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Old 02 March 2013, 10:01 PM
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Default Why is Saturday night TV sh*t?

It is, though, isn't it?

Is it because they think everyone goes out so they don't have to bother?

We have over a hundred channels and most of them seem to be showing repeats.......
Old 02 March 2013, 10:02 PM
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Sign of the times I'm afraid quantity over quality, candy floss over substance etc etc etc
Old 02 March 2013, 10:13 PM
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I'm on my own tonight looking after my son so after he was in bed at 7.45 it was free reign. A bit of Man Vs Food (Dave), then Wheeler Dealers (Discovery Channel - mk1 Escort) and an hour of Forrest Gump on Film4.

Nothing better on so sacked it off and in bed

Isaac will no doubt be a pain for his dad tomorrow do it'll be an early rise for me Nd crap CBoobies all day
Old 02 March 2013, 10:18 PM
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I think Sunday night tv is better as they may think more people watch it?
Old 02 March 2013, 10:20 PM
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Abandoned telly tonight and we played board games with the kids, listening to music.

And then debated if KISS or Skid Row did the best version of "C'mon and love me"

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Old 02 March 2013, 10:35 PM
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Last 2 episodes of Spiral series 4 on tonight (BBC4). If you like quality detective dramas and you haven't been following this, you've missed a cracker of a show. You might still catch the full 8 episode series on iPlayer though.
Old 02 March 2013, 10:55 PM
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Transporter 3. For the 3rd time, still better than the other ****e on offer
Old 02 March 2013, 11:13 PM
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seriously, who the fvck in this day and age has the time or inclination to watch TV

it is total sh1te - 7 days a week, not just at the weekend

read a book, or listen to the radio or go "out"– all 10 times better than the “black and white minstrels” on a sat “turd” day night

surely TV is for the under 15's these days
Old 03 March 2013, 12:39 AM
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you lot obviously havent got discovery channel and the insight into alien life helping civilisations thousands of years ago to build all the sh*t they had, or the life story of swamp dwelling families catching fish ect -how could anyone get bored of that
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One mans catfish is another mans boredom
Old 03 March 2013, 07:59 AM
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Originally Posted by hodgy0_2
seriously, who the fvck in this day and age has the time or inclination to watch TV

it is total sh1te - 7 days a week, not just at the weekend

read a book, or listen to the radio or go "out"– all 10 times better than the “black and white minstrels” on a sat “turd” day night

surely TV is for the under 15's these days
Old 03 March 2013, 08:04 AM
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Originally Posted by hodgy0_2
seriously, who the fvck in this day and age has the time or inclination to watch TV

it is total sh1te - 7 days a week, not just at the weekend

read a book, or listen to the radio or go "out"– all 10 times better than the “black and white minstrels” on a sat “turd” day night

surely TV is for the under 15's these days


I really don't know why i still paying for cable tv...
Old 03 March 2013, 08:06 AM
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Originally Posted by jef
you lot obviously havent got discovery channel and the insight into alien life helping civilisations thousands of years ago to build all the sh*t they had, or the life story of swamp dwelling families catching fish ect -how could anyone get bored of that
I can watch all that on the internet,was actually just watching the new series of fast n loud.
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we tend to try and go out on a Saturday , staying in is for losers

Not really we watcha movie 9/10 because tv is that ****
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Not into going out, I'm too old and none of my mates would want to go. Plus going out in THIS town is asking for trouble

As for reading, I do read, lots, at least a book a week, usually much more, but, having spent all day building a 7mm scale model steam loco, I wanted to give my near vision a rest.

I ended up reading......
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Not into going out, I'm too old and none of my mates would want to go. Plus going out in THIS town is asking for trouble

As for reading, I do read, lots, at least a book a week, usually much more, but, having spent all day building a 7mm scale model steam loco, I wanted to give my near vision a rest.

I ended up reading......
Could be worse, you don't have to go car seat shopping (again)... I do
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Originally Posted by hodgy0_2
seriously, who the fvck in this day and age has the time or inclination to watch TV

it is total sh1te - 7 days a week, not just at the weekend

read a book, or listen to the radio or go "out"– all 10 times better than the “black and white minstrels” on a sat “turd” day night

surely TV is for the under 15's these days
Old 03 March 2013, 12:55 PM
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I don't go out with the lads or town.

