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Originally posted by manofmystery manofmystery wrote:

Deadliest Swamp Gold Storage Restoration Pawn Log Pickers on the Histscovery Channel. 


If you like that, you should check out The World's Craziest LA Inked Ice Road Truckers Investigation With Explosions And Big Boobies on Histcovery Gold HD3DUK-WTF

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Sorry, just realised, you may not get this channel in the US

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Doc Martin series 5 is what I am watching at night


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Only have the first three series on dvd but a fine show.Clunes is excellent on the role.


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Points: 32995 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 27 2012 at 07:22
^I had it for my birthday to complete the collection. (Beside the Christmas special that is, but I have that recorded from TV)
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^ There were 2 Doc Martin films before the TV series came into being which I vaguely remember
the link above confirms there will be a sixth series which is a bit of a suprise as series 5 seemed pretty final really
 
Btw the accents in the TV show are not authentic Cornish accents but closer to Bristol Estuary (ie The Wurzels).No one really cares though!
 
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BigBang Theory was very funny with Sheldon's Spock doll commanding him to open his sealed vintage 1975 Transporter
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STTOS tonight was Catspaw, easily in the running for worst episode ever--  at least Spock's Brain and Return of the Archons had a plot
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The second series is good but if I had to choose I prefer the first.Harry Enfield was just funnier than Neil Morrissey,imho.


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Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

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The second series is good but if I had to choose I prefer the first.Harry Enfield was just funnier than Neil Morrissey,imho.

As much as I love Harry Enfield I have to say he wasn't very good in this. Very stilted. He should have played it as a character. He can do characters brilliantly. He is out acted by everyone in the show imo.
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Anyway..I am currently watching this as it happens
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Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

Originally posted by TheProgtologist TheProgtologist wrote:

Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

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The second series is good but if I had to choose I prefer the first.Harry Enfield was just funnier than Neil Morrissey,imho.

As much as I love Harry Enfield I have to say he wasn't very good in this. Very stilted. He should have played it as a character. He can do characters brilliantly. He is out acted by everyone in the show imo.

As much as I hate to admit it(with all the UK television we watch),this is the only thing I have ever seen Enfield in.I thought instead of stilted acting he was playing his character as a bit dim and slow witted.

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^I've never seen Chef.
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Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

^I've never seen Chef.

Shame on you.Tongue

Lenny Henry is brilliant in it.


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Points: 5575 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 07 2012 at 08:48
Men Behaving Badly was so awful.

Typical sexist derogatory badly written comedy. Or 'British Humour' as you like to call it
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Enfield was horribly miscast in MBB - he is not an actor who could carry a character for more than a 5 minute sketch and the role needed an actor (ha!, just read the wiki entry and Enfield though the same). Morrissey was more suited for the role, which wasn't hugely different from his role of Rocky in Boon, and the on-screen rapour between Clunes and Morrissey was far better.
 
Chef! was brilliant - showed Henry as character comedian who could transition to acting, the scene where someone asks for salt and pepper was excellently observed. Whites with Alan Davies at first seemed to be a clumsy remake of Chef!, though it got better and was also amusing to watch, shame it never made it to a second series where the characters could have developed further. Not sure what happened to Kitchen Confidential - that too was a nice little chef-based sit-com that died on its feet for some reason.
 
It seems that from a TV persepective chefs are only viable if they can also solve crime (Pie In The Sky) .. though I would love to see Poppy Z Brite's Liquor novels made into a TV series.
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The American version of Men Behaving Badly had Rob Schneider in the lead role if I remember correctly.  I think that Tony Shaloub, who went on to become Monk, had a role in the American version too, but I might be confusing my bad comedies.

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Points: 37575 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 07 2012 at 09:29
Just watched the boat race... that was unexpectedly interesting for a change.
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Originally posted by rushfan4 rushfan4 wrote:

The American version of Men Behaving Badly had Rob Schneider in the lead role if I remember correctly.  I think that Tony Shaloub, who went on to become Monk, had a role in the American version too, but I might be confusing my bad comedies.

Ron Eldard basically played Clunes' role opposite Schneider in the US version.He has done a ton of things but was most noted for playing the EMT "Shep" on ER.


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Originally posted by rushfan4 rushfan4 wrote:

The American version of Men Behaving Badly had Rob Schneider in the lead role if I remember correctly.  I think that Tony Shaloub, who went on to become Monk, had a role in the American version too, but I might be confusing my bad comedies.

Shaloub got his start on Wings.Not a bad sitcom either,just very underrated.


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