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Re: A Message To All Britons
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Originally Posted by Busyman
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Originally Posted by Biggles
I had a look through Busy's list and only recognised a couple of shows. I think it would be fair to say that only a fraction of each countries output crosses the pond.
I like some US shows
Simpsons
Futurama
South Park
X Files
Taken (thought that was excellent)
Scrubs
Dead like Me
I liked Cheers when it was on (especially with Shelley)
Roxanne (early episodes)
Never really clicked with Friends etc.,
Never really liked US crime drama shows although the one about Vampires (Knight something??) was quite good ... actually, might have been Canadian when I think about it.
Some US standup is brilliant. I like Emo Phillips, Ryan Styles etc., but I find Pryor incomprehensible (not saying he isn't being funny but it is hard to get the joke if you only understand one word in five).
I think there is probably less US stuff than there used to be on UK TV. I think they are being a lot more selective and bringing across stuff that has already been a solid hit in the US. No more endless daft cop programmes with cowboys riding horses through New York, blind detectives, scruffy detectives (although he was good), bald detectives, hip detectives. - this can only be good. :lookaroun
I do like the UK crime series such as Taggart, Messiah (which is well weird) Frost etc., but I think that is probably a culture specific thing.
Some of the shows I mentioned are severely old. I did love Cheers, Taxi (Danny Devito), Mork and Mindy (Robin Williams), Bosom Buddies (Tom Hanks), Welcome Back Kotter (John Travolta), etc.
Richard Pryor was severely black. His comedy reflected it.
As did his accent. :rolleyes:
I did like Taxi ... Jim was my favourite.
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Re: A Message To All Britons
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Originally Posted by Busyman
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Originally Posted by Cheese
The Tarantino episode was quite good, the rest all blend into one another. I realise they have different crimes but it just always seems like I'm watching the same episode over and over and over and over...
Also the overwhelming smugness of the central characters makes me want to kill them all brutally, and I wouldn't leave any evidence.:shifty:
They are some smug bastards...on all three shows. :angry:
If you don't like CSI, how do you know about all the other episodes? :huh:
I've seen bad episodes and good ones...'cause I watch it. However, I wouldn't watch it at if I didn't like the series as a whole...which it seems you don't. :huh:
I've watched a fair bit of it in the past due to the lack of TV channels on terrestial television. Though, these days I'm only forced to watch it if I visit friends or family and there is nothing better on at the time.*
*I mean, it's not as bad as Pop Idol or any of the other crappy reality shows that infest TV these days...
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Don't watch much tv anymore except things like Rome . Wife has been looking for old British comedy vhs tapes for me , like Benny Hill ,Two Ronnies and Carry On movies.
The Brit comedians don't have to say anything just that look and I laff. The Americans and Canadians shine in Stand up routines .
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Re: A Message To All Britons
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Originally Posted by Biggles
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Originally Posted by Busyman
Some of the shows I mentioned are severely old. I did love Cheers, Taxi (Danny Devito), Mork and Mindy (Robin Williams), Bosom Buddies (Tom Hanks), Welcome Back Kotter (John Travolta), etc.
Richard Pryor was severely black. His comedy reflected it.
As did his accent. :rolleyes:
Absolutely. Black American comedy is lost on the UK audience...and just the accents.
Like the time he referenced his mother making him good get a stick for her from a tree to beat his own ass. He said that would be longest walk he took.....and if he took too long, she'd go out there and get the entire tree to beat his ass.
He said when he'd get the stick, as he brought it back, he could hear it cutting the wind...so it he knew it'd hurt.
Then when she got the stick he'd start whippin' him with every syllable...DIDDNT...I...TELL...YOU...NOT...TO...DO...IT....
He then says the best thing to do is shut-up or else you add extra licks...don't ever say, "I won't do it no more."
I...KNOW...YOU...NOT...GONNA...DO IT...NO....MORE....'CAUSE'....YOU...SHOULDNT...HAVE...DONE...IT....THE....FIRST...TIME....AFTER....I....TOLD....YOU....NOT...TO...DO IT.
I related 'cause I had been through that exact same same scenario.
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Re: A Message To All Britons
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Originally Posted by Cheese
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Originally Posted by Busyman
They are some smug bastards...on all three shows. :angry:
If you don't like CSI, how do you know about all the other episodes? :huh:
I've seen bad episodes and good ones...'cause I watch it. However, I wouldn't watch it at if I didn't like the series as a whole...which it seems you don't. :huh:
I've watched a fair bit of it in the past due to the lack of TV channels on terrestial television. Though, these days I'm only forced to watch it if I visit friends or family and there is nothing better on at the time.*
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I mean, it's not as bad as Pop Idol or any of the other crappy reality shows that infest TV these days...
I'm guilty of watching pieces of American Idol in season 2 when Ruben Studdard won and this last one when that white girl won. I liked Bo Bice, the rocker.
