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maxalfie said:
I see that Ch.5 at 9pm tonight has a programme titled 'On Benefits & Proud'.
I'm sure the government get programmes like this commissioned as it helps their cause of creating the rift between skivers & strivers as they like to divide the nation into these two groups.
Never any programmes made about rich people and companies and their tax dodging activities.Far better to set the poor against each other while they laugh at us from their mansions.
I shall be watching 'CrimeWatch' 9pm BBC1 a far more interesting prospect.
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"Shoplifters and Proud",, next week so theres more fun to come yet.

Filmed in Stockport, so should be interesting. Ive seen the girls face up in shops before on the entrances.
 
mydrugbuddy said:
checked my tv planner thingie on my virgin box, ahem, last night and its not listed :? anywhere, certainly not this friday on channel 5 :?
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Oh.

In the UK fans of The Walking Dead will get to watch the new episodes just five days after they air in the states on UK Channel ‘Fox’. So that means Season 4 will begin showing in the UK on October 18th.
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Just stream it online? Managed to find a HD link easily.
 
Mendo_K said:
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Just stream it online? Managed to find a HD link easily.
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yeah, that means im gonna have to rebuild / and or buy a new hard drive for my pc with an hdmi connection though, or burn the download to dvd and loose the quality when watching it on a 40 inch screen. I dont wanna watch my favourite TV series on a 19" pc monitor, i want to watch it on a big screen in HD with 5.1 surround sound that i worked hard to pay for. You cant always get what you want, but you can get what you need. Thanks for that Jagger/Richards.
 
maxalfie said:
I see that Ch.5 at 9pm tonight has a programme titled 'On Benefits & Proud'.
I'm sure the government get programmes like this commissioned as it helps their cause of creating the rift between skivers & strivers as they like to divide the nation into these two groups.
Never any programmes made about rich people and companies and their tax dodging activities.Far better to set the poor against each other while they laugh at us from their mansions.
I shall be watching 'CrimeWatch' 9pm BBC1 a far more interesting prospect.
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They were all tossers i switched it off with disgust after 15 mins
 
I need to crack on with watching IASIP ... saw the first few eps of the first season after seeing it recommended here and could tell it was going to be ace.

On tonight .. I didn't see it the first time round so I'm gonna watch it - Raas, have a gander:

Stephen Fry: Out There.
Series 1 - Episode 1.
Tonight, 11:20pm - 12:20am BBC2

Uganda’s Minister for Ethics and Integrity cannot contain his fury as his visitor Stephen Fry extols the joys of being gay. “I WILL ARREST YOU! I WILL ARREST YOU!” he thunders as Fry, smiling politely tells him, “Homosexuality is wonderful, you should try it.” The government apparatchik wants a law that would make homosexuality illegal and an imprisonable offence.

He’s one of a handful of frothing homophobes that Fry meets in a journey to discover why some people are so terrified of homosexual men and women. There’s a nice moment when a smarmy American practitioner of so-called “reparative therapy” (which aims to “cure” people of their gayness) looks like he’s been hit with a brick when Fry tells him, charmingly, that he could pass for a homosexual man.

Throughout the programme Fry struggles to maintain his genial equilibrium, but as he hears of atrocious repression, he cracks.

About this programme
1/2. Part one of two. The broadcaster travels to various parts of the world to learn about people's experiences of coming out as gay and talks to a number of homophobes to try to understand the origin of their hatred. He begins by reflecting on the changes that have affected homosexuals in his lifetime and chats to Elton John and David Furnish, as well as US actor Neil Patrick Harris, about their own experiences. He also travels to Uganda, where the government is proposing a new anti-homosexuality bill that includes death penalty and life imprisonment clauses, and visits America to investigate a therapy treatment that claims to be able to change a person's sexual orientation.
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I'm a bit clueless as to what the point of visiting and filming in Uganda is, unless it's going to widen the debate about it over there. Hopefully it'll be explained in the show.
 
Just changed my netflix to us... noticed Hell on wheels on there. gonna check that out
 
I just watched the first episode of Stephen Fry's new series on homosexuality...Great stuff. Quite moving at times, and very well presented. Just about to stick the latest one on.
 
Marmalade said:
I'm a bit clueless as to what the point of visiting and filming in Uganda is, unless it's going to widen the debate about it over there. Hopefully it'll be explained in the show.
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The point was that frikkin hilarious/repulsive talk show he did with that Christian fella. The thought of Stephen Fry terrorising anybody with his penis tickled me immensely =D

Pretty depressing stuff overall though. Especially places like Russia and Brazil where it seems things are going backwards rather than forwards. Religious folk should not be in power. Talk about ramming it down ya throat...

In vaguely related news, coupla nice new Storyvilles on iPlayer at the moment. Liked the one about the Russian feminist punk band - Pussy Riot - A Punk Prayer. Never really thought of Russia as being an especially progressive society but seems to be regressing at a rate of knots at the moment. How fukked is that legal system? Aaaaaaand the Russian Orthodox Church (again).

The other Storyville one I liked was The Great Hip Hop Hoax. Very entertaining and actually quite shocking. One for the Jocklighters to come over all Braveheart about perhaps. Great story though. Just goes to show how incredibly shallow the music industry is really. It's all in the image and the accent.
 
Been meaning to watch the great hop hop hoax, heard about it and read something in the paper
 
Shambles said:
The point was that frikkin hilarious/repulsive talk show he did with that Christian fella. The thought of Stephen Fry terrorising anybody with his penis tickled me immensely =D

Pretty depressing stuff overall though. Especially places like Russia and Brazil where it seems things are going backwards rather than forwards. Religious folk should not be in power. Talk about ramming it down ya throat...
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I don't think it's an overly depressing documentary at all. What Fry manages to highlight is how varied attitudes and tolerances are toward homosexuality; attitudes and tolerances that all occupy the same space in time. It's showing the bumpy and inconsistent road to acceptance that the world as a whole is taking, but he stresses that this is part of an ongoing worldwide transformation into a culturally universal accepting and tolerant society.

2 steps forward, 1 step back and all that.
 
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