What are you watching tonight?

mofgimmers · Post by **mofgimmers** » Tue Oct 07, 2008 11:09 pm

It may pain you to learn that Dawn's a mate of mine, thanks to my job. She's a firecracker in real life too.

General Mannerheim · Post by **General Mannerheim** » Tue Oct 07, 2008 11:17 pm

mofgimmers wrote:It may pain you to learn that Dawn's a mate of mine, thanks to my job. She's a firecracker in real life too.

swine! i bet she is n'all!

communistworkethic · Post by **communistworkethic** » Tue Oct 07, 2008 11:17 pm

mofgimmers wrote:It may pain you to learn that Dawn's a mate of mine, thanks to my job. She's a firecracker in real life too.

can you pass my phone number on?

General Mannerheim · Post by **General Mannerheim** » Tue Oct 07, 2008 11:18 pm

communistworkethic wrote:is Kevin the psycho ginger?

[edit] no that's mark, feck me is he a loony

yeah a total lunatic, he even had a crack at Dawn! cant blame him tho

communistworkethic · Post by **communistworkethic** » Tue Oct 07, 2008 11:21 pm

General Mannerheim wrote:
communistworkethic wrote:is Kevin the psycho ginger?

[edit] no that's mark, feck me is he a loony
yeah a total lunatic, he even had a crack at Dawn! cant blame him tho

I'm going round to kick his head in for chatting up my bird, but I think I'll have a cry about it first

mofgimmers · Post by **mofgimmers** » Wed Oct 08, 2008 2:49 pm

You won't be surprised to hear that I get a lot of people asking me to pass on their number. Sadly, some aren't even joking.

I couldn't believe that Marc bloke last night... he was all 'you know you want it'. A real grim swine. Still, that Kevin with the deranged murderer laugh creeped me out more...

ratbert · Post by **ratbert** » Wed Oct 08, 2008 3:35 pm

At least Mof you haven't asked Dawn to do a documentary on the kind of men that go on football message boards... or have you?

Dave Sutton's barnet · Post by **Dave Sutton's barnet** » Wed Oct 08, 2008 4:18 pm

The Sky+ box is in serious danger of exploding this week; I may have to buy a newer model with more memory. I've got plenty to plough through even without the daily helpings of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (More 4) and The Colbert Report (FX).

Banked from previously:
All You Need Is Love (More 4) - terribly titled but fascinatingly filmed 1975 documentary series on musical genres, from a time when documentaries were given time and space to tell a story properly.
The Story of Maths (BBC Four) - more of the same, I hope, only new.
President Hollywood (BBC Four) - look everybody, The West Wing's come true!
Sunshine (BBC1) - Steve Coogan thing from last night - anybody see it?
Jamie's Ministry of Food (C4) - I fully understand why he irritates some but Mrs B tells me last week's programme featured somebody who didn't know how to boil water. This I gotta see.
Dave Gorman: America Unchained (More 4) - anti-corporate road movie from someone usually watchable.

To be added tonight
Britain from Above (BBC Four) - the additional half-hour job, not the main hour-long one. This one's about London but specifically urban renewal plans down the years, something that's always fascinated me
Greatest Cities of the World (ITV1) - Griff Rhys Jones is often good value, he's starting in New York (where I've never been) and it's been about a decade since I watched something on that channel. Is it digital-only, Mabel?
Paul Merton in India (Five) - I enjoyed his self-deprecation and welcome wide-eyed naivete in the similar series on China, so I'm intrigued by this
The Family (Channel 4) - It's not just Big Brother that has annoying and sympathetic characters. I want to run amok through this house, gunning down the females, then take the long-suffering dad to a pub and a whorehouse. Does his wife do anything but lie on the couch in her dressing-gown undermining him to the children?

