TV heaven...or TV hell [Archive] - The Stormcock Forums

HarperPR

02-12-2008, 02:15 AM

Is Outnumbered (BBC1 Sat/repeated BBC2 Wed) currently the best and funniest comedy series on TV? The first series somehow passed me by, but am loving the second. The young actress Ramona Marquez who plays Karen is wonderful. I think it was one of the writers who described her as having 'the face of an angel and the mind of a barrister' - she's only seven too! I believe it's part improvised which is probably why the children's dialogue flows so well.

It just pips my other love, Lead Balloon. Love the characters, especially the student daughter and her boyfriend (really funny last week when their band's video got spotted on You Tube by an ad agency who wanted to use the song for an air freshener commercial.:biggrin:) and the dour au pair Magda, who is always talking about things 'in my country' and that she is 'werry unhairpy'! Great stuff.

And if those are heaven, is hell I'm A Celebrity...? If I see one more 'meal' of wriggly worms or some animal's penis, I shall scream! David Van Day and Nicola McLean, while both obnoxious, have been eminently watchable though, I have to admit. But surely Van Day won't win...will he?

NoCelebrity

02-12-2008, 06:08 AM

With apologies to Proctor & Bergman who never apologized to Shakespeare for the above literary unlicensed. I'm on a roll, just posted my SOTM and can't stop.

Don't know any of those shows here in America. Basic Cable cut at least 4 channels today (they haven't learned the law of supply and demand yet!).

Is that "Lead Balloon" as in the one the other balloons have to follow?

I love "NCIS" here in America, also after missing the first season. The son of one of Roy's collaborators plays a Forensics Doctor, Dr. Mallard (David McCallum) known as "Ducky."

wobbly bob

09-12-2008, 09:05 AM

agree with 'lead balloon', not seen 'outnumbered', and 'sad ba$tards eating bugs' is tv gold!

though i'd have murdered van day and mallet inside 5 minutes!

HarperPR

09-12-2008, 04:55 PM

agree with 'lead balloon', not seen 'outnumbered'

Oh you must watch it! Repeat tomorrow Wed BBC2. If you don't like it I'll buy yer TV license meself!

critch

09-12-2008, 10:18 PM

I watch House. Lots and lots and lots of House. I bought the box set recently and I'm gradually working my way though. Absolutely Genius. Hugh Laurie is brilliant. I've loved him (but not in a gay way!) since I was about 10 watching Jeeves and Wooster.

NoCelebrity

10-12-2008, 03:44 AM

Bertie Wooster is a fussy sort of golfer. The least little thing puts him off. Ladies chattering away, dogs yapping.... But nothing so much as the fluttering of Butterflies in the neighboring fairway.

Loved Jeeves too. His dry wit, that is...

House is perfectly obnoxious, but he always saves the patient by finding the right diagnosis just in time. (Oh wait, that's the writers...) Freaked when I first realized it was Bertie Wooster...

I say. What ho, Jeeves!

NoCelebrity

10-12-2008, 03:51 AM

TNT's new show "Leverage" just premiered. Stars Timothy Hutton ("Ordinary People") as a former insurance investigator who hires crooks he couldn't catch to do good and play Robin Hood. Except there's enough booty for all the bad guys to go on doing good deeds.

Gina Bellman (Ditsy traffic reporter from "Coupling") is a horrible actress who is suddenly believable when she's grifting the mark.

Dry wit and clever plot twists and independent production values make this a must watch! Premiere was shot in CHICAGO along the river and in the Loop (all downtown locations I recognized).

Travellerman

10-12-2008, 09:17 AM

I caught Outnumbered a few nights ago and laughed my arse off, it is hilarious.

NoCeleb', I think you'll be getting an American version of this soon enough.

:D

HarperPR

10-12-2008, 03:11 PM

I caught Outnumbered a few nights ago and laughed my arse off, it is hilarious.

NoCeleb', I think you'll be getting an American version of this soon enough.

