What have you watched on TV?

[MK Shrimper]

Watched Brian Cox (no relation) and Secrets of the Universe. At 9pm I was happy. At 9.30 I was distressed and at 10pm I was positively suicidal at the absolute pointlessness of it all when I found out that the billions of years of life in the entire Universe is a mere micro-second blip in the cold, dark nothingness of trillions upon trillions upon trillions of years of eternity. :sad:

 

[BrettieAngell]

Watched Brian Cox (no relation) and Secrets of the Universe. At 9pm I was happy. At 9.30 I was distressed and at 10pm I was positively suicidal at the absolute pointlessness of it all when I found out that the billions of years of life in the entire Universe is a mere micro-second blip in the cold, dark nothingness of trillions upon trillions upon trillions of years of eternity. :sad:

Wonders of the Universe!

The numbers were just mindboggling, if you tried counting the life on the universe using every single atom in the universe you would run out! What!

 

[Jedi Shrimper]

Watched Brian Cox (no relation) and Secrets of the Universe. At 9pm I was happy. At 9.30 I was distressed and at 10pm I was positively suicidal at the absolute pointlessness of it all when I found out that the billions of years of life in the entire Universe is a mere micro-second blip in the cold, dark nothingness of trillions upon trillions upon trillions of years of eternity. :sad:

Brilliant show. I came away feeling quite chipper though! Nothing we do matters! Woot! Seriously the scales of time mentioned are so huge how you we get depressed about the end of our sloar system, it's so impossibly far in our limited future (and chances are human kind will be extinct anyway long before then). The bit at the end where Cox talked about how "we are the universe made conscious, the universe trying to figure itself out" was pretty inspiring I thought, and the fact that in the grand scale of the history of the universe now is the only time life is possible makes life all the more miraculous.

I'm sure when I was a kid at school I was taught that one day the universe would contract again? But the idea that the universe will just expand until complete disorder reigns, and "nothing will change, forever" was pretty mind blowing.

Seen a few complaints on twitter this morning about how it's just an expensive holiday for Brian Cox, but for me it's a far better use of the licence fee than eastenders, top gear and ashes to ashes put together.

 

[number11]

Saw Friday Night Dinner with a stellar comedy cast - him from Inbetweeners, Kevin Eldon, Tasmin Grieg. Put them all together and what do you get? A steaming, unfunny ****.

Agree with this......how they could make this so unfunny is beyond me.

 

[MK Shrimper]

Brilliant show. I came away feeling quite chipper though! Nothing we do matters! Woot! Seriously the scales of time mentioned are so huge how you we get depressed about the end of our sloar system, it's so impossibly far in our limited future (and chances are human kind will be extinct anyway long before then). The bit at the end where Cox talked about how "we are the universe made conscious, the universe trying to figure itself out" was pretty inspiring I thought, and the fact that in the grand scale of the history of the universe now is the only time life is possible makes life all the more miraculous.

I'm sure when I was a kid at school I was taught that one day the universe would contract again? But the idea that the universe will just expand until complete disorder reigns, and "nothing will change, forever" was pretty mind blowing.

Seen a few complaints on twitter this morning about how it's just an expensive holiday for Brian Cox, but for me it's a far better use of the licence fee than eastenders, top gear and ashes to ashes put together.

Absolutely agreed. My original post was a bit tongue in cheek and this is based on today's science. As you say, I remember the bit about Universe contracting, so I like to think all this will happen again for infinity and I'll be able to enjoy Nov 7th 2006 an infinite number of times!

Agree with this......how they could make this so unfunny is beyond me.

Tried again, watched 5 minutes, turned it over to a ropey version of "Who's Line Is It Anyway" which was far, far better.

 

[BrettieAngell]

The bit at the end where Cox talked about how "we are the universe made conscious, the universe trying to figure itself out" was pretty inspiring I thought, and the fact that in the grand scale of the history of the universe now is the only time life is possible makes life all the more miraculous.

I'm sure when I was a kid at school I was taught that one day the universe would contract again? But the idea that the universe will just expand until complete disorder reigns, and "nothing will change, forever" was pretty mind blowing.

