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Wilcey 
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 Posted: March 03 2009 at 10:12 |
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- An Arts/Music Programme With Fearne Cotton/Lauren Laverne In It (see above).
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Am I the only one who gets INTENSELY irritated by Lauren Laverne? 
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limeyrob
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Posted: March 03 2009 at 10:31 |
Wrist-watch With Bill Oddie
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Posted: March 03 2009 at 10:41 |
Wilcey wrote:
Am I the only one who gets INTENSELY irritated by Lauren Laverne?
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I have to say, I don't mind her on the whole, although I was quite sad when she took Verity Sharp's place, fronting The Culture Show... 
Graham Norton on the other hand.... 
Camp? now where did I put that tent-peg mallet... 
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Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson
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Dean
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Posted: March 03 2009 at 10:45 |
Wilcey wrote:
Dean wrote:
- An Arts/Music Programme With Fearne Cotton/Lauren Laverne In It (see above).
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Am I the only one who gets INTENSELY irritated by Lauren Laverne?
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Kenickie-ickie-ickie-ickie-ickie-ickie.
Yeah, I think it's just you 
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Jim Garten
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Posted: March 03 2009 at 11:01 |
Jared wrote:
I have to say, I don't mind her on the whole, although I was quite sad when she took Verity Sharp's place, fronting The Culture Show...
Graham Norton on the other hand....
Camp? now where did I put that tent-peg mallet... |
Reminds me of Ed Byrne on 'Mock The Week' doing a 'Points Of View' parody:
"Dear BBC - there was a light entertainment show on yesterday evening not hosted by Graham Norton...
...is he ill?"
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Jared
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Posted: March 03 2009 at 11:11 |
^^ personally, I can't help feeling that BBC's 'light entertainment' schedule (on Beeb One in particular) has been gradually dumbing down over the past few years, almost to ITV levels.. 
would you care to put some perspective on this for me? Is this indeed the casee, or am I just getting older and more crotchety?..  |
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Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson
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Dean
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Posted: March 03 2009 at 11:20 |
The only "light entertainment" programme I watch on BBC1 is Not Going Out - it's stupid, puerile, badly written and embarrassingly unfunny...
I love it...
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Posted: March 03 2009 at 11:30 |
Jared wrote:
I can't help feeling that BBC's 'light entertainment' schedule (on Beeb One in particular) has been gradually dumbing down over the past few years, almost to ITV levels |
"Gradually"?
" Almost to ITV levels"?
Jared - it's not just their light entertainment output which has been dumbing down - have you watched 'Panorama' since Jeremy Vine took it over?
There are some shows I do like on the BBC & ones which make me retain my faith in their output - Anything with David Attenborough, for example (always guaranteed to show you something you've never seen before), "Hustle" (well written & genuinely funny in my humble opinion)... however, if you watch ITV or BBC1 between 5 & 8 on a Saturday evening, you may actually want to book yourself into a Swiss clinic & have one of their special drinks
We do watch Holby City & Casualty, religiously though 
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Posted: March 03 2009 at 11:39 |
If you like, you can come over here and watch our public television for infinite re-runs of Are You Being Served? 
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Posted: March 03 2009 at 11:52 |
Then there's the new freeview schedule where you can watch a channel devoted to an endless re-run of repeats and if you miss that you can always watch it an hour later. Arrgggghhhhhhh
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Posted: March 03 2009 at 11:58 |
NaturalScience wrote:
If you like, you can come over here and watch our public television for infinite re-runs of Are You Being Served? |
yes, Patrick makes a good point.... back in the 1970's, the viewing public were 'treated' once a week to intercourse concerning Mrs Slocombe's pussy... 
with fewer channels to escape to, for refuge...
