Be Excellent To Each Other

Aye, though I think he is genuinely interested and tries not to judge people and find out why they think such abhorrent things.

Oh, absolutely, but I have no doubt he's actually a very astute and sharp cookie. The thing is, if you're a bit weird or nasty, you are far more likely to let slip to someone who you don't think is going to drag you through fire for your views, so his act makes people drop their guard, and that's how he manages to get Some amazing moments on TV.

Interestingly, one of the few instances where someone called his formless act out for what it was and therefore closed down was when he did a program about Jimmy Saville. He never quite managed to get to him.

Saville had a lifetime of hiding his nature from the world. Well practiced

Yes, that's not I. Question, but he didn't fluster him and Saville specifically called him out on his naive and gullible act and why he employed it to try to lure the people he was with into a false sense of security to drop their guard.

Not TV but radio related. Radio 4 and Radio 4 Extra did some lovely horror dramas over the weekend. Radio Dramatisations of 'The Stonetapes', 'Ring' and 'The Exorcist'.

Rather than ante natal classes and the guided meditation stuff, they should get the blokes drunk and get them to watch Catastrophe. Absolutely brilliant.

Toast of London returns. Huzzah!

Move of BBC3 to online-only confirmed. Makes sense if that's where its core demographic are. I seldom watch it, to be honest, but am aware that it reaches vastly different groups to BBC4.

I would say I watch 90% of my BBC viewing via iplayer (be that through the skybox, my ipad or smart device connected to the spare TV)

95% of my BBC viewing is Cbeebies.

My Pet and Me is... I just can't... *sobs*

Luther returns soon!

To Cbeebies? That's certainly a new direction for the show.

I like most of the things they show on Cbeebies except for Tree Fu Fucking Tom. Such a little prick.

I dislike:

Mike the Knight - entitled twat
Kate and mimmim -shit
Rastamouse - gmir is ok to be a dick if you say sorry
Charlie and lola - take them on holiday to Portugal

I haven't watched cbeebies (apart from I did watch the first episode of new teletubbies - on iplayer just to see the difference to the old ones) in about 2 years, as my youngest child is now almost 7. After 15 years I am finally free (although there were lots of really good shows on there...)

Agree entirely on the above mentiond CBeebies twaddle.

Mr Tumble is deeply sinister. Though I'm reminded of this poster that was up at our local soft play a couple of weeks ago.

Kate and Mimmim - basically what happens when two parents do something far more interesting and important than entertain their child. It gets abducted by a purple nonce rabbit with the worst CGI imaginable.

Baby Jake - has anyone seen that? Freaky, awful, awful, awful, awful.

On the other hand, new Danger Mouse is tremendous.

In the Night Garden. It's like a fever dream.

ISIHAC returns, 18:30 tonight.

Woo!

I was completely flummoxed the other day when I was on a Northern Line train and it actually stopped at Mornington Crescent. I had no idea it had reopened.

An audacious open gambit! Forces the Momentum Circus mechanic into place. Leaves few options.

HmM. .

West Ham.

Ha! As if you're going to trick anyone with the reverse play tactic.

Waterloo, so I can invoke double call, and then Canning Town.

The exposure of the eastern flank lets me swoop into Bromley-by-Bow. If Mali gets his move wrong, he'll end up in Nip.

Surprised you'd do that on a Monday, given the contraflow system. One up and two down the middle for a cheeky Notting Hill.

Your quite obvious use of the "Kasimov Variation" can be easily countered with a move to Old Street.

Ha! Bermondsey. Obviously.

Allows me to enfilade to Liverpool Street, then tap in.

Leaves me a little backed into a corner there. I'm going to have to do the obvious and hit Bond Street

So that's a timer and a repetition reset, so I'm going to hit Bond street again just because I can.

Are we allowing extraneous flanges, as per the Robertson-Spassky accord? The double indicates so, which allows me to skirt outside to Barons Court.

Gosh, I've not had this much fun since that time Lionel Blair pulled off an officer and a gentleman in under thirty seconds.

Barbican.

Robertson-Spassky Accord. Protocol Objection. Go back 4 spaces (if sustained).

Apropos protocol, I never play Barons Court as it always ends up as a flame war with some bespectacled fuckwit who insists it should be Baron's Court.

You know who you are.

And while I'm having a moan, shouldn't a mod split this out, it's not on TV, is it?

Wait, did you not play a station?

So the restriction table is completely open, and previous modifiers are void.

I'm that case, I'm going for Mornington Crescent.

<polite applause>

Sexy!

Associated-Rediffusion showed a few matches in its early days but couldn't afford the rights so the only coverage is on Radio 4.

*flat stare*

I have a letter here from a Mrs Trellis that says Warhead is a git.

......did you not play a station? Nobody like a smart-arse. My protocol objection is still on the table, and must be sustained or dismissed before normal play can resume. THEM'S THE ROOLZ.

I declare a void void.

Just dropping this here...



Just in case anyone wants to meet Victoria and her friends in the flesh so to speak.

In!

I can't even do the online version (although I kick ass in the "missing vowels round" on the TV, for some reason).

Yeah, I'm rubbish at it and also don't have an unfathomable obsession with Victoria Coren.

New for this year is being able to apply as a single contestant to be matched up with team mates.

Or Tindr for Nerds as one Twitter user put it.

Next!

Like the 'Countdown' conumdrum, it's one of those rounds that you either see instantly or just can't unfathom. I do best in that round too, and yell out the answer (the joys of living by oneself).

I'm usually pleased if I get a total of 5 points throughout the other rounds.

I think I'll pass on this round of auditions. The BeeX team should be called the 'Bill S Prestons', obviously.

The missing vowels round is easier at home than in the studio apparently. We get to see the clue about half a second before the contestants, so most of the time they are actually buzzing as soon as they see it...

Please stop.

No, I don't get it either.

Apart from the Jubbly Funbags.

She makes me feel better about my pregnant/post pregnant boobs. I always think her boobs are about the same size as mine since the baby, then I noticed that hers were about twice the size of her head and feel normal again.

Just remembered to say that there's a special two-part Mr Sexy coming to BBC next week.