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Fatkraken posted:So, if they've blown their load on a cracked-up explosion NOW, in early September, what the hell is in store for the always cheerful Eastenders festive season?  +  , perhaps?
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Abel Wingnut posted:A friend of mine just finished the old version of Upstairs Downstairs and has gone far enough to say it is the greatest show he's even seen. So upon researching this and trying to verify the acclaim, I saw that Amazon reviewers and him jibed, but that the BFI TV 100 didn't even mention the series. Is the BFI TV 100 list terribly inaccurate and a bad guide of British TV shows? Is there some list that I could use to discover some great older British shows once I'm done with Upstairs Downstairs? They also didn't pick All Creatures Great And Small. According to their site: quote:The bfi TV 100 was chosen by members of the TV industry throughout the UK. Each member was given a 'big list' of 650 titles in 6 genres to vote for, and spaces to write in their own choices of titles not already listed. There's certainly some... interesting decisions in those lists - we don't know how large a sample was taken, but since it's all from the TV industry, there could well be some unusual biases to people's selections based on their area of expertise. ed: Aunty, ITV and C4 comissioned a top 100 sitcoms poll a little while back. Kerbtree fucked around with this message at 19:08 on Jan 2, 2011 |
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Brown Moses posted:Horizon could be good tonight, it's about the nature of reality, and the idea of a holographic universe. You've just made me remember Equinox, with the laser-mouth.
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themonkeythatcried posted:Wha.... what? Porn? Details please! That is just Wikipedia posted:Her books include Love 16 and Once More, with Feeling, about her attempt (with co-author Charlie Skelton) to make the best hard-core porn movie ever. This came off the back of their jobs reviewing porn films for the Erotic Review—a job which led them to believe that most of what they were watching was terrible and that they could make better films themselves.
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Pyrovile posted:I always thought there was a rule that you couldn't enter someone with an existing record contract and that's why we always entered new people. Is that just something I imagined? While there's nothing in the rules about it, I think there's an unspoken contract that we won't send The Rolling Stones or someone similarly high-profile. We should also shoot Lloyd-Webber and Cowell if they even look in it's direction. L-W because he really doesn't understand the show and made a bollox of it, and Cowell because he wants to. It might be a good idea to we should actually take up the offers from Jarvis Cocker, Morrissey and the like who keep saying they'll write it?
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Jan 30, 2011 13:41
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Junkenstein posted:So how come Lordi's song was available on an album a few months beforehand? There's a cutoff, and it's probably before the Semifinals and stuff that are barely publicised.
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Jan 30, 2011 13:58
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Speaking of poo poo - I made the mistake of watching Starship Troopers 3 last night. That's a well-deserved 1-star. Radio Times was on the money:quote:Anything good from Robert A Heinlein's classic sci-fi novel has long since been wrung out of the franchise I may have to get it on DVD on the offshot Verhoven is crying on the commentary.
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Feb 8, 2011 22:54
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Fatkraken posted:is that the one with like the cult leader or something? I think it was something to do with the singing not-a-nazi being psychic bug-buddies with one of those brain things and then a load of bollocks happened. Also, I think there was some sort of subtext, far, far too subtle for me to pick up that Paul Verhoven might not like religion. What definitely didn't happen was a bunch of space marines in battlemechs spent most of the movie stomping across a planet distributing explosions with gleeful abandon. That, might have been a good movie.
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Feb 8, 2011 23:10
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Ezzie posted:Richard Herring. Let's skip the in-between steps and go straight to what we're both thinking. Good Evening with Richard not Judy.
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'Cept he'd be kicked off after the second week for profusely swearing probably.
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NaDy posted:I wish I could get into Doctor Who but I just can't get over how tacky it all seems. I know it's made so kids can enjoy it too but I think the concept of it is awesome. If it was more mature and darker like a sort of cross between BSG, The Dark Knight and almost film noir style I would definitely get into it. Alas that will never happen. Perhaps you might enjoy Doctor Who's "mature-themed" sibling, Torchwood. 
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Mar 16, 2011 22:55
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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.
