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[David Meadows]

Humbug! Humbug! ...humbug, Mister Baldrick?

That one? I'm not sure how many specials they actually made.

[brucegray666]

The future bit was indeed painfully bad.

EDIT: Yes, that's the one, the spin on A Christmas Charol. The other one, is that a New Years one? I seem to remember it involved a time machine or something.

[David Meadows]

Ah yes, now I remember the time machine one vaguely. (Very vaguely... doesn't seem to have made a very big impression )

[Paul F]

The future bit was indeed painfully bad.

EDIT: Yes, that's the one, the spin on A Christmas Charol. The other one, is that a New Years one? I seem to remember it involved a time machine or something.

Yeah, it was for the Millennium, I think. It was for Sky 1 and had no audience laughter. It was odd.

[brucegray666]

Was the lack of laughter due to the fact it had no studio audience or due to the fact it wasn't very funny???

[Paul F]

Was the lack of laughter due to the fact it had no studio audience or due to the fact it wasn't very funny???

It was all filmed outdoors and stuff. It wasn't very Blackadder-y. It's been years since I watched it; I can't remember if it was funny.

[David Chapman]

Humbug! Humbug! ...humbug, Mister Baldrick?

That one? I'm not sure how many specials they actually made.

Three. There's the Christmas Carol, the time travel one, and The Cavalier Years.

[steveuk]

'Jonathan Meades on France'.

For a food critic he really knows a lot about architecture, and he's made some fascinating programmes over the years, but in this one he's just delivered an impressively verbose rant against multiculturalism.

And it seems out of place.

He was specifically talking about the UK, in contrast to France, but he's now moving onto the Front National and using some of the same arguments.

I'm not French, I don't live there, but he's not describing the France that French people I know who've chosen to live in the UK have told me about. The France they chose to leave, in many cases because of racism that they (often white) didn't want to be a part of.

[David Meadows]

Randomly found Blade Runner on a movie channel I didn't even know we had. Missed the first two minutes, watched the rest.

Still in my top 3 movies of all time

Still not convinced Deckard is a replicant

[Christian U]

Still not convinced Deckard is a replicant

Well done, David!

[Paul F]

I'm watching the Mad Men pilot. I might try and watch an episode a day or so until the new season starts.

I also watched the new Noel Fielding thing on E4. It wasn't good, or funny. The only time I slightly smiled was when The Moon from Boosh turned up, to say he wasn't in this show.

[Steve Sensible]

Watched We'll Take Manhattan, that Karen Gillan thing. It was all a bit Austin Powers - felt slightly camp, and Aneurin Barnard made an unconvincing cockney geezer. It all looked quite nice, but it didn't really warrant it's feature-length.

[Will Carper]

Randomly found Blade Runner on a movie channel I didn't even know we had. Missed the first two minutes, watched the rest.

Still in my top 3 movies of all time

Still not convinced Deckard is a replicant

I know there's a thread about this but I don't even think it's about Blade Runner anymore. But isn't the movie basically the story of Deckard becoming human, as the replicants he's chasing are? They begin to develop emotions right before they die...

I dunno, that's how I saw it, plus the thing with the origami unicorn everyone points out.

[Adam Balson]

I also watched the new Noel Fielding thing on E4. It wasn't good, or funny. The only time I slightly smiled was when The Moon from Boosh turned up, to say he wasn't in this show.

Yeah it wasn't great was it? I genuinely laughed when the guy who made the cereal said he'd been told to F off by Mr Kipling (and got his name wrong= Dr Kipman or something) and the very quick Michael Caine impression. But the rest was a bit cringe worthy and any other laughs were usually nervous ones.

I'll give the second episode a go and decide whether or not to watch it.

[Russell H]

I killed the Boosh by watching every episode back to back, so I'm probably not going to bother with this.

[steveuk]

Watched We'll Take Manhattan, that Karen Gillan thing. It was all a bit Austin Powers - felt slightly camp, and Aneurin Barnard made an unconvincing cockney geezer. It all looked quite nice, but it didn't really warrant it's feature-length.

I watched the Bailey documentary afterwards as well and Bailey himself was a pretty unconvincing Cockney geezer too. He sounds much more real in the present day interviews.

[Steve Sensible]

I've recorded that - haven't seen it yet. Maybe it was authentically Bailey then, but it just sounded like he was trying too hard with it.

[steveuk]

He was trying too hard, but I can't shake the suspicion that Bailey was too, back then.

The performance was authentically fake.

[Robert B]

I watched Midnight in Paris last night. My list of bad Woody Allen movies is very short for someone who has seen pretty much all of them, but Midnight in Paris definitely belongs on my bad list. I'm actually surprised at all the praise it's gotten; it seemed really half-baked to me.

[David Meadows]

For some reason I have been persevering with ITV's Eternal Law, even though it's not actually all that good.

Then last night it surprised me by producing a good episode. I'm glad I stuck with it now, but I suspect this was a one-off and it will go back to failing to live up to its potential.