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Brass Eye: here comes controversy again...

  
 
Not Here Still
16:30 / 31.01.02
Bet my ass this is in the Daily Mail tomorrow.

1: The paedo special won a Broadcast magazine comedy award

plus

2: Two MPs have had their complaint against the show rejected.

Cue frothing at the mouth style controversy...

[plus pictures of Beatrice and Eugenie in bikinis on page eight, or Charlotte Churches' tits if you're the Daily Star]


Edited because I can't link. Which raises the prospect my new blog is wrong, too. Fuckery.]

[ 03-02-2002: Message edited by: Not Me Again ]
 
 
Our Lady of The Two Towers
12:48 / 01.02.02
Good news. A victory for common sense.
 
 
Rev. Wright
13:31 / 01.02.02
CHRIS MORRIS FOR MINISTER OF ARTS
WILL SELF FOR PRIME MINISTER
 
 
ghadis
14:13 / 01.02.02
AND PETER COOK FOR HOME SECRETARY

(but like...a dead one y'know)
 
 
T*M*U*M*A
16:23 / 01.02.02
the paedo special was one of the funniest things i had seen in one hell of a long time..

i also really enjoyed the reruns of the other brass eye episodes..

hell, i even love the creaky old day today repeats..

i second will:

quote: Will 'it work' Wright-
"CHRIS MORRIS FOR MINISTER OF ARTS
WILL SELF FOR PRIME MINISTER"
 
 
Good Antlerhead
16:44 / 01.02.02
Am I the only American in the world that knows of/likes Chris Morris? Last year I lived across the hall from a London exchange student who was obsessed with the guy and would constantly be playing his stuff for me. Have to say I was duly impressed, especially by the Pedophile episode of Brass EYe which I saw on RealVideo... anybody know any good sites where I can download more of the stuff?
 
 
Spatula Clarke
17:36 / 01.02.02
You can download all of his Blue Jam radio shows here.
 
 
Tits win
19:44 / 01.02.02
This is brilliant! Thank you SO much.
 
 
Spatula Clarke
19:49 / 01.02.02
(Loz, that first link takes me to the news that Stephen King is going to retire.)
 
 
Our Lady of The Two Towers
21:38 / 01.02.02
What? Me? Link? Do you mean Not Me Again?
 
 
Spatula Clarke
09:04 / 03.02.02
Oop. Sorry.
 
 
Not Here Still
09:52 / 21.04.02
Well I'll try and get it right this time. Here we go YET again...
 
 
Elijah, Freelance Rabbi
12:03 / 21.04.02
was all british tv actually made 10 years ago, or does it all just look that way?
 
 
Eloi Tsabaoth
13:45 / 21.04.02
Around the same time as the property boom there was a glut in the creation of television programming and what was made was totally out of proportion with the actual room in the schedule. In 1989 the government imposed a ban on all new productions until the backlog was worked off. Since then it's been all repeats.
Even the news.
 
 
Elijah, Freelance Rabbi
15:27 / 21.04.02
I KNEW IT
 
 
Utopia
15:50 / 21.04.02
it always seems like brit tv is far better than us tv. anyone here spend enough time in the us & eng to accurately compare the two?
 
 
CameronStewart
19:55 / 21.04.02
I have. Though British television certainly has more than its share of rubbish, by and large UK-produced tv is far more challenging and original than US tv.

There is NOTHING on American TV that even comes close to what Chris Morris does.
 
 
Cat Chant
14:55 / 23.04.02
was all british tv actually made 10 years ago, or does it all just look that way?

sniff... that's the nicest thing anyone's ever said about Blake's 7...
 
 
solid~liquid onwards
15:39 / 23.04.02
mmmmm leuge of gentlemen

possibly the best thing that has ever been on TV...after beachcomber bay that is
 
 
sleazenation
15:48 / 23.04.02
was all british tv actually made 10 years ago, or does it all just look that way?

sniff... that's the nicest thing anyone's ever said about Blake's 7...
sttab



sad to say it but Blakes7 is actually now 20 years old...
 
 
Cat Chant
19:31 / 23.04.02
Getting on for 25 - but apparently it looks 10 years old, and couldn't be served if it wanted to buy some fags!

(actually it probably looked 10 years old 25 years ago. Oh well.)
 
 
Utopia
19:47 / 23.04.02
what are the production dates of the Dr. Who series? sorry to derail the thread, but it comes on in the US at weird times on public television. i can't seem to get a feel for when it was made. i believe it was imported from an alternate universe where video was discovereed and widely used as far back as the 60's (hence the low, low image quality).
 
 
sleazenation
20:03 / 23.04.02
doctor who ran from 1963-1989 with a tv movie in 1995...
 
 
Utopia
20:19 / 23.04.02
holy shit! i assumed late 60's to early 80's (maybe those are just the episodes i saw...).
 
 
Mourne Kransky
20:42 / 23.04.02
U>S> tv has so many adverts. Some good stuff on our screens comes from over the pond though. You never have had Blake's 7 though. Nor Dr Who I gather. But we have lots of shite tv too, oh yes.
 
  
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