The Magic Box of Phosphers

Sherrers wrote:


"...Salsa dancing 'til dawn Rita"

quality

i love Corroz me

T.B wrote:I used to call Keith and Tim "Fred and Ashley"

Sherrers wrote:

Broadhead wrote:

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Fandango Widewheels wrote:I can't believe you have ever watched a soap Tim.

How much you betting he has been in one? He must have been at some stage. In Albion Market at the very least.

Tim?

The Bill is a soap really? then yes.

Did you play a bad bastard?

A bad biker. Did my own stunt too for an extra £50.

Did you have stuntman insurance?

there is a real north/south thing i have noticed.

northerns don't like 'enders so much because they think it is 'miserable' but we find it quite funny

ditto up there. Northerns laugh at the street but we don't really get it . It seems really unrealistic and comic

Jnr DJ wrote:there is a real north/south thing i have noticed.

northerns don't like 'enders so much because they think it is 'miserable' but we find it quite funny

ditto up there. Northerns laugh at the street but we don't really get it . It seems really unrealistic and comic

You mean you don't believe there is a pub, 2 shops, a garage, a knicker factory, a bookies, a cafe, a bistro and a lap dancing club on the end of every Mancunian cobbled street?

Fandango Widewheels wrote:

Sherrers wrote:

Broadhead wrote:

Sherrers wrote:

Broadhead wrote:

Fandango Widewheels wrote:I can't believe you have ever watched a soap Tim.

How much you betting he has been in one? He must have been at some stage. In Albion Market at the very least.

Tim?

The Bill is a soap really? then yes.

Did you play a bad bastard?

A bad biker. Did my own stunt too for an extra £50.

Did you have stuntman insurance?

Sold my arse and any possible damage to my bike for ...

a £50 buyout

Jnr DJ wrote:there is a real north/south thing i have noticed.

northerns don't like 'enders so much because they think it is 'miserable' but we find it quite funny

ditto up there. Northerns laugh at the street but we don't really get it . It seems really unrealistic and comic

No I get that. A few exes would sit and guffaw all the way through eastenders and I am lost as to why. It's as funny as cancer. That's why it is funny they say. I'm puzzled I reply. Fuck off out of my life they go. And I do.

hahahaha oh dear ah hahaha

Ye Olde Rog wrote:Which was which?

brilliant

Sherrers wrote:

Jnr DJ wrote:there is a real north/south thing i have noticed.

northerns don't like 'enders so much because they think it is 'miserable' but we find it quite funny

ditto up there. Northerns laugh at the street but we don't really get it . It seems really unrealistic and comic

No I get that. A few exes would sit and guffaw all the way through eastenders and I am lost as to why. It's as funny as cancer. That's why it is funny they say. I'm puzzled I reply. Fuck off out of my life they go. And I do.

timeless

timless

Jnr DJ wrote:there is a real north/south thing i have noticed.

northerns don't like 'enders so much because they think it is 'miserable' but we find it quite funny

ditto up there. Northerns laugh at the street but we don't really get it . It seems really unrealistic and comic

There is some smart observation there mate.

Having lived pretty much about the same years in both camps I'd say that life in London is as the stereotype ; faster, meaner, less friendly etc etc so people like to see soap characters in more miserable scenarios . Then they can laugh at them (and a bit at themselves on the quiet)

Norths is a tougher environment materialistically. London is a 'harder' place to live but it is wealthy and culturally chubby. So northerns like their characters cheerful and funny. It's further away from the drabness of life and they like to see amplified versions of themselves too.

Basically the soaps are the truth written as a huge panto.

Tune in tomorrow for more sociology for visiting Scots and French Aristos on the run.

RvZ wrote:timless

Oh you are wasted on current affairs mate.

You are light entertainment's last chance

Terra Nova

mustsee

That program on ITV 3, Bin Laden. Watched it. The world's most powerful nation couldn't find one man. Crazy! Still, I thought it was well put together.

Why doesn't the BBC do this, I am sure they can.

I didn't see it but i generally find most things on ITV to be a bit, well a lot, sensationalist. I can't take them seriously.

