Perry

Surely the '89 version loses points for featuring Cliff Richard

5 hours ago, Just Some Guy said:

Loved it when Viz published a picture of Lynne Perrie holding a leg of lamb with the headline, "Win Don Brennan's leg"

Fantastic  stuff

When watching Classic Corrie you forget just how good the Don Brennan character was. Loved how they slowly turned him from babyface to a full on heel. 

Speaking of Classic Corrie, Les Battersby will arrive within the next couple of weeks.  

5 minutes ago, Briefcase said:

Quite enjoying this Ian Beale storyline atm. 

I am hoping its the Covid that kills him in the end though especially as no one is wearing masks on the show. 

EastEnders had been making more of an effort to get the actors closer to each other with plexiglass etc.  It sticks out something terrible when the "couples" are still keeping their distance in their own homes. 

I know the soaps have a habit of stealing storylines from each other, but EastEnders and Corrie are practically running the same story leading into Christmas. EastEnders has "Who left Ian Beale for dead?" and Corrie has "Who left Adam Barlow for dead?" Both attacks were very similar too.  I know they've had their work cut out because of Covid restrictions, but that takes the piss.

Vince held Owen hostage for 18 months, according to Bret. 

1993 should've been one hell of a year for Bret if the rumours were true. They apparently wanted the Warrior to lose to him via the sharpshooter at the Rumble and then he was originally meant to regain his title back from Hogan at SummerSlam.  Instead 1993 became the year when you first noticed how thread bare the roster had become. By the time they got to Survivor Series it looked awful. Looking back, the New Generation era was pretty shit.

4 hours ago, Keith Houchen said:

Yeah. Fuck those Talking head shit shows. They’re all scripted anyway so better to watch the thing they’re pretending to have watched. 

They were fine until Channel 5 went overboard with the format 

Has Triple H ever really been 100% babyface though? His behaviour was still a bit cuntish

2 hours ago, Bicurious Dad said:

Comic Strip didn’t have the cultural impact people who love it think it did, launched some careers but most were already known or started on the Young Ones. It was very good, but it’s never the top of the list of things the main cast are remembered for now.

The 80s one will be a bit crap anyway, 60 minutes on Countdown and The Tube, maybe 15 to 1 if they can be bothered. Could pad it out with Desmonds but that just crept in at the end of the 80s, most of its run was in the 90s.

I'd assume Saturday Live would feature heavily in the 80s episode

1 minute ago, King Coconut said:

In fairness, Lenny Henry is a bigger 80s icon than all of those except maybe Vivien, who is a character.

Just seemed an odd choice as Lenny was always a BBC guy during the 80s.

1 hour ago, Keith Houchen said:

Racist. 

No racist here bud, infact the 'Dark Destroyer' is my favourite chaser 

49 minutes ago, King Coconut said:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0544880/characters/nm0377901

I forgot that Lenny had appeared in an episode. Although I was thinking more along the lines of Ade, Alexei or Keith Allen

As an active wrestler without any breaks, who had the longest run in WWE as a heel ?  I was thinking Ted DiBiase?

Sunday 27th Dec  9.00pm Back to the 80s with Lenny Henry

Monday 28th Dec 9.00pm Back to the 90s with Vic Reeves

Tuesday 29th Dec 10.00pm Back to the Noughties with Davina McCall

Wednesday 30th Dec 10.00pm Back to the 2010's with Jimmy Carr

All decades will be focused on Channel 4 programmes from the past. Sounds pretty decent. Although they should've had someone from The Comic Strip Presents to host the 80s show.

Fox and SYFY tend to purchase the rights to shows that's been cancellled in the states. The only decent show I can remember seeing on the Fox channel was Wolf Creek.

Might be a good idea to keep a couple of new box sets back to binge over the festive period after seeing how dire the Christmas schedules are  

If you can't wait the full series is already available in the usual places as it's just finished airing in the US

When she joined EastEnders most of the cast expected her to act like a right diva, apparently she was just the opposite.

It's the same over on Digital Spy, you get the odd poster that spits their dummy out because nobody backed up their point. They usually pop back up a week later when someone talks shit about them. JRPO is obviously reading these posts now but trying to save face by not logging back in.

I like Liza and I enjoy most of the panel shows, but Comedy Game Night is utter shite 

9 hours ago, PowerButchi said:

So, the Christmas Radio Times is out. as expected I shall only be watching ITV3 on Xmas Day, other than a quick jump to BBC2 for Morecambe and Wise. No Bond film again this year either, fucks sakes.

With the passing of Sean this year I thought ITV would've went back to tradition and aired a classic Bond movie on Christmas Day. Instead there's a pre recorded episode of This Morning and more cooking shite with James Martin taking up around 5 hours combined.

44 minutes ago, Devon Malcolm said:

Thanks, Mab.

No bother. Enjoy  

On 12/3/2020 at 8:54 PM, Cod Eye said:

Any chance of getting HBO Max over here?

 

It would surprise me if we get the full HBO Max service in the UK anytime soon because of their agreement with Sky. Although most of the programming will probably end up on either Sky Atlantic or Sky Comedy. For example Sky has just purchased the rights for The Fresh Prince to air on Sky Comedy from January and it includes the Reunion show that's available on Max. Although it seems odd why Sky splashed the cash on The Fresh Prince knowing that the BBC was going to add the full boxset to the iPlayer from January also.

Porridge 5:30pm BBC Two.   Nuff said