Television Thread

In my week back in England, and until I get a job or fall onto two well-placed nails, I'm exposed once again to that visual Big Mac, Television.

On screen right now is Beat The Boss, CBBC's Apprentice-alike (not that I've seen a full episode of that). Three gurning children take on three gurning adults at designing a product aimed at the former. Adults are allowed, nay, encouraged, nay, unconvincingly forced, to be smug b*st*rds. Who wouldn't, though?: The children are uniformly appalling, naturally.
I've seen this once before, and I'm sure the adults' invention (this week a go-kart) had a lower-case 'i' before it then too. The children decided instead to name theirs after p*ss.
Both looked horrible, but I suppose I was always more into razorblade smoothies than being outside. Naturally, the [highlight]sh*t-chewing schoolkids[/highlight] won.

The season of The Simpsons broadcasting lately has been, surprisingly, adequate. The episodes don't meander until half-way through the second act to find out which country they're going to this time, which is nice.

Reggie Perrin has been a let-down, and it looks like there'll be more.

I'm sure I've been watching some other kids' shows lately, although Bernard's Watch online has trumped it all.

Tell me what else is on, especially if it's awful.

He's ripe.

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Why do they keep putting George Lamb on sh*t?
Haven't they realised he has the charisma of a wlanut.

Could be nepotism.

Yeah, i love Come Dine With Me. As i've said before. i do feel embarrassed that i once referred to Dave Lamb as George Lamb, though.

I saw Neighbours today. The intro theme's lyrics have been cropped to:
"Neighbours: Everybody needs good neighbours.
That's when good neighbours become good friends."

I don't know if that's more a fallacy or a syntax error, but F-.

I really like "Dollhouse" and "Flight of the Conchords".

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They were cropped ages ago. Can't remember when  :-[. i think it was a couple of years ago.

I recall it being
"Neighbours should be there for one another:
That's when good neighbours become good friends."
The cause of good-friendship is altered, but at least it roughly makes sense.

i'm not sure if Neighbours is supposed to make sense, though. It's had many nonsensical plots, so maybe this should be reflected in the lyrics.

i haven't watched Countdown for ages. i don't know if i can bring myself to watch it, although i sometimes wonder about who's in Dictionary Corner.

Susie Dent is wonderful.

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I thought the Simon Armitage show on BBC4 about Sir Gawain and the Green Knight was absolutely brilliant.

Shall iPlayer that one. Armitage is fantastic. The Iannucci one on Milton was decent too, if not quite as indepth as it could have been. And the whole going up to people on a bridge and asking them if they knew who Milton was was unnecessary.

In Neighbours, when they refer to 'fuddy', is that football?

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In Neighbours, when they refer to 'fuddy', is that football?

Well, it'd be Australian Rules Football.

i doubt they'd talk about that in Neighbours , as it's on too early.

In my defence Charlie from Lost was OVER TWO YEARS AGO

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I LOVE lost.

I watch obsessively but don't own any but when it's all over with I'm buying every episode and watching them all in a week!

Aye, series 5 was stunning. Can't wait for the final season...

Which is a good point actually, what am I gonna watch between now and January? The X-Files got boring after series 7.

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In my defence Charlie from Lost was OVER TWO YEARS AGO

I know
I should be up to date but I've just not been in a position to catch up with Lost for quite some time, I've been waiting for the boxsets to go down in price and they seem to be the one series that is consistently expensive, though it''s gone down recently so when I get some cash....

I had this exact thing spoiled for me by Cilla Black of all people, on the '50 Greatest TV Endings' show. Whilst you could say it's my own fault for watching some of it, I argue that Lost hasn't finished yet, and so showing that was totally unexpected.

Series 5 was pretty fantastic, even though I'm slightly annoyed that Locke is apparently actually dead.