:D

See - told ya!!!:thumbup:

Travellerman

10-12-2008, 05:44 PM

wobbly bob

10-12-2008, 08:18 PM

Hugh Laurie is brilliant. I've loved him (but not in a gay way!) since I was about 10 watching Jeeves and Wooster.

it's ok, crich... you're among friends here! embrace your gay-ness! listen to dodgy dance music! watch judy garland films! mince! none of us will think any less of you! hey, we'll come to your coming out party!

remember-whatever you are, you what god made you!

scotpaulabear

10-12-2008, 09:58 PM

I must reveal at this point, I am a gay man trapped in a straight woman's body - my love of show tunes and innate bitchiness give me away :D

wobbly bob

10-12-2008, 10:36 PM

I must reveal at this point, I am a gay man trapped in a straight woman's body - my love of show tunes and innate bitchiness give me away :D

yaaay, we've got another winner! anyone else want to come out while we're at it? i think we're on a roll, here!

HarperPR

11-12-2008, 03:55 PM

The scene in the airport where the young girl was talking about muslims and blowing up planes seemed so refreshingly, risque :D. I was amazed to hear this, and on the BBC of all places! I doff my hat to whoever managed to keep that in.

A taster... http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=71tbitXg688&feature=related

I thought exactly that too! Wonder how many complaints they've had. If it'd been Wossy I am sure there'd have been a fair few, because it was implied that only Muslims blow up planes...

HarperPR

11-12-2008, 03:58 PM

yaaay, we've got another winner! anyone else want to come out while we're at it? i think we're on a roll, here!

says the man who secretly collects decorative spoons - that's very gay!:wink::biggrin:

critch

11-12-2008, 04:10 PM

it's ok, crich... you're among friends here! embrace your gay-ness! listen to dodgy dance music! watch judy garland films! mince! none of us will think any less of you! hey, we'll come to your coming out party!

remember-whatever you are, you what god made you!

Yeah well, I would but then I'd have to tell my girlfriend and I don't expect it'd go down to well! :w00t:

Travellerman

11-12-2008, 06:03 PM

I thought exactly that too! Wonder how many complaints they've had. If it'd been Wossy I am sure there'd have been a fair few, because it was implied that only Muslims blow up planes...

(in childlike, innocent voice) "...but what other religion blows up planes" :D

NoCelebrity

12-12-2008, 12:07 AM

Is it okay to say Muslims blow up planes, as long as they're not gay?:biggrin:

This thread has degraded so much, not sure anyone knows how it started or that EVERYONE is kidding.

"Outnumbered" does sound perfectly outrageous...

Travellerman

12-12-2008, 09:35 AM

...This thread has degraded so much, not sure anyone knows how it started or that EVERYONE is kidding.

Never-the-less, somehow you have managed to contribute 25% of this thread, a feat made more impressive considering you don't know the tv programmes that were originally mentioned! :D Here, your copy's on the way and I hope it's as funny as the original... http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117981630.html?categoryid=14&cs=1&query=outnumbered

scotpaulabear

12-12-2008, 01:33 PM

HarperPR

12-12-2008, 02:15 PM

(in childlike, innocent voice) "...but what other religion blows up planes" :D

Ha ha!:biggrin: I'm starting to get worried about you - you're obviously watching it TOO much!!! Had you seen it though before I mentioned it here?

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=QMYmQa5cBFY This is the airport one.

HarperPR

12-12-2008, 02:18 PM

This thread has degraded so much

Yeah, man, 'ez cockers 'ere like, they just too well degrading.:rofl: We need like the big boss man ere, woz ees name? MCPD? yeah, man in da house!:biggrin::m1:

Travellerman

12-12-2008, 03:46 PM

Ha ha!:biggrin: I'm starting to get worried about you - you're obviously watching it TOO much!!! Had you seen it though before I mentioned it here?

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=QMYmQa5cBFY This is the airport one.

Yes, caught an episode a week or two before, not much else going on at the weekend for me these days ;)

I saw the airport clip on youtube, but didn't find that part so funny. On the one hand, the series is hilarious but there are moments of cliched slapstick that weaken things somewhat. I'm still looking for the clip I referred to earlier :wink:.