Sherrers wrote:Terra Nova

mustsee

we're not psychic you know.

link please

Son of Nod wrote:That program on ITV 3, Bin Laden. Watched it. The world's most powerful nation couldn't find one man. Crazy! Still, I thought it was well put together.

Why doesn't the BBC do this, I am sure they can.

Because we aren't ITV

Scott knows.

Having worked in commercial radio would it be a step too far to say commercial media's first objective is to sell ad space?

Obviously they sugar coat it by saying if something is 'good' it sells space automatically.

But delivering quality is not actually their job.

Brookside was the best soap

with the best storylines like

terry's wife going up some scalfolding with a pram and falling off to her and the baby's doom

trevor jordache being bumped off and buried under the patio

jimmy corkhill and his son little jimmy corkhill being involved in some serious dealing

jimmy's dog being called cracks

anna friel's kiss

and the dixon - corkhill war, which started after jimmy was off his head giving ron's son a lift, crashed and killed him, jimmy's graveside confession is still one of the funniest things i've ever seen

BBC Play School presenters 'went on-air stoned'

BBC staff openly smoked marijuana at the corporation’s headquarters during the 1960s and 70s and Play School presenters even went on-air stoned, former stars have disclosed.

The corridors of Television Centre often reeked of the class B drug as BBC employees and visiting pop groups regularly smoked joints.
On one occasion, Rick Jones and Lionel Morton, presenters of Play School, got stoned before filming the children’s programme, it is claimed.
As well as drugs, the BBC was apparently also a hot bed of sex with staff “bonking all over the place”.
Recalling his time on Play School for a BBC documentary, former presenter Johnny Ball revealed that drug use spilt on screen in a nativity scene.
He said: “There was Rick Jones, Lionel Morton and myself. They got stoned on the biggest joint you’ve ever seen — in the studio.

“We were in silhouette as the three shepherds with our crooks. Lionel purposely held his crook so the crook didn’t show.
“They were absolutely stoned out of their minds.”

Ball, 73, who insisted that he was not stoned himself, added: “I couldn’t work with it. I really couldn’t.”
Others told how a culture of drug use was effectively tolerated at the BBC.
Joan Bakewell, the presenter, said visiting pop stars would often smoke cannabis at Television Centre.
She said: “Of course they smoked and they didn't smoke ordinary cigarettes.”
Sir David Attenborough, the wildlife presenter and former BBC TWO controller, recalled pleading with colleagues: “Look, please, don’t smoke that stuff openly so we can all smell it. Just be sensible.”
Other stars disclosed that staff used their dressing rooms for sexual liaisons.
Former Doctor Who actress Katy Manning, who played Jo Grant, said: “People were bonking all over the BBC. Everybody was doing it on the premises.”
Janet Fielding, who played the Doctor’s sidekick Tegan, added: “Nobody cared whether you had sex in your dressing room.”

Former Blue Peter and Going Live presenter Sarah Greene told of her liaisons with former Radio 1 DJ Mike Smith.
She said: “On the occasions when we did see each other we had to take full advantage of that time.”
The disclosures are made in Tales Of Television Centre on BBC Four, May 17.

TV we grew up on...brilliant!

There is sod all on TV today. Rubbish.

Spartacus ; Vengeance.

Working my through it. Swords, sandals and gore. Ace.

I don't understand why our TV watching members didn't say it had been on.

Sherrers wrote:Spartacus ; Vengeance.

Working my through it. Swords, sandals and gore. Ace.

I don't understand why our TV watching members didn't say it had been on.

I went to the pub instead to watch the FA Cup Final. That was even worse than the shite i was watching at home.

Silent Witness ended last night and what an episode it was! Brilliant!!!!

And, Walking Dead season 2 in on Channel 5 soon..YAY!!!!!

I'm managing to keep with 'Touch', just.

I'm really struggling to find much else to get on with at the moment.

What's that then?

'Ere tha goes, I did mention it a few pages back but the search jobbie doesn't work for me.

http://sky1.sky.com/touch/touch-about-the-show-2