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The weird thing about Stella Street is that - much like The Good Life - it's set in Surbiton but not filmed there, because Surbiton isn't Surbiton-y enough.
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Prism Mirror Lens posted:Is this from the Demon Headmaster or something?? I had like a flashback to childhood reading it (and now I can't get The Queen's Nose music out of my head). Also, TV wise, Dark Season shat all over The Demon Headmaster.
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Mar 14, 2013 15:15
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Junkenstein posted:Different generation surely? I loved Dark Season, but Demon Headmaster was after my time. Watching some of Dark Season now, and I had totally forgotten all the laptops were basically slightly rebadged Toshiba T-1000s (BBC had started using them heavily, so my dad regularly brought one home) and I think the desktops were some model of Archimedes (A500?) - watching as a very young computer geek was pretty weird.
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Mar 14, 2013 17:55
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Radiapathy posted:What was the name of this show? I've searched on and off for years. It was back-to-back with Danger Mouse for a couple of years. The Great Egg Race I suspect - was it presented by Heinz Wolff? (are Egg Races a British thing? Very few mentions of an egg race that aren't an egg and spoon race as far as I can see)
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Aug 28, 2013 14:19
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CydonianKnight posted:Last night's Countdown was stellar as always. Although I'm not sure how they obtained permission for Sooty and Sweep and Soo to do.... that....
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Sep 14, 2013 21:44
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Oh my god - the opening segment of 8 out of 10 cats does countdown, the green room bit, was one of the most magical bits of TV I have ever seen!
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Sep 20, 2013 23:56
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thehustler posted:This is not always true.
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Sep 23, 2013 16:03
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Did anyone else watch "No sex please, we're Japanese" - even for the badly researched crap about Japan that usually gets put out that was poor. I remain convinced that the last good program about Japan that the BBC put out was the one where they interviewed me while I was dressed up as a schoolgirl...
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Oct 29, 2013 00:29
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Captain Mediocre posted:Well that kind of demands a youtube link at least.
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Oct 29, 2013 09:16
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onoflalks posted:As I think the old BBC Radio thread in RGD has now tumbled into the great beyond, can anybody tell me why this week's News Quiz isn't online yet?
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Nov 10, 2013 14:52
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Comfy Chairs posted:I just wonder how a channel that seems to be mostly funded by ads from payday loan companies thinks it's a good idea to air a programme demonizing the demographic their advertisers specifically target.
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Nov 17, 2013 11:38
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Chocolate Teapot posted:Actually, he started off doing crude cartoon adverts about two brothers smashing each other to death for then-independent video games shop Computer Exchange, which has somehow since morphed into a national chain (CEX). Tottenham Court Road Computer Exchange - and he was already a staff writer at the point he started doing those I believe. (CEX went to poo poo when they stopped selling imports - that was the beginning of them turning into a glorified pawn shop)
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Nov 29, 2013 11:50
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Xachariah posted:Sherlock comes back from wherever and immediately clocks one of the six random people in London he apparently spies on all the time as being into something dodgy (he's previously worked out that he was a North Korean spy?). I assume that was a reference to Lord Sempill who was a spy for the Japanese from at least the 1920s up until WW2. The government knew he was a spy, but did nothing, because he was too well connected. (More recently, Lord Mountbatten was tied up in a fascist plot to assassinate the queen and overthrow the government - aristocrats and people from "good families" seem to be far more likely than average to turn traitor, without being punished, so that part really didn't strike me as weird at all)
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Jan 3, 2014 19:57
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Junkenstein posted:That Nuts thing is brought up every single time. Is it not a parody of Danny Fackin' Dyer, or am I giving Nuts too much credit? I'm pretty sure I've seen interviews where he said the column was ghostwritten, and he never checked it, just cashed the cheques.
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Jan 7, 2014 13:26
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Rarity posted:How the hell is that real? 90s porn parodies made a real effort - Super Hornio Brothers, and the Beavis & Butthead porn parody date from the same sort of time. There's an Edward Penishands 2, but that I've never seen.
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Jan 17, 2014 17:46
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Irisi posted:It's an unusual way of bringing a show to the screen, even for the UK... It happens with comedies all the time (though there you quite often get the pilot on one channel, and the actual show picked up by another)
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Feb 13, 2014 23:54
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WastedJoker posted:We don't have anyone half as competent as Colbert/Stewart so there's no point trying to mimic their shows. The reason that a UK version of their stuff wouldn't work is that we don't have the type of "news" programme that they are parodying. You may as well complain that the US doesn't have anyone competent enough to run a local equivalent to Private Eye, which is a more legitimate gripe.
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Feb 18, 2014 17:40
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Captain Mediocre posted:Radio is where all the good stuff is for topical news. The Now Show and The News Quiz are both pretty great, but I can't imagine they would be anything but terrible if you tried to do them on TV.
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Feb 19, 2014 02:03
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Mr Beens posted:I just can't stand the current regulars - Sandi Toksvig, Jeremy Hardy and some other bloke who is on it all the time are a bunch of smug twats. Hugo Rifkind? Because he's more or less the anti-Jeremy Hardy surely?
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Feb 19, 2014 17:38
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Ponce de Le0n posted:As much as we'd like to think we have great taste in this thread, bear in mind bbc3's target audience probably love family guy and jack whitehall. BBC3's audience was 18-35 year olds. I suspect that the majority of people who post in this thread fall into that range (or have done during its' run) - and it was hitting a stunningly low percentage of the target audience. I'd be willing to gamble they were actually getting more viewers from CBBC's target audience, even.
