Anyone ever watch this? It was on citv i think , it just randomly popped into my head.

Something about her just kinda seems off. Especially the shit she comes out with on Naked Attraction. I can’t explain it, but I feel it in my balls.

On a similar note: Emma Willis has the same kind of vibe. Like they’re role playing as people, rather than actually being people. Not sure if it’s just the modern presenting style, but they both make me want to switch the TV off.

So, in 2007 the legislation to ban indoor smoking began and around that time there was also a big push on getting people to quit smoking generally. And we lost The Smoking Room although to be honest I think that worked in The Smoking Room's favour.

It was like the biggest societal taboo to show someone smoking in dramas unless they were coded to be a proper bastard, they'd've shown full frontal incest over that. Can someone tell me if I've fabricated this alt reality in my head because just recently it's struck me that everybody's lighting up on telly like it's the 1950s.

I quit smoking ages ago so haven't really been involved with the whole smoking world, what changed?

I'm searching for an episode of the documentary Trouble At The Top focusing on the free flights fiasco of Hoover. Can anyone help?

Bonjour! The documentary is about North Korea and it's definitely not one of the Panorama ones featuring John Sweeney or Rupert Wingfield Hayes. I think it's from around the mid-90s and the very first shot of the programme shows us some birds flying in the air, I think showing us Mount Paektu where Kim Jong-Il was supposedly created from fairy dust or whatever the story was lol...

I watched this documentary on YouTube following Kim Jong-Il's death in 2011 so I definitely know it exists. YouTube isn't returning anything sadly. I'd love to watch it again so I'd greatly appreciate any help in finding it online!

I'm a sucker for British comedy, and I just got a vpn so I can watch some top notch comedy from bbc iplayer, I want to devote my time to just 3 shows for now. Where do I start?
For reference, I love dark comedy/witty comedy, I love dry humour as well.
Thank you for your recommendations in advance.

New to the sub, hi.

Currently watching camping for the fourth time. I'd go as far as to say it's nearly my favourite British comedy series. So many perfectly horrible characters.

Every single nuance of every single character is just perfect.

Does anyone agree or am I barking up the wrong tree?

I’m trying to remember the name of a british drama I watched a few months ago, all I can remember is:

• I don’t believe it was made any earlier than 2005.

• It is most likely a police drama, I think that is highly possible but cannot be certain.

• The only scene I can remember is a man trying to end a relationship with a woman (likely a mistress) via text and she blackmails him with sensitive content of himself, he sets up a date for the two of them to reconcile but he’s secretly just trying to get to her electronic devices to delete everything.

• They end up in a struggle and he strangles her to death with a cord of some sort and then sets the apartment ablaze to hide the evidence.

If anyone recognises this and could tell me what it is I would be so grateful as it’s driving me crazy!

As in you would need to be from the show’s set location to understand the humour? “Give My Head Peace” (1998-2006) (2016-) is an Example of this.

Setting - Belfast.

Can anyone remember a mid 80s kids drama from Australia that would have been in the later time slots on BBC or ITV. Probably a few years after Children Of The Dog Star but before Around The Twist.

Probably 6 or 8 parts. Half hour ISH and just one series. Grounded drama so fantasy or Sci Fi.

Can't remember the basic plot but there was a deaf girl as one of the central characters and I think an older late team or early 20s brother from an earlier marriage or estrangement turned up. Dressed as a clown and did a few magic tricks or goofed about. He was kind of spooky at first observing them but eventually revealed himself.

Bit random, and I don't know which sub to put this in. There's been a minor purge in old Frankie Boyle videos, with a number of videos I remember watching removed from YouTube, including one of him being booed on stage for saying he hopes the Queen dies.

But, I remember distinctly watching on TV Frankie Boyle explaining his jokes to Katie Price, and saying something along the lines of 'It's not just random shot taking, effort is actually put into the jokes to make them as funny as possible.' I think due to Frankie Boyle's current incarnation, maybe a lot of have forgotten how hated he was at one point.

Remembered this show and I think the opening credits had a scene of him riding a horse through some water. Anyone else watch this? I remember quite liking it. Any other shows you enjoyed around that time?

Did anyone used to watch All at Sea. Basic premise is about a young boy named Charlie who was kind of a troublemaker, he and his two friends always got up to mischief, whilst his sister and parents got into their own form of bother. It ended on a Christmas special, yet the closure wasn't proper and was quite melancholy. If you haven't watched it I recommend it!

Hosted by Stephen Fry, the UK adaptation of Jeopardy hit the screens in December of last year, however it ended in February of this year, without any proper closure. What are your opinions on this

Been binging ideal now it's finally back on iPlayer. Watched it when I was in secondary school and it's funny how I barely understood half the drug references but so much of my into to stoner culture came from that. See also, pop culture references.

