What have you watched on TV?

[Uncle Leo]

Bonkers stuff, the groom not being able to find the church was classic.

Iver - where the wedding took place - is just down the road from me and when he was driving around all lost, that was on the streets of Uxbridge.

Now I know these lovely people live near me, I really must look them up.

Also, that groom had to be the oldest looking 19 yeard old I'd ever seen!

 

[MK Shrimper]

Also, that groom had to be the oldest looking 19 yeard old I'd ever seen!

On seeing this chap, I was reminded of a line from Withnail and I......

Imagine the size of his balls. Imagine getting into a fight with the ****er!

 

[Pubey]

On seeing this chap, I was reminded of a line from Withnail and I......

Imagine the size of his balls. Imagine getting into a fight with the ****er!

not far off what the virgin bride was probably thinking!

 

[Jedi Shrimper]

Film 2011. Ok so Winkleman is a bit simple, but she's counter balanced by Danny Leigh and I like the fact the show is a conversation between two people now so you get two viewpoints, it makes it more interesting. I can't help thinking though that the BBC really wanted Danny Leigh but thought he wasn't well known enough on his own, maybe in few years it'll just be him.

10 O'Clock Live. What did people think? I quite enjoyed it, obviously meant to be a uk version of the Daily Show and it's a rough round the edges, but I think it has 15 weeks to run so I can see it improving over the course of its run to be really good. Not sure if 4 presenters is too many, plus they relied on alot of jokes, but that's what they know so again maybe the political content will improve too. Highlight for me was David Mitchell's rant about Jeremy Hunt's plans for a local news channel, v funny.

 

[MK Shrimper]

10 O'Clock Live. What did people think? I quite enjoyed it, obviously meant to be a uk version of the Daily Show and it's a rough round the edges, but I think it has 15 weeks to run so I can see it improving over the course of its run to be really good. Not sure if 4 presenters is too many, plus they relied on alot of jokes, but that's what they know so again maybe the political content will improve too. Highlight for me was David Mitchell's rant about Jeremy Hunt's plans for a local news channel, v funny.

Totally forgot about it. Oh well, next week.

 

[EastStandBlue]

Quite enjoyed 10 o'Clock Live as it happens... It was quite slow to start with, and a few fumbled lines and halts, but those kind of things will be ironed out as the series continues. David Mitchell was brilliant, despite being patronised by some of his guests who thought horrendously underestimated his political understanding. I think he'll grow into the "main host" role, with Brooker as his deputy. I'm a fan of Brooker as he tends to have quite a grounded understanding of what's actually going on and his natural cynicism is my kind of humour.

Not too keen on Carr in this role, though. Thought he didn't exactly understand what was going on half the time and threw in a few casual witticisms with no real substance, just for a cheap gag. Laverne took a bit of a back-step too... Whether she was just nervous or scared of putting a foot wrong remains to be seen. There's definitely room for a show like this on TV, and the debut was pretty promising.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

On seeing this chap, I was reminded of a line from Withnail and I......

Imagine the size of his balls. Imagine getting into a fight with the ****er!

Probably the best cult film off all time.:thumbsup:

 

[the_forgotten_man]

10 O'clock Live was attrocious at best. The genuinely insane audience interrupting every comment in case it was a joke didn't help, and there was no need whatsoever for it to be live, but these weren't the only problems:

Mitchell's interview with Willets showed him up for being a political lightweight - even if he, and other stupid people, think otherwise. Great comic actor, but a massive knob, who has a hugely inflated sense of intelligence. Willets can hardly have had an easier interview - that the hugely left-wing audience didn't interrupt him with wild booing is evidence of that.

Laverne is superfluous, both as a presenter and a person. The one piece of airtime she was allowed was devoted to a bad American accent. Cutting sattire.

Brooker's screenwipe is fantastic, some of the best work on tv, but he floundered hopelessly in this format. His usual dissecting comedy completely ruined by a combination of extremely tame subject matter (Look, Palin's stupid!) and the aforementioned audience.

And the only people who will like Jimmy Carr's bits will watch his standup instead - with jokes he's had longer than half an hour to write, and are therefore not merely pointing out that 'Balls' is quite a funny name.

But the worst part of it was the way it absolutely typified the dumbed down 'I have an opinion on this, even though I know nothing about it' attitude of most media types/lefites. It might as well have been called Guardian TV. And if you don't think that's a bad thing, then you ought to tune in every week. If, however, you have a few braincells to rub together, watch Newsnight, and then the continually sublime This Week.

 

[MK Shrimper]

Saw: Nurse Jackie. Brilliant misanthropic comedy from Stateside.

Also watched Being Human. Missed series one, but was impressed by it. It's no True Blood though.....

 

[Pubey]

Couldn't say I enjoyed 10 O'Clock Live, but I'll stick with it as it'll only improve IMO.

 

[EastStandBlue]

Saw: Nurse Jackie. Brilliant misanthropic comedy from Stateside.

Also watched Being Human. Missed series one, but was impressed by it. It's no True Blood though.....

Really? I thought True Blood was absolute garbage... It was desperate to be shocking and controversial, yet just ended up as third-rate soft porn for those with a vampire fetish.

 

[MK Shrimper]

Really? I thought True Blood was absolute garbage... It was desperate to be shocking and controversial, yet just ended up as third-rate soft porn for those with a vampire fetish.

