Whistler40145
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Which television programmes do you like to watch, whether it be a chat show, news, comedy, travel etc.
I look forward to seeing your replies.
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Have watched Casualty every Saturday since c.2007 back when it was decent, not crap like it is now. Still watch it mind in the hope that it might have a realistic storyline. :P
Same goes with Holby City.
Same goes with Holby City.
MidnightFlyer
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The Apprentice, and that's only because everyone else in my flat does. Not watched TV regularly for about 5 years now. Didn't even bother to reconnect my Freeview box to my TV when I went back home in summer.
Whistler40145
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I like to watch Pointless, The One Show, BBC Breakfast, The Andrew Marr Show, Question Time (serious watching), less serious would be Dad's Army, The Two Ronnies (Ronnie Barker for his intelligence) the list is endless.
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Have I Got News for you is generally pretty good.
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The Following was my favourite show this year closely followed by the Walking Dead and Fargo.
Whistler40145
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Although I don't agree with his political views, I have really enjoyed Michael Portillo's railway programmes.
I prefer factual shows to most of the drivel that passes for drama in the UK. I find most of the drama produced for the free to air market very formulaic and soap like these days. Even Doctor Who has fallen into the trap.
GaryMcEwan
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Have I Got News For You is almost a daily occurrence for me, with the new series on BBC1 and the repeats on Dave. But I'm also enjoying Challenge TV repeating the last remaining series of Bullseye before it went of the air in 1995...
Yes, absolute classic. I wish they'd repeat some of the ones from years ago as well. To think Maggie was still in power when they started !
Butts
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Coronation Street, Emmerdale, Eastenders, Dr Who plus most Drama's and Factual Shows.
I watch an average of six hours via BBC I Player et al every night at work.
I watch an average of six hours via BBC I Player et al every night at work.
Ash Bridge
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Has anyone been watching Micheal Palin in Remember Me, the currently running BBC three part ghost story?
Glad there is someone else with my little "habit". I am also a Pointless regular, and am enjoying "Atlantis" (classicist, see!)
Yes, and thoroughly enjoying it. The atmosphere is built up very well, and the acting is good. Ends tonight:eek:
I've been enjoying it greatly. Shows what a good character actor Michael Palin is.
Ash Bridge
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Yes, very well done all round I thought.
Indeed he is. Then again I always had a special respect for him anyway,because he's a railway enthusiast
I'm watching 15 storeys high on DVD at the moment, probably the most underrated show of the past 15 years. Love it's gritty realism, very dry sense of humour and surrealness. Makes almost all other sitcoms seem completely crap.
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I wasn't too keen on the IT crowd, too full of canned laughter and shouted lines. Felt very American.
Current shows I never miss: University Challenge, The Big Bang Theory (impatient with this one so I <ahem> watch latest episodes before UK broadcast), Strictly Come Dancing.
Shows that I'll always watch regardless of the times I've seen them before: Fawlty Towers, Top Gear, anything featuring Fred Dibnah, Only Fools and Horses.
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IT Crowd was always filmed before a live studio audience (I know, having been in the audience 4 times!), with location/non-studio scenes played to the audience and their reaction recorded. You can't, for example, have a live audience watching Moss shoplifting 'Grand Designs' DVDs from HMV in the Whitgift Centre, Croydon!*
Also, as is the way with sitcoms recorded 'before a live studio audience', sometimes the best take for technical reason didn't get the right audience response. It's very hard to laugh at the same joke after seeing it done for the nth time. At one of the recordings I saw, Graham Linehan told the audience that, whilst they didn't use canned laughter per se, they would sometimes marry the best audience response with the best take. These were sometimes mutually exclusive.
*Possibly my favourite episode. When Moss learns that the bomb disposal guy is having trouble with the computer controlling the bomb disposal robot and asks what operating system he is using. "It's Vista", says the bomb disposal guy.
"We're going to die!" says Moss.
Shows that I'll always watch regardless of the times I've seen them before: Fawlty Towers, Top Gear, anything featuring Fred Dibnah, Only Fools and Horses.
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IT Crowd was always filmed before a live studio audience (I know, having been in the audience 4 times!), with location/non-studio scenes played to the audience and their reaction recorded. You can't, for example, have a live audience watching Moss shoplifting 'Grand Designs' DVDs from HMV in the Whitgift Centre, Croydon!*
Also, as is the way with sitcoms recorded 'before a live studio audience', sometimes the best take for technical reason didn't get the right audience response. It's very hard to laugh at the same joke after seeing it done for the nth time. At one of the recordings I saw, Graham Linehan told the audience that, whilst they didn't use canned laughter per se, they would sometimes marry the best audience response with the best take. These were sometimes mutually exclusive.
*Possibly my favourite episode. When Moss learns that the bomb disposal guy is having trouble with the computer controlling the bomb disposal robot and asks what operating system he is using. "It's Vista", says the bomb disposal guy.
"We're going to die!" says Moss.
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Butts
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I was a bit disappointed with the ending !!! - a bit tame:cry:
Ash Bridge
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Yes, same for me Iam afraid.
I suppose there are only so many places you can go with a ghost story, short of the whole bodies coming up through the floor, Poltergeist scenario. Worked for me, anyhow.
Ash Bridge
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I suppose in all fairness you're correct. We're too accustomed to the Hollywood approach i.e. Full on effects, maximum bangs for your buck, being spoon fed everything etc. whereas generally the European approach to movie making seems to result in a more subtle thought provoking production.
IanD
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At last - someone else who remembers it! Blank faces all round when I mention it in the office (don't get me started on The Office!!). Same happens with Small Potatoes, another underrated series from a couple of years before.
Loved the series, didn't like the permanently shouty characters though. Richard Ayoade went down in my estimation when it turned out he was just playing himself and wasn't a good actor after all. Now seems to revel in ruining any game/chat show he appears on.
Ah the office, love it! I've actually done my stint of working in an office in Slough even though it was a weeks work experience
. You know I was born and raised on the same estate as Ricky Gervais, even went to the same school although we are about 30 years apart. To be honest I don't like any sitcom with a live audience, as Ricky Gervais explored in his excellent series; Extras, it does dumb a show down. I like comedies to be as dry as possible.
Hmm I actually find Richard Ayoade funny on panel shows, he was the most amusing on IT crowd. To be honest I think IT crowd could potentially have been very dry and funny but I think the producers lost their way chasing ratings.
Currently re-watching The Wire on DVD, I love the way it unfolds like a novel and the gritty realism too.
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