A Thread for anticipating BBC Wednesday Morning

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That's tomorrow, folks.

Set dem vids! Program them DVD+R's. Or just plain get up in the morning!

You know you want to.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 06:25 (twenty years ago)

Tony Blair's last ever address to the TUC conference?

Hang on, that's today, isn't it?

Balamorey?

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 06:30 (twenty years ago)

Nudie Car Boot Sale with Anne Diamond.

― Why does my IQ changes? (noodle vague), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 07:42 (twenty years ago)

Is Banksy going to do some ~~corporate sponsored~~ 'guerilla art' on Dermot Murnaghan?

― Huey in Melbourne (Huey in Melbourne), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 07:55 (twenty years ago)

http://www.sexpistols.org/zboard/data/interview/interview_billgrundy.jpg

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 07:59 (twenty years ago)

Preview of this coming Friday's Newsnight Review featuring Ian McShane as "Marcello Carlin"?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 08:13 (twenty years ago)

(and of course I hope you'll all be watching me on ITV1 at 9:00 on Friday night before that...)

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 08:14 (twenty years ago)

Is it Bargain Hunt, featuring Mark Grout haggling over a chamber pot in a Berkshire flea-market?

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 08:16 (twenty years ago)

"200 quid for an old commode?"

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 08:17 (twenty years ago)

smoking in a tv studio? the rascals.

no, wait, is this the week that the Breakfast presenter hangs himself? i saw it on Time Trumpet but hadn't realised it was so soon.

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 08:18 (twenty years ago)

The return of the BBC's ratings stormer 'The Big Read', this time featuring Frankie-smasher and Betjeman-stalker Mike Read wolfing Mars bars in a bid to resusitate his flapping career?

― Huey in Melbourne (Huey in Melbourne), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 08:20 (twenty years ago)

I'm sure I saw Mike "Ready" Read standing at the bus stop at Clapham Junction last night.

Lena and I were sitting in the Carfax Chippy a couple of Friday afternoons ago and there was a Bargain Hunt-type programme playing on the TV (BBC1) at the time. L was in open-mouthed astonishment throughout (or as open-mouthed as you can be while tucking into large cod and chips), particularly at the sing-song voiceover and what she was voicing ("And they've MADE a CLEAR profit of TWO pounds!").

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 08:20 (twenty years ago)

Cheap as chips.

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 08:28 (twenty years ago)

What's happening? I'm confused? Is it worth getting a telly for? I might go round my neighbour's house if it's really RILLY BIG SHOE!!!

― Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 08:54 (twenty years ago)

WHAT DOES GROUT KNOW THAT WE DON'T OUR PATIENCE IS NOT ENDLESS: Simon Hoggart writes

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 09:01 (twenty years ago)

Kate has a neighbour with really big shoes?

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 09:12 (twenty years ago)

Tommorow on BBC1: Breakfast, To Buy or Not To Buy, City Hospital, Temper Your Temper (?), Bargain Hunt.

Tomorrow on BBC2: Tweenies, Our Planet, Underground Ernie, Me Too, Gordon the Graden Gnome, Big Cook, Little Cook, Pingu, Schools programmes, B&B the Best.

Is it someone ending up in hospital after losing their temper while trying to buy a Pingu at a bootsale?

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 09:12 (twenty years ago)

Are these lists a codified warning about the imminent end of the world?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 09:13 (twenty years ago)

No, it's definitely BBC1...

― Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 09:14 (twenty years ago)

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B0007CTKW0.02._SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg???

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 09:15 (twenty years ago)

Big Cook, Little Cook forget to clean up after themselves?

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 09:19 (twenty years ago)

Big Cook, Little Cook: The Dudley Moore Story

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 09:19 (twenty years ago)

Is the BBC2 schedule a Syd Barrett tribute?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 09:20 (twenty years ago)

No, he had his own house.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 09:23 (twenty years ago)

Bless This House starring Sid Barrett, I remember it well.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 09:26 (twenty years ago)

Sid James' "I've got a bike"

Who did that? Someone silly, I expect.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 09:27 (twenty years ago)

Sid James' son, as I recall.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 09:33 (twenty years ago)

To Buy or Not To Buy, City Hospital, a documentary about privatising the NHS.

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 09:36 (twenty years ago)

Are they going to Syd Barrett's house on To Buy or Not to Buy?

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 09:38 (twenty years ago)

Marc: I found it, it was "Fortran Five"...

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 09:40 (twenty years ago)

Gordon the Garden Gnome

Episode 497 of the daytime soap Downing Street in which Tony is convinced that his neighbour is spying on him from the shrubbery.

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 09:42 (twenty years ago)

Is Temper Your Temper like Father Dear Father?

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 10:24 (twenty years ago)

MORE WITH THE ANTICIPATING, PLEASE!!!

― Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 10:28 (twenty years ago)

mark thinks blair is going to stand down?

― a rapper singing about hos and bitches and money (Enrique), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 10:28 (twenty years ago)

Perhaps Blair is going to Have Fun Go Mad boom boom.

