BBC2's Young, Bright and on the Right: in which we learn that student Tory politics in Oxford and another place are a bit right-wing and hilariously pretentious. Good fun, if you enjoy freak shows....
So glad I never got involved in that set.
So glad I never got involved in that set.
Trooper wrote:
One of the best shows of the year finished last night 
The Great British Bake-off!
The Great British Bake-off!
It's back!
First episode of the new series was tonight
Misfits returns to Ch4 this weekend :
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/misfits
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/misfits
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New gang members Finn, played by Nathan McMullen and Jess, played by Karla Crome are zipping up those iconic orange jumpsuits for their first day of community service and expecting to meet their probation worker...
BeeX-TV!
BBC4, 21:00, tonight - The Secret Life of Rubbish
A two-part documentary on the history of refuse collection.
BBC4, 21:00, tonight - The Secret Life of Rubbish
A two-part documentary on the history of refuse collection.
Saw the first half of the Huge Grunt thing on C4 last night - I really do like Hugh. Whilst it is a bit self interested, he definitely deserves some sort of reconigition for his campagning on this.
Anybody watch the new channel 4 documentary called Skint? It was on on Monday night and will be a available on 4od. It's basically a Scunthorpe version of cult classic Scottish documentary The Scheme. A brilliant insight into life on a scheme on the dole. Follows a few families in particular and it's sad to watch what you feel is one persons inevitable decline into crime and drugs. I'd highly recommend it.
Ooooh, I meant to watch that but totally forgot. Can you download to a tablet on 4oD I wonder? Be good for the commute home
Trooper wrote:
Ooooh, I meant to watch that but totally forgot. Can you download to a tablet on 4oD I wonder? Be good for the commute home
I appears not
Trooper wrote:
Trooper wrote:
Ooooh, I meant to watch that but totally forgot. Can you download to a tablet on 4oD I wonder? Be good for the commute home
I appears not
Get it for tomorrow then!
sdg wrote:
Trooper wrote:
Trooper wrote:
Ooooh, I meant to watch that but totally forgot. Can you download to a tablet on 4oD I wonder? Be good for the commute home
I appears not
Get it for tomorrow then!
I have a way, I think. To the remote session downloadatron!
Trooper wrote:
sdg wrote:
Trooper wrote:
Trooper wrote:
Ooooh, I meant to watch that but totally forgot. Can you download to a tablet on 4oD I wonder? Be good for the commute home
I appears not
Get it for tomorrow then!
I have a way, I think. To the remote session downloadatron!
No bugger has uploaded it, how thoroughly antiquated.
I'm accidentally watching "Vicious" on ITV. Fucking Hell. 
Started watching Luther the other day. It's fucking brilliant. Idris Elba plays the lead. It's on Netflix. Watch it.
No. It's terrible. I've seen series 1 & 2 and it got worse over time. Acting, plot, dialogue... everything is as tired as Luther's character endlessly pretends to be. Poor poor guy from The Wire.
Disagree; I've watched the first two seasons of Luther with the third one sitting in the queue and I've enjoyed all of them immensely.
I started watching The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret on Netflix at the weekend. Stars David Cross as a US salesman sent over to the UK in order to sell a terrible energy drink called Thunder Muscle.
For fans of the Office, Inbetweeners, Always Sunny, Arrested Development, etc.
For fans of the Office, Inbetweeners, Always Sunny, Arrested Development, etc.
SilentElk wrote:
I started watching The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret on Netflix at the weekend. Stars David Cross as a US salesman sent over to the UK in order to sell a terrible energy drink called Thunder Muscle.
For fans of the Office, Inbetweeners, Always Sunny, Arrested Development, etc.
For fans of the Office, Inbetweeners, Always Sunny, Arrested Development, etc.
We watched this a while back and it was alright; it's not as funny as the castlist suggests it should be and it's mostly carried by Cross being ridiculous in his usual way.
Great British Bake Off is back!
Trooper wrote:
Great British Bake Off is back!
Yay!
