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Really enjoyed dispatches tonight, enjoyed was probably the wrong word but it was an eye opener.
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I've just started watching This is England '86 and I'm a little underwhelmed (and a little lost). Should I watch the movie before going any further into the series?
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Oct 8, 2010 01:10
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Graviton v2 posted:Gotta agree to disagree there then. I liked it. Are you sure you arent having ... 'phrase that describes something that was great from a long time ago but if you watched it now it wouldnt be that great' I watched the first two series of the original Reggie Perrin on DVD a few years back and they're still brilliant. Leonard Rossiter is almost exhausting to watch as a man slowly being driven insane by the mundanity and repetitiveness of his working life. I actually rather like the Clunes version of the show too. They haven't gone for a carbon-copy of the original, and it has a different, less frenetic feel to it.
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Oct 8, 2010 01:42
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Smeep posted:I've just started watching This is England '86 and I'm a little underwhelmed (and a little lost). Should I watch the movie before going any further into the series? it's a really great film and everything will make far more sense
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Oct 8, 2010 02:16
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Loving An Idiot Abroad. This week's was the best yet.
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Oct 8, 2010 05:07
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Paperhouse posted:yes Thanks
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Oct 8, 2010 05:15
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bhlaab posted:Loving An Idiot Abroad. This week's was the best yet. I haven't watched it but the concept kind of pisses me off because it's like sending someone who hates food to the most amazing restaurants in the world and the impression the advert is Gervais saying : "Hey so Karl hates travelling! So... guess what we did  THAT'S RIGHT!!" Is it really funny?
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Oct 8, 2010 08:24
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Neris posted:I haven't watched it but the concept kind of pisses me off because it's like sending someone who hates food to the most amazing restaurants in the world and the impression the advert is Gervais saying : "Hey so Karl hates travelling! So... guess what we did Yes. I think Gervais is an unfunny waste of space and Stephen Merchant is annoying sycophant - but Karl is outstanding in this and it's absolutely hilarious. Give it a try.
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Oct 8, 2010 08:53
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Hmm I thought this weeks Idiot Abroad was the weakest yet. It was like they realised they couldn't fill an hour with Petra so sent him dicking around in Israel for over half the show and then we saw a couple of nice shots of Petra at the end. The kidnapping scenario was a complete waste of time. Karl's moaning at every little thing is just getting exhausting. I think he has legitimate grievances in places, but he just moans at every little thing and it's beginning to grate. I'm still gonna watch it next week tho.
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Oct 8, 2010 14:57
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Neris posted:I haven't watched it but the concept kind of pisses me off because it's like sending someone who hates food to the most amazing restaurants in the world and the impression the advert is Gervais saying : "Hey so Karl hates travelling! So... guess what we did That concept is sort of a red herring. It's not so much that he hates travel as it is that he is uniquely cynical and naive at the same time and is put next to people and things that are incredibly removed from his definition of normal. The off-camera bullying by Ricky and Steve are more to goad reactions from him (and because they know that left to his own devices he would just sit in his hotel room eating biscuits the entire trip) That said, my favorite part of this week's episode was when they sent him to spend a night in a cave and it ended up being his favorite part of the trip even though he also saw Petra and the birthplace of Jesus
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Oct 8, 2010 18:55
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Envelope-gate https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAneU22gAaM I hope Jezza is ok  I kinda want to play frisbee now with ol' pizza-face there. Ponce de Le0n fucked around with this message at 19:51 on Oct 8, 2010 |
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Oct 8, 2010 19:48
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LE0N posted:Envelope-gate He might miss and knock yoa ought.
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Oct 8, 2010 20:02
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LE0N posted:Envelope-gate American Q- Who the gently caress is Jeremy Kyle and why does the british public accept the 'tough guy telling it like it is' schtick from such a god drat weiner. When he got hit and turned around like "ooo you done it now mate" it was absoloutely pathetic. Do people there actually buy that crap?
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Oct 8, 2010 20:18
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bhlaab posted:American Q- Who the gently caress is Jeremy Kyle and why does the british public accept the 'tough guy telling it like it is' schtick from such a god drat weiner.
