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I never thought I'd see Stephen Fry dying on his arse. It's unspeakably sad, in a way, like watching a beloved uncle descend into dementia.
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Goddamn Shadow Line. I knew that it wasn't going to have the most sparkly unicorns of happy endings, but that was just unremitting. The bad guys won and the good guys (and there I include Bede) lost. Still, wonderful series, and gently caress the haters who don't get that the "hokey" elements are supposed to be deliberately arch.
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I'll never be able to enjoy video games, iDevices, reality shows or porn ever again. What an incredible hour-and-a-bit of television. I really hope Black Mirror becomes a regular strand, maybe with Brooker in a show-runner role if he can't write loads of episodes. Allow talented writers to go wild with their darkest observations on where society may be heading. Edit: Do we reckon that forest at the end was real, or had he simply upgraded to bigger screens? Matinee fucked around with this message at 00:37 on Dec 12, 2011 |
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I thought Probable Goon Charlie Brooker's 2016 Wipe was good. It was funnier than its felt in recent years (probably in the face of the subject matter) although the Brexit sequence soundtracked by that synth tune from A Clockwork Orange gave me a flutter of genuine anxiety.
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I've always loved his music choices (not least his use of Grandaddy) but his shows haven't half ruined Beethoven's 7th for me.
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I thought Sherlock was a cracking episode after last week's bilge, largely because - surprise, surprise - the show works best when they take the skeleton of a Conan Doyle story and flesh it out with modern trappings that make sense. The always-good Toby Jones was good as the Jimmy Savile/Alan Sugar chimera. But the Mary headghost thing was weird because immediately before watching I'd finished a binge of River. What was the thread consensus on that? It to me felt like there was a really lean and succulent movie/three-parter buried in a lot of unnecessary fat over six episodes.
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Jan 10, 2017 15:39
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I had a dream a few weeks ago that Roger Allam was hosting the Crystal Maze. he was also wearing lipstick. Ill-advised glimpse into my psyche aside, I can't help but feel Channel 4 missed a trick there.
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Jan 19, 2017 15:28
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Watching The Moorside with someone who doesn't know the whole Shannon Matthews story is an interesting thing. It actually works as a regular mystery/drama with very few winks at the audience, though he's already clocked that there's something rum with Karen Matthews. Obligatory Sheridan Smith is a National Treasure, etc etc.
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Feb 21, 2017 11:24
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Alan Partridge sending up the vacuity of the One Show is an excellent thing. Goons: does anybody know of any recent fake interview comedies - totally scripted stuff like Knowing Me Knowing You and Man To Man with Dean Learner? It was always one of my favourite micro-genres but I'm not sure if there's even been a decent one since Dean Learner, and that was (gently caress) ten years ago. Anybody recall anything?
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Jul 13, 2017 10:00
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Those Peter Cook things are fantastic, yeah. I was thinking about Mrs Merton/Ali G, and how the closest we have to that these days is the abandoned-at-a-nunnery deformed bastard descendant that is Keith Lemon, and became quite depressed.
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Jul 13, 2017 12:13
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Sorry to jump back a bit, but I have found that Monkey Dust is the perfect show to give to friends who have only moved to the UK in the past handful of years - and who ask for a TV show that "truly encapsulates what it's like to be British". What I'd give for it to have run ever since.
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Jul 29, 2017 22:55
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n'thing the recommendation for that Sherlock analysis video. After the last episode of the fourth series I went back and re-watched A Study In Pink and A Scandal In Belgravia (which I used to like despite the SuperAwesomeKickassDominatrix horseshit) and they were drudgy dreck wrapped up in a lot of woosh-bang camera movements. Even when a show like, ooh, maybe Dexter? became a laughable joke in its later seasons it wouldn't spoil how neat those first few seasons were. Sherlock became poo poo in such a way that it actually taught its viewers, step-by-step, how it was always poo poo. To quote that video, it's almost avant-garde.
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Jul 31, 2017 14:22
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I'm not sure where else on these forums I could make a post about this, but the Popbitch messageboard closed today. That, along with b3ta and, natch, SA, taught me everything I know about posting and shitposting and wasting valuable youthful time on the internet.
