Re: The all-singing, all-dancing TV thread - Part Three : Tue Dec 20, 2011 4:36 pm  

vbfg wrote:

In a way the celebrities thing worked.

I suppose their jokes were better than some of Professor Cox's. The 'Paul Foot' one made me squirm a bit.

Re: The all-singing, all-dancing TV thread - Part Three : Wed Dec 21, 2011 12:38 pm  

Just watched series 4 of Sons of Anarchy, and its as unpredictable as ever, and sets up series 5 well with lots of questions to be answered. only 10 months to wait

Re: The all-singing, all-dancing TV thread - Part Three : Wed Dec 21, 2011 1:03 pm  

The new three part adaptation of Great Expectations starting Tuesday looks quite excellent, its one of my favourite Dickens novels and this production looks to be suitably superb.

By contrast I watched the (apparently) spoof of The Old Curiosity Shop on Monday and found it mainly absolute shoite, the least you should do in a spoof is make things funny.

Re: The all-singing, all-dancing TV thread - Part Three : Wed Dec 21, 2011 4:25 pm  

McLaren_Field wrote:

By contrast I watched the (apparently) spoof of The Old Curiosity Shop on Monday and found it mainly absolute shoite, the least you should do in a spoof is make things funny.

I wasn't the only one then.

I did wonder at first why the beeb had scheduled it to start 30 minutes before the start of Ep. 2 of The Young Herriot on BBC1. I reckon it was so after watching 30 minutes of The Old Shop of Stuff, people would switch over to watch Herriot.

I must say I have been enjoying the MGM HD Channel (Sky 345) and with a catalogue of 4000 remastered movies, I can see me scanning the schedules a little more often

Re: The all-singing, all-dancing TV thread - Part Three : Sat Dec 24, 2011 5:44 pm  

The Christmas TV schedule is nothing short of atrocious. Seems to be full of Christmas editions of existing programmes (wow, great originality), or in typical ITV fashion, CELEBRITY versions of existing programmes. I'm sorry, but All Star Family Fortunes featuring TOWIE cast members any day is bad, but on Christmas day it's just... awful. Nothing tickles my fancy at all. Any suggestions on what to do instead?? Bear in mind there's just the two of us.

Re: The all-singing, all-dancing TV thread - Part Three : Sat Dec 24, 2011 6:47 pm  

100% Wire wrote:

The Christmas TV schedule is nothing short of atrocious. Seems to be full of Christmas editions of existing programmes (wow, great originality), or in typical ITV fashion, CELEBRITY versions of existing programmes. I'm sorry, but All Star Family Fortunes featuring TOWIE cast members any day is bad, but on Christmas day it's just... awful. Nothing tickles my fancy at all. Any suggestions on what to do instead?? Bear in mind there's just the two of us.

go out for a walk/cycle in the countryside/hills/beach.
have a bit of loving
listen to the radio/CDs/LPs
read
play cards
play board games
the worlds your oyster................

Re: The all-singing, all-dancing TV thread - Part Three : Sat Dec 24, 2011 9:32 pm  

100% Wire wrote:

The Christmas TV schedule is nothing short of atrocious. Seems to be full of Christmas editions of existing programmes (wow, great originality), or in typical ITV fashion, CELEBRITY versions of existing programmes. I'm sorry, but All Star Family Fortunes featuring TOWIE cast members any day is bad, but on Christmas day it's just... awful. Nothing tickles my fancy at all. Any suggestions on what to do instead?? Bear in mind there's just the two of us.

Go to the pub, come home and eat your chrissie dinner, drink copious amounts of alcohol.

That way the TV is an annoying irrelevance, get wrecked, go to sleep and wake up on Boxing Day

[Durham Giant]

Re: The all-singing, all-dancing TV thread - Part Three : Sat Dec 24, 2011 10:47 pm  

Boardwalk empire whata great series and what a great ending

Re: The all-singing, all-dancing TV thread - Part Three : Sat Dec 24, 2011 11:34 pm  

Durham Giant wrote: Boardwalk empire whata great series and what a great ending No series 3 then? Thankfully I can answer my own question I'm also looking forward to season 2 of Game of Thrones, starting in April

Durham Giant wrote: Boardwalk empire whata great series and what a great ending No series 3 then? Thankfully I can answer my own question I'm also looking forward to season 2 of Game of Thrones, starting in April

[Durham Giant]

Re: The all-singing, all-dancing TV thread - Part Three : Sun Dec 25, 2011 10:39 am  

Glad there is a new series to look forward to.

So much better than the usual gangster stuff real character development and moral dilemmas.

The thinking mans gangster series.

Like you am looking forward to game of thrones 2.

Have you read the books. Not an easy read but very clever and the series so far seems very true to the book.