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u fink u hard Percy: Sep 14, 2007

Tried the 10'oclock show lastnight and got halfway before bed. Heres what I thought

-Jimmy Carr can't read a loving autocue to save his life.

-I am an idiot.

u fink u hard Percy fucked around with this message at 12:14 on Mar 19, 2011

# ? Mar 19, 2011 11:42

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# ? Apr 26, 2024 13:29

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They quoted it word for word didn't they?

# ? Mar 19, 2011 11:58

Mr Beens: Dec 2, 2006

Daimo posted:

Tried the 10'oclock show lastnight and got halfway before bed. Heres what I thought

-Jimmy Carr can't read a loving autocue to save his life.

-I thought the phrase "Look this is very serious people I had to evacuate all my houses. I had to do it. Lol." was such a hilarious quote from 50 cent that I went looking for it. Turns out he actually said: "Look this is very serious people I had to evacuate all my hoe's from LA, Hawaii and Japan. I had to do it. Lol.". Fair enough you wanted to make a joke about the guys low moral fibre but flat out lying? Come on.

The qoute they read out on 10 o Clock live was the hoes one you must have misheard.

# ? Mar 19, 2011 12:00

Sion: Oct 16, 2004; "I'm the boss of space. That's plenty."

Daimo posted:

Tried the 10'oclock show lastnight and got halfway before bed. Heres what I thought

-Jimmy Carr can't read a loving autocue to save his life.

-I thought the phrase "Look this is very serious people I had to evacuate all my houses. I had to do it. Lol." was such a hilarious quote from 50 cent that I went looking for it. Turns out he actually said: "Look this is very serious people I had to evacuate all my hoe's from LA, Hawaii and Japan. I had to do it. Lol.". Fair enough you wanted to make a joke about the guys low moral fibre but flat out lying? Come on.

What are you talking about no one lied you're just an idiot.

# ? Mar 19, 2011 12:07

Gelf: Oct 1, 2005; Wake up and smell the psychosis!\

I might be a minority amongst UK goons here as a gay goon who interned in Germany, but I am absolutely loving Christoper and his kind.

At the start I couldn't shake Matt Smith's Doctor from my mind, but about 20mins in I was completely engrossed once I got engaged with the story and forgot all about Doctor Who.

Also his street sweeping boyfriend Heinz is absolutely gorgeous and the ditzy English wannabe actress is such a good character too. I loved her saying "oh golly" to being served up pigs lungs, how quintessentially 1930's British.

# ? Mar 19, 2011 23:51

Cerv: Sep 14, 2004; This is a silly post with little news value.

I enjoyed it.
Although for a while it did seem to go through every hackneyed 30s Germany film cliche - the champagne from mismatched glasses, swastika banners unfurled just as our protagonist walks down that street. The close up of Wilde on the bonfire was definitely a bit too much. But when you realise how important Isherwood's wright was in shaping the common perception if the period, it makes sense.

Slightly depressing to realise that I was sitting in on a Saturday night watching a bloody BBC period drama about other people taking in a fanstastic night life.

# ? Mar 20, 2011 09:59

Superrodan: Nov 27, 2007

I said I would pop back into this thread once Mad Dogswas over. I just recently realized that it was only 4 episodes and was over quite a while ago. Was it worth watching the whole way through? Or did it end up kinda bland?

# ? Mar 21, 2011 20:28

Johnny Deformed: Jun 11, 2005; Because fact into doubt... won't go.

Does anyone know why the How TV Ruined Your Life episodes have been taken off iPlayer? Is the series over already?

# ? Mar 21, 2011 20:38

Metrication: Dec 12, 2010; Raskin had one problem: Jobs regarded him as an insufferable theorist or, to use Jobs's own more precise terminology, "a shithead who sucks".

Johnny Deformed posted:

Does anyone know why the How TV Ruined Your Life episodes have been taken off iPlayer? Is the series over already?

Yeah it ended a couple of weeks ago. Was the bog standard 6 episodes.

# ? Mar 21, 2011 20:40

Johnny Deformed: Jun 11, 2005; Because fact into doubt... won't go.

Why did they take it straight off iplayer?

Dammit I only saw up to the Love episode.