Fortran Five - which was still Steve James, son of Sid.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 10:30 (twenty years ago)

i knew it was fortran 5. christ, i'm sad. they used to be called "i start counting" and had two albums on mute befor ...

sorry, what? oh, tomorrow morning. i'll be in a hotel in peebles. TELL ME NOW WHAT IS HAPPENING so i can plan my full scottish breakfast around this televisual experience.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 10:30 (twenty years ago)

Apparently Tony Blair's making a lightning press visit to the town of Peebles tomorrow, to stock up on wool for the winter. He will be met by local celebrities including Deek Out Of River City.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 10:33 (twenty years ago)

Meet our new guitarist:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/695000/images/_695976_sblair.jpg

― Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 10:39 (twenty years ago)

i knew it was fortran 5. christ, i'm sad. they used to be called "i start counting" and had two albums on mute befor ...

...and then after that became Komputer innit?

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 11:03 (twenty years ago)

Some people are gonna be disappointed methinks.(if its what I think it is)

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 11:14 (twenty years ago)

:-(

― Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 11:18 (twenty years ago)

Temper Your Temper is a daytime programme about anger management, presented by Saira from series 1 of The Apprentice. I haven't seen it. Yet.

Your CLEAR PROFIT of TWO POUNDS thing is Car Booty. No other daytime programme would deal with margins that small, accompanied by a blurred, out-of-focus freeze-frame of some people attempting to shake hands.

I also haven't seen B&B The Best, but it appears to essentially be The Hotel Inspector fused with The Scottish One Off Dragon's Den Cusses Your Newsagent's Baaad multiplied by the worst title for a television programme since Now Is The Time: Night of Combat - Kickboxing.

Dear Santa, this Christmas I would like an area of expertise that isn't shit kthxbye.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 11:30 (twenty years ago)

The BBC is so excited about it I can't even pull up their listings for tomorrow. What the fuck is it?

― stet (stet), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 11:43 (twenty years ago)

No, it's not a fuck.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 11:49 (twenty years ago)

Is it the Last Trump being broadcast live from Daventry?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 11:50 (twenty years ago)

Sxpost
hame, that'd be better than the tat which will fill the schedules.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 11:50 (twenty years ago)

Is Saira actually earning more than Tim these days? That'd be lulz. Although Paul is a multibillionaire now, so that's OK.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 11:52 (twenty years ago)

No, it's not a fuck.
Does "What the fuck is it" somehow read to you as "is it a fuck"?

― stet (stet), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 12:04 (twenty years ago)

Sid James: Who's readin' the small print, darlin'? HWAHWAHWAHWAHWA!

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 12:07 (twenty years ago)

Tell me what it is or I'll smash your bleedin' face in.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 12:18 (twenty years ago)

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BBC Wednesday Morning!

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 06:14 (twenty years ago)

bbc wednesday morning! *bounce bounce*

actually i have discovered bbc wednesay morning is FUCKING INSANE:

we all want to buy houses but it's cheaper to rent oh noes
drugs are strengthening their grip on britain!
today it will be very muggy.
look, here are some cars!

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 06:27 (twenty years ago)

and their weatherdude is called everton fox.

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 06:33 (twenty years ago)

Was it on? I have to leave the house at 7.30am to do the school run, so I wasn't around to watch telly (and I forgot to set the CD-R). I are fool.

― C J (C J), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 06:35 (twenty years ago)

and is he? (I only dipped out of the today programme for the significant moment)

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 06:36 (twenty years ago)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/breakfast/5336220.stm

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 06:37 (twenty years ago)

Ooh, shall we bombard the Breakfast inbox with comments about how great Shimura Curves are?

― C J (C J), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 06:42 (twenty years ago)

I would like to see Suzy's appearance on News 24. Is it on You Tube?

Will whatever we are waiting for be on You Tube?

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 06:42 (twenty years ago)

Eventually, everything ends up on YouTube.

― C J (C J), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 06:46 (twenty years ago)

it will be on youtube. it will be on the bbc site too, check the link ed posted.

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 06:48 (twenty years ago)

But are the music industry's marketing men muscling in on the technology? We talked to the lead singer of the band Shimura Curves, which has four tracks on the website Myspace.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 07:14 (twenty years ago)

"lead singer" is kind of funny, but it's not like everyone involved in the band don't know what happens to facts in a 200-word blurb.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 07:18 (twenty years ago)

http://www.go-quick.com/pics/shimbbc.JPG

What the shims were up to, 08:39 this morning.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 07:36 (twenty years ago)

yeah totally, they asked amp if she was the lead singer and she explained how it works, but if you're the person writing that blurb for the bbc site, yeah, you cut it and also you want to make bbc look like it's got the lead singer so...

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 07:41 (twenty years ago)

I watched it! I'd had a very late night but I managed to sliver off the couch to turn the telly on in time. and the Curves were worth it.

Great stuff!

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 07:44 (twenty years ago)

And also, this:
http://www.go-quick.com/pics/shim2bbc.JPG

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 07:51 (twenty years ago)

http://www.koogy.clara.co.uk/photos/sc2.jpg

snap!

