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Post by carolyn on Oct 18, 2007 8:59:57 GMT 1
Due to being brain dead we ended up watching most of the Location Location Location special last night on the best and worst places to live in the UK. I'd never seen it before. I thought they were going to be basing it on property value and rises in property value, the area for which they have some expertise. However, they seem to base it on a variety of dubiously gathered statistics. Anytime they mentioned crime figures they had background shots of hoodied kids on bikes. Footage for the 'worst' towns was always fat people smoking or eating fast food. For these towns they focussed on what percentage of the population were living (ha!) on benefits. For the 'best' towns they talked about what percentage of the population had higher education qualifications. I appreciate that it was an entertainment show and was never really pretending to be panorama or anything but I found it unnecessary and a bit offensive.
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Post by stuhuggett on Oct 18, 2007 12:31:24 GMT 1
You're just miffed that Brighton didn't get a mention, and Horsham did. C'mon, Alfie, lower the standard of living and give Brighton a better chance!
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Post by verlaine on Oct 18, 2007 15:02:22 GMT 1
Have you got the new version of The Bionic woman over there yet with Zoe from Eastenders as the star? What about Californication with David Duchovny being quite lewd indeed?!
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Post by carrie on Oct 19, 2007 20:08:28 GMT 1
no and no
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Post by verlaine on Oct 21, 2007 17:23:20 GMT 1
I am sure channel 5 will snap them up soon, makes me feel better for having to wait so long for torchwood and dr who.
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Post by stuhuggett on Oct 29, 2007 13:33:25 GMT 1
Russell Brand's Ponderland was fun, eh? Always nice to see more Chris Needham on the telly.
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Post by carolyn on Nov 15, 2007 9:29:43 GMT 1
I've watched I'm a Celebrity for three nights in a row. I feel sick with myself. Stu has developed a glazed look in his eye and I suspect he packed his bags when I left for work this morning. It's not even entertaining. I must try harder to resist.... but am so weak...
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Post by stuhuggett on Nov 15, 2007 13:27:21 GMT 1
That glazed look is only pining for my lost love, Cerys...
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Post by carrie on Nov 15, 2007 21:32:03 GMT 1
south east today. bloody geoff. yesterday he told us that gay people play football and some of them are quite good, we're waiting the weeks other big story that women can have jobs. the man also knows bugger all about art. i get angry watching the buffoon. so much so that i now think i'm going to have to leave the room when he starts talking.
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Post by stuhuggett on Nov 16, 2007 13:22:45 GMT 1
You not gonna be watching 'Children In Need' then? No doubt Geoff will have some hilarious local entertainment for us all there too. I've started getting the fear that the 5th and 10th Doctors are gonna fix their wacky TARDIS with the aid of the Spice Girls later... I hope I'm wrong.
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Post by caroline on Nov 16, 2007 13:42:18 GMT 1
You not gonna be watching 'Children In Need' then? No doubt Geoff will have some hilarious local entertainment for us all there too. I've started getting the fear that the 5th and 10th Doctors are gonna fix their wacky TARDIS with the aid of the Spice Girls later... I hope I'm wrong. I'm in two minds as to whether to watch this or not.... On the one hand...Peter Davison and David Tennant- hell yeah! On the other...Children in Need special= likely to make me want to pull off my own head. What to do, what to do....
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Post by carrie on Nov 16, 2007 21:07:35 GMT 1
wait for you tube
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Post by caroline on Nov 16, 2007 21:30:39 GMT 1
Thank you, Steven Moffat, for not ruining my two favourite doctors.
Won't go into detail in case anyone's not watched it, and is waiting for Youtube, but I especially liked the cheeky little (probably over the heads of the Children In Need honchos) gag about the Master... ;D
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Post by stuhuggett on Nov 17, 2007 13:33:56 GMT 1
I missed it! Went to meet Carolyn, Lee & their friend Amanda in the Quadrant pub after work and was gonna have one pint, then I had another pint anyway, then someone came around handing out free bottles of beer as part of some new Scottish & Newcastle promotion, then I still had to get a bit written about Logan Wilson for East so I did that in the Robin Hood and had another pint while I was there, then by the time I got home it was over so I watched 'City Of Death' again instead, but only got halfway through before passing out as I'd not eaten any dinner (or, in fact, lunch) as I was waiting for Carolyn to get back, which she did sometime after I'd gone to bed and passed out. I missed 'Quatermass 2' as well...
Bugger.
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Post by mooominmama on Nov 17, 2007 22:56:04 GMT 1
it was ok stu, but you really didnt really miss all that much...lets just say it was mercifully brief!
