What Have You Been Watching on TV?

[Harcus]

  On 13/12/2010 at 10:10, mizer said:

A guy I know is doing come dine with me this week, going to be funny to see what the voice over guy has to say about him.

 

I'm assuming it's the camp one you know?

[glasgowdon]

Been watching some of 30for30 on ESPN Classic. Some of them have been great, others not so much.

 

Anyone caught any?

[El Padre™]

  On 15/12/2010 at 04:43, dave_min said:

Desperate Fishwives. Fantastic show. I had a proper LOL when it was on. Much better than your pishy Weegie Chewin' The Fat.

 

Possibly up there among the worst comedy sketch shows I've ever seen. Truly awful stuff. What did you find funny about it?

[dave_min]

  On 17/12/2010 at 00:32, El Padre™ said:

Possibly up there among the worst comedy sketch shows I've ever seen. Truly awful stuff. What did you find funny about it?

 

The sketches mainly.

[El Padre™]

  On 17/12/2010 at 01:35, Jagerdeen said:

Dinna bother with him Dave - it wasn't "pure gallous gles-gay banter, by the way" so he winna get it.

 

If they're nae shouting "jobby" - weedgies winna like it

 

In 'weegie' or doric, there was nothing funny about the sketches. Guess the weight of the cowshit? Eh? I never thought I would see a program worse than Burnistoun but Desperate Fishwives has managed it in one fell swoop. Totally awful stuff that seemed like it was written by schoolkids. The radio stuff is brilliant, why haven't they kept up the standard that was set there?

 

Chewing the fat had some classic sketches, regardless of which scottish demographic it was written for. It also had some utterly terrible stuff but DF has nothing at all, I couldn't even force out a laugh. The main joke seemed to be "isnt speaking in doric hilarious". The answer being no, obviously.

[smooth]

  On 16/12/2010 at 20:40, glasgowdon said:

Been watching some of 30for30 on ESPN Classic. Some of them have been great, others not so much.

 

Anyone caught any?

 

i've seen a few.  Reggie Miller vs the Knicks was excellent, Without Bias was decent, wasn't overly impressed with the U or Jimmy the Greek,  Can't recall any others, i did see the feature length story about Vlade Divac et al the Yugoslavian split, which was excellent

[glasgowdon]

  On 17/12/2010 at 09:13, smooth said:

i've seen a few.  Reggie Miller vs the Knicks was excellent, Without Bias was decent, wasn't overly impressed with the U or Jimmy the Greek,  Can't recall any others, i did see the feature length story about Vlade Divac et al the Yugoslavian split, which was excellent

 

Straight Outta LA was quality.

[manc_don]

Roll on the apprentice final!

[glasgowdon]

[glasgowdon]

  On 19/12/2010 at 22:30, fatjim said:

I rest my case.

 

About as unfunny as Limmy.

 

What's not funny about someone going ballistic and losing the plot?

 

 

[Sonoftherock]

  On 19/12/2010 at 22:30, fatjim said:

I rest my case.

 

About as unfunny as Limmy.

 

Each to their own I guess..  Chewin' the fat was a low-brow comedy... sure, it wasn't witty or clever, but speaking as someone who grew up in Scotland, I found some of the observational humour pretty funny.

 

Limmy simply had no redeeming features.

[Kowalski]

  On 19/12/2010 at 21:08, manc_don said:

Roll on the apprentice final!

 

Watched it when I got back from the cinema.  Thought Stella might struggle as she seemed to pick all the odd balls but she deserved to win IMHO.  Although she shouldn't have gotten personal on Chris in the boardroom.

[baggy89]

  On 20/12/2010 at 07:44, Kowalski said:

Watched it when I got back from the cinema.  Thought Stella might struggle as she seemed to pick all the odd balls but she deserved to win IMHO.  Although she shouldn't have gotten personal on Chris in the boardroom.

 

I thought that might have been what swung it for her (although I think Sugar had her picked as the winner from the week when she project managed the boys team).

[Kowalski]

Watched the latest John Pilger documentary, about the media's role in war.  Some of it is quite astonishing.  The last 20 minutes showing the footage of the helicopter attack on innocent people in Baghdad is enough to make your blood boil!

 

http://www.itv.com/itvplayer/video/?Filter=198443

[glasgow sheep]

Superb programme and should have been on at prime time rather than hidden late at night. The most horrific thing for me was the exponential rise in civilian deaths and the direct targetting of them. And yet strangely only the defeated end up in the dock in the Hague.

[fatjim]

  On 21/12/2010 at 21:33, glasgow sheep said:

Superb programme and should have been on at prime time rather than hidden late at night. The most horrific thing for me was the exponential rise in civilian deaths and the direct targetting of them. And yet strangely only the defeated end up in the dock in the Hague.

 

To actually have someone point out that a million Iraqis have died as a result of the invasion was needed. Folk here bubbling about 300 odd british soldiers. that is a totally insignificant amount of people compared to a million. It is no wonder that there are people being radicalised in this country. 

[glasgow sheep]

Quite.

 

10% of deaths were civilian in WW1 but by Iraq 90% were civilian. Horrifying.

[BrownyBrown]

  On 21/12/2010 at 21:49, glasgow sheep said:

Quite.

 

10% of deaths were civilian in WW1 but by Iraq 90% were civilian. Horrifying.

 

But surely we have more sophisticated guided weapons, intelligence and modern warfare techniques these days no? And less of the indiscriminate 'dumb' bombs and air raid type offensives are carried out compared to WWII.

 

Surely the statistics should be going the other way?

[glasgow sheep]

You would think wouldn't you.

[King Street Loon]

I've just downloaded & watched the latest Family Guy spoof of Star Wars. 'It's a Trap' based on Return of the Jedi.

 

It was watchable, but I think they've done it to death now.

[Harcus]

Anyone watched 'The Accused' series by Jimmy McGovern? Been no' bad.

[Tyrant]

Been watching Misfits on E4. Not usually my sort of thing but I've thoroughly enjoyed it.

[14Fosters]

Now that How Not to Live Your Life (brilliant by the way) is finished I only have Peep Show on my Sky+ series link.  Poor state of affairs really...

[Cowie]

Currently away to sit down and watch season 2 of breaking bad.

[glasgow sheep]

Looks like a dvd or on demand stuff tonight as there is fuck all on the dozens of channels I have. Best I can find is a programme about nevermind on sky arts one