[Archived] Last Night on Telly I Watched.....

[Nelsta]

Or the Tiny town thing with Tobias as the giant mole.

[bellamy11]

True again. That whole scenario was brilliant, with Larry the 'surrogate'. One of the better jokes was they sarcastically called him Einstein, which is actually referring to the fact that the actor who played Larry was called Einstein. In the Tiny Town one, GOB hugged him and Larry swung his arm round and looked at his watch, which is genuinely one of the funniest things I've ever seen.

[tcj_jones]

How is that a bad thing? It's a great line!

I kind of liked the Rita episodes. As you say, Season 2 is the pinnacle of the program, but all three seasons are superb. And without Rita, we wouldn't have had the joke about the seven houses of Parliament.

Oh, of course, it's a great line! But I thought you were simply referring to that line to emphasize the point that yanks never do get the English accent right. I've misunderstood!

Haha, another good point about the seven houses of parliament joke. It is a good season, but undermined somewhat by an exceptional second season. You get the impression that they were on borrowed time from the start of the second season (indeed, they were) and started to move at such a fast pace, the humour becoming slightly in-jokey and, at times, absolutely nuts. While the first season is extremely clever and intricate, the second season is just utterly hilarious.

Or the Tiny town thing with Tobias as the giant mole.

I know that this scene was especially clever, but I just didn't find it particularly amusing

[Paul]

I am afraid there was another contributory factor to my over reaction, which I am not sure you will understand, but I believe it was probably key. That was that I had been following the TV programme "Passion" on BBC1 all the week, and the Good Friday episode upset me so much that I was very,very depressed and moved by it and that feeling had carried through the whole weekend and is in fact still present. Although I have always been a committed Chistian and have studied the Bible and the Gospels all through my life, I have never before come across anything that has made such an impression on me as that episode of Passion on Good Friday night. I don't mind admitting that I cried like a baby as the true meaning of it struck home to me. I am still very upset by the scene, but at the same time so uplifted at the thought that that sacrifice on Calvary was made for ME and in doing so it washed away all my sins. The same applies of course to ALL that truly realise and accept the sacrifice as their own personal salvation.

I appologise if you or any other readers find what I am saying here offensive, but it is for me at least a wonderful revelation.

I won't mention this subject ever again on this site as I know it is not the place to do it, but I just thought you might understand a bit better now.

I've been watching this all week as well though I have still to watch the final episode. No spoliers please This has been truely excellent TV and I'm really looking forward to seeing how the resurection is dealt with. I was raised a catholic but can't pretend to be anything but lapsed; I once met a minister who had the ability to speak to a congregation as though each person was the only individual in the church, I got a similar feeling from the actor playing Jesus. A superb performance. James Nesbitt as Pilate is also very good.

[Rovermatt]

I've now finished season 4 of The Wire on DVD. Blimey what a show it is!

[Mattyblue]

I've now finished season 4 of The Wire on DVD. Blimey what a show it is!

Agreed, has done for crime/police shows what The Sopranos did for Mafia tv and film, so gritty and true to life. The corruption and blatant carrerism of the Baltimore police squad is hillarious AND tragic! Oh and McNulty what a hard drinking, skirt chasing geez!

[blue phil]

On TV tonight - Panarama , BBC 1 , 10.35 - is an interesting documentary which concerns our very own town of Blackburn and the prevailing social problems it faces with regard , in particular , to drugs , paedophilia , community relations and the role (such as it is ) of the police .

HERE the local rag gives a preview of what life is like in Blackburn in the 21st century . Contributers to this forum from outside the town may well be surprised at the extent the political and social conditions have deteriorated in recent years .

[deryck guyler's spoon]

On TV tonight - Panarama , BBC 1 , 10.35 - is an interesting documentary which concerns our very own town of Blackburn and the prevailing social problems it faces with regard , in particular , to drugs , paedophilia , community relations and the role (such as it is ) of the police .

HERE the local rag gives a preview of what life is like in Blackburn in the 21st century . Contributers to this forum from outside the town may well be surprised at the extent the political and social conditions have deteriorated in recent years .