Later this week
Steam Days (BBC Four) - I'm officially old: I like programmes about trains. Miles Kington was a very fine writer, so I wonder how he was at presenting.
Railway Walks (BBC Four) - Really enjoyed this the other night. Some slightly-too-flirty lass walks along disused railway lines running through beautiful locations. You lucky northerners.
Never Mind the Buzzcocks (BBC Two) and Entourage (ITV2) are good witty mindless entertainment, while Rich Hall's Fishing Show (Dave) is highly recommended for relaxed late-night viewing (and has very little to do with fishing).
There's a First Cut (Channel 4) on Friday about junk mail, the director having collected it over five years to gauge how his area's changing (I noticed our first "we pay cash for gold" arriving yesterday, these folk don't hang about do they?). Sadly he'll probably live in a garret in some trendy London shithole.
Simon Schama's back with The American Future: A History (BBC2) which should be intelligent even if Schama makes you want to punch him. Then, the other side of Jools Holland, we've also got Stephen Fry in America (BBC 1).

I'd better get watching. Or booking a day off work.

Lord Kangana · Post by **Lord Kangana** » Wed Oct 08, 2008 4:21 pm

Dave Gorman one is very watchable, as is Oliver's. He's a bit of an irritating chirpy faux-cockerney tw*t at times, but its a genuinly good idea and decent watch.

KeeeeeeeBaaaaaaab · Post by **KeeeeeeeBaaaaaaab** » Wed Oct 08, 2008 4:46 pm

Dave Sutton's barnet wrote:The Family (Channel 4) - It's not just Big Brother that has annoying and sympathetic characters. I want to run amok through this house, gunning down the females, then take the long-suffering dad to a pub and a whorehouse. Does his wife do anything but lie on the couch in her dressing-gown undermining him to the children?

You see, I lasted about five minutes before harrumphing and switching over to yet another Top Gearathon on Dave during the first episode. The daughters really deserve years of slapping round the face very hard until they plead "Mercy! I admit that we're behaving this way because this is how everyone thinks teenage girls behave! We promise to smile!". The son was such a little smartarse that he deserves to be bullied every day until he's 51. And the parents, who I'd expect to have sympathy for after having three such unctious nice people as children, left me cold.

The programme I watch the most at present is the Hoobs. Jim Henson goes pre-school. It's ace.

mofgimmers · Post by **mofgimmers** » Wed Oct 08, 2008 4:47 pm

The Family is scripted isn't it? It's not real.

CrazyHorse · Post by **CrazyHorse** » Wed Oct 08, 2008 6:26 pm

Dave Sutton's barnet wrote:Jamie's Ministry of Food (C4) - I fully understand why he irritates some but Mrs B tells me last week's programme featured somebody who didn't know how to boil water. This I gotta see.
Dave Gorman: America Unchained (More 4) - anti-corporate road movie from someone usually watchable.

Watched both these last night.
Jamie was great; this kind of reality tv I can watch all day. Mind he doesn't half get on my tits. Watch out for the bit where one of the local Rotheram blokes is chatting to him and says "so ahcan serve owt wi that?" Jamie's face is a picture as he looks to someone off camera to translate it for him.

General Mannerheim · Post by **General Mannerheim** » Wed Oct 08, 2008 8:20 pm

I saw Sunshine, its not bad, not funny either but the drama side is quite good. its basically the entire cast of Early Doors + Coogan.

Verbal · Post by **Verbal** » Wed Oct 08, 2008 9:17 pm

Heroes, Season 3. Shite.

communistworkethic · Post by **communistworkethic** » Wed Oct 08, 2008 9:18 pm

mofgimmers wrote:You won't be surprised to hear that I get a lot of people asking me to pass on their number. Sadly, some aren't even joking.

I couldn't believe that Marc bloke last night... he was all 'you know you want it'. A real grim swine. Still, that Kevin with the deranged murderer laugh creeped me out more...

who was joking??????

William the White · Post by **William the White** » Wed Oct 08, 2008 10:21 pm

Sunshine is cotton wool drama, DSB, entirely predictable, enjoyable if sitting comfortably is your thing, you don't need to be emotionally engaged or care, or surprised at any time. me and the other half spent an hour predicting the next bit and were never wrong. And a pretty much complete failure if it's meant to introduce coogan as a serious actor. It also manages to sabotage itself because it'll do anything for a one-liner, however inappropiriate dramatically.