Anyway, just finished series 5, starting series 6, were Moz flees the country. Was that originally meant to be the final episode ? Because that last scene gave off real final episode vibes even though there was still loose ends floating around

I'm trying to find the name of the show I watched within the last year or so. It's a standard police drama where the female (?) lead is investigating a murder of a woman and her daughter who are initially just reported missing. It turns out that it was the neighbour who killed the mum and was spotted by the daughter so killed her too. I think he was having an affair with her and was eventually found out because he'd replaced the floorboards that got stained while he was killing her. I think he initially had an alibi that he was at a party but that turned out to not be true.

TIA, this one's really bugging me!!

So as the posts suggests I am looking for weird cultural highlights of British TV.

Basiclly my gf is not from these here lands and anytime I make any references she looks at me blankly. So to solve this I am Editing a feature length clip show through the decades showing off British Cultural Highlights with the working motivation in my head of "Amused, Confused and somewhat Violated" for the viewing experience.

It's about 80% done and it's peppered with familiar cultural highlights coupled with smash cuts of Rebecca Loos wankng off a pig or the host of Fat Families being insanely rude . That kind of thing

So if anyone's got any memories or even link to anything like that I would hugely appreciate it? If anyone's specfically got any highlights from 00s onwards that would be great! Thanks

…why the FUCK is Gregg Wallace even part of the “judging” process. Aye that’s it Michelin-starred Marcus, you go sit in the back room whilst we hear what the fuckin greengrocer thinks of the chefs’ food.

I’m looking for the name of a game show from the mid 2000s that I can’t remember the name of.

The idea was that a group of people would come on and they all claimed to have a link to a celebrity (‘I was friends with Nicole Kidman in school, Arnold Schwarzenegger was my lodger for 6 months) but only one of them was telling the truth.

Can’t remember who hosted it either I’m afraid but was a really unique show. Any help is appreciated!

Just finished watching.

I thought it was pretty good. Mostly enjoyable for any demographic, I think. It does the ‘Zombie’ genre pretty well, and offers an interesting twist on the trope with the Zombies being generally sentient beings.

I enjoyed the characters, the writing and the acting. I thought the twists at the end were great. I think there was room for more drama, but it was generally palatable and opened up potential for another series too.

I enjoyed the nods to ‘Threads’. I was slightly confused by Billy’s drive to rile up an angry mob - I thought she had a grand plan to manipulate the group into actually helping, not devolving into utter mob degeneracy, but alas. I thought the ‘Gauntlet’ was a bit far but whatever.

Some commentary on Covid, Brexit, Generation gaps. Nothing that begged your ear however, just using the common themes of the times. I thought they got Stef’s character down pretty well - I don’t have teenagers myself, but it wouldn’t surprise me if at least one has referred to their Dad as a cuck at some stage.

I’d recommend giving it a try. I enjoyed it.

Much of the plot of the last few episodes revolves round a pedal being missing from Marcus Calderwood's bike. That pedal is found by the side of the road, and Patrick Norris' wife bought a pair of pedals to replace both the missing pedal and the one remaining on the bike to muddy the waters if the missing pedal is found.

Problem is, it's complete bollocks. It's impossible for a pedal to unscrew from a crank in a crash. It's extraordinarily unlikely for it to be somehow ripped out either, and if it were that would destroy the thread in the crank, so the replacement wouldn't fit.

Pedals are attached by fairly hefty threads.It

Spoilers, d'uh.

Loved this show back in the day. Recently gave it a rewatch. I have to say I think a lot of the show has aged incredibly poorly, unfortunately. However, I watched all of series 7 yesterday and today because I'm currently off work with Covid (booooo!) and I think of all the episodes and series finalés, this is easily the best.

For context, series 7 has a lot to do with Russia, so maybe it just holds up better because it feels more relevant? Not sure. Spoilers incoming. Lucas travels to Moscow and discovers that Connie is the 'mole' inside MI5 working with the Russians to bring down Harry Pierce. Ben is murdered by Connie. Harry is arrested for treason. The whole thing is insane, but brilliantly written. Connie is eventually exposed by Harry and Ros and is expulsed from MI5 at the end of episode 7.

Episode 8 is even better. MI5 uncover a plot by a Russian sleeper cell to detonate a portable nuclear device, destroying the whole of London. The team realise their only chance to foil the attack is to bring Connie back on board since she knew everything about the plan from inside Russian intelligence. Connie essentially goes from bad guy to good guy and saves the day by detonating the bomb herself in a disused part of the London Underground.

It sounds ridiculous. A lot of it is. But I thought the acting, particularly by Gemma Jones, was incredible. It's definitely something I would recommend a rewatch for, particularly if you haven't seen Spooks in as long as I hadn't. The whole two hours play out like a really great movie and you don't even have to have watched the first 6 episodes of the series for its finalé to make sense. Excellent viewing!