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Post by Caroline Guest on Apr 4, 2008 14:31:34 GMT 1
It's funny because it's true... ;D
*ducks to avoid being clipped round the ear by Michael*
Marcus, you officially rock, like a rocking thing made of rocks.
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Post by Michaeldefends on Apr 5, 2008 13:37:14 GMT 1
I love new battlestar and disco battlestar
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Post by Nick on Apr 6, 2008 22:22:34 GMT 1
Want to know who 4 of the final 5 are?! Battlestar Galactica rules!!!!!!!!
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Post by mooominmama on Jun 1, 2008 15:32:35 GMT 1
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Post by nick on Jun 15, 2008 23:28:42 GMT 1
Battlestar Galactica is going to return next year for another season! They kept saying this was the last one, but it is not true.
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Post by stuhuggett on Oct 6, 2008 14:28:12 GMT 1
This 1951 film (also on the BBC homepage at the mo') is of a air race from Shoreham Airport, across to Whitstable, and back along the coast to Brighton, incuding a zoom past the cliffs at Hastings Country Park and Beachy Head. It's worth a quick look. www.bbc.co.uk/archive/aerialjourneys/5304.shtml?all=1&id=5304Part of the BBC's laudable Archive project of making older items of programming available on it's website (like an i>Player for the 50's & 60's, in a way)
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Post by stuhuggett on Nov 1, 2008 0:43:09 GMT 1
So,
'Dead Set'.
Satire not dead? Subtlety unwell?
I laughed, anyway.
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Post by stuhuggett on Nov 3, 2008 22:58:15 GMT 1
If anyone's watching 'The Unsinkable Titanic' on Channel 4 at the mo' 9pm-10:30pm (or is gonna start watching it an hour later, ie in a few minutes time, on Channel 4+1), try and guess how many people we know are involved in making it, in front of and behind the camera. Answers later!
(Incidentally, we think we've already seen Brighton Town Hall doubling-up as the London inquiry office, for whatever reason...)
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Post by stuhuggett on Nov 5, 2008 19:36:15 GMT 1
If anyone's watching 'The Unsinkable Titanic' on Channel 4 at the mo' 9pm-10:30pm (or is gonna start watching it an hour later, ie in a few minutes time, on Channel 4+1), try and guess how many people we know are involved in making it, in front of and behind the camera. Answers later! Uh, getting the CineCity guide reminded me I'd forgotten to come back with the answer here... Vicky (who helpfully subsequently lent me her Lonely Planet Guide to Toronto after the Titanic filming trip) was the Producer & 2nd Unit Director; Sara from Phoenix Gallery was an uncredited Production Assistant of some sort (and brought us back the maple syrup biscuits that made me go hyper in the Summer); and George (who's own Directorial short - Number Five - is showing for CineCity at the Sallis Benney Theatre on Sun 7th Dec) turned up hammering the substandard rivets into the ship's hull towards the end of the programme. Ok, it's not quite as cool as being in Dead Set, but still...
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Post by mooominmama on Nov 5, 2008 21:30:43 GMT 1
why oh why oh why ohw why am i watching the home show... "oh so yr showing us a picture of how we're going to live in our house from now on!"...what tf not to mention the beeauutiful glorious orange kitchen they ripped out...
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Post by carrie on Nov 12, 2008 21:47:42 GMT 1
tee hee. i didn't watch the programme but thought that thought when i saw the trailer, in fact it probably contributed to my decision not to watch it.
enjoying Picture Book on bbc4.
new favourite comfort tv..'come dine with me'...train wreck tv...terrible yet utterly compelling.
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Post by stuhuggett on Nov 27, 2008 10:35:38 GMT 1
Hey, so who's been watching Hollyoaks Later this week?
* tumbleweed *
Anyway, last night, some of the characters entered a Battle Of The Bands competition in (I think) a club in Liverpool, in which they found themselves up against, um, The Saturdays (Girls Aloud-supporting, S Club Juniors-featuring, 'Don't Go'-sampling, actual pop group). The Hollyoaks characters performed their first song (and, hey, against all odds, it was a huge success!) and, flushed with excitement (and in a vague effort to move the plot on) followed it up by playing another of 'their' songs - 'My Rising Star' by Northside. The actors (or back-in-the-studio E4 session musicians) didn't cover the song, the show's Production Team actually just played the Northside recording on the soundtrack and the characters mimed it, so that the young actor playing the lead singer (dressed in a willowy, Jarvis manner) suddenly had the voice of Dermo.
How strange.
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Post by stuhuggett on Dec 2, 2008 22:17:48 GMT 1
Can I just say I totally despise that conniving mixer Page 3 non-entity off I'm A Celebrity? It's coming to something when someone's so loathsome they make David Van Day look hard-done by, and he's a nob.