Just a nice meal somewhere or to the family's for a meal.
Old 03 March 2013, 12:56 PM
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Remember a good turd the audience has trouble reading
Old 03 March 2013, 01:02 PM
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Originally Posted by markjmd
Last 2 episodes of Spiral series 4 on tonight (BBC4). If you like quality detective dramas and you haven't been following this, you've missed a cracker of a show. You might still catch the full 8 episode series on iPlayer though.
There's 12 episodes in this series. Subtitles really demand full concentration as well. Often have to record the second episode as the eyelids droop. Think it's 'formidable' though.
Old 03 March 2013, 01:04 PM
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I don't even have a TV at the moment. There's one in the front room, but i don't use that room.

Lent my TV to my mate when he bought his flat. Haven't asked for it back in nearly 8 months.

I stream programs/films that i want to watch on my laptop or find other things to do.

Standard broadcasted TV will die out in favour of 'on demand' services i think.
Old 03 March 2013, 01:32 PM
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Yep that bloody 800 quid I spent on telly ( years of research to find the right one )
- and I realise there's only about ten programmes I ever watch anyway ., otherwise I'm more or less forcing myself to watch something
Old 03 March 2013, 01:49 PM
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Watched body of lies last night, which wasn't bad and a good blip on what is a tedious programme schedule. But it was on far too late. And everything on before that was just inane crap.

"Primetime" TV has gone downhill big style especially ITV. Not only its programmes, with the continual dross that is daily 2-part soaps and its politically biased news, but its picture quality (ITV non-HD is aweful, ITV3/+1 etc is a insult to my eyesight), and it'd be nice if ITV1 HD finally pulled their fingers out their ***** and transmitted films in their native 5.1 audio.

PCM on cable/freeview and Dolby 2.0 on freesat is unacceptable when $ky have been transmitting films in 5.1 for over ten years FFS!

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I watched Body of Lies on TV last night as well. It was ok, nothing massively effective apart from that girly-faced Leonardo speaking just enough Arabic. Mark Strong was very engaging, mind. Crowe was a bit weighty, and that's about it.

I also watched Lincoln in cinema yesterday. Not impressed. DDL's work kept me interested, but very over-estimated piece to spend over two hours on watching it in cinema. I wanted to watch cinema, not theatre. Sorry, Spielberg geezer. You didn't do justice there. Just my opinion.

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I also caught a bit of Jonathan Ross Show before the film. It was pretty cr@p apart from seeing a clip of 4yr. old Bruno Mars singing as Elvis. He looked very cute as a showman kiddo, awww.


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I thought his name was Bwunow Marrs.


Just noticed that Mila Kunis (the future Mrs ALi-B) was on Ant and Dec's whatever it is. A seriously missed opportunity there.

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Old 03 March 2013, 02:33 PM
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Originally Posted by ALi-B
Just noticed that Mila Kunis (the future Mrs ALi-B) was on Ant and Dec's whatever it is. A seriously missed opportunity there.
I think she is the one who plays against Natalie Portman in a fantastic film called Black Swan? She is absolutely stunning! Ukrainian girls are generally very pretty.




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Old 03 March 2013, 04:19 PM
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I didn't see the Kunis on Ant and Dec, just the Jeremy Kyle wind up, sort of thing that Edmunds/Beadle were doing 20 years ago.
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Originally Posted by Kwik
I didn't see the Kunis on Ant and Dec, just the Jeremy Kyle wind up, sort of thing that Edmunds/Beadle were doing 20 years ago.
i watched forehead and gimp and thought its the same crap that beadle did 2o years ago.


oh well better than dancing on whatever...............
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We came back from a two week holiday in Thailand last Sunday - one of the first things we noticed when starting to watch TV again (not because there is much we actually WANT to watch, more to "have something on") was how sh!te and pathetic a lot of it actually is.

You don't really notice until you go away from it for a while then come back and start turning the TV on again.


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