Weird though that how I started watching it in season 2 (on at 8pm)was 'cause 24 came on right after (9pm) it and I was too lazy to set my VCR timer and I'd be leaving to play b-ball at 7pm. So I popped my tape in and just pressed record.
When I fast forwarded one time I had to stop the tape to answer the door (didn't want to go to far) when I came back, I pressed play and it was half-way through an American Idol episode (final round). It had some decent singing so I watched.
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Originally Posted by peat moss
Don't watch much tv anymore except things like Rome . Wife has been looking for old British comedy vhs tapes for me , like Benny Hill ,Two Ronnies and Carry On movies.
The Brit comedians don't have to say anything just that look and I laff.
Benny Hill used to trip me out. :lol: :lol:
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Originally Posted by peat moss
The Brit comedians don't have to say anything just that look and I laff.
True. :lol: :lol: :lol:
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only the first 4 or 5 pop idol shows are good, for the losers. never watch it when it goes capitalist though :snooty:
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So we are comparing our artistic output by a "who makes the best TV shows" competition. What an interesting idea.
Scrubs is fantastic BTW. One of the few series ever to make over 25,000 episodes and still maintain it's funnity.
It did fall foul of the American disease in later series. Where every episode had to have some sort of moral, but that happens to most good American TV comedy.
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As invented for US comedy shows.
'nuff said.
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CSI is feckin brill,thet one Tarintino did was superb,Richard Pryor is hilarious loved him in See no evil,Hear no evil.
Don't think the yanks did a very good remake of Cracker
Forever Knight ,this is what you was thinking of Biggles
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Originally Posted by gripper103.2
CSI is feckin brill,thet one Tarintino did was superb,Richard Pryor is hilarious loved him in See no evil,Hear no evil.
Don't think the yanks did a very good remake of Cracker
Forever Knight ,this is what you was thinking of Biggles
That is the one :01:
It was rather good, as I recall. Lots of angst.
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prison break is the best thing (almost) on tv at the moment, bet it's written by a brit though :ermm:
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Originally Posted by GepperRankins
prison break is the best thing (almost) on tv at the moment, bet it's written by a brit though :ermm:
Yep got to agree its captivating viewing :01:
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Originally Posted by gripper103.2
Yep got to agree its captivating viewing :01:
...and totally American...as is Lost and 24.
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Originally Posted by Busyman
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Originally Posted by gripper103.2
Yep got to agree its captivating viewing :01:
...and totally American...as is Lost and 24.
I concede you have got some most excellent TV series running at the mo. :P
Have you tried Spooks
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Re: A Message To All Britons
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Originally Posted by gripper103.2
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Originally Posted by Busyman
...and totally American...as is Lost and 24.
I concede you have got some most excellent TV series running at the mo. :P
Well...that's all I was saying. :snooty:
Hey what do you mean "at the moment"?
We always have the best TV. Hmmph :snooty:
What is Spooks?
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Originally Posted by Busyman
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Originally Posted by gripper103.2
Yep got to agree its captivating viewing :01:
...and totally American...as is Lost and 24.
errrm, Naveen Andrews is English and there's a couple of South Koreans in there somewhere
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Spooks is a series all about our secret service over here so that terrorists can learn how to avoid being caught:)
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Originally Posted by DarthInsinuate
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Originally Posted by Busyman
...and totally American...as is Lost and 24.
errrm, Naveen Andrews is English and there's a couple of South Koreans in there somewhere
The writers are American but apart from that, writers of TV episodes are international.
Most importantly however, the creator is American as are the producers.
America is a melting pot. Hollywood is not.
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Originally Posted by gripper103.2
Spooks is a series all about our secret service
I thought it was about MI5, tho' I concede I haven't actually watched it.
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Yeah it is MI5 but I was trying to dumb it down a bit
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Originally Posted by gripper103.2
Yeah it is MI5 but I was trying to dumb it down a bit
I've seen MI5. It's ok. :ermm:
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Britonia is rather pleasant place, but a trip to the bahamas is even more refreshing
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Originally Posted by gripper103.2
Yeah it is MI5 but I was trying to dumb it down a bit
Good idea, but MI5 is the "Security Service", MI6 is the "Secret Service", as I understand it. So I think you may have "dumbed it down" a wee hair too much.
Just a small and rather esoteric point.
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Re: A Message To All Britons
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Originally Posted by Busyman
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Originally Posted by DarthInsinuate
errrm, Naveen Andrews is English and there's a couple of South Koreans in there somewhere
The writers are American but apart from that, writers of TV episodes are international.
Most importantly however, the creator is American as are the producers.
I must disagree, the most important thing is that it's good.
When I watch TV, read a book - or indeed browse thro' posts on an interweb forum - the most important thing is that the content is good.
I really don't care about the nationality of the creator.
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what kind of secret service calls themselves a secret service? should they be called jays furniture removals or something.