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Jul 31, 2017 23:38
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No relation, I take it? Did any goon ever get a story in the newsletter? I once emailed in a spectacle I'd witnessed involving a certain well-tanned dancer and TV personality acting inappropriately in the Covent Garden branch of H&M, but it apparently wasn't interesting enough. Matinee fucked around with this message at 01:13 on Aug 1, 2017 |
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Aug 1, 2017 00:51
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Just a reminder for anyone who hasn't got into it that Bob Mortimer has a very excellent football podcast called Athletico Mince which is about anything but football.
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I thought The Cuckoo's Calling was a pretty decent, albeit not life-changing, little gumshoe story, but The Silkworm was total pap. The book was a fun read to blast through on a very long train journey, but because they only had two hours for that one (for some reason), they cut out pretty much all the characters and grit that made the book interesting. Also the book-within-a-book is this Herionymous Bosch hellscape that would be difficult to film on a blockbuster budget, so the flashes we got looked like something from an art school end-of-year show.
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Sep 23, 2017 21:57
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Isn't it pretty much agreed nowadays that John Peel was pretty suss back in the day?
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Oct 1, 2017 14:36
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I thought the first series of Doctor Foster had some nice tense suburban comedy-of-manners stuff going on, albeit rendered in a super-saturated way, and my memories of what really stood out were scenes at a BBQ, a dinner party (and maybe a parent's evening..?) etc where the drama came from big crowds of characters bouncing around a central conflict. So I don't really get why they hamfistedly wrote out every single secondary character, leaving us with two broken unsympathetic weirdos being cunts to each other. I guess Mike Bartlett decided he wanted to write a thriller or something, but the whole second season was strangely ponderous. Me and the other half were just laughing during the Big Moments Of Drama in this last episode. Pap. Also, yeah, its weird that each episode gets three or four sidebar stories on newspaper sites, like its loving Game of Thrones or something.
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Oct 3, 2017 23:44
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BBC employees have access to something called BBC Redux, which is an archive of every single thing broadcast, TV or radio, since (I think) 2006. They're even downloadable in your choice of formats, no faffing with iPlayer's interface (which hangs a lot on me since the last redesign) What I'm saying is, time to get a job at the Big British Castle. edit: when I was first shown Redux by a friend who works at the BBC it was like going through the monolith in 2001. How I miss the mad two-day download binge I went on when they left their job. Matinee fucked around with this message at 22:05 on Jan 14, 2018 |
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Jan 14, 2018 21:38
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What's stopping Sky and ITV from putting up their back catalogue archive too?
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Jan 15, 2018 12:05
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When I was back home recently, I found a book of Paul Jennings short stories (that were adapted to make up Round The Twist). Every one of them seemed to involve main character either pissing themselves, or pissing on other people, or threatening to piss on others. I wonder how many fetishes germinated from that man's work.
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Apr 17, 2018 12:18
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Zig and Zag once interviewed Donald Trump, who even in the midst of bankruptcy, insisted on the byline WORTH $1.5 BILLION. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5N3zdRsivwk It's weird to see old videos of Trump like this actually. He's still saying the meaningless hyperbole salad he does today, but his brain hasn't turned to pudding yet.
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Just yesterday Popbitch posted a review of the weird psychosexual language of a kids book he wrote: http://popbitch.com/2018/06/lit-wank/
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Also his episode of The Thick Of It is one of the funniest eps of British comedy ever made
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgjRdSm_qmI It's funny how Karl Pilkington has a sitcom coming out that looks a billion times more appealing and interesting than Ricky Gervais' upcoming "suicidal guy decides to be a dickhead to people" trash fire. Even if that's just damning with faint praise. edit: Also I'm glad that Gervais' name doesn't seem to be attached to this at all. Matinee fucked around with this message at 13:14 on Jul 13, 2018 |
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There was a line in a recent Stewart Lee column about how his generation of comedians had all basically assumed that political correctness was a done deal and we were all on, if not the same page, then at least the same chapter when it came to what is acceptable/offensive and what isn't, and there was comedic mileage in poking at the boundaries of that, but that poo poo doesn't fly any more and comedians have had to regroup and rethink their approach. Ricky Gervais either didn't get the memo or lacks the talent/inclination to rebuild his act, place your bets now. edit: it was this column about Morrissey: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jul/08/how-to-treat-morrissey-stop-listening-to-him-stewart-lee Also, Richard Bacon has been brought out of his coma after successful treatment, which is very good news but I was going to make a Girlfriend In A Coma joke to really tie this post together. Matinee fucked around with this message at 16:18 on Jul 13, 2018 |
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Jul 13, 2018 16:08
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You can, like, do that from a Mac, man.
