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So can I get some recommendations here? I just recently stumbled upon The InBetweeners, and I really liked it. I figure there's got to be other great UK TV since the last great UK comedy I watched (Green Wing), so if you have any fairly recent comedy shows to recommend, I'd love to hear about them. On a side note, does anyone know of any good UK-centric TV discussion sites? I find it hard to pop my 'Merica bubble.
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The Scheme is just horrible and exploitative poverty porn, please don't watch it, it only encourages the bastards to make more.
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May 17, 2011 21:42
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tanglewood1420 posted:It's the first time I've seen Raef Spall in anything (I think, perhaps he's been in something else and has passed me by) and, once I got over the fact he really looks like his dad, I think he's really really good in it. Rafe has been absolutely fantastic, Ray is probably the gooniest psychopath I've ever seen. He just doesn't get how to be properly threatening, so he goes for standing really close and hitting things. The creepy dude in the hat seems like a more deliberately malicious person, but Ray is just loving terrifying.
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May 17, 2011 21:51
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pnumoman posted:So can I get some recommendations here? Well if you liked The Inbetweeners then you should bloody love Peep Show. Watch Peep Show.
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May 17, 2011 22:02
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I've only seen the first episode of The Scheme from back when they they first attempted to show it and I will be watching the rest. I disagree that it is 'poverty porn'. Substance abuse, anti-social behaviour, violence, self-destruction and all the rest are massive issues in Scotland and the show (from what I have seen) takes a look at them while maintaining a serious tone and admirably avoids turning its subjects into cartoon characters or figures of fun. The audience may do this anyway, but to glibly dismiss the film after one episode as 'poverty porn' does the film-makers a disservice in my opinion and assumes the worst of intentions.
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May 17, 2011 22:17
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Strom Cuzewon posted:Rafe has been absolutely fantastic, Ray is probably the gooniest psychopath I've ever seen. He just doesn't get how to be properly threatening, so he goes for standing really close and hitting things. The creepy dude in the hat seems like a more deliberately malicious person, but Ray is just loving terrifying. Because all shadow line talk is good talk I just want to add the moments with the pregnant girlfriend were crazy intense, absolutely brilliantly got across the need to keep your kid safe with the put your arms up stuff.
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May 17, 2011 22:29
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pnumoman posted:So can I get some recommendations here? Like somebody said, Peepshow as well as The Smoking Room, 15 Storeys High, Ideal and Him And Her all mostly recent so you might have a chance of buying or importing from EU Amazon.
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May 17, 2011 22:47
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SeanBeansShako posted:Like somebody said, Peepshow as well as The Smoking Room, 15 Storeys High, Ideal and Him And Her all mostly recent so you might have a chance of buying or importing from EU Amazon.
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May 17, 2011 23:47
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Him and Her started off a bit slowly, but really gathered steam and I am very much looking forward to a second series. Assuming one gets commissioned, not sure how good the viewing figures were. Just checked and apparently they start shooting the second series sometime this year, so yay.
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May 17, 2011 23:49
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Thanks guys, I'll go check those out. It's just so frustrating that there are entire countries that speak English and have their own great TV, but I have to forage for these shows. That, or wait for the inevitable US-remake, since we MUST redo every. single. foreign. show. that's really popular. Heaven forbid they let us watch the originals... (Props to BBC America, though, they try.)
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May 18, 2011 01:25
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tanglewood1420 posted:Him and Her started off a bit slowly, but really gathered steam and I am very much looking forward to a second series. Assuming one gets commissioned, not sure how good the viewing figures were.
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May 18, 2011 12:32
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pnumoman posted:So can I get some recommendations here? Friday Night Dinners or wahtever Simon Bird was in last
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May 18, 2011 13:03
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The Shadow Line might have some of the most pretentious lines i've ever heard in a drama for ages, but its got some brilliant one liners too. "That isn't my cat." "Typical loving British car chase." "Get over yourself and your Toyota Corolla" Jay Wratten is a really menacing character, despite the fact the actor keeps reminding me of David Walliams for some reason.
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The Saviour posted:The Shadow Line might have some of the most pretentious lines i've ever heard in a drama for ages, but its got some brilliant one liners too. Haha he reminds of Walliams all the time. I couldn't decide whether the 'typical car chase' was really poo poo or really good. The delivery on the Toyota Corolla line was excellent though.
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May 18, 2011 18:43
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This clip of Stewart Lee as a punk is my fave non FOF or TMWRNJ...thing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUY1QbdEDA4
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tanglewood1420 posted:It's the first time I've seen Raef Spall in anything (I think, perhaps he's been in something else and has passed me by) and, once I got over the fact he really looks like his dad, I think he's really really good in it. Hot Fuzz 
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May 18, 2011 19:52
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I was nearly sick with laughing so much at the last Stewart Lee. Good stuff. I noticed in the credits that the script editor was chris morris. Is this brass eye chris morris or somebody else called chris morris?
