Off Topic TV, Entertainment and Arts thread

If that’s true I’m in trouble! It’s part of my Saturday morning routine, I can now see myself being issued a chore list - however I have enough recorded episodes, I’m sure she wouldn’t realise they’re old ones

 

I see The Repair Shop has joined the ever-increasing number of programmes which have loud background mood music, which I find annoying. Shame, because it's a really good programme otherwise, but the constant music seems right out of place and a turn-off for me.

 

Agreed.
I know it's feel-good telly but the sentimentality is laid on a bit thick, aided by the music.

Another great programme a bit spoiled by the music sometimes is David Attenborough's Wild Isles on Sundays.
Beautifully filmed, but occasionally the incidental music takes over from the natural drama on the screen.
Still it is a very good TV treat.

 

When Lovejoy used to take the mick out of women's football, calling it monkey tennis... He'd get lynched for saying that today.
But I couldn't help laughing at the time, shame on me

 

After my Soccer AM nostalgia trip this might sound like a woke flip-flop, but I seriously wonder whether Top Gear has had its day.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-65056723

Like Soccer AM, I think Top Gear was a great show - 20 years ago.
Another one for the lads & the dads, who enjoyed watching Clarkson and his mates doing crazy things with outrageous cars.
But this isn't the 1990's anymore. And people are getting hurt making these programmes.

Perhaps there is a case for petrol-head programmes on commercial TV. After all, if there is still an audience then ad money can be made.
But not I think on the BBC anymore.

 

f**king adverts using old pop songs as earworms are getting my goat!

Three in a row just now - Enola Gay (OMD) / She's like the wind (Swayze) / Sound & Vision (Bowie) all being used to sell anonymous tat on telly.

 

Another stunner from Attenborough last night. The crafty caterpillar eating the baby ants was the star of the show. Not the way to return hospitality though.

 

I missed the start but I understand it's on again next Sunday afternoon, a few hours before the latest episode

 

IPlayer?

 

Far too convenient. I enjoy living in the past

 

I know there is a football angle to this story, but it's basically showbiz

Wrexham are to play Manchester United in an exhibition match in the USA
I think it's in the summer.
Honestly, even if I was a Wrexham fan this would embarrass me a bit.
And I don't know what Man Utd fans think of it

 

I bet there’s certain fans that reckon wrecksum will destroy the Manx

 

Mrs Smudger looks at an old one every day

 

The (distant)past was good.

 

Series on Radio 4 at 9:45 every morning this week explores the origin of the word "Woke". The first recorded use was in the deep south in the days of Jim Crow, they played recordings of the great blues artists Leadbelly and Big Bill Broonzy telling black people to "stay woke", ie be aware of what Jim Crow really meant to them. I find it fascinating, and it's probably available on BBCSounds, although I don't expect Daily Mail readers to want to know.

 

I normally don't have any time for the morons from Just Stop Oil, or the angry-young-man student types who speak for them.
But a clip they showed last night on Have I got News for you made me smile.

Jacob Rees-Mogg was interviewing a Just Stop Oil representative on some right wing TV news show (must admit I didn't know the show even existed until then, or that Rees-Mogg had a job on it) and they shared the following intelligent exchange;

Rees-Mogg: If we just stopped oil now, the lights would go out.

JSO spokesman: Then we wouldn't have to see you...

 

Clinton Morrisson and three other grown men on SSN going collectively potty over a possible winning goal in the last minutes of a 1-1 draw between Leeds & Leicester. Every twenty seconds for five full minutes.
Who gives a fart?

 

Been catching up with Attenborough. Apart from the cringeworthy ambience music, a series with some incredible underwater photography, mostly by one man. Not to be missed.

 

Just switched off Have I got News for you.

Was saddened to hear the whole panel poking fun at Joe Biden.
Not because he's done something stupid during the last week. Something to justify him being mocked.
Just because he's 80 years old.
A couple of the gags were in very poor taste. Even the audience laughed in that slightly uneasy kind of way.