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I'll keep you all informed as to when the jokes/minute ratio in Episodes rises above zero.
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Forty Two posted:How have I never heard of Dead Set before?! Just started watching it and it's really drat good. I can't believe I didn't know that Brooker had written his own TV series.
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Jan 17, 2011 23:23
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themonkeythatcried posted:This seems like a good segue to allow me to say I have the biggest crush on Victoria Coren and I'm not quite sure why... Ditto, I don't even watch this show - I just loved her in all the wee appearances she makes around TV land. She's hotter than Vorderman.
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pisshead posted:I'll keep you all informed as to when the jokes/minute ratio in Episodes rises above zero.
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Jan 18, 2011 00:03
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I think the +1 thing is pretty cool, myself. If you're just hanging out with housemates and want to watch something that everyone likes, it gives you much more scope in what you can choose, especially if you can't be arsed to gently caress around with recording things and what not.
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Jan 18, 2011 00:12
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themonkeythatcried posted:This seems like a good segue to allow me to say I have the biggest crush on Victoria Coren and I'm not quite sure why... Add me to this list, although I know exactly why. She is beautiful, intelligent, plays poker and used to review porn. Also, her brother is a total arse but very funny in those food history programs he does with Sue Perkins. Going out and getting hammered with them both would be awesome fun.
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sebzilla posted:Add me to this list, although I know exactly why. She is beautiful, intelligent, plays poker and used to review porn. Wha.... what? Porn? Details please! That is just 
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themonkeythatcried posted:Wha.... what? Porn? Details please! That is just Wikipedia posted:Her books include Love 16 and Once More, with Feeling, about her attempt (with co-author Charlie Skelton) to make the best hard-core porn movie ever. This came off the back of their jobs reviewing porn films for the Erotic Review—a job which led them to believe that most of what they were watching was terrible and that they could make better films themselves.
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Tsaedje posted:The real reason +1 channels exist is so the broadcasters can charge companies twice as much for the same amount of advertising Close. Ad-revenue is collected pro-rata to how many people watch those adverts. So if 3 people watch on the main channel, and 1 on the +1, it's 33% more advertising revenue (all else being equal). It's a pretty easy trick that doesn't cost any real extra money beyond buying the slot and transmitting the signal (most acquisitions deals bundle in time-shifted viewing at no extra cost). As a whole viewers prefer having them to not having them - it's not like there's opportunity cost there. Having Living +1 isn't stopping some plucky new channel from coming into existence. And then we launched Living +2 
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justcola posted:Kind of makes me wonder why they don't show Tomorrow's World any more. I suppose it's been replaced by 'Click', but click is pretty much Braniac with consumer gadgets instead of exploding caravans. No, that's the Gadget Show you're thinking of. The one with Suzi Perry and the bald dickhead gurning at shiny things for an hour and doing Wacky Stunts to compare them. Sorry, no gap in the market for examining the latest in robotics technology; but text this 80 number with your answer to win all the consumer tech gadgets featured on the show!!
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so I could say that I finally figured out what this god damned cube is doing. Get well Lowtax.
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spincube posted:No, that's the Gadget Show you're thinking of. The one with Suzi Perry and the bald dickhead gurning at shiny things for an hour and doing Wacky Stunts to compare them. Sorry, no gap in the market for examining the latest in robotics technology; but text this 80 number with your answer to win all the consumer tech gadgets featured on the show!! Whenever I see the Gadget Show I'm always amazed at how many prizes they give away then instantly annoyed that they literally spend between 5 and 10 minutes just telling you what you could win.
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Paperhouse posted:Charlie Brooker also co-wrote Nathan Barley with Chris Morris, which was brilliant too. I watched two episodes of Nathan Barley and the only time I laughed was when Nathan rode out of a shop on a tricycle and knocked over a display. It was baffling. I know people say it's because a very specific parody of Hoxton, but I've never been a government policy adviser or retired sitcom writer in LA and still laughed at The Thick Of It and Curb Your Enthusiasm.
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It's not even that specific either, it's not like idiots trying too hard to be cool is a new thing. I watched the whole series and I think the only time I really laughed at it was when he was rapping in bed with that girl.
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Pyrovile posted:Whenever I see the Gadget Show I'm always amazed at how many prizes they give away then instantly annoyed that they literally spend between 5 and 10 minutes just telling you what you could win. I would probably end up selling about two thirds of the stuff you can win. Crazy prize, I should go in for it more often really.
