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I forgot that "All4", (I never remember it's called that), in addition to all its other issues, shows an ad if you pause the loving program you are watching. What a total garbage app.
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Remember Mark and his Ergonomic Management Keyboard? It's the one Peepshow quote that will be with me until death because how half arsed Channel 4's IT online attempts are.
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Rohan Kishibe posted:I forgot that "All4", (I never remember it's called that), in addition to all its other issues, shows an ad if you pause the loving program you are watching. What a total garbage app.
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Jun 10, 2021 18:17
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uBlock seems to get around their attempts to gently caress over adblocks.
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Jun 11, 2021 00:40
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Any UK Goon in their mid forties/early fifties will no doubt remember kids shows from their childhood such as Bagpuss, Ivor the Engine and The Clangers. There is a wonderful documentary being rebroadcast on iPlayer just now. It's a Timeshift film from a few years back about Oliver Postgate who made them, as well as loads of other great stuff. It avoids much of the cliches and crap that this could have had in other less sensitive hands. I strongly recommend a watch, it's fascinating. It maybe also explains my lifelong left wing socialist views. It's mindbogglingly how much Postage's politics are woven through them all. There's zero chance it'd fly nowadays, but I'm glad it maybe subliminally helped my generation become loony lefties. Timeshift series 9 6 Oliver Postgate - A Life In Small Films quote:Once upon a time, not so long ago, there was a man whose name was Oliver Postgate. He had a shed where he made things. https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00pht5q/timeshift-series-9-6-oliver-postgate-a-life-in-small-films
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Jun 11, 2021 10:01
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This is presumably the documentary in question, which appears to be available in full on YouTube. I've watched the first 10 minutes and it seems legit at least. It's only in 480p quality, but other than that is fine. Which is good for people outside the UK like me who don't have access to iPlayer. I think The Clangers is the only one of his oeuvre that I'm familiar with, but I'm also maybe just a bit too young to have been in the right age group to see a lot of it at 38. I know of several others, and I think my eldest sister was a fan of Bagpuss growing up, but I only ever saw The Clangers on television growing up the odd time. It wasn't even something I was particularly devoted to, but I definitely recognize them and remember some of the moments from episodes that I saw here and there.
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Jun 11, 2021 14:08
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I feel like my parents must have deliberately shown me a lot of old shite because I'm 29 and remember watching all that stuff growing up.
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Jun 11, 2021 14:20
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There was a revival of it in the 90s.
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Jun 11, 2021 14:26
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Was Noggin the Nog Postgate?
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goatface posted:There was a revival of it in the 90s. The revival was in 2015.
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Jun 11, 2021 15:35
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I think they were all released on video in the 90s, pretty sure that's how I saw them growing up.
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Comrade Fakename posted:The revival was in 2015. They showed the old stuff in the 90s (which is why I love Ivor the Engine) and did a Clanger remake in 2015 (which my daughter loves)
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Jun 11, 2021 16:40
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Bagpuss is quality gentle viewing for young kids today (as is Mr Benn). And now, the marvelous mechanical mouse organ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKlQl2Y2hYQ
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goatface posted:I think they were all released on video in the 90s, pretty sure that's how I saw them growing up. Yea I've seen a bunch of shows that were technically released when I was born or just after because they came out on VHS and my grandparents picked them up at car boot sales
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AttitudeAdjuster posted:Was Noggin the Nog Postgate? Yes, and because of weird repeats and colourization antics over several decades managed to be something both me and my dad enjoyed as children. As did Ivor the Engine.
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If you go on your home made perfect, cry at the VR plans and then gently caress off the design when building it you should have to pay a fine.
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Annabel Pee posted:Rewatching the whole of Would I Lie to You in the background from Season 1 to 15, Its a great little time capsule of UK comedy 10-15 years ago. As well as the awful fashion, and people who have passed since (tara palmer tomkinson, ronnie corbett are the last two I remember), I forgot how offensive humour was back then and how much we've progressed. Huh, I never knew TPT died, don't know how I missed that one. On a different note, did anybody watch the BBC's latest slice of misery Time? I thought it was pretty good but a bit rushed in the third episode.
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Chubby Henparty posted:Bagpuss is quality gentle viewing for young kids today (as is Mr Benn). And now, the marvelous mechanical mouse organ Bagpuss is just lovely. And the reason I call my cat 'fat furry catpuss' all the time.
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eleven extra elephants posted:Huh, I never knew TPT died, don't know how I missed that one. Dlist celebrity replaced by another vacant face on the conveyor belt of vaguely recognisable churn used to pad out these types of light entertainment shows. You could probably hang a wet cloth off a broom stick instead of using them and the audience would still watch the shows.
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I also missed that she died, and am searching through the participants of Celebrity Masterchef to try and identify the person I thought was her.
