What are you watching tonight?

Prufrock · Post by **Prufrock** » Tue Dec 08, 2009 4:30 am

jimbo wrote:
Dr Hotdog wrote:Oh man.
I'm watching The Thick of It on Iplayer. Up to Episode 5 at Radio5Live so far and it's probably the best thing I've ever seen.
Fantastic isn't it? Like you, the first time I saw it was this series, but have since bought the first series and the specials and caught up. I'm yet to see In the Loop though, and am nervous about doing so. Anyone able to tell me whether it lives up to the high standards of the series?

Watch it. It isn't really a film as much a feature length Malcolm orientated episode, with a couple of brilliant exchanges, particularly Malcolm vs James Gandolfi. Takes a little while to get into the fact its the same actors playing different characters. However they are essentially the same characters with different names. Chris Addison and Capaldi are excellent.

jimbo · Post by **jimbo** » Tue Dec 08, 2009 4:58 pm

Prufrock wrote:
jimbo wrote:
Dr Hotdog wrote:Oh man.
I'm watching The Thick of It on Iplayer. Up to Episode 5 at Radio5Live so far and it's probably the best thing I've ever seen.
Fantastic isn't it? Like you, the first time I saw it was this series, but have since bought the first series and the specials and caught up. I'm yet to see In the Loop though, and am nervous about doing so. Anyone able to tell me whether it lives up to the high standards of the series?
Watch it. It isn't really a film as much a feature length Malcolm orientated episode, with a couple of brilliant exchanges, particularly Malcolm vs James Gandolfi. Takes a little while to get into the fact its the same actors playing different characters. However they are essentially the same characters with different names. Chris Addison and Capaldi are excellent.

Thanks, I'll have to dig that out from somewhere soon then. Looking forward to it!

General Mannerheim · Post by **General Mannerheim** » Tue Dec 08, 2009 6:35 pm

i thought in the loop was toss?

General Mannerheim · Post by **General Mannerheim** » Tue Dec 08, 2009 11:14 pm

'Le Donk & Scor-zay-zee' tonight courtesy of LOVEFiLM.

wasn't bad actually.

hisroyalgingerness · Post by **hisroyalgingerness** » Wed Dec 09, 2009 8:13 am

General Mannerheim wrote:i thought in the loop was toss?

Not really, just as Prufrock said it's little more than a feature length episode and that's the only reason a couple of critics didn't give it mega thumbs up.

I love the thick of it, bent double when Malcolm opened his birthday cake and it said "happy birthday c**t"

jimbo · Post by **jimbo** » Wed Dec 09, 2009 10:27 am

hisroyalgingerness wrote:
General Mannerheim wrote:i thought in the loop was toss?

Not really, just as Prufrock said it's little more than a feature length episode and that's the only reason a couple of critics didn't give it mega thumbs up.

I love the thick of it, bent double when Malcolm opened his birthday cake and it said "happy birthday c**t"

"This could be from anyone." Love it!

General Mannerheim · Post by **General Mannerheim** » Sat Dec 12, 2009 11:25 pm

Has anyone watched 'Outnumbered'??? 3 seasons in apparently? cleaned up at tonight's comedy awards anyway!

might have to have a word with my man with the torrents!

Also, in the loop won best comedy film! i just didnt get it, but ive never watched the thick of it either - might give it another bash!

thebish · Post by **thebish** » Mon Dec 14, 2009 9:50 pm

General Mannerheim wrote:Has anyone watched 'Outnumbered'??? 3 seasons in apparently? cleaned up at tonight's comedy awards anyway!

might have to have a word with my man with the torrents!

Also, in the loop won best comedy film! i just didnt get it, but ive never watched the thick of it either - might give it another bash!

yeah - I loved Outnumbered - great stuff! add it to your christmas list...

thebish · Post by **thebish** » Mon Dec 14, 2009 9:51 pm

watched second half of "Small Island" - gentle fare - but also moving and funny - so a tick from the Bish...

William the White · Post by **William the White** » Thu Dec 17, 2009 12:28 am

Tonight I watched episode two of the History of Russian Art on BBC four, while shivering through a cold and whisky toddy (poor me!)...

Fantastic. We've now got up to the 19th Century and the programme majored on 'The Wanderers' a group of dissident artists who formed in 1863...

I believe at that time they viewed themselves as Russian Art's One and Only Wanderers...

More on the Great Art Debate for anyone interested...

This was a seriously good programme, ending in 1916. I guess the next ep will start in 1917. what happened then?

thebish · Post by **thebish** » Thu Dec 17, 2009 8:24 am

Last night I was mostly watching The Wizard of Oz as performed by the school drama group including my daughter...

William the White · Post by **William the White** » Thu Dec 17, 2009 11:06 pm

On the sofa, beneah a duvet, with cough mixture, strepsils and, later on, whisky and lemon and honey...

Watched all three hours 25 mins of Scorsese's mammoth tribute to Dylan, No direction home... Fantastic...

General Mannerheim · Post by **General Mannerheim** » Sun Dec 27, 2009 9:12 pm

steve coogan - the inside story

bb2, 9pm

General Mannerheim · Post by **General Mannerheim** » Mon Dec 28, 2009 3:35 pm

Buffalo 66, with Vincent Gallo and Christina Ricci. Crackin fillum!

also never realised what an epic rack Ricci has! round of applause for them!

TANGODANCER · Post by **TANGODANCER** » Mon Dec 28, 2009 4:52 pm

Watched Horsemen of The Apocolypse.

Last night watched 'Thirteen-Conspiracy'. Bourne, all over again.

Zulus Thousand of em · Post by **Zulus Thousand of em** » Mon Dec 28, 2009 5:59 pm

Newcastle v Derby. And it's shite.

General Mannerheim · Post by **General Mannerheim** » Wed Dec 30, 2009 10:14 am

William the White wrote:On the sofa, beneah a duvet, with cough mixture, strepsils and, later on, whisky and lemon and honey...

Watched all three hours 25 mins of Scorsese's mammoth tribute to Dylan, No direction home... Fantastic...

ta for the tip off on this one, was added to LOVEFiLM - just watching disc 1 now! its great.

thebish · Post by **thebish** » Wed Dec 30, 2009 9:36 pm

watched James May - toys - where he built a full-scale lego house - great feelgood TV!

thebish · Post by **thebish** » Wed Dec 30, 2009 10:32 pm

am now watching the Not the Nine O Clock News (Not Again) retrospective...

and have realised that Mel Smith now looks very much like a chubbier Gary Megson...

Gary Megson:

mel smith:

TANGODANCER · Post by **TANGODANCER** » Wed Dec 30, 2009 10:51 pm

Watched The Turin Shroud-The new evidence.

Seems the scientists are not quite so sure now in the light of rcent developments. It's quite conclusive that the fragments they tested were from an area repaired after a fifteenth century fire. Now they're doing more tests after high tech. photography proves that the image couldn't possibly be any form of pigment, ie, painted on, and has three dimensional depth that means it can only be from a real person. Fascinating programme.

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