[UK] The Great British programme discussion: Piers Morgan Memorial Pier

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Oben: Aug 7, 2004; Oh, the lights changed

happyhippy posted:

I'm half tempted to watch more just for the trainwreck it is.
One of the 'acts' is a duo, the red haired woman that appears in Charlie Brooker's TV wipe shows as a pretend TV reviewer (who is funny in that), and a guy straight from the 1970s.
They do two 'jokes' one was standing in front of a green screen and thinking up of random food. THAT'S THE JOKE.

Uh, no? The joke was that she had a helmet that broadcast her thoughts, could only think of cake, he called her a dick and the screen changed to her punching him in the face. Obviously, it wasn't one of their best ones. Look up "Two Episodes of Mash" on youtube, they're pretty good.

Also, Lucy Beaumont is going to be a big star, once she writes some more material and stops constantly saying 'I know'.

# ¿ Jul 18, 2013 13:20

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# ¿ May 15, 2024 13:47

Oben: Aug 7, 2004; Oh, the lights changed

reality_groove posted:

I'm glad I'm not the only person who thought that.

https://twitter.com/sueperkins/status/374991832004190208 posted:

A lot of people on twitter asking if one of the petit fours this week was a sponge butt plug. Answer? Yes. Yes, it was.
Hope that helps.

# ¿ Sep 4, 2013 12:34

Oben: Aug 7, 2004; Oh, the lights changed

Prism Mirror Lens posted:

When it first started the dieters sketch in particular was pretty much exactly the jobseekers one from LoG, and as far as I know, LoG was the only thing around in the same timeframe that had a similar 'parody of British life with recurring characters' thing (though obviously LoG had a narrower focus). I realise that sketch shows about weirdos with men dressed up as women are not uncommon in the UK, but when it started it genuinely was very similar but with loads of lovely catchphrases. I would be heavily sceptical if the Little Britain creators said there was absolutely no influence.

Mark Gatiss was script editor for the first series of Little Britain.

# ¿ Nov 4, 2013 17:57

Oben: Aug 7, 2004; Oh, the lights changed

Calico Heart posted:

The fourth episode was "Three Men and a Baby", but in Atlantis!!! They were so loving out od ideas four episodes into their high-fantasy Atlantis-based show they had a the gang ginds a mystery baby! episode.

But that was literally the beginning of the Oedipus story, with a slight detour through Three Men and a Baby. They used all the proper names and everything.

# ¿ Nov 12, 2013 11:02

Oben: Aug 7, 2004; Oh, the lights changed

There's a chance that Ripper Street could be saved with a Lovefilm partnership: http://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/dec/11/bbc-ripper-street-return-lovefilm-deal

I hope so, the second series has been great.

# ¿ Dec 11, 2013 14:05

Oben: Aug 7, 2004; Oh, the lights changed

Answers Me posted:

Watching the IT Crowd for the first time on C4 now and my god it's dire. Has it always been like this or has it just gotten terrible recently?

You can't judge the IT Crowd by only watching the final episode. It was about 90% references to jokes from previous episodes.

# ¿ Dec 25, 2013 11:38

Oben: Aug 7, 2004; Oh, the lights changed

I Feast On Dogshit posted:

I don't like Stewart Lee much

"Was it funny?"
"No, but I agreed the gently caress out of it."

# ¿ Mar 17, 2014 01:13

Oben: Aug 7, 2004; Oh, the lights changed

Pablo Bluth posted:

Is it time for a new thread title yet? Piers is so old hat and irrelevant, mentioning him in any context is like a bit from one of those "I love the 90's" programmes.

Rolf Harris Memorial Terrace

# ¿ Jul 5, 2014 18:03

Oben: Aug 7, 2004; Oh, the lights changed

I can't see how it would melt that much in 40 seconds.

Gambrinus posted:

I'm a bit out of touch. How did Jim McDonald end up in prison in Corrie?

He tried to rob a bank a few years ago. So he did.

# ¿ Aug 27, 2014 21:36

Oben: Aug 7, 2004; Oh, the lights changed

gorki posted:

If anyone here follows Hollyoaks could you please explain to me what was happening in tonight's episode? I caught the last five or so minutes of it and there was a sweaty man lying dying on a trolley in some kind of hospital, but surrounded by folders like someone had stuck him in the medical records department. Then a sort of evil old cockney doctor came and shouted at him then swaggered off, apparently leaving him to his fate and then the patient told some woman or other how much he loved her. Then it cut to two more sweaty half naked people sitting inside a tin of some sort discussing fidelity my flatmate came into the living room at that point and i think he thought i was having some kind of turn, my face was so contorted with confusion. we got chatting so I didn't find out if this was in fact a dream sequence or if Hollyoaks has just become a very surreal soap

The sweaty man (who has a permanant :stare:

face and awful tattoos) and the father from the Kumars (who is supposed to be a scary gangster) were trying to steal drugs from the hospital. Someone spotted them, and Mr Kumar took everyone hostage.