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Mr. Squishy posted:I also missed that she died, and am searching through the participants of Celebrity Masterchef to try and identify the person I thought was her. You'd have a better chance of identifying a fart in a blue cheese factory.
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I don't know who she is but that's kind of mean.
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Trying to remember the source of a vague memory I had earlier. Feels like its a 90s thing, maybe from KYTV? Anyway it's the stupidest gag, where the letters A R S E move around on the screen to form ARES VIDEO. Ringing any bells with anyone?
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EL BROMANCE posted:Trying to remember the source of a vague memory I had earlier. Feels like its a 90s thing, maybe from KYTV? Anyway it's the stupidest gag, where the letters A R S E move around on the screen to form ARES VIDEO. Ringing any bells with anyone? It's from The Fast Show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sc1DitLzFQk
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Jun 15, 2021 23:57
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Ahhhhh! Good work, that was going to drive me mad.
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eleven extra elephants posted:On a different note, did anybody watch the BBC's latest slice of misery Time? I thought it was pretty good but a bit rushed in the third episode. Yeah, same - part way through the third episode I thought it was going to be 6 parter and I'd jumped on it too soon, and would have to watch the rest unfold weekly instead of binge-watching. Forty minutes later, it was all over. Grim watch, good script, great performances. Standard McGovern offering.
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Testro posted:Yeah, same - part way through the third episode I thought it was going to be 6 parter and I'd jumped on it too soon, and would have to watch the rest unfold weekly instead of binge-watching. I worked on that show! Really tough to make during covid (shot from October to December last year) and we were holed up in Shrewsbury when the second lockdown came into effect. Wake up, film at the prison, £3 tesco meal deal for dinner in the hotel room you can barely leave, rinse, repeat. Really gratifying to see it being recieved so well. The show nearly went down in the first week due to a covid scare, I think the director spoke about it in an interview. 5 days into the shoot a bunch of cast (including SB) had to self isolate after an extra tested positive. Nearly took the whole production down before we reconfigured and shot a ton of Stephen Graham's story ahead of schedule. By the end of the isolation they had to do we were really running out of stuff to film.
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a lovely king posted:I worked on that show! Really tough to make during covid (shot from October to December last year) and we were holed up in Shrewsbury when the second lockdown came into effect. I'm in contact with a few people in the prison / post-prison services through my start-up, and this show is getting really, really good ratings from them - well done!
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a lovely king posted:I worked on that show! Ah that's really interesting! You did an awesome job; it kept me entertained. I only meant to watch one, and suddenly I'd watched all three (and I am not much of a binge watcher). Graham is one of those actors where I'll go out of my way to watch anything he's in. Speaking of McGovern, I watched Cracker a few years back, and I keep meaning to watch The Street, which I remember rating highly.
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I've only seen The Lakes of his, and the first series at least is excellent. Heart-rending, but excellent.
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a lovely king posted:I worked on that show! Really tough to make during covid (shot from October to December last year) and we were holed up in Shrewsbury when the second lockdown came into effect. Shrewsbury's my home town (don't live there any more though) and I can't tell if it was weird that I somehow recognised the prison when I was watching Time - I've never been inside the outer walls of Shrewsbury Prison either. Perhaps all prisons literally look the same.
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Total Meatlove posted:If you go on your home made perfect, cry at the VR plans and then gently caress off the design when building it you should have to pay a fine. Such a weird show. 50 minutes of 'here's 2 VR homes, choose one!' and then 5 minutes of 'so this is what that looks like in real life, with parts changed because you either didn't like them, or didn't have the budget, or the builders said it wasn't possible'. If this was the 90s I think the production company would pay for the refurb and you'd have to just like or lump the results. There was a show on Channel 4 just before christmas with Damon from Brookie buying a home for 2 strangers, so they could refurbish it and then sell it on at a profit, with the goal being to get enough from it to be the deposit on their own home. Only twice over 20 (or 25) episodes did someone manage to make enough money for a small deposit. Normally 2 people would work all their free time over 6 months and then get £3000 out of it. It won a TV BAFTA the other day.
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Just saw that Jonny Lee Miller is playing John Major in The Crown and now I can't stop laughing.
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GazChap posted:I hope they at least sprang for a decent hotel, or was it the lovely Premier Inn down the road a bit from the prison? Bingo.
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Time was really good. Stephen Graham is almost unfairly talented.
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Sentinel Red posted:Just saw that Jonny Lee Miller is playing John Major in The Crown and now I can't stop laughing. Have they announced who's playing Edwina Currie yet?
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ookiimarukochan posted:Have they announced who's playing Edwina Currie yet? No but I’m betting something along the lines of Rose Byrne or Christina Hendricks, with Aidan Turner as David Mellor and Dan Stevens as John Selwyn-Gummer.
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