# ? Mar 21, 2011 20:40

marktheando: Nov 4, 2006

I think all the episodes have been put up on youtube by a fan, have a look there.

# ? Mar 21, 2011 20:42

cloudchamber: Aug 6, 2010; You know what the Ukraine is? It's a sitting duck. A road apple, Newman. The Ukraine is weak. It's feeble. I think it's time to put the hurt on the Ukraine

Johnny Deformed posted:

Why did they take it straight off iplayer? Dammit I only saw up to the Love episode.

They always take shows off iPlayer a week after they air, it's nothing new.

# ? Mar 21, 2011 20:49

Metrication: Dec 12, 2010; Raskin had one problem: Jobs regarded him as an insufferable theorist or, to use Jobs's own more precise terminology, "a shithead who sucks".

cloudchamber posted:

They always take shows off iPlayer a week after they air, it's nothing new.

I thought it was 28 days or something for some programmes though?

# ? Mar 21, 2011 20:58

cloudchamber: Aug 6, 2010; You know what the Ukraine is? It's a sitting duck. A road apple, Newman. The Ukraine is weak. It's feeble. I think it's time to put the hurt on the Ukraine

Metrication posted:

I thought it was 28 days or something for some programmes though?

I think that's just radio shows.

# ? Mar 21, 2011 21:16

sebzilla: Mar 17, 2009; Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.

Can someone explain to me why iPlayer removes shows after a week and yet 4OD keeps them around forever and has even uploaded shows from before the advent of online streaming such as Whose Line Is It Anyway, Father Ted and so on?

# ? Mar 21, 2011 21:37

Flatscan: Mar 27, 2001; Outlaw Journalist

sebzilla posted:

Can someone explain to me why iPlayer removes shows after a week and yet 4OD keeps them around forever and has even uploaded shows from before the advent of online streaming such as Whose Line Is It Anyway, Father Ted and so on?

Because if the BBC try to give us nice things, Rupert Murdoch throws his toys out of the pram.

# ? Mar 21, 2011 21:41

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sebzilla posted:

Can someone explain to me why iPlayer removes shows after a week and yet 4OD keeps them around forever and has even uploaded shows from before the advent of online streaming such as Whose Line Is It Anyway, Father Ted and so on?

guessing it's not cost effective for BBC to do that. 4OD must make a lot from advertising whereas there's none of that on iPlayer. There are probably other financial factors, that's just one I can think of. I wish iPlayer was the same as 4OD but with BBC stuff though, it'd be incredible

# ? Mar 21, 2011 21:41

hookerbot 5000: Dec 21, 2009

Superrodan posted:

I said I would pop back into this thread once Mad Dogswas over. I just recently realized that it was only 4 episodes and was over quite a while ago. Was it worth watching the whole way through? Or did it end up kinda bland?

Yeah I thought it was worth watching, it sped up a lot after the slow pace of the first episode

# ? Mar 21, 2011 21:44

Metrication: Dec 12, 2010; Raskin had one problem: Jobs regarded him as an insufferable theorist or, to use Jobs's own more precise terminology, "a shithead who sucks".

Paperhouse posted:

guessing it's not cost effective for BBC to do that. 4OD must make a lot from advertising whereas there's none of that on iPlayer. There are probably other financial factors, that's just one I can think of. I wish iPlayer was the same as 4OD but with BBC stuff though, it'd be incredible

BBC Worldwide has old series on Youtube as well as quite a few on SeeSaw. Seeing as it's BBC Worldwide I'm assuming it must have something to do with costs.

# ? Mar 21, 2011 21:45

Flatscan: Mar 27, 2001; Outlaw Journalist

Metrication posted:

BBC Worldwide has old series on Youtube as well as quite a few on SeeSaw. Seeing as it's BBC Worldwide I'm assuming it must have something to do with costs.

Nope. Originally iPlayer was meant to be a huge, glorious archive of everything the BBC owned. Then Rupert Murdoch raised a shitstorm about it being anti-competitive and the BBC were forced to scale it back to what we have now. BBC Worldwide can get away with giving some stuff away because they aren't regulated by OFCOM.

# ? Mar 21, 2011 21:52

sebzilla: Mar 17, 2009; Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.