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Mar 7, 2014 08:27
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There was a concerted effort to dumb down Horizon a good 10 or 15 years ago, and since then the only ones have been worth watching were actually made by PBS.
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Jun 18, 2014 12:47
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twoot posted:My Dobos Torte would've won bakeoff Where's the caramel, though?
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Sep 11, 2014 13:01
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Goldskull posted:Not one single person I now hasn't been enthralled by the Horror Channel since it kicked off a couple of weeks back. Wait til December hits and it turns into "The Christmas Channel" though.
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Apr 13, 2015 10:05
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Goldskull posted:I'm unsure on why it would turn into this, unless they show Christmas Horror films around then, of which there are many On Virgin at least, every December the Horror Channel turns into the Christmas Channel, and it's 24/7 Hallmark-y bullshit. I want to say there's another annual event they gimmick up for but Christmas is the one that stands out, as it's genuinely all month.
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Apr 15, 2015 00:33
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netally posted:Watching the semi-finals would ruin the main event. I like the element of surprise that comes with the really crazy acts. The really crazy acts tend to be voted out in the semis though, especially since they introduced jury voting.
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May 21, 2015 13:19
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To the best of my knowledge, the last time Adam Buxton did a show that got a commission for a second series, it was The Adam & Joe Show, so 15-ish years ago. No idea why, maybe he's just unlucky.
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Jul 27, 2015 12:26
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People vs Jerry Sadowitz, Family Affairs, Naked Jungle, Bring Me The Head Of Light Entertainment, and that show where the woman that David Beckham had an affair with brought a pig to orgasm.
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Aug 29, 2015 12:40
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J_RBG posted:I'd been led to believe this series was a lot better than recent ones and caught the series finale, having only watched the first episode of this series. For what it's worth you watch the two - by far - shittiest episodes of the series. The episode before the finale was great though, probably the best episode in the revival series so far.
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Dec 8, 2015 14:14
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Humans showed them that there's a fairly big market for awfully tired SF-for-people-who've-never-seen-any-SF-before and that lovely titles work too.
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Feb 9, 2016 13:17
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Pablo Bluth posted:Jerome Flynn (Game of Thrones, as if you didn’t know) Not in this thread, in this thread he's Jerome Flynn (Robson & Jerome, Soldier Soldier)
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Jul 28, 2016 12:27
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The Big Taff Man posted:you know theres been 5 celebrity series already aired on the BBC? There's a qualitative and quantative difference between "we did a few celebrity specials for long-established charity events in between the regular series" and "we're going to start off (our contract for 3 series) with a celebrity series"
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Sep 13, 2016 15:53
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The Big Taff Man posted:I'd love for you to explain how, given that the deal signed is for 3 years not 3 series, and the celebrity series they are doing is for a established charity event and will most likely follow the same format as the celebrity series done for the BBC? The article I read when the news broke said "3 series" and "1 series" not "3 years" and "charity special" - obviously things have clarified since though it looks like Mel & Sue won't be moving to C4 and remains to see if Paul & Mary will go.
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Sep 13, 2016 16:45
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The most impressive part of Young Hyacinth is the way they hired a lady in her 30s to play the role of a teenager. Still better than the new episode of Goodnight Sweetheart at least.
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Sep 26, 2016 14:09
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The Big Taff Man posted:According to my notes its because you like Stewart Lee, Tim Vine... If that's all it takes then you may want to note that I'm going to see Stewart Lee tonight and went to school with someone who was somehow related to Tim Vine (and the horsy-faced lady who got naked in the John Hurt version of 1984) Also - no Mel Giedroyc? Do you watch GBBO but just look away whenever Sue is on screen? ookiimarukochan fucked around with this message at 13:12 on Oct 11, 2016 |
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Oct 11, 2016 13:10
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Gorn Myson posted:Me too! Gonna own, I've been looking forward to this for ages. Please bring a sign saying "Stairs?" for easy Goon identification.
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Oct 11, 2016 14:17
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Pissflaps: you'd actually enjoy the new Stewart Lee stuff, he spent the last 1/3 of the evening talking about how awful everyone under 40 was.
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Oct 11, 2016 22:30
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Thrifting Day! posted:Rob Beckett and Aisling Bea announced as the new captains on the next series of 8 Out Of 10 Cats. Just 8 out of 10 cats though, not "does countdown" - it looks like they're going to do more episodes of both and this is the only way that the scheduling will work.
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Oct 13, 2016 00:06
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Paperhouse posted:I'm actually (distantly) related to Jeremy Beadle and have been to his house a couple of times. Once when he was alive and once when he was dead. Ask me anything. Do you also have one tiny claw-like hand? Doubtful Guest posted:Debbie McGee picked me up and hugged me. She used to go to the annual christmas event at the dancing school my sister went to (as she'd been taught to dance at the same school) and I remember thinking she looked much more attractive in real life than on the telly. When the potentially libellous rumours about her broke many years later I was most upset.
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Oct 18, 2016 19:54
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Taear posted:I'm sure he mentioned making another. By all accounts they filmed another and it's sitting in Sky's vaults waiting for the never-never time for it to air.
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Watched Sherlock, and I'm sorry but there is no house in RG1 like that guy's house, totally ruined my enjoyment of the episode
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