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Post by carrie on Dec 2, 2008 22:30:09 GMT 1
we gave up watching when kilroy-silk wasn't traumatised by bugs, the fucker trained himself before he went, thus proving himself to an utter wanker. we were sooo cross.
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Post by stuhuggett on Dec 11, 2008 9:28:07 GMT 1
We've been watching E4's new Beehive sketch show, and enjoying it. There's been such a dismal run of new sketch shows on all channels these last couple of years, that it's nice to see one that's not trying too hard. No songs either! If I was 16 again, it'd probably be my new Absolutely. Not always funny, but maybe an 80% hit rate. Anyone else?
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Post by Michael on Dec 17, 2008 11:44:54 GMT 1
Did anyone else roll their eyes when watching Survivors last night? Much as I love Terry Nation, I think the show could have done better than a plot about a knife wielding schizophrenic. Talk about hysterical unenlightened portrayals of mental suffering.
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Post by stuhuggett on Dec 17, 2008 12:42:53 GMT 1
Are you talking about the 70's serial or the current remake? Nation's been dead a few years now.
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Post by carrie on Dec 17, 2008 21:52:26 GMT 1
mmm,i gave up watching the new, but really want to see the old.
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Post by Michael on Dec 18, 2008 23:28:41 GMT 1
His name is still on the credits but I guess I can't hold a dead man responsible. I'd like to see the original series (I might pick up a box set) but was enjoying the new one until the last episode.
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Post by stuhuggett on Jan 7, 2009 18:42:29 GMT 1
On a Terry Nation theme - and I know only Lee might otherwise be interested in this - the Doctor Who Restoration Team have announced today that they've succeeded in returning a Pertwee Daleks episode back to colour (with the aid of the new techniques that enabled a similar job to be done on a Dad's Army episode, which was screened just before Xmas if anyone saw it or read the press articles). Hooray for the 21st Century!
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Post by carrie on Jan 7, 2009 22:26:46 GMT 1
our tv died on new years day, we are now using my portable black and white (which actually suits me fine) while we save for a new proper tv. we have managed to hook the sky up, so we get the slightly odd sight of the sky menu in wonky 12" black and white (it's so cute for me, irritating for tom). sooo much stuff to try and sell on ebay to add to the tv fund.
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Post by stuhuggett on Feb 5, 2009 0:16:43 GMT 1
You know, I'm gonna miss those Undercover Princes when they're gone.
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Post by stuhuggett on Feb 19, 2009 13:33:17 GMT 1
If you're stuck for entertainment later, our friend Noeleen is a contestant on Wogan's Perfect Recall this afternoon (5pm, Channel 4). With hilarious consequences, no doubt...
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Post by mooominmama on Feb 20, 2009 9:43:40 GMT 1
i bought dolby the original survivors and we have now watched all three series... 1st one a lot less polished than new and similar stories but more stretched out to fill 13 episodes rather than just 6... i think it was much much better and not just cos of thegrooviness of lucy flemings jacket... it does get more and more preposterous as it goes on though... i dont want to give it away but one of the lead characters goes on to bcome king (or something) and its all because of a hot air balloon!!! its great fun though trying to imagine a world where everything really did end in the 70s...brrr (shudders)... ;D
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Post by carrie on Feb 21, 2009 0:55:25 GMT 1
has anyone seen 'New Town'? i like it.
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Post by mooominmama on Feb 21, 2009 20:18:08 GMT 1
anyone else see robert webb doing the flashdance dance for the comic relief dance thing just now? funny funny funny ;D
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Post by mooominmama on Mar 20, 2009 21:55:50 GMT 1
hey stu did you watch a series called children of the stones when you were a kid, it was set in avebury?
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Post by stuhuggett on Mar 21, 2009 0:50:52 GMT 1
I've read about Children Of The Stones retrospectively, but I'm fairly sure I didn't see any of it at the time. Looks good though.
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Post by stuhuggett on Mar 27, 2009 10:38:48 GMT 1
Like 80s TV retro? Check out this video for Project Casio's Skeletor track. It's one of the Purple Bubble guys. He gave me a whole CD of this stuff - Jonzun Crew vocals, and Transformers: The Movie guitar solos. Deano would love it.
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Post by stuhuggett on Apr 2, 2009 15:31:50 GMT 1
Truncated Top 100 comedy shows on tv at the moment, as just invented by me:
1. Charlie Brooker's Newswipe. 2. Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle. 3. Harry Hill's TV Burp. . . . 100. Al Murray's Multiple Personality Disorder.
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