Paperhouse posted:

guessing it's not cost effective for BBC to do that. 4OD must make a lot from advertising whereas there's none of that on iPlayer. There are probably other financial factors, that's just one I can think of. I wish iPlayer was the same as 4OD but with BBC stuff though, it'd be incredible

I would happily pay �5 a month to see some classic BBC shows kept up there, and I bet a lot of other people would too. Weren't there rumblings about iPlayer moving to subscriptions recently, or was that just for non-UK watchers?

# ? Mar 21, 2011 21:54

SeanBeansShako: Nov 20, 2009; Now the Drums beat up again,
For all true Soldier Gentlemen.

Superrodan posted:

I said I would pop back into this thread once Mad Dogswas over. I just recently realized that it was only 4 episodes and was over quite a while ago. Was it worth watching the whole way through? Or did it end up kinda bland?

It got bitching. 2nd series is confirmed. Have fun cussing SKY Atlantic out for not repeating it for a few months!

# ? Mar 21, 2011 21:55

marktheando: Nov 4, 2006

Flatscan posted:

Nope. Originally iPlayer was meant to be a huge, glorious archive of everything the BBC owned. Then Rupert Murdoch raised a shitstorm about it being anti-competitive and the BBC were forced to scale it back to what we have now. BBC Worldwide can get away with giving some stuff away because they aren't regulated by OFCOM.

Yes. Look at this article from 2008-

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/apr/25/digitalmedia.television

quote:

A BBC Trust spokeswoman said: "The BBC Trust subjected the BBC iPlayer to a rigorous public value test that included a market impact assessment carried out by Ofcom.

"The trust imposed a number of conditions on the iPlayer to take account of market impact issues, consultation responses from the industry, and responses from over 10,000 licence fee payers before final approval was given."

They intentionally made iPlayer less good than it could have been so it wouldn't hurt for-profit video on demand services too much.

# ? Mar 21, 2011 22:01

Paperhouse: Dec 31, 2008; I think
your hair
looks much
better
pushed
over to
one side

wankers, the lot of em

# ? Mar 21, 2011 23:38

cloudchamber: Aug 6, 2010; You know what the Ukraine is? It's a sitting duck. A road apple, Newman. The Ukraine is weak. It's feeble. I think it's time to put the hurt on the Ukraine

I doubt the BBC would be able to host a full BBC archive online without ending up in masses of debt, anyway.

# ? Mar 21, 2011 23:40

sebzilla: Mar 17, 2009; Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.

cloudchamber posted:

I doubt the BBC would be able to host a full BBC archive online without ending up in masses of debt, anyway.

As said above, I'd happily pay extra for "archive content" on top of the regular license fee. Although since I don't pay the license fee that doesn't mean so much, but...

# ? Mar 22, 2011 00:07

Metrication: Dec 12, 2010; Raskin had one problem: Jobs regarded him as an insufferable theorist or, to use Jobs's own more precise terminology, "a shithead who sucks".

Twenty Twelve borrows a lot of elements from People Like Us and manages to do them in an unfunny way. Even the guy behind the camera (who rarely talks) speaks in the style of Roy Mallard.

# ? Mar 22, 2011 00:20

reality_groove: Dec 27, 2007

I think there's a great fear within television that putting up all popular TV shows on the on-demand players will kill ratings of daytime and repeats and everyone will realise how little original content is on tv nowadays. It certainly seems to explain why broadcasters are taking retarded babysteps instead of embracing a completely now format of viewing.

The one big hope for a sensible on demand viewing is YouView which should be rolled out at the end of the year.

(This is all conjecture on my part btw.)

By the way, I can highly recommend Katie Piper: My Beautiful Friends which starts at 9pm on 4 tomorrow. My cousin is in the first episode and it's incredibly honest and heart-warming.

# ? Mar 22, 2011 00:58

sex pervert: Mar 22, 2011

Is that Trevor Lock as one of the 118 guys in the ads they show with The Simpsons on Channel 4?

# ? Mar 22, 2011 13:44

Brown Moses: Feb 22, 2002

Spartacus Gods of the Arena starts on Sky One tonight, it's a really excellent prequel series to Spartacus Blood and Sand, worth watching.

