something to see just how I could have missed it, but there's nothing online yet. There is a picture in this tweet: https://twitter.com/rianjohnson/status/942767862367731713 That bizzaroAzreal posted a little further up.
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ShaneMacGowansTeeth posted:Funnily enough, I'm in a hire car with a digital radio and this is a good and correct opinion and I'd never listened to 6music that much before now Comedy option, listen to LBC for gammon opinions.
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I saw it in the cinema. It's really worth watching.
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Taear posted:He's always like that, doesn't look any different to me? I thought he was ok in it. Not as irritating as i thought he would be. Besides, he did gat Mary Berry to say the words 'giant vagina' on tv (I'm not sure if she was referring to him though)!
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Pissflaps posted:That was Pru Leith not Mary Berry. Dammit your right. Sucks getting old I guess!
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They should have come up with one of these and offered Lord Sugar the first ride.
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Escobarbarian posted:Why would I be offended by some lame twist ending over normalising the worst slur for gay people on what will no doubt be the most-watched show in the country on Christmas Day I didn’t see it, but am curious now, could some one let me know what happened (in spoiler tags)?
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Dell_Zincht posted:Season 4 has been announced too, and the idea is that a different female writer will be responsible for each season. Season 1 was Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Season 2 was Emerald Fennell and Season 3 has been written by Suzanne Heathcoate. Season 2 ended pretty much where the last book ended, but took a completely different route to get there. I wonder if Luke Jennings is having much input in the series going forward?
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crispix posted:I watched a bit of it again last night partly because I fancy one of the blokes in it. I think the problem with Lucas is how unpersonable he is. He tries too hard to make jokes and when he can't make them he resorts to doing wacky accents at people. He doesn't give a poo poo about the people there or what's going on with their stuff It seems Noel Fielding seems to have a genuine rapport with contestants whereas Matt Lucas seems to just treat them as a straight man to his jokes
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