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Oct 8, 2010 20:21
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tell me da answers innit
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Oct 8, 2010 20:34
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tbh the only positive thing about The Jeremy Kyle Show is that it makes me feel good about myself when compared to the mutants who go on
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Oct 8, 2010 20:39
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Oct 8, 2010 20:51
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Paperhouse posted:of course they do, he's hugely popular despite being such an obvious bellend. But it's hardly like this is a uniquely British thing, everywhere has stupid people who like terrible TV personalities Yeah, but our "tough-talking" daytime personalities are judges, large black men, or both. We don't dig a foetus out of Ryan Seacrest's homosexual anus and then try to say he's a badass. Look I'm not saying American programming has got any less amount of classist poverty-bashing, but at least we try to hide the fact.
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Oct 8, 2010 20:56
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bhlaab posted:Yeah, but our "tough-talking" daytime personalities are judges, large black men, or both. We don't dig a foetus out of Ryan Seacrest's homosexual anus and then try to say he's a badass. So what you are saying is that its braver to be someone with a shitload of untouchable physical or legal authority and confront total dickheads (they are 99% of the time) than be a regular joe public which like it or not kyle is??. That honestly makes no sense. To be honest he is "badass" because he looks like he should work in a bank and have old ladies bother him because they dont know how their pension works but he sets out to tell people to "PUT SOMETHING ON IT" and "GET A JOB" instead whilst they hurl I would say some of the guests are staged, but.....they are just to mundane and boring, its hard to fake being that scummy but not that extreme. bhlaab posted:American Q- Who the gently caress is Jeremy Kyle and why does the british public accept the 'tough guy telling it like it is' schtick from such a god drat weiner. Kyle would be regarded as more of a dickhead if he was super-buff and slick, us brits would loving hate it. Ponce de Le0n fucked around with this message at 21:56 on Oct 8, 2010 |
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Oct 8, 2010 21:53
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Jeremy Kyle has all the legions of hell at his command, you better watch what you say about him. Also Jerry Springer and Montel Williams are his nearest US equivalents and they don't seem tough at all either.
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Oct 8, 2010 21:57
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bhlaab posted:Yeah, but our "tough-talking" daytime personalities are judges, large black men, or both. We don't dig a foetus out of Ryan Seacrest's homosexual anus and then try to say he's a badass. He has a microphone for shouting people down and some massive bodyguards for not getting punched out, why would he even need to be a badass? What gave you the idea that anyone thinks he is? Is no one worth listening to in America unless they can beat you up or send you to jail? Wasn't it Jerry Springer who popularised the whole format? Who is Ryan Seacrest? I don't care. Edit: these aren't questions you need to answer, I'm just saying you're looking at it wrong Tempo 119 fucked around with this message at 22:13 on Oct 8, 2010 |
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Oct 8, 2010 22:08
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Tempo 119 posted:He has a microphone for shouting people down and some massive bodyguards for not getting punched out, why would he even need to be a badass? What gave you the idea that anyone thinks he is? Well none of these people are worth listening to. What annoyed me is that this guy is clearly putting on a self-aggrandizing act when he has no authority whatsoever and the rubes in the audience seemed to be buying in it. I was just wondering if he actually carried a degree of respect outside of his own TV studio. For example, Dr. Phil is a quote-unquote "respected" TV personality here by many in the midwest etc. I suppose my point is that our daytime crap presenters tend to hide behind a veil of compassion, concerns over society, or bemusement instead of outright aggression towards the guests because it hides the fact that the show is all about making the audience feel superior to poor, undereducated people. But it's likely all staged anyway so what the gently caress am I doing even aknowledging the cultural deitritus of either nation to begin with. Forget about it.
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Wasnt it found out that 'Dr.' Phil just has some bullshit buy/work from home degree and is in fact not a PHD holder? And yes Kyle is a loving oval office, I dont think you will hear any dispute from any of us brits on that. That said its strangely compelling telly :S defining moment http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGocWTKogpg&feature=related Graviton v2 fucked around with this message at 23:18 on Oct 8, 2010 |
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Oct 8, 2010 23:07
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bhlaab posted:I suppose my point is that our daytime crap presenters tend to hide behind a veil of compassion, concerns over society...
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Oct 8, 2010 23:37
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Brooker on Kyle.
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Oct 9, 2010 06:45
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BBC3 is to broadcast a six part drama series about Lesbians. With lots of sex. http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2010/oct/09/lip-service-bbc3-lesbian-drama I think we can be confident that no heterosexual males will be watching...
