General Purpose UK TV thread

Grim... · **Posted:** Thu Sep 22, 2016 13:31

Or James Van Der Beek.

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49232

James Van Der Beek

markg · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 16557

Most people who aren't arseholes wouldn't slag off someone's cake just to make them cry. Unless we're positing that being on a cake programme is something like the situation created for Milgram's famous studies into obedience.

myp · **Posted:** Thu Sep 22, 2016 13:41

Or Ricky Gervais.

Oh

MaliA · **Posted:** Thu Sep 22, 2016 13:45

markg wrote:

If someone appears on telly ostensibly as themselves then it's pretty legitimate to form some judgement about them based on that. Unless they're actually Larry David and that's the whole joke.

Well, yes. And Top Gear's Clarkson is the oafish, relic of his time, wishes the empire still existed character. I am not saying that Clarkson is the reverse of this, but it is written that way

myp · **Posted:** Thu Sep 22, 2016 13:47

MaliA wrote:

markg wrote:

If someone appears on telly ostensibly as themselves then it's pretty legitimate to form some judgement about them based on that. Unless they're actually Larry David and that's the whole joke.

Well, yes. And Top Gear's Clarkson is the oafish, relic of his time, wishes the empire still existed character. I am not saying that Clarkson is the reverse of this, but it is written that way

But they've won awards for unscripted telly, so which is it?

MaliA · **Posted:** Thu Sep 22, 2016 13:48

markg wrote:

Most people who aren't arseholes wouldn't slag off someone's cake just to make them cry. Unless we're positing that being on a cake programme is something like the situation created for Milgram's famous studies into obedience.

It forms a watchable narrative with good and bad. The contestants probably shouldn't invest so much of their hopes, dreams and ambition on making cakes but as they do, that fine line between victory and emotional breakdown. It is a constructed reality.

Grim... · **Posted:** Thu Sep 22, 2016 13:48

markg wrote:

Most people who aren't arseholes wouldn't slag off someone's cake just to make them cry.

They're not crying because he "slagged off their cake", they're crying because they did a shit job in a competition.

In other news (via Popbitch):

Quote:

And, if Mary's departure isn't bad enough news for GBBO fans, want to know the names currently circulating as being in the frame to replace Mel and Sue?
Gok Wan and Alan Carr.

Grim... · **Posted:** Thu Sep 22, 2016 13:48

Lonewolves wrote:

MaliA wrote:

markg wrote:

If someone appears on telly ostensibly as themselves then it's pretty legitimate to form some judgement about them based on that. Unless they're actually Larry David and that's the whole joke.

Well, yes. And Top Gear's Clarkson is the oafish, relic of his time, wishes the empire still existed character. I am not saying that Clarkson is the reverse of this, but it is written that way

But they've won awards for unscripted telly, so which is it?

Hahaha oh my God, seriously? Did you forget why they couldn't collect the award?

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49232

Didn't Clarkson say he was busy writing the script for that week's show, or something?

myp · **Posted:** Thu Sep 22, 2016 13:59

I can't remember - it was a long time ago when it used to be good.

MaliA · **Posted:** Thu Sep 22, 2016 14:01

http://jalopnik.com/how-we-made-top-gear-1713882209

Grim... · **Posted:** Thu Sep 22, 2016 14:07

Cras wrote:

Didn't Clarkson say he was busy writing the script for that week's show, or something?

Yup.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38459

Mr Russell wrote:

#BurtTank

Dammit, you've got me archive crawling now.

Mr Russell · **Joined:** 6th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 12243

I would have posted more hashtags but it seems to only linkify the first one in a post.

myp · **Posted:** Thu Sep 22, 2016 14:50

#come #on #grimdotdotdot #step #up #your #game

myp · **Posted:** Thu Sep 22, 2016 14:51

Weird.

Grim... · **Posted:** Thu Sep 22, 2016 14:55

Haha every other one. God damn regex.

Grim... · **Posted:** Thu Sep 22, 2016 15:08

I know how we can settle the Paul Hollywood debate!

He can come to MeatUp 2017 and make the burger buns.

MaliA · **Posted:** Thu Sep 22, 2016 17:29

Or the cottage. There's room now Pinot hasn't RSVP'd

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38459

Did anyone watch the new Red Dwarf?

Grim... · **Posted:** Fri Sep 23, 2016 15:28

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38459

Grim... wrote:

Yes.

Good

Grim... · **Posted:** Fri Sep 23, 2016 15:29

No, it wasn't.

myp · **Posted:** Fri Sep 23, 2016 15:36

Grim... wrote:

No, it wasn't.

I gave up after that first one they did on Dave.

Grim... · **Posted:** Fri Sep 23, 2016 15:39

It was certainly better than that.

Malc · **Posted:** Fri Sep 23, 2016 15:39

Lonewolves wrote:

Grim... wrote:

No, it wasn't.

I gave up after that first one they did on Dave.

The Bladerunner one?