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Jul 21, 2018 00:45
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHeQeHstrsc That was amazing. I know he has a few fanboyish blind-spots, and he maintains that Minions is one of the funniest movies of the last few years, but I always use Kermode as an acid test for a movie I'm on the fence about seeing. Also big respect to him during his Infinity War review basically admitting that maybe he's too old-fashioned for what mainstream cinema has become. Rare to see that lack of ego with critics. He's got a good doc series just started on iPlayer which looks at moviemaking conventions genre-by-genre. Recommended.
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Jul 23, 2018 16:24
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What was the name of the kids show - almost entirely sure it was CBBC in the early 90s - that was about a gang of kids trying to fake an alien landing to (I think) scare a neighbour who was being a bastard to them for some reason. There were several episodes where they had to raise money to buy a genuine meteorite so it would all appear real, but when they staged the alien landing in the final episode it was a crap wobbly robot that the props department had clearly knocked up for 40 quid. Does that ring any bells with anyone?
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Heavy_D posted:Especially this week while Kermode was busy melting down about Mamma Mia... I saw this tonight and had a similar reaction to Kermode. Really not my sort of thing usually, but Christ, what a delightful, delightful movie. Make sure you stay til the very end for one of the best post-credits scenes I've ever seen.
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SEX BURRITO posted:Is it actually bearable to sit through? I haven’t seen the first one. Haven’t they run out of good ABBA songs to use? I can imagine it being unbearable if you're some soulless husk who somehow hates ABBA. They've still got plenty of good songs they use, and they use some of the big hits at key moments. Though the first one was definitely the Greatest Hits more so than this one. I normally loathe most musicals - jukebox musicals especially - but its a bunch of great actors having a great time and singing ABBA. Marvellous. It's a silly, happy, emotional and fun film that you should definitely treat your mum to 
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Jul 26, 2018 15:12
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I know South Park turned into a gross libertarian/good people on both sides shitshow, but they kinda nailed TV providers with this one: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x15ij62
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Jul 29, 2018 22:20
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Virgin should be relieved they didn't lose ITV2 during Love Island season.
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Jul 30, 2018 21:39
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Barry Chuckle has died 
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Aug 5, 2018 08:54
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Nah, he was the EDL one. That was a milkshake duck moment for me.
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Aug 5, 2018 10:56
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Rondette posted:Matt Berry is doing an album covering his favourite theme tunes, being released October. I may be excited about this. He's turned Are You Being Served into a super sexy groove https://soundcloud.com/acidjazzrecs/matt-berry-are-you-being-served-1
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Aug 16, 2018 16:39
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I think our tastebuds have just been spoiled by the amazing SA photoshop threads over the years.
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Jed Mercurio's new show Bodyguard is really good. I only got round to binging Line of Duty fairly recently - and loved it - but I was surprised at how immediate Bodyguard feels compared to the methodic vibe of Lind of Duty. The first 20 minutes or so especially is a cracker - it's like they simmered down five episodes of 24 into an opening act. Big thumbs up recommendation, though I wish I'd left it a few weeks so I could blast through all of it in one go. Matinee fucked around with this message at 09:26 on Aug 28, 2018 |
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State of Play is indeed amazing. I threw on the DVD a few months ago and my flatmates who hadn't seen it all drifted in at various points during the first episode and were hooked. We ended up blasting through the whole lot in one go. Though I had a moment of realisation at how old it is with all the characters smoking like chimneys in caffs and pubs.
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There was that scene with the newspaper owner telling Bill Nighy to shut the story down who was probably being leaned on by the 'bigger picture'. That felt a bit like unfinished business. Maybe a story about how the corrupt and powerful (a tautology if ever there was one) bend the media to their own agenda?
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