SilentElk wrote:
I started watching The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret on Netflix at the weekend.
Starts middling, gets worse. The Increasingly Poor Episodes Of The Increasingly Poor Decisions Of Todd Margaret. I watched 'The Wipers Times' last night. Charming period piece about the trench newspaper, and the device of using real material from the paper as the basis for skits worked really well.
Only bit that grated was the obligatory senior-officer-who-doesn't-approve part, which just felt a bit cliched in its portrayal.
Only bit that grated was the obligatory senior-officer-who-doesn't-approve part, which just felt a bit cliched in its portrayal.
Quite impressed by BBC2's "Peaky Blinders" last night. We ended up watching it back to back with the new Boardwalk Empire and there are some obvious comparisons, probably unfair ones given the relative budgets, but it really held its own I thought. Worth watching anyway.
Do you like bleak, dark, well acted British cop / murder dramas ?
Couple of new ones started recently : "What Remains" & "The Guilty".
Watched the first two episodes of each so far and am enjoying both of them.
If you like this sort of thing ("Broadchurch" is a well-known recent example) then these are worth checking out IMO.
Couple of new ones started recently : "What Remains" & "The Guilty".
Watched the first two episodes of each so far and am enjoying both of them.
If you like this sort of thing ("Broadchurch" is a well-known recent example) then these are worth checking out IMO.
markg wrote:
Quite impressed by BBC2's "Peaky Blinders" last night. We ended up watching it back to back with the new Boardwalk Empire and there are some obvious comparisons, probably unfair ones given the relative budgets, but it really held its own I thought. Worth watching anyway.
Yes, watched it last night. Found the lead in particular fascinating. Will definitly be watching the rest of it.
Enjoyed episode two. Still can't decide if the use of modern indie music works in this show or not, however.
I think I'm getting a little soft as I age, mind:.
I think I'm getting a little soft as I age, mind:
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I'm still really impressed by it. It frequently looks absolutely amazing too, the opening scenes last night were probably the prettiest I've ever seen from a UK show.
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/news/a52 ... ecial.html
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Sir David Jason to star in 'Open All Hours' Christmas special
Lynda Baron and Maggie Ollerenshaw will also return as nurse Gladys Emmanuel and Mavis in the 30-minute one-off episode Still Open All Hours.
"I'm really excited to be bringing back Open All Hours," said Jason. "I am sure there is an audience out there who would like to see what Granville has been getting up to in the corner shop.
"It will be a great family show for Christmas, and a fitting tribute to the legacy of Arkwright."
Granville will be seen running the grocery store with his son, having inherited it from his uncle Albert Arkwright (Ronnie Barker).
Roy Clarke, who wrote the original series, will return for Still Open All Hours.
"This has been fun - a great opportunity to work with David Jason again and to suggest how things at that corner shop might look today," said Clarke.
BBC controller of UK comedy production Mark Freeland added that he hoped the special episode "will bring broad grins to lots and lots of faces at Christmas".
Open All Hours originally aired between 1973 and 1985, running for 26 episodes across four series.
Lynda Baron and Maggie Ollerenshaw will also return as nurse Gladys Emmanuel and Mavis in the 30-minute one-off episode Still Open All Hours.
"I'm really excited to be bringing back Open All Hours," said Jason. "I am sure there is an audience out there who would like to see what Granville has been getting up to in the corner shop.
"It will be a great family show for Christmas, and a fitting tribute to the legacy of Arkwright."
Granville will be seen running the grocery store with his son, having inherited it from his uncle Albert Arkwright (Ronnie Barker).
Roy Clarke, who wrote the original series, will return for Still Open All Hours.
"This has been fun - a great opportunity to work with David Jason again and to suggest how things at that corner shop might look today," said Clarke.
BBC controller of UK comedy production Mark Freeland added that he hoped the special episode "will bring broad grins to lots and lots of faces at Christmas".
Open All Hours originally aired between 1973 and 1985, running for 26 episodes across four series.
I'd much rather watch that than a new Only Fools....