I agree the sex side was turned up to 10 to start with but they turned it down so it was less prominent (fnarr fnarr) as it progressed The vampire lore with Eric Northman (best character) and his maker Godric was spellbinding. Roll on series 4!

 

[Bluesmanager]

Saw: Nurse Jackie. Brilliant misanthropic comedy from Stateside.

Also watched Being Human. Missed series one, but was impressed by it. It's no True Blood though.....

It's not supposed to be. For one thing, True Blood's only good for the sex. I quite enjoyed it (which, given I've missed practically every episode since about halfway through season 1 is saying something for the accessability of the thing).

Also caught Top Gear on the iPlayer. Wasn't it's best, if I'm honest, but that Atom - Bugger me...

 

[EastStandBlue]

Got up to date with Friday Night Lights last night while keeping one eye on the NFL Championship games.

Utterly brilliant TV. There's only three episodes left of the final season, and it'll be a great loss.

 

[GrumpyBlue]

Caught up with The Godmother of Rock and Roll - Sister Rosetta Tharpe on I player - great stuff

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

10 O'clock Live was attrocious at best. The genuinely insane audience interrupting every comment in case it was a joke didn't help, and there was no need whatsoever for it to be live, but these weren't the only problems:

Mitchell's interview with Willets showed him up for being a political lightweight - even if he, and other stupid people, think otherwise. Great comic actor, but a massive knob, who has a hugely inflated sense of intelligence. Willets can hardly have had an easier interview - that the hugely left-wing audience didn't interrupt him with wild booing is evidence of that.

Laverne is superfluous, both as a presenter and a person. The one piece of airtime she was allowed was devoted to a bad American accent. Cutting sattire.

Brooker's screenwipe is fantastic, some of the best work on tv, but he floundered hopelessly in this format. His usual dissecting comedy completely ruined by a combination of extremely tame subject matter (Look, Palin's stupid!) and the aforementioned audience.

And the only people who will like Jimmy Carr's bits will watch his standup instead - with jokes he's had longer than half an hour to write, and are therefore not merely pointing out that 'Balls' is quite a funny name.

But the worst part of it was the way it absolutely typified the dumbed down 'I have an opinion on this, even though I know nothing about it' attitude of most media types/lefites. It might as well have been called Guardian TV. And if you don't think that's a bad thing, then you ought to tune in every week. If, however, you have a few braincells to rub together, watch Newsnight, and then the continually sublime This Week.

Hard to argue with most of that. I want this programme to succeed but I haven't been convinced that it will from when it was first talked about. Hopefully it's early days and they'll learn from their many mistakes and they won't rigidly stick to the current format and it will evolve into something half decent. With the four presenter format they're trying too hard to be different from the Jon Stewart Daily Show format. Just be done with it and give David Mitchell (the strongest performer out of the 4) the main role, let Brooker film some Screenwipe features to slot in and instead of spending the budget on 4 big names to host spend more on writers so they have some stronger material to work with.

 

[Neil_F]

Mitchell's interview with Willets showed him up for being a political lightweight

Agreed. I'm a fan of David Mitchell, he's one of the few funny people on TV, but his interview with Willetts showed his own colours rather than gaining any insight. The point at which he implied that fewer people should go to fee-free university courses by getting rid of the non-academic courses was a bit rich for a privately educated Cambridge graduate.

Jimmy Carr's interview with Bjorn Lomborg was also dreadful. You can see the format is, "pick some right wing loon - banker, climate change denier, cuts etc etc" and make fun of him..." but it rather backfired with Lomborg. He's often described as a climate change denier by the media but he is nothing of the sort.

 

[MK Shrimper]

Watched a bit of the 10 O'Clock show. Painful. Dismal. David Mitchell talking to Alaister Campbell using naughty swear words....careful now. Paxman he isn't.

Human Planet - outstanding. The Inuits who had 30 minutes to gather the mussels before the tide came in and drowned them.... Jeezus. I'm glad I live near a Tesco's....

Also caught up with Hattie, bio-pic of Hattie Jacques played by Nessa. If there's any truth in it, how John LeMesurier was kicked out of his own bed by her lover and then lived upstairs while they got it on.... incredible.

 

[Bluesmanager]

TV's borked. Thank God for internet telly, lining up Skins in a bit (Dakota Blue Fanning should be fun to watch, bit weird though, last I saw of her was in The Golden Compass), then I'm gonna see if CSI'll play, then it's Hustle later and Primeval tomorrow, then Top Gear and Being Human Sunday.

Good job the girlfriend's out of town this weekend.

 

[Jedi Shrimper]

Watched a bit of the 10 O'Clock show. Painful. Dismal. David Mitchell talking to Alaister Campbell using naughty swear words....careful now. Paxman he isn't.

I still think it has potential, there is alot to be improved though. Laverne & Carr are pretty superfluous to the whole thing. Mitchell & Brooker can be good but I think what the show needs is a straight man, someone who could do the serious stuff that the funny guys could then play off aswell. The interviews besides weight lose half their time due to the over enthusiastic applause/laughter every time the presenter speaks, they need to shut the **** up.

Also I'd like to see a segment with Peter Capaldi as Malcolm Tucker, showing winners & losers of the week's house of commons debates. Infact just draught Ianucci in, he'd sort it out.