That was alright (certainly better than the series before it) The full series on Dave was better again than the mini series, not seen this latest one yet, but I'll probably watch it tonight

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38459

It's telling that I, being a person that can quote the first 6 series almost verbatim, forgot that it was even on. I only watched the last series once through and can't remember a thing about it.

Oh, wait. Lister fell in love with a vending machine and they met Jesus. I think. Maybe

myp · **Posted:** Fri Sep 23, 2016 15:53

The old ones have not aged well either. It's all rather disappointing.

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49232

Ban request.

Wait! I'm a mod!

Ban.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Fri Sep 23, 2016 16:22

Lonewolves wrote:

Grim... wrote:

No, it wasn't.

I gave up after that first one they did on Dave.

The one about Cat's feet?

Findus Fop · **Joined:** 14th May, 2009 **Posts:** 4299

Zardoz wrote:

Lonewolves wrote:

Grim... wrote:

No, it wasn't.

I gave up after that first one they did on Dave.

The one about Cat's feet?

No, you're thinking of the one about Dwayne Dibley's paws.

myp · **Posted:** Fri Sep 23, 2016 22:44

Cras wrote:

Ban request.

Wait! I'm a mod!

Ban.

It's true though. I still enjoy it for the nostalgia factor, but it's a bit naff.

Grim... · **Posted:** Sun Sep 25, 2016 23:09

I'm watching "when magic tricks go wrong" right now.

Some of it is fucking horrific.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38459

Currently watching All Aboard! The Country Bus on the iPlayer. 2 hours real-time bus journey through the Yorkshire Dales. Love it.

asfish · **Joined:** 5th Dec, 2010 **Posts:** 3353

The Fall S3 starts tomorrow night on BBC2, it was shown on RTE last week maybe an episode on the NG for those who can't wait!

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 25586

I've just watched this: Scotland and the Klan: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b07yjk0j about the KKK and its links to Scottish ancestry and clansmanship. There are photographs of hanged men, so please be warned about some of the historical imagery.

One of the most frightening things within was that so much of the recorded rhetoric of the KKK seems to be indistinguishable from a D. Trump speech, also the numbers of gate organisations still active in the U.S.

Grim... · **Posted:** Thu Oct 06, 2016 12:26

Is it illegal to be in the KKK in the US, or is it protected under "free speech"?

Kern · **Posted:** Thu Oct 06, 2016 12:27

Mimi wrote:

I've just watched this: Scotland and the Klan:

Looks interesting. Will have to Iplayer it.

I don't know as much about the Reconstruction/post-reconstruction as I really should. Probably because it gets tricky and depressing very very quickly.

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 25586

They gave numbers of hate groups and said there was a large proliferation of KKK identifying groups (I guess NEO KKK, if you will). Maybe by being a 'KKK identifying group' it is technically different enough to distinguish you as different from the KKK? I'm not sure to be honest, but they had 'KKK'written on their flags.

It might also vary by state, I suppose?

Kern · **Posted:** Thu Oct 06, 2016 12:31

Also a case of whether what they're doing is illegal, as opposed to just wearing a white sheet and being dicks. The Klan Act passed during Grant's presidency was able to crack down on almost all of their activities such as preventing access to the polls, but after Reconstruction ended it fell into abeyance.

Curiosity · **Posted:** Thu Oct 06, 2016 12:32

Grim... wrote:

Is it illegal to be in the KKK in the US, or is it protected under "free speech"?

It's legal, but most people joined the NRA instead.

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 25586

Yes, a quick Google suggests it is legal, but that there have been calls to classify it as a terrirust organisation which would then make it illegal.

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14488

Trailer for Planet Earth II

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14488

Interview with Charlie Brooker - mainly black mirror but touches on a lot of other stuff

http://www.vulture.com/2016/10/black-mi ... er_vulture

Satsuma · **Joined:** 20th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14356

Is anyone keeping up with the new season of Red Dwarf? It's terrible, right? Right. Then fourth episode isn't bad-bad but the whole series really needs someone who knows about making TV shows to give it a massive kick up the arse. The editing is terrible (see the end of episode 4) and the 1980's Saturday night television laughter-track is appalling. It's spliced after every line regardless of the "joke" and it's so fucking loud that it sometimes drowns out some dialogue slightly. Goddamn, it's so sickening that they could actually make this great if it wasn't such a massive hack job.

Grim... · **Posted:** Tue Oct 18, 2016 22:30

Taskmaster on Dave is rather good.

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49232

See, I think this series is shaping up to be the best 'nuDwarf' series.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38459

I watched the first two episodes. Well I say watched, but mainly I strained to show interest whilst they flickered in front of my eyes. I couldn't tell you a thing about the second episode. Not a thing

Grim... · **Posted:** Wed Oct 19, 2016 9:27

Cras wrote:

See, I think this series is shaping up to be the best 'nuDwarf' series.

If that's not damning it with faint praise, I don't know what is.

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