Not that I'd want to put you off, or owt. but if you're looking to make space on sky+, your life will not be destroyed by missing.

Dave Sutton's barnet · Post by **Dave Sutton's barnet** » Wed Oct 08, 2008 10:56 pm

General Mannerheim wrote:I saw Sunshine, its not bad, not funny either but the drama side is quite good. its basically the entire cast of Early Doors + Coogan.

William the White wrote:Sunshine is cotton wool drama, DSB, entirely predictable, enjoyable if sitting comfortably is your thing, you don't need to be emotionally engaged or care, or surprised at any time. me and the other half spent an hour predicting the next bit and were never wrong. And a pretty much complete failure if it's meant to introduce coogan as a serious actor. It also manages to sabotage itself because it'll do anything for a one-liner, however inappropiriate dramatically.

Not that I'd want to put you off, or owt. but if you're looking to make space on sky+, your life will not be destroyed by missing.

Thanks for your input, chaps. I'm with William. Poor script, terribly acted. We made it through 40 minutes before deleting, and easily the best entertainment was trying to figure out whether the female lead – no great shakes, but shackled by some awful writing – was Katherine Parkinson off The IT Crowd. (It wasn't.)

William the White · Post by **William the White** » Wed Oct 08, 2008 11:45 pm

Dave Sutton's barnet wrote:
General Mannerheim wrote:I saw Sunshine, its not bad, not funny either but the drama side is quite good. its basically the entire cast of Early Doors + Coogan.

William the White wrote:Sunshine is cotton wool drama, DSB, entirely predictable, enjoyable if sitting comfortably is your thing, you don't need to be emotionally engaged or care, or surprised at any time. me and the other half spent an hour predicting the next bit and were never wrong. And a pretty much complete failure if it's meant to introduce coogan as a serious actor. It also manages to sabotage itself because it'll do anything for a one-liner, however inappropiriate dramatically.

Not that I'd want to put you off, or owt. but if you're looking to make space on sky+, your life will not be destroyed by missing.
Thanks for your input, chaps. I'm with William. Poor script, terribly acted. We made it through 40 minutes before deleting, and easily the best entertainment was trying to figure out whether the female lead – no great shakes, but shackled by some awful writing – was Katherine Parkinson off The IT Crowd. (It wasn't.)

i know this is absurd, but we spent some time - actually only a few seconds, I guess, though I continued to ponder, stupidly, right the way to the end - wondering if she was a suddenly taken on weight Gina McKee. I thought she gave the best acting in the show though. Liked her. Two more episodes to go. I'm torn between redemption and suicide for our hero. But, since it's BBC1 veering towards redemption.

hisroyalgingerness · Post by **hisroyalgingerness** » Thu Oct 09, 2008 8:37 am

Little Britain USA
was shit

Dave Sutton's barnet · Post by **Dave Sutton's barnet** » Thu Oct 09, 2008 9:21 am

William the White wrote:
Dave Sutton's barnet wrote:easily the best entertainment was trying to figure out whether the female lead – no great shakes, but shackled by some awful writing – was Katherine Parkinson off The IT Crowd. (It wasn't.)
i know this is absurd, but we spent some time - actually only a few seconds, I guess, though I continued to ponder, stupidly, right the way to the end - wondering if she was a suddenly taken on weight Gina McKee. I thought she gave the best acting in the show though. Liked her. Two more episodes to go. I'm torn between redemption and suicide for our hero. But, since it's BBC1 veering towards redemption.

Now Gina McKee's a very good actress. I know Lisa Millett (for it was she, and funnily enough looking slimmer than in previous publicity shots available on t'web) was given a hog's arse of a script, one which was always going to be a struggle to render realistic, but I don't think she did too well in the emotional scenes. Anyways, good luck to her and all involved, but I won't be watching next time.

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