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Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson
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limeyrob
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Posted: March 03 2009 at 12:06 |
Jared wrote:
^^ personally, I can't help feeling that BBC's 'light entertainment' schedule (on Beeb One in particular) has been gradually dumbing down over the past few years, almost to ITV levels..
would you care to put some perspective on this for me? Is this indeed the casee, or am I just getting older and more crotchety?.. |
I think the phrase you are looking for is more discerning. Mind you, when you look at some of the wages paid by the Beeb to some of their performers there probably ain't much left in the kitty. To my mind the Beeb should to be the proving ground for new talent. When these people demand more money they are free to leave and join the independent channels. Trouble is ITV has reached saturation point and find themselves in competition with other media channels for the dwindling advertising revenue.
Have you noticed these days how the Terrestrial channels seem to be promoting each others programs? A sign of the times methinks.
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Posted: March 03 2009 at 16:26 |
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Heavens no Jim - there's dozens of ideas they haven't thought of yet
- How To Look Good In A Potato Sack.
- It's Not Easy Thinking Up New Ideas For A Third Series.
- Great Railway Sidings of Our Time.
- Three Men In A Pub.
- Grumpy Old Men Laugh All The Way To The Bank.
- Oz and James Get Pissed.
- Oz and James Get Pissed Again.
- Grow Your Own Beer.
- One Chav and His Pit-Bull.
- Nick It!
- Ready, Steady, Microwave.
- Michael Palin's Butlins Adventure.
- A Science/Nature Programme With Kate Humble In It (subject unknown, format unknown, who cares what it's about, no one's paying attention to the subject matter).
- An Arts/Music Programme With Fearne Cotton/Lauren Laverne In It (see above).
- Fogle's Wood-land Advanture.
- Wrist-watch With Bill Oddie.
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You missed Britain's Got I'm a Celebrity Dancing On Ice With My Big Brother Who Has the X Factor
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Posted: March 03 2009 at 16:35 |
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hey I like Ready, Steady, Microwave but we have the American version which, though not as good, is a bit less staid
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Dean
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Posted: March 03 2009 at 17:00 |
Atavachron wrote:
hey I like Ready, Steady, Microwave but we have the American version which, though not as good, is a bit less staid
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Ainsley Harriott? ... staid? If only 
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Jared
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Posted: March 03 2009 at 17:01 |
^^ I think it would be fair to say that just about everything which constitutes American society is 'a bit less staid' than its British counterpart..
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Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson
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Posted: March 03 2009 at 17:58 |
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we also have a 'One Chav and His Pitbull' show but it's called Skinheads and Their Pets
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Atavachron
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Posted: March 03 2009 at 18:00 |
Dean wrote:
Atavachron wrote:
hey I like Ready, Steady, Microwave but we have the American version which, though not as good, is a bit less staid
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Ainsley Harriott? ... staid? If only |
oh of course, More Nosh, Less Dosh
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Posted: March 03 2009 at 18:11 |
Oz and James is terrible... argh! Plus how the hell do they not get done for drink driving? Even some more "cultural" shows are being dumbed down. I have watched "Who Do You Think You Are?" since it started and this series has been the worst by far. However, last night's episode with Kevin Whately was somewhat of a return to form. However, I gather this was recorded sometime ago and held back. I am also glad they didn't show that moronic idiot Chris Moyles' episode. It's apparently going to be on later this year. Oh joy. Plus some more humble people would be nice. A whole line of Ag Labs would be smashing!
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Posted: March 04 2009 at 00:33 |
^ yes i thought the Kevin Whately episode of "WDYTYA" one of the most interesting so far, and the Barbara Windsor one in the last series, especially when she found a tenuous link with the painter John Constable - lor luvvaduck!!
Overall the series is interesting but not much use to the average Genealogist, especially when the "stars " have all the leg work and research done for them by a team of experts and are led around from place to place - i spent 15 years going through old photos, trudging the streets of London, Devon, Cornwall and Chichester finding my "roots", and many hours searching on internet Genealogy and Government web sites, and still plenty more to do in Gloucester!
Edited by mystic fred - March 04 2009 at 00:37
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