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May 19, 2011 08:30
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It's Brass Eye Chris Morris.
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May 19, 2011 08:37
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spe posted:Its like con air but on the ground. No roid'ed up super jailers made out of sides of brick in the picture, disappointed. Prove me wrong Louis and provide an accurate picture of US jails.
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May 19, 2011 09:16
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Yep, that was just as good as the first comedy vehicle. The whole '...whose let himself go' bit was excellent.
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May 19, 2011 18:45
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He really does look like Terry Christian.
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May 19, 2011 19:06
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Caught up with the second series of Psychoville the other night. The Tina Turner bit was amazing.
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May 19, 2011 19:34
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That's the best scene so far that hasn't had the Silent Singer in it. Utterly amazing.
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May 19, 2011 20:03
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I'm guessing at the rate of death of the cast that survived the first is they aren't planning for a second series.
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May 19, 2011 20:07
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BBC Four have just spent an hour on an ode to the A303. A road best known for traffic jams and ruining Stonehenge.
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May 19, 2011 21:58
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Pablo Bluth posted:BBC Four have just spent an hour on an ode to the A303. A road best known for traffic jams and ruining Stonehenge. Public service broadcasting at it's best.
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May 19, 2011 22:34
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Goddamn, Psychoville was awesome. Can't wait to see how the two new subplots figure into the main thing. Hancock 
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May 19, 2011 22:35
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Pablo Bluth posted:BBC Four have just spent an hour on an ode to the A303. A road best known for traffic jams and ruining Stonehenge. It's like a certain amount of BBC 4 output is just people getting their first "real" documentary on TV. That means you get a lot of bizarre subjects as they each try to stand out and get noticed while they show their understanding of style and pacing.
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May 19, 2011 22:38
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The Shadow Line is beautifully shot and scored and so forth, but I wish it was consistently funny. The humour is what made the opening so strong, and there are little bits of it throughout, like the man in black this episode ("be careful, it's a bit oily"). I know it's not intending to be a comedy, but it feels like the half of each episode that's winding up to or down from an achingly tense moment (normally including Jay) are just po-faced. e: argh goddamnit does every single loving piece of dialogue have to end with a question mark aaah. Mr. Squishy fucked around with this message at 00:40 on May 20, 2011 |
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May 19, 2011 23:53
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On Psychoville- can anybody remind me who the man on the train was? I think we were supposed to recognise him, but I can't remember who he was at all.
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May 20, 2011 13:04
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Noonsaliwah posted:On Psychoville- can anybody remind me who the man on the train was? I think we were supposed to recognise him, but I can't remember who he was at all. I think he was the guy at the public information office in the final episode of series one. The one who David confesses the murders to, but the man doesn't flinch or take him seriously. I could be wrong, but it seems likely to be him.
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May 20, 2011 13:57
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The new series of Comedy Vehicle is pretty great.
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FelixMeOneMoreTime posted:I think he was the guy at the public information office in the final episode of series one. The one who David confesses the murders to, but the man doesn't flinch or take him seriously. I could be wrong, but it seems likely to be him. Yes, that's him. Took me a while to remember who he was as well, and another friend texted me to ask who it was (luckily just after I'd figured it out). He was messing David around with bureaucracy because he isn't sure whether the murders occur in the right council area. Also, from the BBC's site: Tina Turner
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May 21, 2011 12:20
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I'll miss Lomax so much  avenge him Tealeaf!
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May 21, 2011 13:57
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Alan Jonson on HIGNFY reminds me why I don't usually bother watching it anymore.
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Cerv posted:Alan Jonson on HIGNFY reminds me why I don't usually bother watching it anymore. Surely it's about time they bought back Angus Deayton now? It's been nearly 10 years and I'm sure he's learned his lesson about not sleeping with prostitutes.
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How badly do you think Angus wishes that injunctions were around when he had his affair? Then again if he ever managed to get one we would lose one of the best HIGNYs ever
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Gram-O-Phone posted:Surely it's about time they bought back Angus Deayton now? It's been nearly 10 years and I'm sure he's learned his lesson about not sleeping with prostitutes. I've heard there's a lot of bad blood and he's really not interested in having anything to do with them.
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Cerv posted:I've heard there's a lot of bad blood and he's really not interested in having anything to do with them. Which is just as well, given that he's an unfunny, inexplicably smug twat of a failed actor who never brought much to the programme.
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Lady Galaga posted:How badly do you think Angus wishes that injunctions were around when he had his affair? Then again if he ever managed to get one we would lose one of the best HIGNYs ever I doubt it would have made any difference. As far as I remember, Hislop and Merton knew he had been up to it before and had told him if it happened again, he had to go. There's no way he could continue on a show like that if there was even a rumour of anything going on.
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