Haven't seen Spaced, it's the just the news for me and Inspector Morse, oh! and River Cottage too if I can find an episode showing :D Though I suppose the question these days is 'has Hugh F-W really downsized at all?' His whole RC empire seems to have grown since those early, halcyon days based in the original River Cottage (which had previously been the old Etonians holiday retreat anyway).

wobbly bob

12-12-2008, 04:51 PM

says the man who secretly collects decorative spoons - that's very gay!:wink::biggrin:

lol....

once and for all, "i do not collect spoons!"
and as for the gay thing-i can prove that theory wrong!:wink:

HarperPR

12-12-2008, 04:52 PM

Have you tried Lead Balloon, Trav? You can record them for your Sat nights!:D I've missed the last two as been out on a Thursday when on.:(

HarperPR

12-12-2008, 04:56 PM

lol....

once and for all, "i do not collect spoons!"
and as for the gay thing-i can prove that theory wrong!:wink:

You mean like 'come up and see my spoons sometime'?!:biggrin:

wobbly bob

12-12-2008, 05:04 PM

You mean like 'come up and see my spoons sometime'?!:biggrin:

LMAO..... oh, that's good... that's very good! i like a woman who can make me laugh....!

wobbly bob

12-12-2008, 05:14 PM

oooh, better be careful what i say... i don't want another telling off for turning this forum into a dating site, do i...?:wink:

aspwatterson

13-12-2008, 10:33 AM

You mean like 'come up and see my spoons sometime'?!:biggrin:

Let me sew you to your sheet
Let me show you to your seat

chrs
andi

NoCelebrity

16-12-2008, 05:57 AM

Oh God, not a remake of Spaced! When will my bloody countrymen figure out that The American Office being successful is the exception rather than the rule!! :cursing: Just show the original why don't you...

*mind boggles at how much the US networks can F Spaced up* :bored:

I remember the remake of "Fawlty Towers" w/ John Laroquette. I think it managed 13 episodes--one more than John Cleese's original--but it failed (it wasn't awful, it was "different"). I remember there was a US remake of "Coupling" that failed quickly. Still can't watch "The Office" or anything with Steve Carrell (or Will Farrell-rhymes) in it. Fox-TV did a movie of Doctor Who where Sylvester McCoy passed the torch to the... eighth??? Back to the Scots...

I have to agree... the originals are generally the best. Of course, we usually see them on PBS without commercials

HarperPR

09-01-2009, 03:54 PM

PD is right - Sapphire and Steele was terrifying. I still remember one episode where a character without a face could trap people into photgraphs. Sorry gone waaaaaaay off topic now.

Yes you did, and wibbled in my podcast thread!:D

Sapphire and Steele...? was that the one with David McCallum in? Was it 70s or 80s? Good recall to remember a certain episode. I can remember the name, but not what it was about. Were they investigators of some sort?

What was the name of that 60s (I think) series which I saw on one of those TV clips of the past progs, which starred Joel Fabiani and maybe Rosemary Nicol and it was a team that (again, I think) had some kind of psychic link and communicated that way?

And who remembers the koala bears Tinga and Tucker, and their friends Willie Wombat and Katie Kookaburra in an Australian children's series?!:biggrin:

09-01-2009, 04:26 PM

All irregularities will be handled by the forces controlling each dimension.
Transuranic, heavy elements may not be used where there is life.
Medium atomic weights are available:
Gold, Lead, Copper, Jet, Diamond, Radium, Sapphire, Silver and Steel.
Sapphire and Steel have been assigned.

wobbly bob

10-01-2009, 03:54 PM

they're not all elements.

aspwatterson

11-01-2009, 01:43 PM

they're not all elements.

Now that's what I call periodic thinking! Reminds me of my mate coming out of detox!

chrs
andi

wobbly bob

11-01-2009, 08:06 PM

Reminds me of my mate coming out of detox!

sorry, i think i must be having another of my 'thick' days.... i just don't get it. maybe the penny will drop later...?

aspwatterson

14-01-2009, 11:31 AM

sorry, i think i must be having another of my 'thick' days.... i just don't get it. maybe the penny will drop later...?

Can't remember why I posted that! Perhaps I was mistakenly replying to another thread somewhere else? Who knows?

Andi in Thicklands :leaving: :bored:

wobbly bob

15-01-2009, 03:32 PM

lol... you're nearly as bad as me sometimes!