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Oct 9, 2010 08:11
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MonkeyLibFront posted:Really enjoyed dispatches tonight, enjoyed was probably the wrong word but it was an eye opener. It was pretty interesting but when the good guys blew up some dude's family and went to say sorry and offer some money, one of the marines kept saying "It's the absolute least we can do" over and over again. He did not understand what that phrase means, and I hope the translator realised this. What a lovely thing to say to someone who just got their entire family exploded.
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Oct 9, 2010 08:29
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Pablo Bluth posted:BBC3 is to broadcast a six part drama series about Lesbians. With lots of sex. Laura Fraser 
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Oct 9, 2010 11:17
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Jeremy Kyle is one of the most revolting pricks in the UK, and his particular brand of human bear baiting is obscene. Oh, and perhaps he should be a guest on his own show - wikipedia posted:He met his first wife, Kirsty Rowley, in the autumn of 1988, when he was a recruitment consultant in an agency in Bristol[11]. They became a couple within a fortnight, and were engaged two months after that, in December. They married in Almondsbury near Bristol seven months later, in July 1989. Their daughter, Harriet, was born eleven months after that, in June 1990. The marriage ended just five months after that, in November 1990. His wife claims that Kyle had carefully concealed a destructive and expensive gambling habit from her over the course of their marriage. This included stealing money from her bank account, and accumulating thousands of pounds of debt to fund his habit. He is reported to have had several affairs during his short lived marriage. Hypocritical little poo poo-weasel.
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Oct 9, 2010 11:49
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While I detest Jeremy Kyle as much as the next good citizen, I thought his own dodgey past was the show's justification for letting him criticise people. Something of I've-been-there-and-turned-my-life-around sort of deal. His programme confuses me though, because I constantly struggle to decide whether I hate the guests or the presenter more.
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Oct 9, 2010 14:04
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I pity anyone outside the UK seeing Jeremy Kyle. It is like some twisted 21st century freak show from the horrors of the latest idiots to the gurning taunting audiance and Kyle himself the twisted Ringmaster of it all. I don't need to self hate my class anymore than possible but the show really doesn't help.
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Oct 9, 2010 14:40
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New Harry Hill tonight!  New Louis Theroux tomorrow!
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Oct 9, 2010 14:50
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I hate Jeremy Kyle. Half the time he seems like he genuinely deserves to be banged out by the scrotes he's talking to.
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Oct 9, 2010 14:58
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lionlegs posted:New Louis Theroux tomorrow! I had no idea a new louis theroux was coming on, whats it about?
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Oct 9, 2010 16:17
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Kid Moe posted:I had no idea a new louis theroux was coming on, whats it about? guardian posted:Theroux travels to Nigeria's largest city to spend time among the police and criminal gangs which rule the area. The crims have unionised to better appear legitimate, so cops spend their time chasing ordinary householders about cleaning their front steps while transport union operatives go about taking protection money and shooting each other, unhindered by the law. "There is no known corruption in Lagos," declares the local kingpin's spokesman confidently as everybody smiles and blood spatters the pavement. Compelling stuff.
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Oct 9, 2010 16:42
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Didn't see this posted yetquote:This is the first picture of Steve Coogan, donning his Pringle jumper to become Alan Partridge on screen for the first time in seven years. http://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2010/10/08/11895/hes_back! New Alan Partridge, hell yes!
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Oct 9, 2010 16:48
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Pablo Bluth posted:BBC3 is to broadcast a six part drama series about Lesbians. With lots of sex. I loving hate how "three 20-something Glasgow lesbians" becomes "two English and one with a horribly-put on ScoTTish accent, blatantly 30-somethings in what could be any city". Since it's been pushed back since April and from the teasers I've seen, it'll basically be a carbon copy of Bridget Jones-esque films/books with no redeeming or original qualities, beyond "They're chasing....other girls   " . Wonderful. God BBC3 is a terrible channel.
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Oct 9, 2010 16:49
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isnemis posted:Didn't see this posted yet This is the best news ever!
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Oct 9, 2010 16:52
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ahaaa!
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Darth Goon posted:Jeremy Kyle is one of the most revolting pricks in the UK, and his particular brand of human bear baiting is obscene. That, in my opinion is the best thing about him though. His hilariously dodgy past, just allows him to go "well ive been there" and no-one bats an eye. I don't get the hate because we can all say "oh he is picking on scummy gutter-snipes" but when we all see them in the street we think exactly the same thing, he just says it. To their faces. Ponce de Le0n fucked around with this message at 18:06 on Oct 9, 2010 |
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