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So can anyone tell me why reality may be a hologram? I was led to beleive we were part of an inter-dimensional game of marbles.
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Uncertain Frog posted:So can anyone tell me why reality may be a hologram? I was led to beleive we were part of an inter-dimensional game of marbles. They talked about how Stephen Hawking gave a lecture on black holes where he explained that they don't go on forever as previously thought, but they shrink and eventually disappear. This frustrated physicists because they always thought that whatever goes into a black hole never comes out, including the 'information' of matter. If they shrink and disappear, the information is gone, which doesn't conform to the laws of nature. Energy, matter and information can never be created or destroyed, just converted into other things. One physicist realised that the black hole could be kind of like a hologram. They store 3D information on a 2D plane. So as the matter passes through the event horizon (point of no return) of a black hole, the information stays there, not going further in. The event horizon is a 2d surface, but holds all the information of the 3D matter. This concept could potentially be used to explain the universe. The edges of the universe could potentially be where all the information of the universe is stored. Thus everything inside the universe is just a projection, or hologram of what is happening on the 'event horizon' of the universe. Granted this is still completely hypothetical, but it's a drat fascinating idea.
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Psybro posted:I watched two episodes of Nathan Barley and the only time I laughed was when Nathan rode out of a shop on a tricycle and knocked over a display. It was baffling. It gets a hard time, but for some reason me and most of my mates love it. I think the fact that there isn't one likable main character in it that puts people off.
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Mickolution posted:It gets a hard time, but for some reason me and most of my mates love it. I think the fact that there isn't one likable main character in it that puts people off. That's the BEST thing about it! in fact, there isn't a single likable character in the whole thing that I can think of, other than Kevin Eldons unfortunate barber and *possibly* Noel Fieldings crap DJ simply because there's absolutely no malice in him. Even Pingu is too much of a doormat to really be a "good" guy I don't really see it as a laugh out loud type show anyway, it's MEANT to make you hate humanity
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Ah. I have been doing it all wrong. I never realised attempted sexual assault was a viable wooing technique, as seen on My Big Fat Gypsy Weddings.
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Fatkraken posted:That's the BEST thing about it! in fact, there isn't a single likable character in the whole thing that I can think of, other than Kevin Eldons unfortunate barber and *possibly* Noel Fieldings crap DJ simply because there's absolutely no malice in him. Even Pingu is too much of a doormat to really be a "good" guy Ohh absolutely. I meant that was why some people mightn't like it. Yeah, Pingu's the only main character really who isn't an absolute bastard as well as the barber, but he was only in that one scene. Maybe the receptionist at sugaRAPE, but she's not in it much. The Trashbat Party is one of the best scenes I can think of from a sitcom. Perfectly sums up the show really. edit: Dan's probably the worst person out of all of them, of course, because he knows their scum but keeps going along with them.
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I love Nathan Barley. I'm actually rewatching it on 4od right now. Benedict Cumberbatch is the accountant for the guy that offers the film grant. I like the way, despite Nathan being an appalling human being he always wins.
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Mickolution posted:edit: Dan's probably the worst person out of all of them, of course, because he knows their scum but keeps going along with them. Definitely. I think he actually becomes WORSE as the show goes on (or maybe it's just seeing more of him). He's got an inflated sense of his own worth, he's a bully (the way he treats Nathan is often pretty similar to how Nathan treats Pingu, exemplified in the final episode with the terrorist thing), he's feckless, lazy and arrogant. It's interesting to go through both Brooker and Morris' other work and see elements that were used in Nathan Barley. With Brooker it's fairly clear, there's oval office in the TVGOHOME columns and other bits and bobs. With Morris, there's a lot of stuff about the London Set in the Blue Jam radio series. He did ten or eleven monologues including "suicide journalist" and the piece that became "My Wrongs", from the perspective of a deeply disturbed man caught up in this strange city life surrounded by these awful vapid people. More colour supplement than Nathan Barleys anarchic internet, but there's definitely personality traits and kinds of people that come through in both.
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Metrication posted:I'm actually rewatching it on 4od right now. Oh God why didn't I think of this?!
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Jonattan Yeah? is Thom Yorke (Also professing my love for Nathan Barley) Terrorists are gay, Terrorists are gay, Terrorists are gay! ... it's obvious!