Good stuff.
Good stuff.
No Ronnie? No point.
zaphod79 wrote:
Open All Hours originally aired between 1973 and 1985, running for 26 episodes across four series.
Jesus, it's a different (TV) world these days; can you imagine a show running over 12 years these days and only racking up 26 episodes?
ETA: I'm not saying that's better or worse, simply noting that it wouldn't happen these days.
Bamba wrote:
ETA: I'm not saying that's better or worse, simply noting that it wouldn't happen these days.
Plenty of historic and classic series were only a handful of episodes and repeats were more carefully managed back in the day when they were only filling 3 channels during a few hours in the day (daytime tv did not exist and the channels all were shut down late evening).
Looking at IMBD it seems to have been split over a long time and thats probably because the people who were in the show were busy with other things
Pilot in 1973
Series 1 in 1976
Series 2 in 1981
Series 3 in 1982
Series 4 in 1985
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074036/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
I'm guessing the breaks were because the script writers needed the time to get their heads round the next complex story arc.
Bamba wrote:
Jesus, it's a different (TV) world these days; can you imagine a show running over 12 years these days and only racking up 26 episodes?
The IT Crowd ran 2006-2013 and has 25 episodes. Lewis has been running since 2007 and has 29 episodes. British TV is still pretty slow moving most of the time.
DavPaz wrote:
No Ronnie? No point.
He's dead against the idea.
Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
Bamba wrote:
Jesus, it's a different (TV) world these days; can you imagine a show running over 12 years these days and only racking up 26 episodes?
The IT Crowd ran 2006-2013 and has 25 episodes. Lewis has been running since 2007 and has 29 episodes. British TV is still pretty slow moving most of the time.
It's definitely slower and smaller scale than US TV with it's near-minimum 20 episode seasons and whatnot but 12 years/26 episodes is still a pretty surprising a statistic I think; even your two examples there only cover half the amount of time. That said, I haven't done any real checking to see if this is still 'normal' so maybe my mental model is indeed being unduly effected by the amount of US TV I consume.
Naomi Campbell is my mental model.
Bamba wrote:
It's definitely slower and smaller scale than US TV with it's near-minimum 20 episode seasons and whatnot but 12 years/26 episodes is still a pretty surprising a statistic I think; even your two examples there only cover half the amount of time.
The time given does add 3 years between what was a 1 off 'pilot' play in 1973 and then the start of the first series in 1976 (so 3 years for it to be approved as it were).
I think only the longevity of it makes it stand out - if you look at stuff like Fawlty Towers Season 1 (6 episodes) was 1975 , Season 2 (6 episodes) 1979 , if they kept going at that pace then you'd have had Season 3 in about 83 and season 4 in 86 which would have made it 24 episodes in 11 years
My daughter made me watch Citizen Khan yesterday - sheesh it's crap !!
I think everyone else gave up on this but the new (final) season of Misfits starts tonight on CH4
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/misfits
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/misfits
zaphod79 wrote:
I think everyone else gave up on this but the new (final) season of Misfits starts tonight on CH4
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/misfits
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/misfits
Stuggled with the last series. Losing most of the original cast was a huge blow.
They lost all of them, didn'tthey?
Mr Dave wrote:
They lost all of them, didn'tthey?
Yip - all the originals are now gone
"Toast of London" - Matt Berry, nonsense, it's all good.
kalmar wrote:
"Toast of London" - Matt Berry, nonsense, it's all good.
Ooh, new Matt Berry stuff? Excellent, to the downloadatron!
kalmar wrote:
"Toast of London" - Matt Berry, nonsense, it's all good.
Just caught the first part of Dominic Sandbrook's cultural history of Cold War Britain. As enjoyable as his previous series on the 1970s and his range of books. He uses a great mix of archive footage and anecdote to give a real flavour of the times. Worth catching.
Just watched last week's ''Imagine' documentary on Machiavelli. Really good, even if you're not really into the game of politics. Even better, it has Peter Capaldi reading excerpts from 'The Prince'.