The Boat That Guy Built

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Chicken Chaser

7,820 posts

225 months

Wednesday 2nd March 2011
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I enjoyed that! Guy seems to receive a fair bit of bad press in the motorcycling fraternity for his other interests distracting him from his racing. They didnt mention much about his career but I liked the easy going nature of it. Twinned with some decent summer sun, its a good bit of evening entertainment.

I'll have a cuppa of whatever he's having, it must be in the water!

Life Saab Itch

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37,068 posts

189 months

Wednesday 2nd March 2011
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I was impressed. I'm looking forward to the rest of the series now.

I like the way they had to virtually force him to wear some eye protection. I could just imagine him thinking "That's not hot and dangerous, this is hot and dangerous:"


GTIR

24,741 posts

267 months

Wednesday 2nd March 2011
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Sheets Tabuer said:
GTIR said:
Top bloke!

A cross between Fred Dibnah and Wolverine! biggrin
My OH said "are you watching the lord of the rings" frown
Sheetsy. Seriously, get rid quick. yes

It's the start of a slippery slope.

Tow Vehicle Rqrd

1,217 posts

184 months

Wednesday 2nd March 2011
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garybezz said:
That barge must be fitted with a flux capacitor though, the speed it got from Worsley to the Anderton boat lift then to Dudley smile
yeslaugh

Zaxxon

4,057 posts

161 months

Wednesday 2nd March 2011
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Liked the show, but why have that women doing the voice over? Her voice was annoying me in the end as I wanted Guy to be telling me what was going on.

It seemed like Guy hardly spoke at times. I hope the BBC weren't censoring him.

davspeed

10 posts

175 months

Thursday 3rd March 2011
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Zaxxon said:
but why have that women doing the voice over?
Translation for non yellow bellies winksmile

Eric Mc

122,065 posts

266 months

Thursday 3rd March 2011
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Lisa Tarbuck.

monthefish

20,443 posts

232 months

Thursday 3rd March 2011
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garybezz said:
Life Saab Itch said:
I get the feeling (or maybe it's just me hoping this) that the BBC are looking for a replacement Fred Dibnah.
I was thinking (and also hoping)exactly that.
Really enjoyed the programme.
That barge must be fitted with a flux capacitor though, the speed it got from Worsley to the Anderton boat lift then to Dudley smile
yes

And just nips back and forth between premises on a narrowboat.

scratchchin

Tow Vehicle Rqrd

1,217 posts

184 months

Thursday 3rd March 2011
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Come on boys; women can be interested in restoring narrowboats and building blast-furnaces too you know.

This one is, anyway! biglaugh

Zaxxon

4,057 posts

161 months

Thursday 3rd March 2011
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I'm not saying that Lisa Tarbuck hasn't got a nice voice, it's lovelly.
But if i remember correctly Fred Dibnah did the voiceover and also used to talk to the camera to explain the build process or how it works. It was great because you had fred's great accent explaing things with all of his natural enthusiasm and engineering knowledge etc.

I just feel that the programme would be solid gold if it was narrated with Guy's accent and enthusiasm.

y2blade

56,129 posts

216 months

Thursday 3rd March 2011
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by'ek that were brilliant boss smile
it was Guy all over.... cool

shame it wasn't on for an hour

Charlie Foxtrot

3,044 posts

216 months

Thursday 3rd March 2011
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Zaxxon said:
I'm not saying that Lisa Tarbuck hasn't got a nice voice, it's lovelly.
But if i remember correctly Fred Dibnah did the voiceover and also used to talk to the camera to explain the build process or how it works. It was great because you had fred's great accent explaing things with all of his natural enthusiasm and engineering knowledge etc.

I just feel that the programme would be solid gold if it was narrated with Guy's accent and enthusiasm.
I agree with you. Liza just speaks like we're all idiots. We're not idiots and idiots wouldn't be watching this show because they can't text in and vote on which tea he should chose.

Life Saab Itch

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37,068 posts

189 months

Thursday 3rd March 2011
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y2blade said:
shame it wasn't on for an hour
This.

monthefish

20,443 posts

232 months

Thursday 3rd March 2011
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Life Saab Itch said:
y2blade said:
shame it wasn't on for an hour
This.
I was actaully quite glad it was just the half hour. An hour might have been too much - "leave the audience wanting more" as the saying goes - and they might have ended up 'padding' to fill a 1-hour programme.

I'll definitely watch the next one, whereas, for me, many 1-hour programmes are quite good, but don't warrant a whole hour of my life so don't get watched again.

Balmoral Green

40,943 posts

249 months

Thursday 3rd March 2011
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I didn't think Lisa's voiceover was a problem. This is an early evening easy viewing programme, that has to appeal to all, not just hard core engineers. Suited my missus just fine.

yoof full chav

38,831 posts

188 months

Thursday 3rd March 2011
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Zaxxon said:
I'm not saying that Lisa Tarbuck hasn't got a nice voice, it's lovelly.
But if i remember correctly Fred Dibnah did the voiceover and also used to talk to the camera to explain the build process or how it works. It was great because you had fred's great accent explaing things with all of his natural enthusiasm and engineering knowledge etc.

I just feel that the programme would be solid gold if it was narrated with Guy's accent and enthusiasm.
I think the reason being, that guy does everything(allegedly) at a zillion miles an hour, and so the average viewer wouldnt be able to a) understand him b) follow what he was saying and would c) lose interest. This way, it allows the bbc to publish a book to accompany the series when it's released on dvd, which will have more detailed plot analysis. It were reet tho' that

P-Jay

10,579 posts

192 months

Thursday 3rd March 2011
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Lordbenny said:
He is the new Fred Dibnah....wasnt it an AMV8?
I forgot the name of the actual model (but would bet the house on it starting with a 'v') but it was the one with the AMV8 body and the DBS Engine.

yoof full chav

38,831 posts

188 months

Thursday 3rd March 2011
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P-Jay said:
Lordbenny said:
He is the new Fred Dibnah....wasnt it an AMV8?
I forgot the name of the actual model (but would bet the house on it starting with a 'v') but it was the one with the AMV8 body and the DBS Engine.
IIRC he had one of, if not the first, V12 Vantages on the road. I did hear he sold it, and bought another one, but how accurate that info is, i dont know

F i F

44,148 posts

252 months

Thursday 3rd March 2011
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monthefish said:
Pesty said:
yoof full chav said:
This will be epic, and i have already programmed the sky+ to record the series
Can I ask how you have done this?

The only way I now is opening up the planner then pressing +24 till I get to the day I want I tried again last night but listings only went till next tuesday.

What am I doing wrong?
confused

When I put it in, the system asks if I want to 'Record once' or 'Record series'. Does yours not do this?
I'm puzzled by this problem that people are having.

It's sky+, right?

I just scrolled in the schedule to the date of the first show in advance of the show actually starting important that, set it to record with the record button, then set series link with the green button, it goes away finds the series links and puts the green link icon on the RHS of the planner page.

Isn't everyone's sky+ like that? OK maybe HD planner is different admittedly, I don't have that.

Not watched it yet, but I bet when I do, the Mrs will be on about a narrow boat again.

yoof full chav

38,831 posts

188 months

Thursday 3rd March 2011
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I have JD sky plus, and it's relatively simple to record the whole series. You can either take the approach F i F has above, or when you click on record the first time, it asks you if you want to record once, or the series. I just clicked on series and every wednesday, it will record this. If you clikc record once, then you have to manually record it every week, hence why with something like this i do whole series. It also works for reminders by the way