HarperPR

03-06-2009, 11:53 PM

I might have no taste, but I so love this Coach Trip series! I want to go on it. Who'll come with?:D

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/coach-trip

HarperPR

28-09-2009, 11:18 PM

Did anyone see FlashForward tonight? (repeated tomorrow I think, if you didn't). I'm hooked! Joseph Fiennes is always a good watch (wondered how he gets on with his ex-sister-in-law?!). If you don't know what it's about, it's basically that the whole world blanks out for 2 mins and when they come round they all have had a vision in that time of what they'll be doing on a certain date, six months on. It's made by the same people who did Lost, so not surprisingly it's running for 22 weeks! I haven't read the book it's based on, but rather wish I could have a vision too - of the end! Lol. That's a long TV haul.

aspwatterson

29-09-2009, 01:57 AM

Don't usually watch scifi but it was good and recommended in the TV mag so I thought I'd give it a try. There are a few games like Armageddon on the computer which some of my friends are totally addicted to. Wouldn't be surprised if they make a playable game out of it oneday.

c/a

scotpaulabear

29-09-2009, 07:44 AM

Started watching Harper's Island as the name caught my attention for some reason :wink: but I have to say I'm utterly hooked - up to episode 6 of 13 so far, it was a bit US soap-y at the start but now it's lots of intrigue, mystery, blood and guts :D

pete c

29-09-2009, 07:46 AM

HarperPR

22-10-2009, 11:57 PM

Bit of a good night on the old telly box, weren't it!

Repeat of Robbie at Electric Proms on the red button; the bigamist/fantasist/'escort' doc on C4; Fearne Meets Paris Hilton (who was the more vacuous?) on ITV2; great Question Time and Doves at Electric Proms. Can't remember when I last watched so much.

Travellerman

23-10-2009, 08:57 AM

No TV apart from the news at the moment, there's nothing worth watching - but Ray Mears will be back on this weekend I believe :D

scotpaulabear

23-10-2009, 11:29 AM

I saw Flashforward, thought it was pretty good. Looking forward to seeing how it pans out. Hope it doesn't meander & lose itself up its own backside like what Lost did (or so I believe, thankfully I never watched it).

Flashforward is GREAT so far, the big man and I are totally enthralled by it - and we do have the same fear that it'll go the way of Lost but I don't think JJ Abrams has anything to do with it so it's probably safe... :wink:

Harper's Island was a fantastic series, would highly recommend it (for those with a strong stomach for blood splatter LOL), we were totally befuddled by the perpetrator(s) almost to the very end!

And yet another Masterchef series down, very enjoyable it was but the brand is getting a bit ubiquitous. I figure the BBC will have it on all year round soon at this rate!

NoCelebrity

25-10-2009, 06:37 AM

I thought "LIFE" was an excellent cop drama, poorly rated, probably over after a couple years on NBC earlier this year.

NCIS is my favorite drama now, and has been since I discovered it in its second season (balanced between witty and gritty). On CBS.

If you ever liked STAR WARS, check out the animated series CLONE WARS (the newer version) now in its second season on the Cartoon Network. Like what "FLASH GORDON" tried to be 50+ years ago (I'm reaching here...).

MONK is a fair Comedy/Drama that is coming to a close, sure to bring tears and cheers assuming he finally solves his wife's murder.

Get all my news from THE DAILY SHOW with Jon Stewart (not really, but his commentary is both more cutting AND more thorough and fair than the REAL NEWS).

25-10-2009, 06:34 PM

NoCelebrity

25-10-2009, 10:17 PM

I can second the vote for NCIS. What I initially feared was a jingoistic pro-military copy of CSI has turned into a great drama that I really like (we're working our way through series 4 at the moment).

It's a different producer and development team than CSI. Same producer as Magnum P.I. and JAG. Not without some "patriotic" drivel, but generally within the story and the positive ethos of the basic characters. Plus, it has David McCallum (sp?)/(son of Roy's former studio musician)/(aka Ilya Kuryakin) as Dr. Mallard -- "Duckie" -- in it. I think it recently passed CSI as #1 rated drama in the U.S.

HarperPR

15-12-2009, 12:19 PM

Really pleased that little Ramona Marquez from Outnumbered picked up one of their 3 awards in the British Comedy Awards - richly deserved, eh, Trav? And don't ask "but whyyyyy?":wink::D

The Monster

15-12-2009, 04:35 PM

She's quite sensational. Best actress around.