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The only figure I could find for EE's budget was £300mil from '09, which puts it at 20-25% of BBC1's budget for the same period. We really should consider taking it behind the barn and putting it out of it's misery, before it gets any older, madder and even more capable of convincing typecast panto-grade hams that they're never going to have to update their CV until they die. Nothing says we can't commission a couple of replcements, though. On an unrelated note, I'm mildly annoyed about iplayer. All the one-off documentaries and stuff from the beeb's radio sites disappeared when it was all folded into it. Tried to look up something from '02 Surprising what you don't notice is missing, till you look for it.
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Mar 23, 2011 23:41
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What's the collective noun for all the Chuckles, then? A guffaw of Chuckles?
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Ab Fab. Urgh, just been reminded how crap the vast, vast majority of 2DTV was. bleees posted:You need to add The Now Show and The News Quiz to the radio section. I dunno, those two are getting pretty long in the tooth. Kerbtree fucked around with this message at 23:22 on Jun 2, 2011 |
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Jun 2, 2011 23:18
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Mr Bean, perhaps? What about Glam Metal Detectives? Kerbtree fucked around with this message at 23:32 on Jun 2, 2011 |
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Jun 2, 2011 23:30
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bleees posted:While Just a Minute and ISIHAC are constantly fresh.. News Quiz & Now Show are pretty much the only decent satire around. Righto. COME ON TIM!
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Cerv posted:Since everyone has different tastes the list will, given enough time, encompass every comedy ever made. And 2.4 children, which is the proto-My Family. Nebulous, perhaps? And if you're doing the Now Show, throw Mitch Benn's Crimes Against Music on there.
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Z-Magic posted:I think it's Bill Bailey, but that's just because I don't like him as a comedian. You don't need to know the answers to wobble on aimlessly about pixies and trolls.
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Taear posted:It's not really realistic, it's more that they attempt to explain it. It's not just magic with another name. Haha motherfucker, you don't know shite. quote:At his recent keynote speech at the New York Television Festival, former Star Trek writer and creator of the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica Ron Moore revealed the secret formula to writing for Trek.
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Gorn Myson posted:The writers are trying to create entertaining weekly shows based around this premise and since its return, they haven't really written episodes which serve as a commentary for advanced technology. Going into it expecting them to do that is just destined to leave you disappointed, because its not the point of the show. Er, I think some folks must have missed (the point of) The Rebel Flesh/The Almost People, the first one of which was certainly very cyberpunk, and caused a gigantic debate in the Who thread about clone rights, consciousness, MisterBibs declaring his candidacy for Hitler mk II , and all that good stuff.Also, people complaining about characters in scifi having well-rounded beyond the point of being a single-issue robot are probably just aspies scared by people with fully functional personalities. fakeedit: I just found an interesting thing.
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Sargeant Biffalot posted:Star Wars is a throwback/tribute to serials like Buck Rogers though. Rip off was wrong, but I mean it's on the laserswords and space princesses side of the genre and didn't do anything particularly innovative with that. And it's pretty similar to Lexx and the like. I loved it but I think the visuals were always the biggest draw That's a funny way to spell Flash Gordon Also, Lucas has acknowledged the whole thing being a loveletter to Kurosawa.
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Zorba the Greek posted:New Torchwood? HELL YEAH. Hah! You think it's more Children of Earth, don't you?
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ChuckDHead posted:I find it odd watching Ade these days. It's very strange seeing him go ten minutes without putting his or someone else's head through a wall. I had a  moment when I saw the posters for the folk band go up in the next town over from me.
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Listened to the new Alvin Hall thing on iplayer - thoroughly unimpressed by the level of apology going on for internships.
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Rarity posted:Great. Because of this conversation I've now found a youtube channel with over 200 SMTV clips and am streamlining through them. There goes my weekend. Thanks a lot, guys. and I've been watching old Adam & Joe shows.
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Wot, no Look & Read and the Uncle Jack adaptions?