:stare:

man got shot protecting someone, and the pregnant doctor crying on him is his sister-in-law, who he knocked up when they thought his brother had been killed by another gangster (but was actually in a coma). During that time, :stare:

covered up his brother's "death" and tricked her into aborting his brother's baby.

The two sweaty people in the lift had just had sex after the power was cut off during the siege. The man had been dating the fat woman's sister until her sister's ex-boyfriend got out of prison after 14 years inside for something he hadn't done. Their police officer mother had set up the ex after he got her (then 14 year old) daughter pregnant, and raised the baby as her own with her secretly gay husband (until they were murdered by the ex a few months ago).

# ¿ Oct 9, 2014 15:46

Oben: Aug 7, 2004; Oh, the lights changed

I love Sara Pascoe, Katherine Ryan and Aisling Bea. v :3:

Flatscan posted:

Exactly how poo poo is Charlie Brooker's hair these days?

Last I saw he'd shaved the sides, so it's more. More poo poo.

# ¿ Oct 20, 2014 15:16

Oben: Aug 7, 2004; Oh, the lights changed

Total Meatlove posted:

A serial killer has managed to escape from court, then went straight to his brothers, kidnapped three women and then recreated the boat scene from the dark knight despite the fact he was in a wheelchair and learned to walk again in prison.

"You're a wannabe Hannibal Lecter with a gammy leg"

Also, the women are:
1. A girl who just got out of prison on a technicality (she murdered someone) where she was secretly pregnant with the brother's baby.
2. The brother's girlfriend, who is married to the brother's Dad and just had his Dad's :downs:

baby.
3. The brother's twin sister, who the brother had accidentally had a daughter with when they were young. She's bat-poo poo crazy and had her brother handcuffed to a radiator for the last month.

# ¿ Jan 17, 2015 12:19

Oben: Aug 7, 2004; Oh, the lights changed

I have an allotment and that show bores the poo poo out of me.

# ¿ Jan 24, 2015 13:59

Oben: Aug 7, 2004; Oh, the lights changed

The people who made Atlantis really assumed that they'd get another series.
Jason and the Argonauts would have been fun. :sigh:

# ¿ May 17, 2015 15:49

Oben: Aug 7, 2004; Oh, the lights changed

Kin posted:

Am I right in thinking that this revenge porn "expose" on channel 4 is hosted by that presenter who has a habit of getting naked in all the things she does?

No, she's not even naked in this. She's the one who does the diet shows on Channel 4 and dates Sue Perkins.

# ¿ Aug 14, 2015 11:02

Oben: Aug 7, 2004; Oh, the lights changed

It looks like something no child will ever be able to read.

# ¿ Mar 16, 2016 12:28

Oben: Aug 7, 2004; Oh, the lights changed

Bogmonster posted:

Not strictly TV programme related, but anyone else use the iPlayer app with Chromecast from their phone? It seems random for me whether I get the cast icon or not and I can't find any reference to the problem online.

Yeah, it's hosed for me too. There are lots of people complaining about it on the app page.

# ¿ Aug 18, 2016 22:24

Oben: Aug 7, 2004; Oh, the lights changed

It's probably my childhood nostalgia but I'm really looking forward to it now:
https://twitter.com/WOSWrestlingITV/status/812378990732333056

# ¿ Dec 24, 2016 11:09

Oben: Aug 7, 2004; Oh, the lights changed

UltimoDragonQuest posted:

Because it's been primarily a show about the fallout from a single murder not a detective drama. S1 was as much about the shattered lives of people in the town as whodunnit. S2 was mostly the trial of the murderer and the secondary plot featuring a different crime was awful.

Plus "Who raped Haley Cropper?" isn't exactly a great premise for a series, and shoehorning the murdered kid's family back into it seems dumb.

# ¿ Feb 28, 2017 12:54

Oben: Aug 7, 2004; Oh, the lights changed

edit: poo poo, nm.

Also Katherine Ryan's face is melting.

Oben fucked around with this message at 00:09 on Dec 30, 2017

# ¿ Dec 30, 2017 00:06

Oben: Aug 7, 2004; Oh, the lights changed

Is it that one who now does adverts for incontinence pads?

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# ¿ May 15, 2024 13:47

Oben: Aug 7, 2004; Oh, the lights changed

I thought it was pretty good. Maybe try watching it?

# ¿ Mar 29, 2019 10:25

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