Onyx2

Lovely bit of advertising.

We were only metres apart at Wembley but couldn't make it happen! I blame Tony Khan. I've been lucky enough to meet so many members in person, let's see who I can recall: @JNLister @Midnight Zeus @CracktonMoj @$tew @PunkStep @Carbomb @Spatular @johnnyboy @The Dart @bobbins @Hannibal Scorch @Weezenal whatever Ralphy is calling himself these days. Probably missed a handful for which I'll get slated for. And exchanged DMs and WhatsApps with dozens of others. It's an odd little place that I've left for months at a time but when I get back it's never changed.

You can see why Petts and Gamble do escape rooms together. They must be scary. Not quite digging this series yet. Not bad but we've had several amazing runs and this isn't quite hitting. Adoyade 'in character' hits the wrong note. Tapings for Taskmaster S23 happened this week. My opinion on the lineup

Surely everyone gets one, and you feed off the head in front of you? Won't someone think of the poor front row! (horrible sentence)

Some bloke (are you here?) has essentially taken a couple of bits from this thread and made a YouTube video about it I kinda wished he'd asked for more detail because there's more could be fleshed out with regards to artwork, exclusives, Mega Mail, the EU magazine discs, input into the schedule etc. Then he could've got over the 8 minute mark and earned proper money from it. Oh well.

The excellent Kim Justice has released a compilation of their other GTA videos into a 3 hour epic. An excellent one to have in the background while you 'work'.

I used this just today?

She's on the escape room programme The Way Out where she's great. On the channel formerly known as Dave. She and Ed Gamble are best mates and do escape rooms a lot, and the pair of them get mega competitive. David O'Doherty... less so.

The indomitable Atomic Shrimp tackles everyway to cook a Fray Bentos pie. An #EATCLEAN staple. Tremendous way to spend two hours.

Not feeling great about mentioning it however: comedian outed as a paedophile Chris Langham died in June but his death has only just been announced (probably for the best). Worked for Spike Milligan, wrote for The Muppet Show, Not The Nine O'clock News, Life of Brian, millions of other things and of course Thick of It. What a way to throw away a brilliant career.

Jericho being in an AEW Hall of Fame before WWE's is hilarious to me.

Is it to force everyone to try and look in that direction, and it looks better on camera? (I don't agree with the idea, just thinking).

A very good show and not plagued by the things that usually bother me about AEW booking (repetition of spots throughout a show, poor pacing). I was on the floor in ZA, which was pretty poor for viewing - no visibility of entrances, some sight of the Ring but better to watch the screens, plus getting rained on three times! - though the atmosphere was good. My immediate neighbours were sound, but the guys in front smoking weed unadmonished by stewards despite them telling people off for standing up did their best to ruin the mood. I did manage to rush forward at the very end to be a few metres from the front row at Will's celebration. Actual show content was good to great. The triple threat exceeded my expectations and would've been match of the night had the main event not delivered, which it did in spades. I worried Omega and Ospreay would play finisher spam and endless kick outs for head drops but they built to it so well I went with it. Great to see Will claim the asterisked first Briton to win a major title on British soil. A million miles from first watching him at the Methodist Church hall in 2015. Even then he oozed star quality. I think it needs to dial back for the next London show (not including Dynamite). The O2 on a Wednesday for a TV taping is a bold choice, we'll see how it pans out. If I was AEW I'd be schtum until February's done to protect sales.

For Bear giver uppers, do watch one off episode 'Gary' which is standalonish. Lots of Bernthal. https://www.disneyplus.com/browse/entity-a28327ab-0812-4da4-ad69-63844e206092