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Aug 7, 2011 14:13
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HERAK posted:Since people are identifying childrens TV from the 90s does anyone know the name of this series: People were turned into a giant green monster made from foam and stuff in Uncle Jack in Operation Green?
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Aug 7, 2011 19:24
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Rarity posted:Even though I subscribed to the Animals of Farthing Wood magazine as a kid, the only bit I remember now is Fox getting swept away on the river. Godammit, I think I'm about to go for another nostalgia binge You should probably be thankful you never read The Fox Cub Bold. It was big-time  . Some of the other books were pretty rough, too - I'm sure there was one about a really harsh winter, and wolves turned up and animals froze/starved to death.
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Aug 8, 2011 18:57
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goatface posted:Is that the one where they hunt vampires with wooden tipped bullets? Now now, they're not vampires, they're Code Fives.  Also, their handling of the school episode was pretty good, if I remember rightly.
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Cerv posted:Haven't seen that since it was first on in 98. Had completely forgotten Idris Elba was in it. Going to have to look it out again now. Whole lot's up on 4oD.
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Picked up the Darkplace DVD today, bloody hell the commentary is fantastic.
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Sep 24, 2011 22:21
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Wormophile posted:Whatever. I'm glad they do because that show has taught be a lot about anal fissures. A LOT. By any chance have you read Bob the Anal Fissure?
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Oct 1, 2011 21:43
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le chat posted:I just want a show called 'The middle class' starring all the most middle class British personalities in a very nice semi-detached/detached in London and we just watch them talk about the most wonderful stuff, how charming. Found the soundtrack. Ona a related note: seems like Mongrels S2 is go in November. 
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marktheando posted:Really the soaps are much less rage inducing than the endless property shows aimed at middle class people. If I see another rich dickhead spending millions on some eyesore barn conversion or something I think I might get the revolution started early. I'd be slightly less nastily disposed towards them if the vast majority of the folks you see on that kind of thing weren't tosspots who whine their little hearts out about the smallest thing in homes I'm only going to ever own by sacrificing You know who we need back on TV? Tim Hunkin. The Secret Life of Modern Life. Show us how OLED works by building stuff in your shed from old washing machines, Tim. Please?
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Akuma posted:That's not a huge amount of money for a house. Someone I know is in the process of selling their house for 400k+, outside London. They're not rich (although they're obviously not poor) and it's not some mansion. £400k would get you a bloody big house verging on the mansion-ish with a whacking great gob of land that'd be a drat sight bigger than my lawn, too around my neck of the woods and I suspect they'd only get bigger the further past the Midlands you go.
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SymfonyMan posted:As an American that loves UK panel shows I was wondering if there are any good ones that I'm missing out on. This kind of program doesn't really exist here in the US outside of something like Real Time with Bill Maher which is all news and politics. If you're okay with Radio, I'm Sorry I haven't a Clue.
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Pablo Bluth posted:4oD isn't working; drat you internet If you're using one of those pre-made HOSTS files for blocking ads and that, take out the realmedia.channel4.com entry. Trin Tragula posted:Why do people have to keep loving about with things that work? Why can't they just leave well alone? The bit of the iPlayer redesign that's really annoyed me is that they've got rid of the "big but not full screen" window size. Whose clever idea was that?
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If this lets me get back all the one-off stuff that used to be available on Listen Again that disappeared when iplayer turned up, I shall be very happy indeed.
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Yep, mongrels is still good.
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Sargeant Biffalot posted:The "can't turn off the adverts" stuff was one of the most scarily plausible things I've seen in a dystopia. I can't remember which book had it (perhaps something by David Brin), but what's next is probably eye-tracking and subsidised devices/services based on mandatory ad consumption. You will watch 60 seconds of adverts per 24-hour use period before the device's other functions are enabled. Your eye focus and movement will be tracked, to ensure that you are actually watching the adverts. If you do not watch the adverts, we will continue to show them until you have satisfied the requirement. That, or subsidised televsions that'll replace a certain quota of on-screen sufficiently "flat" vertical surfaces in a given with adverts. You will enjoy adverts whether you're watching a dvd, gaming or just idling with the beeb on!
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