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Cock Womble

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29,908 posts

251 months

Monday 28th December 2009
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BBC2 Now.

T89 Callan

8,422 posts

214 months

Monday 28th December 2009
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Classic show but I'm going to give the Triffid program a chance.

I'll check it out on iPlayer later.

we like trucking, we like trucking, we like trucking and we like to truck...

s.m.h.

5,733 posts

236 months

Monday 28th December 2009
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Theyve done one of my favourites - the book reading with RA speaking gibberish.

American Excuse? Woulf you like to rub my tits? Brilliant smile

"Gob on You" was another great one that I remember.....

jas xjr

11,309 posts

260 months

Monday 28th December 2009
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Good a programme as it is , would like to see something I have not seen before over the holidays. Really struggled to find things to watch. Missed the top gear special, was in the pub, so can look forward to that. Did I miss anything else of note o ver the holiday?

T89 Callan

8,422 posts

214 months

Monday 28th December 2009
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jas xjr said:
Good a programme as it is , would like to see something I have not seen before over the holidays. Really struggled to find things to watch. Missed the top gear special, was in the pub, so can look forward to that. Did I miss anything else of note o ver the holiday?
No. Apart from Top Gear it's been complete and utter gash.

You know they have nothing new when they repeat they same show twice on two consecutive nights at the sme time.

I'd write to the BBC and complain if I had a TV licence.

Jasandjules

71,760 posts

250 months

Tuesday 29th December 2009
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What irritated me was that the Documentary show which preceeded the main show had many of the same sketches in it!!

Eric Mc

124,561 posts

286 months

Tuesday 29th December 2009
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jas xjr said:
Good a programme as it is , would like to see something I have not seen before over the holidays. Really struggled to find things to watch. Missed the top gear special, was in the pub, so can look forward to that. Did I miss anything else of note o ver the holiday?
I usually try to avoid TV over Chritstmas Day and for a few days before and after. However, with the benefit of iPlayer and the other On-Demand services I can select what I missed and now want to watch over the next few days.
I watched the James May Hornby Train progtramme on iPlayer last night. That was enjoyable.

becksW

14,690 posts

232 months

Tuesday 29th December 2009
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jas xjr said:
Good a programme as it is , would like to see something I have not seen before over the holidays. Really struggled to find things to watch. Missed the top gear special, was in the pub, so can look forward to that. Did I miss anything else of note o ver the holiday?
How about the remake of Day of the Triffids that was showing the same time on BBC1 (and HD)

jas xjr

11,309 posts

260 months

Tuesday 29th December 2009
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becksW said:
jas xjr said:
Good a programme as it is , would like to see something I have not seen before over the holidays. Really struggled to find things to watch. Missed the top gear special, was in the pub, so can look forward to that. Did I miss anything else of note o ver the holiday?
How about the remake of Day of the Triffids that was showing the same time on BBC1 (and HD)
i read the book a few years ago , the pictures are better. just wanted to watch something good. was not in the frame of mind for a full length film

Famous Graham

26,553 posts

246 months

Tuesday 29th December 2009
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I liked the point in the doc where Rowan Atkinson said, talking about their royalties from the album, "which Aston Martin shall I go for" biggrin

Jasandjules

71,760 posts

250 months

Tuesday 29th December 2009
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Famous Graham said:
I liked the point in the doc where Rowan Atkinson said, talking about their royalties from the album, "which Aston Martin shall I go for" biggrin
I think I can stretch to the V8....

Six Fiend

6,067 posts

236 months

Tuesday 29th December 2009
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Kinda Lingers - but that's not what the subtitles said in the documentary. They changed it for the actual episode tho' biggrin

GTIR

24,741 posts

287 months

Tuesday 29th December 2009
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I never really noticed how fit Pamela Stephenson was/is!
How did I miss her?

She's blooming lush.

DJC

23,563 posts

257 months

Tuesday 29th December 2009
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She was indeed rather attractive. I find it quite informing that it was Rowan who found it the most difficult to get on with her.

Also interesting that the 4 of them have had stunningly successful lives since. Pamela became BC's fulltime manager as his wife and lets face it has pretty much made him the most successful comedian and comic Britain has produced.

GRJ and Mel Smith had that staple of British comic life, Alas Smith and Jones and then diversified their careers massively to become in their own ways pillars of the Establishment. Who would ever have thought GRJ would become almost an "intellectual" ? Mel Smith is now a producer and runs his own highly successful production company.

RA. Needs nothing more said.


Oh and the last thing, highly ironic. When RA left and used the agents words of "time to stop playing with the 2nd XI", what did he go and do? Go and work with Richard Curtis on BlackAdder, the same guy who was writing Not smile

GTIR

24,741 posts

287 months

Tuesday 29th December 2009
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^^^. Yes.

I heard that BC and PA met while she was in character as JSP on NTNON?

hehe

becksW

14,690 posts

232 months

Tuesday 29th December 2009
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DJC said:
She was indeed rather attractive. I find it quite informing that it was Rowan who found it the most difficult to get on with her.

Also interesting that the 4 of them have had stunningly successful lives since. Pamela became BC's fulltime manager as his wife and lets face it has pretty much made him the most successful comedian and comic Britain has produced.

GRJ and Mel Smith had that staple of British comic life, Alas Smith and Jones and then diversified their careers massively to become in their own ways pillars of the Establishment. Who would ever have thought GRJ would become almost an "intellectual" ? Mel Smith is now a producer and runs his own highly successful production company.

RA. Needs nothing more said.


Oh and the last thing, highly ironic. When RA left and used the agents words of "time to stop playing with the 2nd XI", what did he go and do? Go and work with Richard Curtis on BlackAdder, the same guy who was writing Not smile
Isn't Pamela also a psychiatrist or have I got that completely wrong!!

Morningside

24,143 posts

250 months

Tuesday 29th December 2009
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Annoyingly the Not The Nine O'Clock News sketch episode is NOT available via iPlayer grumpy

Langweilig

4,464 posts

232 months

Tuesday 29th December 2009
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It's unfortunate they never featured the Jacques Coustea bath salts sketch. I mean Pamela Stephenson in...the...buff. I was an adolescent at the time it was first shown.

Famous Graham

26,553 posts

246 months

Wednesday 30th December 2009
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Pamela is indeed a therapist ("Sex" therapist to be precise)

Mel Smith had a break-down a few years ago.

It's not so "celeb" rosy as that doc would have one believe

ETA - that's not imply Mrs Connolly is somehow "less" or anything, it was more about Mel Smith

Edited by Famous Graham on Wednesday 30th December 01:47

Libertine

3,956 posts

197 months

Sunday 3rd January 2010
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Famous Graham said:
Pamela is indeed a therapist ("Sex" therapist to be precise)

Mel Smith had a break-down a few years ago.

It's not so "celeb" rosy as that doc would have one believe

ETA - that's not imply Mrs Connolly is somehow "less" or anything, it was more about Mel Smith

Edited by Famous Graham on Wednesday 30th December 01:47
I didn't realise that....

Pamela Helen Stephenson
4 December 1949 (1949-12-04) (age 60)
or that she was born in Takapuna, Auckland,
New Zealand