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It's actually the Secret Intelligence Service. I believe the word secret refers to the nature of the intelligence, rather than the organisation themselves.
Matters of national security (which is primarilly what they deal with) are generally classified as secret.
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MI5 just had a wee browse around,Mulder you still looking for a job?
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Originally Posted by Mr. Mulder
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Originally Posted by Busyman
Last season's 2 hour finale (directed by Quentin Tarantino) was good as shit.
*Slow boring and predictable, like most of his films and the show it's self :01:
*the X-Files after the first five seasons...
Peace bd
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Originally Posted by brotherdoobie
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Originally Posted by Mr. Mulder
*Slow boring and predictable, like most of his films and the show it's self :01:
*the X-Files after the first five seasons...
Peace bd
:lol: :lol: :lol:
...and on a different note......Tarantino films predictable? :blink:
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UK TV is seemingly obsessed by crime dramas, and so-called "reality" shows, both of which bore the pants off me.
The volume of US shows we get over here means we get some good stuff, 24, The West Wing, Nip/Tuck, etc. But we also get some crap as well.. (Desperate Housewives, anyone?)
Give me sci-fi any day; The US and the UK both have a go, but I think Canada makes the best sci-fi... :01:
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Originally Posted by Barbarossa
UK TV is seemingly obsessed by crime dramas, and so-called "reality" shows, both of which bore the pants off me.
The volume of US shows we get over here means we get some good stuff, 24, The West Wing, Nip/Tuck, etc. But we also get some crap as well.. (Desperate Housewives, anyone?)
Give me sci-fi any day; The US and the UK both have a go, but I think Canada makes the best sci-fi... :01:
Like what?
A TV series filmed in Canada doesn't Canadians made it btw.
Hollywood likes to film there on the cheap. Don't know of many Canadian productions though.
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Wow, Canadians pwn:unsure: :
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Originally Posted by Cheese
Wow, Canadians pwn:unsure: :
Nice list! ;)
(I think I can predict Busy's reply tho'... :unsure: )
Anyway, that's quite funny, because when I posted I thought Farscape was Canadian, but it turns out its Australian! Doh! :frusty:
So I was wrong, Australia makes the best sci-fi... :01:
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Originally Posted by Barbarossa
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Originally Posted by Cheese
Wow, Canadians pwn:unsure: :
Nice list! ;)
(I think I can predict Busy's reply tho'... :unsure: )
...and the post that preceded it says it....
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Originally Posted by Busyman
A TV series filmed in Canada doesn't mean Canadians made it btw.
Hollywood likes to film there on the cheap. Don't know of many Canadian productions though.
2. Many of those shows sucked.
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Originally Posted by Busyman
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Originally Posted by Barbarossa
Nice list! ;)
(I think I can predict Busy's reply tho'... :unsure: )
...and the post that preceded it says it....
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Originally Posted by Busyman
A TV series filmed in Canada doesn't mean Canadians made it btw.
Hollywood likes to film there on the cheap. Don't know of many Canadian productions though.
2. Many of those shows sucked.
Lexx is a Canadian/German production, and didn't suck (...at least the first 3 series didn't suck...) :P
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I didn't know that Lexx was Canadian/German.
I really don't see it as important either. Probably because it's not important.
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Originally Posted by Barbarossa
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Originally Posted by Busyman
...and the post that preceded it says it....
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Originally Posted by Busyman
A TV series filmed in Canada doesn't mean Canadians made it btw.
Hollywood likes to film there on the cheap. Don't know of many Canadian productions though.
2. Many of those shows sucked.
Lexx is a Canadian/German production, and didn't suck (...at least the first 3 series didn't suck...) :P
Yeah I liked Lexx. The Brunin-Gee man..The Brunin Gee. Mantrid....
I'm not saying any of them weren't produced by Canadians. I'm saying many shows are made in Canada simply 'cause it's cheap. A show and movie can be made in the deserts of the Egypt yet that doesn't make it an Egyptian production.
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Anyway, that's quite funny, because when I posted I thought Farscape was Canadian, but it turns out its Australian! Doh! :frusty:
So I was wrong, Australia makes the best sci-fi... :01:
That production credit goes to the Sci-Fi Channel and Jim Henson Company.. :rolleyes: ..........shot in Australia.
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Originally Posted by manker
I didn't know that Lexx was Canadian/German.
I really don't see it as important either. Probably because it's not important.
True. If it's good it's good.
It sometimes is important 'cause it gives a show a different feel.
I always figured Lexx wasn't American...but that's partly what made it different and subsequently appealing.
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I don't think where it was made gives a series a different 'feel'.
Star-Trek, Firefly and Battlestar Galactica are all American productions, afaik, but they each have totally different feels to them.
Btw, I've watched the first 4 of series one of Battlestar Galactica over the last coupla days -- does it get better :unsure:
It's, like, pretty fecking boring atm.
