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One of the good things about the post-christmas turkeys blow out of old films and comedy reruns, is come the new year we are inundated with new programs to tickle our televisual fancies. Life on Mars has already been discussed at length, as has Poppycock and twaddle or whatever it is called, but what is it you are looking forward to of the new bunch? And what have you seen that has intrigued, dissapointed or just had you looking forward to a quiet night in with the remote in hand and a cup of cocoa instead of the after-work pint?
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Seen: Hyperdrive
I was quite looking to this - Hyperdrive - with a couple of comedy favourites - Nick Frost (Spaced and Shaun of the Dead), and the Deadpan Kevin Eldon (Big train e.v.a.) I thought would make a basis for a good chuckle. The premise for the series being about a space crew trying to sell Peterborough as a Hi Tech business development for interstellar relocation whilst amusing seemed a little shallow, but in actual fact its the script that seems to have let it down - the first episode seemed based around aliens rubbing their knobs on the captains head for shits and giggles, neither of which transpired to me the viewer. The rest of the episode revolved around an escaped alien devouring the crew whilst the commanders wrestled to sign a deal of huge proprtions to a bunch of once isolationists, all due to the premise of the minister having been on a Kibbutz with the number one Female Officer, who spent most of her time lacklustringly trying to touch up the captain. I'll give it another couple of episodes to see if it defrosts, but I'm not holding out much hope - it looks like a poor mans Red Dwarf without the budget to match.
Looking forward to: The IT Crowd
Channel 4 have been touting this new series The IT Crowd for the last week - for obvious reasons, as a monkey in the game I guess for 20 years I have been waiting for a series to mirror the goings on in my daily life - all I have had is the Bastard Operator from Hell or the completely unrealistic Jumping Jack Flash as the only media offerings that have anything near what I do in lead roles. BOFH was a web only skit with a couple of mini clips which I did see some of my past in. Fielding a fair few players from Nathan Barley and an early days, semi-fair perception of us guys in the basement, I'll be interested to see how this pans out - an adaptation of my working life? I doubt that, but anything that sheds an insight into what we do with comedy - well I suppose it might help my Mum understand what I do for a living (Kill Zombies, post blithering unread tripe on the interweb).
Still at least it has got me listening to Mötley Crüe today which is not so bad....
So what televisiual temptings have you excited this season?
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My Name is Earl, but I haven't watched it yet so can't comment. Inadvertently missed the premiere last Friday but spotted a late night repeat on yesterday that I've recorded for my later viewing pleasure.
I just like Jason Lee.
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My Name is Earl was great, I laughed a lot and really enjoyed the characters and plotline.
Hyperdrive was ploddy, it had better effects than RD but none of the heart, the only really funny moment came with the converstaion between the Captain, The bedside light and the alarm clock, which was very RD/H2G2 in its execution.
The IT Crowd will be abailable to watch online ahead of its broadcast. Last show to do that I think was The Mighty Boosh series 2, which I though was very funny but seems to have been overlooked by BBC3 for rescreening..
There's nothing I'm really looking forward to this season, unless I missed a memo there's not much new been commisioned.
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My son recommended that. It does sound good. About some bloke whose name I forget who's right down on his luck decides to put right all the wrongs he's done, working through a ginormous list, or something (my son takes a long time to get his point across).
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I saw the last 15 mins of Hyperdrive last night. I recognised Nick Frost and Kevin Eldon and figured it might be interesting. I don't quite know what to make of it. Some of the jokes, like the previously mentioned conversation with the lamp, made me smile, whereas other jokes (holding a meeting in a urine processing area) made me cringe. I guess I'll watch it again and see how it turns out. The programme I am most looking forward to is Doctor Who. I really enjoyed the series last year, especially the Daleks, and I'm very curious to see what the new series, with the new doctor, will be like.
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I really like Jason Lee, so I'm probably giving My Name Is Earl more of a chance than I should. It was okay, just not great.
Darryn, saw the advert for Booze Bird last night, there was a little flash of pain across the presenters face, as though she was remembering the taste of the drink that was one too many, and looked like she was going to cry/vomit...
I hope it's as good as an old body programme where the presenter went out and got drunk to explain the effects of booze, then went on to explain why men get beer tits, that was good.
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I was looking forward to the Sky One premiere of Bones last night. It's a cross between (rip off of) The X-Files and CSI starring David "broody and sexsome" Boreanaz in a dark suit, helping some chick and her gang of geeks solve crimes using science and the FBI. Basically it's a TV show designed especially for me. It was utterly ridiculous and I loved it.
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Did anyone watch Animals on Channel Four last night? I wanted to watch it but the missus got all squeemish and made me turn it over.
Also, I am looking forward to The Eleventh Hour on ITV next week with Patrick Stewart, but I'm not sure if I can get past his "..and he sees...everything" performance in Extras.
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Also, I am looking forward to The Eleventh Hour on ITV next week with Patrick Stewart, but I'm not sure if I can get past his "..and he sees...everything" performance in Extras.
Yeah, I'd really like to see him on stage, but also think I may struggle to overcome this memory. I think it was the clear sense of how much fun he appeared to be having in that brief role- like it was the most enjoyable performance of his entire career.
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quote:Originally posted by Roy: Did anyone watch Animals on Channel Four last night? I wanted to watch it but the missus got all squeemish and made me turn it over.
I got bored and turned it off. I can't fucking stick animal rights activists, the mere mention of animal rights makes me want to stick an orangutang in a whirring blender full of cancer.
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148 glasses of white wine 28 large Chardonnays 19 glasses of red wine
what? is chardonnay not a white wine anymore then?
my maths is shit and theres no calculator on this computer: how many bottles of wine on average is that a day? and the rest... fucking hell, what must the bbc have spent on insuring her.
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I really liked My Name is Earl. I was a bit drunk, though. We'll never really know if I like it properly until the next episode, assuming I'm not drunk then.
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...Earl was decent enough. Jason Lee has enough sleazy charisma to carry a movie given the chance (for God's sake Miramax sign him up as Kevin Smith's Fletch now you fuckers!) so a TV show's light work really. I also like the 'tache. And any show that hi-lights the simple joys of It Takes Two by Rob Base & DJ EZ Rock deserves further attention.
Other than that more The Wire, Deadwood, and I'll give Jack Bauer another chance to make me laugh my arse off by dying and coming back to life whilst riding a shark on smack to save America, or something.
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Been watching My Name is Earl for a while now... Even though I am HUGE Jason Lee fan (he was the reason I even watched the show at all), I didn't watch most of the shows until there was nothing on but repeats of my must-see shows.
Now that the new season is here, the only new show I've really been excited about is the second season of Beauty and the Geek, which I guess isn't technically new at all.
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WTF is Beauty and the Geek?
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They tout it as Ashton Kutcher’s 'social experiment.'
Basically they take eight total geeks (ex: Rubik’s Cube world record holder) and eight ditzy but attractive and socially adept women and pair them up to learn from each other.
They then test the women on things like rocket science and history and the men on fashion and dating etiquette. Pretty amusing.
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I rate the same as h1ppy on the geekiness quiz.
Just for the record.
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quote:Originally posted by rooster: Ugh, Wes's bio says "He also enjoys building things and once built his own" that's it! it cuts off. What the hell did he build?
I liked jason Lee since 1991 when he was a 
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