Their finest hour was when somebody sent in a letter moaning that a 'Best 60s Compilation Ever...'-type CD didn't feature any Beatles. Cue a vaguely researched but quite interesting item on PRS fees, slapped right down to pleb level at the end with the ultimate in Watchdog parting shots:
'So...our advice to you is, if you're going to buy a 60s compilation CD, always read the cover first to see who's on it...'
Oh for the good old days of Watchdog, with Lynn Faulds-Wood and John Stapleton covering issues that matter eh?
Robinson was well out of order with the bloke from Tesco, it's hard his fault that Columbia TriStar (was it?) manufactured a disc that doesn't work in some bog standard DVD players. Surely the people she should have been taking issue with were those who produced the disc?
Watchdog? More like a dribbly old cocker spaniel bitch who reeks of piss.
I also saw Watchdog today, and commented what a bag of old cunts Anne "I'm an ignorant bitch" Robinson was to Tesco man.
Meanwhile, does anyone else commit the cardinal sin of watcing Dial-a-Date (as I am now)? Did you ever notice how the "dates" they go on are 100% free? Got forbid they spring the ££s for a restaurant.
>Meanwhile, does anyone else commit the cardinal sin of watcing Dial-a-Date (as I am now)? Did you ever notice how the "dates" they go on are 100% free? Got forbid they spring the ££s for a restaurant.
Is that the after the pub thing on C4? I once saw that by mistake. None of the people on it seemed even vaguely likeable, I wouldn't have wanted a date with any of them and I'm desperate.
Oh yes, Dial-a-Date, The Prezzie Show and Young Gifted and Broke. The absolute delights of late night ITV. Have you seen 'Big Screen X-Certificate'?? Part porn, part movie review, and part ...er....God knows what. Always loads of women with their jugs out, writhing around in oil.
I'm not complaining!
My friend Hairy Pat is really freaked out by the bits on That Prezzie Show where women in tights are running around dressed as presents. It really, genuinely scares him.
Tim, imagine if you can a *very* low budget version of the thing on C4, add a lot of ugly students and scary people, and a camcorder. Et Voila! Dial-A-Date!
The Prezzie Show is quite possibly *the* scariest thing ever on TV. Even more so than a naked Keith Chegwin. I wonder if taking drugs would make it easier to watch?
Hang on, what x-rated thing? I'm not familiar with that? Is it on ITV? I've never seen anything vaguely porny at night. And I've looked.
Drugs don't help the entertainment value of That Prezzie Show, I'm afraid. It's still low quality.
Is it on tonight? The repeat of Big Brother is on behind me, I'm afraid. Hang on, I'm turning it off...
Big Screen X-Certificate is on Thursday nights, usually at about 1am. Dunno if it's just a Tyne Tees thing but it's extremely hardcore compared to ITVs usual output! Last night they featured a woman who was having her tits and ass (among other things!) moulded in plaster for posterity, and triplet sisters shagging each other! The first time I saw it I thought it was Channel 5, but no, there in b&w in the TV Times. Very odd programme indeed. They also review the latest Hollywood films, they had Drew Barrymore and Lucy Liu on last week, so I don't think it can be a TT only show, 'cos there's no way they could afford that!
Well, I'm pretty sure thay don't have it on Ulster TV (I live in Dublin - so that's what we get).
We don't get Channel 5 either, so it really annoys me when I look at the TV guide in the Guardian, and it says the Karate Kid 2 is on, and I'm really happy, and then I realise it's Channel 5 and not a channel I have. Is C5 ever worth watching (apart from films like KK2)?
Channel 5 is really a complete waste of airspace. The only thing worth watching is Prisoner (sad I know, but it's force of habit now!) and the odd film like KK, The Goonies, or Short Circuit 2. Apart from that it's bloody diabolical, and you should thank your lucky stars that you can't get it!
I was in County Waterford once, where the cable system is different, (they get Welsh BBC etc.), and I saw this really boring quiz show, with one wide camera angle, with 3 contestants, and a voiceover asking questions. After a while, someone was the winner. It was completely uncompelling. So I watched the whole thing.
By that description you can only mean the enigma that is '100%'. I say it is an enigma because it is utterly uncompelling and the questions are extremely simply, yet it has an addictive quality to it. By far the best thing about the show are it's themed quizzes. A few months ago they screened an edition where all the contestants were dressed in bondage gear and had to answer questions about sex!
Saucy!
So Channel 5 sux, then.
Speaking of other TV regions, I've always found it really strange being in Wales, London, or other bits of Britain, because the news is really different. People die every day on Ulster news, but, from what I remember of Welsh news, they were actually interviewing a farmer who has trouble with crusties on his farm! Quite a change from people being kneecapped every other second. A refreshing change, mind. Shame people aren't kneecapping crusties, though.
We get BS-XC here in London.
(Not that I've seen it that is!)
100% is brilliant. Did anyone see the 100% ABBA show? Three people dressed vaguely as members of ABBA answering questions about ABBA. They were real ABBA experts and everything. Ah Channel 5, if only my reception of it were better...
>People die every day on Ulster news... ...people being kneecapped every other second.
Not quite. Okay, Northern Ireland isn't without problems but the news isn't all shootings and the like. When it happens, they report it, as do regional news progs everywhere, but it isn't particularly bad at the mo.
> When it happens, they report it, as do regional news progs everywhere, but it isn't particularly bad at the mo
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Hmmm.