What is it with Panarama and Blackburn's Asian community? It's almost as though they want an Oldham/Bradford situation and then smugly claim they highlighted it coming.

[Biddy]

Watched the final episode of Ashes to Ashes. Thank god it's over. Only carried on watchin becuase of Life on Mars and hoped it would get better. That woman was just too annoying and I hoped she would die.

Shame the BBC made it even worse by saying it was returning next year. Now if only they can figure out how to write Keely Hawes out of it and just have the Gene Hunt show....

[Ozz]

Ashes to Ashes finished, and the final episode tonight was...well boring to be honest. The whole series was miles away from the LOM, can't see them doing any more either.

[Rovermatt]

Did anyone catch the new series of The Apprentice. Wednesday's episode was once again hugely entertaining with Sugar tearing strips off the usual posse of arrogant, vacuous light-weights. The first casualty was hugely self-satisfied barrister ('I once got a B in my GCSEs. I viewed that as a failure.') who stirred up a hornet's nest with some disastrous comments about his colleagues' supposed lack of education and a rather snide reference to not being able 'to have a conversation about football'. No doubt he was aiming for a job with Sugar as all instructing solicitors had figured out he was a pompous w*nker without the experience or ability to back it up. Bloody barristers.

[Billy Castell]

Watched the final episode of Ashes to Ashes. Thank god it's over. Only carried on watchin becuase of Life on Mars and hoped it would get better. That woman was just too annoying and I hoped she would die.

Shame the BBC made it even worse by saying it was returning next year. Now if only they can figure out how to write Keely Hawes out of it and just have the Gene Hunt show....

I only watched 1 or 2 episodes, and it lacked that spark too. Keely Hawes' character was too up herself. Shame, as the time it was set could have been interesting with the inner city riots, the influence of Thatcher, Lord Scarman etc.

[ABBEY]

she' dead fit though

[RoyRover]

I finished season four of The Wire myself, it is arguably the best show going.

[Rovermatt]

I've got very in to Deadwood. Aside from the hilarious dialogue it's also a finely acted, surprisingly complex series.

[American]

I found the dialog got a little forced starting in season 2. The same thing happened in the Jimmy Smits years of NYPD Blue, because David Milch didn't get scripts finished until they were filming, so the actors didn't have time to properly learn and practice their lines.

Season 1 was brilliant, though.

[Grabbi Graeme]

Having been on late finnishes I have been watching repeats of Wonder Woman which is being shown on Living TV in the early hours, brought back memories of my younger years, Linda Carter in that outfit.

[ABBEY]

kleenex for grabbi

[RibbleValleyRover]

I watched Dexter on ITV last night, very good series IMO.

[Beta Ray Bill]

For those who watched the writers-strike-curtailed season 1 of Sarah Connor, it's been confirmed in the last couple of days that 13 more episodes have been commissioned - the 'missing' 4 from s1 and another 9.

Great fun series.

[Cocker]

Not last night on telly but.......this Thursday I have sky + a documentary on Channel 4 about children as young as 4 being taken kick boxing by their parents. They don't wear padding on some occasions either. I think its horrible but am interested to see what the parents have to say about it anyway.

[Rovermatt]

There was a documentary on Five last Saturday about an Indonesian man who has an extremely rare disorder which means that the warts that grow on his body are not suppressed by his immune system. This leaves him with enormous root-like growths on his hands and feet. It was one of the weirdest things I've ever seen. I won't post a youtube link as it's quite disturbing but it's easily found.

[tcj_jones]

Started watching Smallville the other night. I know I'm about five years too old for it, but I still think it's great!

[Cocker]

Started watching Smallville the other night. I know I'm about five years too old for it, but I still think it's great!

Just wish it had more superman action going on instead of all the teenage angst

[Anti-Dingle-Brigade]

Not last night on telly but.......this Thursday I have sky + a documentary on Channel 4 about children as young as 4 being taken kick boxing by their parents. They don't wear padding on some occasions either. I think its horrible but am interested to see what the parents have to say about it anyway.

It's called baby fight club isn't it?

Looks like little chavs in training to me.