In fact they're all great.

Travellerman

15-12-2009, 08:30 PM

Really pleased that little Ramona Marquez from Outnumbered picked up one of their 3 awards in the British Comedy Awards - richly deserved, eh, Trav? And don't ask "but whyyyyy?":wink::D

Yeah, she's sweet, I wouldn't mind one or two like that myself, but as Ed Byrne said last night "what's the point? I'd be too old by the time her friends were all 16" :wink::D

Travellerman

27-12-2009, 09:23 PM

Outnumbered Christmas Special! ~ 10.30 BBC1 :D

HarperPR

27-12-2009, 11:22 PM

So then, what does everyone think about buying Hitler a goose? And can we all sing along to Sex On Fire now? LOL! Classic.

Travellerman

28-12-2009, 12:15 AM

Grandad reminds me soooooo much of my Aunt here, she wanted to telephone herself the other day ~ how do you explain that one! :D

HarperPR

31-03-2010, 09:58 PM

Outnumbered is back for series 3 from April 8!:thumbup1:

Travellerman

31-03-2010, 10:34 PM

....... :D

Travellerman

06-04-2010, 09:06 PM

Thursday - 21.30 - BBC 1

...worth staying in for :biggrin:

HarperPR

15-05-2010, 09:51 PM

Did anyone catch the 4 hour Peter Bogadovich doc film on BBC4: Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers Runnin Down A Dream? Went through the first two hours until falling asleep at 6am this morning after getting back from Brighton. Will do last two hours later. Great film, whether or not a Petty fan. What tunes he has spanning 30 years.

HarperPR

31-05-2010, 11:18 PM

Who caught the final 22nd episode of FlashForward tonight? I thought it was superb - despite never having understood any of it! I only saw the first 4 episodes before life intervened! Can anyone explain it and what the end was? What was the wave? Did Mark die? Was the government involved? Was the guy with Mark's wife a goodie or baddie?

HarperPR

02-11-2010, 09:44 PM

2.5 hours of Robert Plant on BBC2 this Saturday! What with X Factor and Strictly currently, Saturday is fast becoming a stay home night. :biggrin:

NoCelebrity

05-11-2010, 06:17 AM

Saw his "Band of Joy" on late night TV doing one song a couple weeks ago, think it was NBC.

Is that Patty Griffin backing up RP in BofJ? Patty (or Patti?) was on "Austin City Limits" maybe three weeks ago, a week before John Paul Jones' and David Grohl's "Them Crooked Vultures" was also on A.C.L. (Supposed to have full episodes at pbs.org). Vultures was pretty cool, JPJ played any number of odd bass instruments with Grohl on drums. The lead singer/guitar and a dual-lead guitarist were good, though I'd never seen them.

SHAUN I

05-11-2010, 10:36 PM

2.5 hours of Robert Plant on BBC2 this Saturday! What with X Factor and Strictly currently, Saturday is fast becoming a stay home night. :biggrin:

I'll be having a Robert Plant stay home evening (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00vy78y/) tomorrow night too. But thankfully without The X Factor :D

HarperPR

07-11-2010, 01:07 AM

Then you no doubt would have missed this! One of my favourite songs ever, performed by the only X Factor artist in its history that I would ever want to see live. Loved this guy from the start. And he's a bit hot looking too!

Watch and weep.
Matt Cardle "The First Time"(Ever I Saw Your Face) http://t.co/yDwL1fd

HarperPR

20-11-2010, 04:55 PM

aspwatterson

21-11-2010, 04:54 PM

Totally compelling Leonard Cohen doc 'Bird on a Wire' last night on BBC4. Put together from 3000 restored fragments of previously believed lost footage of his 1972 European tour.Loved the bit where he fishes in his own pocket for cash to pay back a disgruntled German after the PA packed up in Berlin. And his pick up of a female fan - his art of seduction, hell yeah! Hope this gets another showing.

I thought it, and he, were amazing; even got quite emotional sometimes; the reality of him as a genuine person ;totally accorded with his natural songs : bit like Nick really?

Why do I love laments these days more than love songs? Must be getting old!

Probably you may be able to find it on the Internet now?

Which is the Nick song that brings tears eh? Tugs at those emotional strings? Imaginary Friend for me.

Andi