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Jonattan Yeah? is my favourite character. I kind of get the impression he has the same opinions as Dan but chooses to act like an idiot.
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Jonattan Yeah? is fantastic as well because he knows how poo poo the magazine is and how daft all the people are, but he doesn't really give a gently caress and just goes with the lifestyle and does well out of it, he's sort of Dan without the fake morals and overly large sense of self worth.
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incredible bear posted:And then what? Does it come with a previous bundle or will it be charging something new entirely. It's on the Variety bundle, the same one as Sky 1. It does baffle me a bit because it feels like a lot of money has been spent on the channel that they're not going to be recouping - I'd have thought it belonged on the Movies bundle. Incidentally I saw the first two episodes of Boardwalk Empire in a special preview and it was pretty decent, if a tad confusing. I find it hard to tell people apart if they change their clothes and hair when they've only been in the show a tiny bit, and it happens quite a lot.
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Timecop is on the iPlayer, for the few of you that have good taste to truly appreciate.
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Alan BStard posted:Timecop is on the iPlayer, for the few of you that have good taste to truly appreciate. Goodbye Solo is also on there, watch that first.
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cloudchamber posted:Goodbye Solo is also on there, watch that first. A fantastic film, that I also recommend to everyone in this thread. To talk much about it would be to do a disservice to those that have yet to see it.
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NaDy posted:Granted this is still completely hypothetical, but it's a drat fascinating idea. More specifically, the maximum amount of information an area of space can hold depends on the size of the surface area bounding it, not the the volume as you'd probably expect. I find this mind-blowing enough without needing to speculate madly on the nature of existence/blackholes/whatever. Also, no mention of Gerard T'Hooft who also invented the theory around the same time and who's name literally translates to Gerard The Head.
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Trickjaw posted:Ah. I have been doing it all wrong. I never realised attempted sexual assault was a viable wooing technique, as seen on My Big Fat Gypsy Weddings. Lovely technique. Pressure the girl into submitting. Physically harm the girl into submitting. If she submits to end the abuse she either has to marry the bloke or be known as a slag for kissing a guy who won't be her husband to be. There's a book called Gypsy Boy by Mikey Walsh available in HMV for a couple of quid that deals with the roma gypsies, told by a soft boy who grew up in a fighting culture quite similar to that of the Irish travellers in the Channel 4 show. I'd recommend a read to discover the world of hurt and misogyny that the papers ignore in favour of more selfish 'they're putting caravans on our empty fields!' lines of attack.
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Theshby posted:More specifically, the maximum amount of information an area of space can hold depends on the size of the surface area bounding it, not the the volume as you'd probably expect. I find this mind-blowing enough without needing to speculate madly on the nature of existence/blackholes/whatever. Black holes have negligible volume but a large surface area then, I guess. Due to the warping of the gravity and so on. Interesting stuff.
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Live from Studio Five has been cancelled, to the surprise of absolutely nobody. Also, new branding!
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I'm sure this will set Channel 5 on a new path to being taken seriously!
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My Big Fat Gyspy Wedding was hillarious, as long as you were able to block out the misogyny, racism and general discomfort that comes with watching women in the 21st century talk about how fair it is that they can't work or leave home alone.
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That Channel 5 thing, right, looks like it uses the exact same font and letter 5 as was on the side of Thunderbird 5.
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Which one was Thunderbird 5? Are they going to leave this channel to rot in space?
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NaDy posted:One physicist realised that the black hole could be kind of like a hologram. They store 3D information on a 2D plane. So as the matter passes through the event horizon (point of no return) of a black hole, the information stays there, not going further in. The event horizon is a 2d surface, but holds all the information of the 3D matter. This concept could potentially be used to explain the universe. The edges of the universe could potentially be where all the information of the universe is stored. Thus everything inside the universe is just a projection, or hologram of what is happening on the 'event horizon' of the universe. Thanks for writing that, I was a little bored by the first half hour and just got up the stephen hawking bit when I decided to have a nap. I wish Horizon would get over the double slit experiment, gosh. I'm not sure if it's because of the stuff I watch but it's been in pretty much all of them with various degrees of cgi. I quite liked Nathan Barley. But I'm an art student so see/saw a lot of what they were riffing on. Welcome to creativilization.
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