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Post by stuhuggett on Nov 19, 2007 13:17:30 GMT 1
Ok, saw it online on YouTube last night - rather self-indulgent of them, but still quite fun, and it did make a better link between the last episode and the next Xmas one. Again! Again!
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Post by stuhuggett on Dec 7, 2007 13:34:08 GMT 1
Every cloud has a silver lining, so thanks to ITV News for last night's hilarious reports into the Nebraska Mall shooting.
Paraphrased highlights (amongst many): "They shoppers were expecting Jingle Bells. What they heard was the jingle of empty cartridge shells hitting the floor..." And: "A witness described the gunshots as 'Like fuses blowing'. And that's almost literally what happened, as fuses blew in the mind of a deranged teenager..."
Note to ITN: 'The Day Today' was satire, not a training film for journalists.
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Post by nick on Dec 12, 2007 15:25:14 GMT 1
Due to the US Writers Strike, we are watching nothing but re-runs and reality tv, so the usual then! The report on the Mall shooting was almost as silly here. Melinda does not like me watching the news because I end up mocking the television, which is pointless. I did get a racist Subaru commercial pulled here though, so arguing with the tele can be fruitful if funnelled into the correct channels of complaint.
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Post by carolyn on Dec 12, 2007 17:44:34 GMT 1
We just finished the third series of Lost - so good.
Apparently they are only doing three more series and they only be 16 episodes made in each. It should all be over by 2010.
I want more now.
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Post by stuhuggett on Dec 13, 2007 13:19:06 GMT 1
I'm still not into 'Lost' (which has it's own thread here somewhere) but I did enjoy the 3rd series episode set in 'London'... You know, bobbies outside red telephone boxes, "Let's go to the pier and eat lobster!" (London Pier?) etc. Trouble is, 'Lost' can get away with arguing away any points like that in a child's "But it's meant to be like that!" style.
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Post by carrie on Dec 18, 2007 20:43:15 GMT 1
last night 'dispatches'. what an utter hoot. 'how safe are your christmas toys?', with a possible sub-heading of 'how stupid are your children'. toy safety regulations will never be able to cover idiocy, why is a 12 year old swallowing magnets? the issue of lead paint (naturally serious) was a minor factor in the programme, it was all about stupid children swallowing magnets. barney knows that toys are for playing with, rather than eating.
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Post by carolyn on Dec 26, 2007 18:33:34 GMT 1
I know I am a bit late to all this - but you can watch loads of TV shows on the internet! This is a brilliant facilty.
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Post by caroline on Dec 27, 2007 23:56:17 GMT 1
Anyone else watch the Extras Christmas special?
Wasn't it exquisitely awful?
Can't really understand why it was relegated to the day after Boxing Day...
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Post by stuhuggett on Dec 28, 2007 9:05:16 GMT 1
You mean genuinely awful? There were whole scenes without humour. The Jade Goody dolls were a good move though.
And this BBC site streaming: what's the implication for the License Fee now you can get the past 7 days TV free, or even streamed live (as with the Doctor Who special?)
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Post by caroline on Dec 28, 2007 10:15:33 GMT 1
You mean genuinely awful? There were whole scenes without humour. The Jade Goody dolls were a good move though. Eh...I really enjoyed it (in a does what it says on the tin kind of a way). *shrugs*
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Post by carolyn on Dec 28, 2007 12:56:18 GMT 1
I enjoyed it too Caroline. I even had a litle cry in the Big Brother Speech moment!
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Post by carrie on Dec 28, 2007 21:02:38 GMT 1
...and me...do you guys want to join my no sense of humour club?
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Post by stuhuggett on Dec 29, 2007 11:54:24 GMT 1
Oh, by the way, we've also currently borrowed a video of the BBC prgramme 'Singing With The Enemy' (not the poxy band) from earlier in the year, when (Britch's Brighton band) The Dirty Cakes met (Peckham Grime crew) Lyrically Scar'd. Aside from the irritating narration by an off-form Lauren Laverne (who labours the point that no rapper has ever attempted to rap over a beat that's not in 4/4 timing - Some mistake surely? Examples, please?) it's quite fun viewing, particularly for the grand finale performance where Monster Bobby et al turn up for the show.
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Post by marcusjr on Jan 2, 2008 17:07:35 GMT 1
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Post by marcusjr on Jan 2, 2008 17:10:22 GMT 1
Balls, looks like the link is too long to work. Anyway either cut and paste it into your browser or go to www.vh1classic.com
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