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Unread postby Kalah » 26 Oct 2008, 21:56

I got this huge flashback to the "Yes, Prime Minister" show a couple of days ago, when this happened:

I was looking through a file at the Dept. for Foreign Affairs, and it took me about half an hour. The 200 first pages seemed relatively irrelevant to my thesis. Then I came to the penultimate page. It turned out to be of critical importance...

If you've never seen the show, you won't know that this is the way Humphrey used to hide information from the minister; at the bottom of the pile in the middle of something unimportant would be an important document...
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Unread postby Kalah » 28 Oct 2008, 15:39

Just zapped by the show "8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter", and regular Katey Sagal had a visit from an old boyfriend. Guess who was playing the old boyfriend? Ed O'Neill! The Bundys are back!:-D
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Unread postby Angelspit » 28 Oct 2008, 16:05

While the US shows are taking a break, I watch an old local TV series from the 80s, in French, and laugh at how ridiculous it looks today. Bad acting, especially with children, clothes that didn't age very well, annoying music, overacting during dramatic scenes...

Video On Demand is quite handy though. No disk to insert, just sit down and use the on-screen menu. I like it.
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Unread postby Kalah » 28 Oct 2008, 17:20

There was this French show on TV in Norway some years ago too; "Helene and the guys" or something, about college guys and girls and love and intrigues and you know the story. Man, the acting was bad there too...
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Unread postby Milla aka. the Slayer » 28 Oct 2008, 21:23

I used to watch "8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter". I quite liked it. But then as usual, TV3 had a soccer craze and when they finally aired the show again, all of a sudden the father had died. At least I believe it was him... ;| What was that about?

I'm rewatching Roswell these days. I can't really seem to figure out why. I must be in need of some lame teen flickish injections...*sigh*
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Unread postby Asheera » 28 Oct 2008, 21:25

New season of Supernatural started a while back... pretty creepy and interesting show I must say :)
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Unread postby Borsuc » 28 Oct 2008, 22:33

Yeah I know I watched it from episode 1 (this season I mean) :devious:
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Unread postby Angelspit » 28 Oct 2008, 22:42

Milla aka. the Slayer wrote:I used to watch "8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter". I quite liked it. But then as usual, TV3 had a soccer craze and when they finally aired the show again, all of a sudden the father had died. At least I believe it was him... ;| What was that about?
John Ritter died in 2003 of a heart failure or something. They kept running the show for a while, incorporating the death of Ritter in the story.
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Unread postby Milla aka. the Slayer » 28 Oct 2008, 23:05

Wow, that's so sad. I thought it was just the regular story. You know, the actor didn't want to be a part of the show anymore -story.
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Unread postby Kalah » 29 Oct 2008, 08:32

The "soap opera" way? ;) No, I also think it's sad when people really die, but then it's up the the producers of a show to incorporate the character's disappearance. They did it really well with Ritter, but I was incredibly frustrated with the way John Wells handled the death of John Spencer (Leo McGarry) in "The West Wing". Sucked.
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Unread postby Milla aka. the Slayer » 29 Oct 2008, 10:41

Yeah, the soap opera way :)
I'm watching a bit of Heroes of one of the Norwegian channels, but it's not the kind of show that you can just enter at a random point. Seems to me that you have to have seen it from the start...
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Unread postby Angelspit » 30 Oct 2008, 13:42

Not a lot of Whovians here, but I just have to share the news: David Tennant will leave Doctor Who after the specials next year. So we'll get to see the eleventh Doctor in less than two years. Wow.
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Unread postby Kalah » 30 Oct 2008, 14:33

That's pretty strange. Who was it before Tennant? That Ecclestone chap? Why are they all leaving? Piper left as well, since she got a bit tired of it all.
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Unread postby Angelspit » 30 Oct 2008, 14:46

Eccleston was indeed Doctor #9. David Morrissey is supposed to play a future Doctor in the upcoming Christmas special, so maybe he will become the 11th Doctor.

Piper came back briefly during series #4. These days she's taking care of her new baby and starring in Diary of a Call Girl. :-D (couldn't find the drooling smiley, so that one will do as well)
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Unread postby darknessfood » 30 Oct 2008, 23:41

Anybody seen the new South Park?Man it's So freaking weird, and funny!!!
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Unread postby Avonu » 31 Oct 2008, 15:00

Watched some random ST:Voyager episodes recently. These with Qs were good laugh.


Also Rome and Terminator:SCC in TV (and some other serials reruns).
One question about Terminator first episodes: How cloths from two guys was enough to fully dress one man and two women? Or I missed something?
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Unread postby Angelspit » 31 Oct 2008, 16:07

Avonu wrote:How cloths from two guys was enough to fully dress one man and two women? Or I missed something?
Thanks to television magic. You'll see that writers don't bother much about money, housing, school registration and other trivial matters in that show. It would just slow down the plot.
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Unread postby ThunderTitan » 24 Nov 2008, 08:04

No one else watching The Shield?! Coz that confession for immunity scene was intense...
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Unread postby theLuckyDragon » 24 Nov 2008, 08:13

No, but the bowel-gas-on-fire scene in that House MD episode was hilarious.
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Unread postby Ethric » 01 Dec 2008, 20:29

The end of ST: Enterprise season 3 has to be one of the most epic season cliffhangers ever written.

I can imagine the brainstorm... what hasn't already been done to death... TIMETRAVELLING NAZI ALIENS, that's what! :D "Let's go for broke.", like Bakula says in the season interview :)
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