Seen a few complaints on twitter this morning about how it's just an expensive holiday for Brian Cox, but for me it's a far better use of the licence fee than eastenders, top gear and ashes to ashes put together.

Agreed with all of that.

I loved the fact we can see the afterglow of a star that died 13 billion years ago just after (in relative terms of course) the birth of the universe!

 

[Napster]

I watched Friday Night Dinner and it was a mess. Shame.

 

[Pubey]

I watched Friday Night Dinner and it was a mess. Shame.

boo! We've been enjoying it, it's got potential at least!

 

[MK Shrimper]

boo! We've been enjoying it, it's got potential at least!

So did the Titanic.

 

[Pubey]

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[Uncle Leo]

Thoughts on Boardwalk Empire? I'm enjoying it, but I'd say it falls short of first class (i.e. Mad Men, Sopranos, The Wire).

Three episdoes of Treme now backed up on the Sky+; worth giving it a go?

Fantastic to have Modern Family back on the telly too.

 

[McNasty]

Mrs Brown's Boys ---- funniest programme on the telly for ages.

 

[Pubey]

Thoughts on Boardwalk Empire? I'm enjoying it, but I'd say it falls short of first class (i.e. Mad Men, Sopranos, The Wire).

Three episdoes of Treme now backed up on the Sky+; worth giving it a go?

Fantastic to have Modern Family back on the telly too.

My thoughts on Boardwalk:
http://www.shrimperzone.com/vb/show...dwalk-Empire&p=1245704&viewfull=1#post1245704

Heard good things about Treme, it's on my list!

 

[MK Shrimper]

Thoughts on Boardwalk Empire? I'm enjoying it, but I'd say it falls short of first class (i.e. Mad Men, Sopranos, The Wire).

Three episdoes of Treme now backed up on the Sky+; worth giving it a go?

Fantastic to have Modern Family back on the telly too.

Love Boardwalk. Not as good YET, it's only 6(?) episodes in and to be fair I'm not sure I loved Man Men immediately and I didn't get The Wire at all. Saw the first Treme, no storyline as such but the music is good. 2 + 3 on the Sky+ box to to watch.

Missed Modern Family and Raising Hope. Bloody Guardian Guide......:angry:

 

[canveyshrimper]

Love Boardwalk. Not as good YET, it's only 6(?) episodes in and to be fair I'm not sure I loved Man Men immediately and I didn't get The Wire at all. Saw the first Treme, no storyline as such but the music is good. 2 + 3 on the Sky+ box to to watch.

Missed Modern Family and Raising Hope. Bloody Guardian Guide......:angry:

I blame Barna.

I'm up to date with Boardwalk Empire and after a slow start it's really enjoyable. Loving Stephen Graham as Al Capone.
I've never seen Mad Men it's one of those I think I need to get the box set of.

It's a bit late now but the Danish series The Killing on BBC 4 on Saturday nights is excellent.

 

[MK Shrimper]

I blame Barna.

I'm up to date with Boardwalk Empire and after a slow start it's really enjoyable. Loving Stephen Graham as Al Capone.
I've never seen Mad Men it's one of those I think I need to get the box set of.

Yes you do. However it's probably being repeated on Sky Atlantic.

 

[canveyshrimper]

Yes you do. However it's probably being repeated on Sky Atlantic.

Hopefully not for a while as I'm enjoying The Sopranos again, plus Boardwalk & Blue Bloods.

 

[Pubey]

Anyone else bothered by the fact that there isn't much decent UK TV at the moment. The Wire/Generation Kill/The Sopranos/The West Wing are all incredible, why is UK TV in such a bad way these days?

 

[canveyshrimper]

Anyone else bothered by the fact that there isn't much decent UK TV at the moment. The Wire/Generation Kill/The Sopranos/The West Wing are all incredible, why is UK TV in such a bad way these days?

That's true but all those series are quite old.

 

[Pubey]

That's true but all those series are quite old.

Yeah that's right but then you have newer stuff like Boardwalk and Mad Men. I'm struggling to think of anything from the UK that can be held up there with those shows.