# ? Mar 22, 2011 13:52

Jollzwhin: Oct 13, 2004; Just like watching Brazil

reality_groove posted:

The one big hope for a sensible on demand viewing is YouView which should be rolled out at the end of the year.

Might want to read this.

# ? Mar 22, 2011 16:04

SeanBeansShako: Nov 20, 2009; Now the Drums beat up again,
For all true Soldier Gentlemen.

Brown Moses posted:

Spartacus Gods of the Arena starts on Sky One tonight, it's a really excellent prequel series to Spartacus Blood and Sand, worth watching.

Whats the debauchery ratio for this one?

Also, I read online the BBC is considering cutting all programming after 10:30, what the hell? has it got that bad?

# ? Mar 22, 2011 17:43

Brown Moses: Feb 22, 2002

Well if you want to see a threesome between John Hannah, Xenia, and the bird from Hustle and Dexter, then it's the series for you.

The last death of the series is one of the most brutal things I've seen on TV as well.

# ? Mar 22, 2011 17:47

Testro: May 2, 2009

SeanBeansShako posted:

Also, I read online the BBC is considering cutting all programming after 10:30, what the hell? has it got that bad?

It's just a cost saving idea proposed by some of the BBC staff (there's 21 of them) and that's grabbed a fair bit of attention.

I suppose it makes sense to announce a few ideas and then see what the reaction is from the media / general public.

# ? Mar 22, 2011 19:53

Metrication: Dec 12, 2010; Raskin had one problem: Jobs regarded him as an insufferable theorist or, to use Jobs's own more precise terminology, "a shithead who sucks".

Testro posted:

It's just a cost saving idea proposed by some of the BBC staff (there's 21 of them) and that's grabbed a fair bit of attention.

I suppose it makes sense to announce a few ideas and then see what the reaction is from the media / general public.

I think cutting off 23:30 to 06:00 would make more sense, unless they move things like Newsnight and Question Time forward.

# ? Mar 22, 2011 19:59

goatface: Dec 5, 2007; I had a video of that when I was about 6.

I remember it being shit.; Grimey Drawer

Fold BBC 4 back into 2, ditch BBC 3, test new comedy on late evening 1&2, produce less bullshit that should be on ITV 4, leave repeats to Dave and its ilk.

SAVINGS.

# ? Mar 22, 2011 20:00

thehustler: Apr 17, 2004; I am very curious about this little crescendo

goatface posted:

Fold BBC 4 back into 2, ditch BBC 3, test new comedy on late evening 1&2, produce less bullshit that should be on ITV 4, leave repeats to Dave and its ilk.

SAVINGS.

This really is the best idea. Just because you CAN open a shitload of new services, doesn't mean you SHOULD.

Now fix the radio networks.

# ? Mar 22, 2011 22:24

Metrication: Dec 12, 2010; Raskin had one problem: Jobs regarded him as an insufferable theorist or, to use Jobs's own more precise terminology, "a shithead who sucks".

thehustler posted:

This really is the best idea. Just because you CAN open a shitload of new services, doesn't mean you SHOULD.

Now fix the radio networks.

What's wrong with the current radio lineup?

# ? Mar 22, 2011 22:41

Sion: Oct 16, 2004; "I'm the boss of space. That's plenty."

Ditch BBC Parliament, BBC Alba and one of 1Xtra or Asian Network or BBC 7. Kill BBC2's programming between 9.30 (when Cbeebies ends) and 6 PM (when people get back from work) and replace it with Cbeebies until 12 PM and then News 24 until 6 PM.

BBC 3 gets ditched and new shows are piloted on the iplayer and the public get to react and post reviews of it and we all get to see a brand new form of democracy in our television that means it's pure shite the whole way through. Fold BBC4 back into BBC1 with really specialist programs (THE LIFE OF CORNERS BY J R HEARTILY) into an online service that gets trailed heavily before and after other BBC 4 faire.

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sebzilla posted:

Can someone explain to me why iPlayer removes shows after a week and yet 4OD keeps them around forever and has even uploaded shows from before the advent of online streaming such as Whose Line Is It Anyway, Father Ted and so on?

iPlayer has then up for a week in full quality, 4od has them in perpetuity in, what? 320x240? That's your tradeoff.

# ? Mar 22, 2011 23:04

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