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Plucky Brit posted:iPlayer has an absolutely fantastic Who Do You Think You Are with Patrick Stewart, looking into his father's experiences with WW2. Second this - it's not often one of these teases out something quite so deeply personal.
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NaDy posted:Terry Nutkins died. I remember him more from Animal Magic. God I'm old.
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7seven7 posted:Limmy's Show was amazing. I'd never seen anything quite so bleak yet uplifting. If it ever gets another series I'll be a very happy man. He was saying on twitter that they've completed filming on another series just a week or so ago.
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The documentary about photojournalist and war photographer Don McCullin that was on BBC1 last night was wonderful. Very powerful imagery, and deeply interesting and moving thoughts from the man himself on his life and work. He's very thoughtful about what it means to record horrific events, and the level to which he felt he could or should intervene. Highly recommended. It's part of the Imagine strand from Alan Yentob, but don't let that put you off - Yentob only introduces the film. Some of it is very harrowing though, so beware if you're feeling a bit fragile.
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thehustler posted:This ones even worse: http://youtu.be/tqhEpjOf__A I think I aged visibly watching/listening to this. Bloody hell.
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VogeGandire posted:Even if you don't actively watch it, tune in anyway because Adam Hill deserves to be way more famous than he is. He does indeed. I saw him once in Edinburgh at the Pleasance, last show, about 1:30am when it started. He was tired, the audience was very drunk, but he charmed the place masterfully - just such a warm and funny man.
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marktheando posted:I heard a rumour about someone who appears on QI and insists on being given the questions ahead of time. Has to be McGrath right? One of the Elves posted something somewhere that first-timers can get a look at the topics in advance, on the grounds that it can be a bit intimidating otherwise.
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Private Eye posted:Life story is utterly bloody gorgeous That 400ft base jump by the two-day-old Barnacle Geese!
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Irisi posted:But only if you don't mind ending up in a fetal position and rocking back and forth in utter dread by the end of each episode. Just caught up with the third episode and, well, what you said.
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reformed bad troll posted:let's play darts for comic relief is comic relief officially jumping the shark Bob Mortimer's carpet advocacy though...
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justcola posted:Richard Bacon and Una Stubbs That's a very Partridge/W1A combination.
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XMNN posted:4od is shite and I hate it. That is all. It's much better than the STV player, which seems to use smoke signals to send you the data.
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gently caress TFIF. It was always wanky lad bollocks. The Tube was the great show. Sadly, Jools Holland, Leslie Ash and Muriel Grey are all different people nowadays, and poor Paula Yates is dead, but this is what you used to get on your tea-time music show on Channel 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLFpYjjQsqc The Cramps https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUePUyzY_5A Iggy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqf_EXBZxK8 The Fall (niche) https://vimeo.com/81370136 Cocteau Twins https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znjRf1zh2fA Killing Joke https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUxaPoy8uWM U2, with Bono showing proto-wanker tendencies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUdZIpveWnc REM when they were children https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCB835WJsgs The Bunnymen Sure, it's all white, all the time, but at least no band as plodding and dull as Reef or Ocean loving Paint Colour Scene would have been given studio time. TheHoodedClaw fucked around with this message at 01:43 on Jun 13, 2015 |
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reformed bad troll posted:I would rather listen to Ocean Colour Scene Why do you hate music, life, the universe and everything? It's just a generational thing I suppose. TFI Friday just seemed a bit safe and mundane compared to The Tube.
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WeAreTheRomans posted:Implying that watching the Tube is gonna blow the lid off your bourgeois existence or something. Paula Yates was the worst Nothing as complicated as that, heh. It's just what you are exposed to at about 13 seems much more vital. Anyway, forgive an old man for having a nostalgia fest late on a Friday, and thinking that it was a good idea to post the links in this thread. I've got a really bad hangover right now, so please shooosh. You're right about Paula though, but she was the worst in a good way.
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Flatscan posted:Have I Got News For You starts next week. They'll say something, if only to take the piss out of Hislop. And the first episode is hosted by Jeremy Clarkson.
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marktheando posted:I'm sure the pigfuckers best friend and neighbour will give him a real hard time. Well, if he doesn't then he's going to get all the grief on the show going in his direction then, isn't he? It's win-win for the viewer.
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Sep 22, 2015 21:06
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GazChap posted:And God yeah, Ghostwatch. I was a kid when that was aired and I had to nope out at a bit where a wall mirror shakes itself off the wall when the cameraman points at it. It aired a week or two after me first getting my own place to live, a creaky, rather dark old Victorian-era flat. Mr Pipes freaked the shite out of me, so he did. I remember trying to think of some excuse to phone my mum before I went to bed (I was 24). Several spliffs before watching didn't help, I suppose.
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The three things that have most freaked me out: Jaws, (aged 8, actual proper nightmares), Threads (about 16 I think, freaked the whole school out) and the aforementioned Ghostwatch. Brrr
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Cuffs is the late-era Brookside of police dramas, and that isn't necessarily a bad thing.
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Hijo Del Helmsley posted:It's like watching a year of The Bill on fastforward. Hahahaha, that is the perfect description.
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Nov 26, 2015 00:59
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SeanBeansShako posted:Also while we're talking about ace telly, I got a surprise DVD present from a relative. It was Time Trumpet. The Tesco sketch is probably peak Iannucci.
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PlantHead posted:The acting was particularly brilliant, loved it. Agreed, and it's also one of the most beautiful-looking things I've seen on TV.
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Rondette posted:yep! oh but he went to some GLASGOW school of art so it was DIFFERENT than if it was done by some random florist from Slough. That's just really not good. "I'll have a go at a bit of sky, oh maybe not, errr". There's nothing there to suggest the he has an eye for *anything*. It's laughably poor.
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BizarroAzrael posted:So apparently Ade Edmondson has been cast in Star Wars VIII. I hope he has a frying-pan shaped light sabre.
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Bacon Terrorist posted:The Lost Honour of Christopher Jeffries is excellent. Jason Watkins is amazing in this
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ookiimarukochan posted:Sherlock's secret sister had literal loving magic powers. Of course, Sherlock has abilities that are completely not magic powers.
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Gum posted:They also didn't have widespread chip and pin till very recently. The US is bizarre- very wealthy and advanced but your average person often has to deal with technology that would be considered decades out of date in most of the first world They've got literally thousands of retail banks, so widespread adoption of new technology is inevitably slow in that sector.
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This is ancient history I suppose, but there was a brief and glorious board war between the media flibbertigibbets at Popbitch and the baby-eating anarchists of Urban75. That was fun.
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BSam posted:Also I'm really enjoying Richard Osmans House of Games. It's quite the mental workout for a shoes-off, flop-on-the-couch tea-time quiz show, but it's really fun. They got good celebs for the first week, and next week looks pretty good too.
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Julio Cruz posted:Myleene Klass was on Celebrity Mastermind once. She picked Sex and the City (TV series only IIRC) as her specialist subject and got something ridiculous like 15, then lost anyway because her general knowledge was atrocious. Years ago I watched a World Mastermind Final type thing - the winners of the UK, Australian, Canadian, whatever versions. The guy who won it chose The Lord of the Rings as his subject - OK, lots of names etc but pretty manageable. One of the other contestants chose Agriculture. Just Agriculture - all of it, everywhere, ever.
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SEX BURRITO posted:I just saw an advert for Heathrow Express with the Krankies and the older Jeanette Krankie gets, the more terrifying she becomes. She looks like a school boy with that rapid ageing disease. I'm shook. Classic images: https://twitter.com/CameronYardeJnr/status/941425650463858693
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