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 08:02 (twenty years ago)

Nice that Penn Gilette let Teller speak in the interview at the end!

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 08:51 (twenty years ago)

this was on just as i was waking up! surreal! but awesome!

― i am not a nugget (stevie), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 09:25 (twenty years ago)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYZrORXQ7kQ

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 09:28 (twenty years ago)

Fabulous!

― C J (C J), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 09:39 (twenty years ago)

Ha ha! I hope Anna's and my mums don't see us drinking! And Marianna's mum seeing her getting her breastuses grabbed by Hitchcock! Oh my! And Emsk... has TURNED INTO A GIANT CAT! OH NO!!!

This is the problem with MySpace now... even yr mum knows about it now.

― Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 09:40 (twenty years ago)

My ten year old daughter (along with every other school-age child in the country, I think) is on bebo, the kids' version of MySpace. She started to explain to me what this was, and was truly horrified that I knew all about it because I had MySpace mates of my own. BUT MUM! HOW DO YOU KNOW ABOUT MYSPACE?? THAT STUFF IS NOT FOR MUMMIES! she yelled at me,

― C J (C J), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 09:49 (twenty years ago)

I'd have watched this if Grout had fuggin' told it what it was we were supposed to be watching, I was watching a crappy episode of "Will and Grace" instead!

― Tad Sneery (Dada), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 09:49 (twenty years ago)

xp ROFL

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 09:50 (twenty years ago)

Well, that's what happens if you're too busy cracking your own in-jokes to listen to what people are telling you!

― Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 09:51 (twenty years ago)

And is Will and Grace on the BBC, Wednesday morning? ITN! (that's "I think not" )

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 09:52 (twenty years ago)

Nobody was tellin' me nuttin' in this thread 'til about 2/3 of the way down by which time I'd stopped reading

― Tad Sneery (Dada), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 09:53 (twenty years ago)

Well, blame the chattering asses, not us. We did tell you it would be exciting...

― Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 09:56 (twenty years ago)

Plus YouTube doesn't seem to work on this 'puter

― Tad Sneery (Dada), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 09:58 (twenty years ago)

Always a bit disappointing to see people touting a "Web 2.0" spin though - the things people do to get on TV.

― Bob Six (bobbysix), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 10:01 (twenty years ago)

Well done, you four, you looked good. I am glad they got a bit of guitar freakout in.

And well done Ed for getting the video up so quickly.

I like the way the male presenter sort of leaned back in an "I noramlly wear a leather bomber jacket" kind of way before the report started.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 10:04 (twenty years ago)

Everyone's is off. Mine, yours, Lily Allen's...

and this place is coughing a bit too...

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 10:33 (twenty years ago)

My personal one is just fine.

― Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 10:36 (twenty years ago)

Good thing we didn't mention ILX, huh? ;-)

― Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 10:36 (twenty years ago)

Well, I don't know about you, but the watercooler thread is a nogo 4 me now.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 10:45 (twenty years ago)

How weird, it doesn't seem to want to let me post.

People hate teh cooler. :-(

― Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 10:51 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, MySpace seems to be generally broken today. What have you done, Kate?

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 10:55 (twenty years ago)

It was teh BBC!!! Blame them!

(Mine is still working perfectly.)

― Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 10:56 (twenty years ago)

Though it would be very funny if we broke MySpace after talking about how good it had been to us.

― Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 10:56 (twenty years ago)

Seems it's back on.

Who's Brian?

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 11:05 (twenty years ago)

I'm Brian, and so is my wife!

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 11:07 (twenty years ago)

i nashed off to peebles shortly after posting on this thread yesterday, so had genuinely forgotten all about BBC1/wednesday morning/something happening.

so, lying in bed dozing with the telly on at 7.40 or thereabouts, i was surprised when my sleepy brane recognised a melody i'd once heard on myspace.

a couple of seconds later, my excitable cry of "fuck me, it's ... thing ... that ILX band ... elliptical wotsits" woke not only mrs fiendish but the whole fucking hotel.

am i the only one to notice that the close-up of miss amp's myspace profile contained the words "disgustingly underage"? do i get a prize?

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 20:10 (twenty years ago)

ah: i get a booby prize for not reading the shimura curves thread before posting here.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 20:42 (twenty years ago)

I noticed that Konal Dodds was almost on national television, albeit in thumbnail format, assuming it is the same Steve M.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Thursday, 14 September 2006 06:11 (twenty years ago)

(isn't)

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 14 September 2006 06:50 (twenty years ago)

Oh, never mind then.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Thursday, 14 September 2006 06:57 (twenty years ago)

I have been on Top Of The Pops and Glastonbury coverage tho - just not performing.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 14 September 2006 09:03 (twenty years ago)

Yes, apparently it has since been removed from her MySpace since she got (even more than usual) all these 16 year old boys trying to friend her.

;-)

― Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Thursday, 14 September 2006 09:16 (twenty years ago)

But now it's been broadcast on the beeb, they will again!

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 14 September 2006 09:36 (twenty years ago)

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