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Or whatever the phrase is. Smart people on TV! Anyway, this looks quite good I think, despite this bit: 'The producer had to explain to Germaine Greer that the viewers did not necessarily know what a misogynist is.' The Gorbachev one appeals most to me.

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,1456182,00.html

beanz (beanz), Monday, 11 April 2005 08:48 (twenty years ago)

channel five is the best UK channel easy bcz they just have SO MUCH FUN being playful with their remit, seein what they can get away with!! (eg usin a faux-crappy doc abt ATLANTIS and HITLER as a pretext to snag a talkin head w.harvard philosophy and nietzsche scholar professor alexander nehemas)

mark s (mark s), Monday, 11 April 2005 08:58 (twenty years ago)

I agree with mark.

cozen (Cozen), Monday, 11 April 2005 09:01 (twenty years ago)

USE OTHER IDEAS PLEASE OBserver. Ch Ch Five have been doing these kind of programmes for years, their arts output is consistently good and the recent Pevsner series was tremendous.Admittedly Five are flinging stuff to the wall in the 7-8 O'Clock area where they cannot compete with the soaps, so really this is not bold programming at all, but as Mark sez above, the programmes often don't need to be as good as they are.

Pete (Pete), Monday, 11 April 2005 09:12 (twenty years ago)

I'd quite like to see an olden-days type programme for Intellectuals where someone delivers a lecture direct to camera without reconstructions, scary music to accompany baddies etc. Obviously that's a total waste of the medium but maybe there's a happy... er... medium. (sorry)

You're right about the Observer, Pete, it is just a rehashed press release. But C5 does still have the worst public image of the terrestrial channels, even worse than ITV which I think deserves it more, and maybe this will help. Unless they turn the Gorbachev programme into "The Mystery of Stalin's Brain" or similar.

beanz (beanz), Monday, 11 April 2005 09:30 (twenty years ago)

I would be extremely happy to do a series of lectures direct to camera on Channel 5.

Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 11 April 2005 09:32 (twenty years ago)

The Mystery Of Stalin's Brain sounds great (I don't think one of the nice thing about a lot of fives dovumentary output is that it can trick people occaisonlly ito watching something they would never watch if it had been given a more staid title).

Pete (Pete), Monday, 11 April 2005 09:40 (twenty years ago)

speaking of talking directly to camera: matthew c0llins appears to aged abt 15 years overnight... wzup w.dat?

mark s (mark s), Monday, 11 April 2005 09:44 (twenty years ago)

I'm fooling no-one - I'd watch the Mystery of Stalin's Brain any day. xpost

beanz (beanz), Monday, 11 April 2005 09:45 (twenty years ago)

I'm much nicer to look at than Stalin's brain.

Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 11 April 2005 09:48 (twenty years ago)

I'd watch you any day too. I would. What are you going to talk about?

beanz (beanz), Monday, 11 April 2005 09:50 (twenty years ago)

Why Nick Hornby is the End of History, and the Embrace Between Lol Coxhill's Soprano Mouthpiece and Lynsey De Paul's Mole Represents the Timescale Kink We Did Not Anticipate

Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 11 April 2005 09:52 (twenty years ago)

Alternatively: Why Camilla Is Way Hotter Than Diana

Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 11 April 2005 09:53 (twenty years ago)

that goes on bbc one! (but you have to sit next to piers morg4n)

mark s (mark s), Monday, 11 April 2005 09:57 (twenty years ago)

can't i sit on amanda platell instead?

Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 11 April 2005 10:10 (twenty years ago)

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EW, Monday, 11 April 2005 10:12 (twenty years ago)

HELP! IT'S THE GHOST OF ERNIE WISE!

Now - "The Mystery of Ernie Wise's Brain" - there'd be a programme for you.

Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 11 April 2005 10:18 (twenty years ago)

hopefully The Mystery Of Stalin's Brain will reveal that it was actually being controlled by a small cat sitting within it surrounded by strings and pulleys.

The one about Einstein's brain was good.

$V£N! (blueski), Monday, 11 April 2005 10:30 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...
(search is buggered at the mo, google search for channel 5 turns up this, which will have to do)

so, anyway, the two new channel 5 things, US and Live. anything worth catching on them?

i did see Nightmares And Dreamscapes which was great, like the new Outer Limits from a few years ago albeit with all the stories written by Stephen King. first one was the green army men taking revenge for their murdered toy store owner...

(oh, and the scriptwriter's father wrote I Am Legend and The Incredible Shrinking Man and the 20,000 ft episode of the Twilight Zone, thought i recognised the name)

Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Thursday, 19 October 2006 12:49 (nineteen years ago)

Happy Days, every day double bill at 5pm! fucking get in.

not caught the N&D thing yet. lots of csi, some us sports. a few decent movies too.

overall, better than most of the other digital free channel offerings.

Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 19 October 2006 12:51 (nineteen years ago)

Why don't they put Happy Days double bills on every day at 8 pm on Channel 4? It would be better than My Dog Pissed In Your Tuscany Kitchen or whatever rubbish they stick on at that time.

Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 19 October 2006 12:55 (nineteen years ago)

My Dog Pissed In Your Tuscany Kitchen

Genius!

The Real Esteban Buttez (EstieButtez1), Thursday, 19 October 2006 12:56 (nineteen years ago)

> some us sports

yes, nice to be able to watch Bob skate whilst eating my tea. nothing i hadn't already seen via the miracle of video tape but...

however, they really do need to get rid of the american accented woman who does the announcements. what weird-ass american accent is that anyway?

Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Thursday, 19 October 2006 13:30 (nineteen years ago)

i like it when koogs says 'weird-ass'

;_; (blueski), Thursday, 19 October 2006 13:32 (nineteen years ago)

MORE LATE NIGHT BIG CASH PHONE-INS JUST WHAT WE FUCKING NEED.

chap who would dare to welcome our new stingray masters (chap), Thursday, 19 October 2006 13:33 (nineteen years ago)

but it doesn't have those!

Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 19 October 2006 13:37 (nineteen years ago)

The new channels both do, 1-5 AM.

chap who would dare to welcome our new stingray masters (chap), Thursday, 19 October 2006 13:39 (nineteen years ago)

I watched the US one "launch". I look forward to that little twat crossing America between programmes.

I wish Happy Days was on at 8 o'clock too. I don't know how it got lumbered with 5 o'clock in the first place.

If it was on at 8 o'clock I would think it was shit, but at least it wouldn't be Friends.

I have not seen any 5 Life, but Film 4 has changed channel numbers.

I am getting Four Weddings and Notting Hill withdrawal symptoms.

Last night there was something about Fela Kuti on. I don't think I had ever seen him in action before.

PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Thursday, 19 October 2006 13:43 (nineteen years ago)

The new channels both do, 1-5 AM.

oh right, for some reason (i wonder) they're not showing it on their web site tv listings page.

Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 19 October 2006 13:47 (nineteen years ago)

and the award for 'worst depiction of Crouch End in a television serial goes to...' Nightmares And Dreamscapes.

seriously, putting a few pillar boxes, and a few 'coppers' in the background (and a generic football mug in the police station) doesn't mean it looks like crouch end especially if all the houses are wooden and all the taxis in the background are yellow.

(although they were all driving on the left. which i think they may have done by reversing the film - he wrote down an address left-handed and it looked really odd)

(pjm, the fela kuti thing was African Rock And Roll Years (part 3) on bbc4. is on again tonight i think)

Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 08:13 (nineteen years ago)

I saw the second half of that Crouch End thing and it was absolutely terrible, though it was amusing spotting all the ways that their setting totally failed to resemble actual Crouch End.

I am pleased to see that C5 has now returned to its p0rn roots with 4 episodes/week of "make me a supermodel" - aka "make me watch hot jailbait cavorting round in their underwear"

Mark Co (Markco), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 08:18 (nineteen years ago)

a whole channel of CSI!

i hope they get 'the shield part the sixth' quickly.

benrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 08:19 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks, Koogy. I think I will be home too late tonight though.

PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 08:20 (nineteen years ago)

(there is a late, late repeat)

Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 08:32 (nineteen years ago)

also, the cthulu thing in the Crouch End show, seemed shoe-horned in badly. and the filter on the lens.

liked the Arts bloke's show about the Tate slides though.

Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Thursday, 26 October 2006 15:44 (nineteen years ago)

the five US website plays Bonnie Prince Billy (i think?).

http://www.five.tv/us/

jed_ (jed), Thursday, 26 October 2006 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

Nope: Sufjan Stevens.

Pete (Pete), Thursday, 26 October 2006 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

eleven years pass...

https://www.whatsontv.co.uk/events/hitlers-holocaust-railways-chris-tarrant-channel-5-28-oct-18/

Alma Kirby (Tom D.), Wednesday, 24 October 2018 09:37 (seven years ago)

oh so we're just straight-up commissioning tvgohome stuff now huh

psyched for the premiere episode of mick hucknall's pink pancakes

i’ll hufflepuff i’ll blow you away (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 24 October 2018 09:47 (seven years ago)

The shocking conclusion to this film is that without railways there would have been no war and no Holocaust.

big road is really pulling out all the stops huh

imago, Wednesday, 24 October 2018 09:52 (seven years ago)

spoiler alert ffs

i’ll hufflepuff i’ll blow you away (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 24 October 2018 09:54 (seven years ago)

when Ben Carson speaks, ch5/Chris Tarrant intently listen..

calzino, Wednesday, 24 October 2018 10:01 (seven years ago)

http://www.bluefeathersonfire.co.uk/Christ%20Tarrant.jpg

Alma Kirby (Tom D.), Wednesday, 24 October 2018 10:04 (seven years ago)

Hitler plus trains ticks so many Yesterday documentary boxes

well, it ticks two of them, but there are only about four

the Warnock of Clodhop Mountain (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 24 October 2018 11:33 (seven years ago)

Tarrant is Channel 5's resident railways man, he's done 4 seasons of Extreme Railways now.

Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Wednesday, 24 October 2018 11:39 (seven years ago)

if you thought his railways were extreme before, wait till you get a load of this

i’ll hufflepuff i’ll blow you away (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 24 October 2018 11:48 (seven years ago)

if only there could have been more localised barbarity instead of it being concentrated in remote killing centres, those damned trains!

calzino, Wednesday, 24 October 2018 11:55 (seven years ago)

although it is widely accepted many Hungarian Jews could have been save if allied forces had bombed the railway lines to Auschwitz.

calzino, Wednesday, 24 October 2018 11:57 (seven years ago)

saved

calzino, Wednesday, 24 October 2018 11:58 (seven years ago)


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