What have you been watching on (proper scripted) telly?

[King Pitcos]

Yeah it was, I just never assumed I would randomly shout out 'Garrett Morris'

You didn't.

[Fox Piss]

I watched the first episode of 2 Broke Girls back when it was promoted and it was shit. Can't believe Kat Dennings had to drop to that level but it did get the biggest ratings of all the new shows at the time.

 

Just watching HBOs "Girls." A bit of a dull How to make it in America but with women. Judd Aptlow(?) produced it though so it's quite well hyped.

[Halitosis Romantic]

Yeah it was, I just never assumed I would randomly shout out 'Garrett Morris'

You didn't.

 

CHARLES ROCKET!

[Retro Red]

I watched the first episode of 2 Broke Girls back when it was promoted and it was shit. Can't believe Kat Dennings had to drop to that level but it did get the biggest ratings of all the new shows at the time.

 

Just watching HBOs "Girls." A bit of a dull How to make it in America but with women. Judd Aptlow(?) produced it though so it's quite well hyped.

 

Kat Dennings is just lovely, but even she couldnt' convince me to watch this trash. She was by far the best things about Thor.

[gmoney]

JOE PISCOPO

[iamtheman]

echo the kat dennings love. i did laugh a couple of times during the pilot and i will keep watching.

 

mainly for kat dennings though

Edited April 26, 2012 by iamtheman

[Sergio Bellend]

I'm sticking with Luck till the end, dunno why as it's been axed and it's not exactly tremendous, but anyway, is it me or does Escalante seem like he could play the stereotypical 'anti-American hispanic heel' character in WWE or TNA? He's just got the right mannerisms and that for it.

 

Oh and that one bloke who plays the angry ex-jockey is a terrible actor.

[BiffingtonClyro]

Just watched Louis Theroux's documentary about dementia. Another fine piece of work from the man. He can do no wrong in my book. This was very different from his other stuff as there wasn't a hint of anyone in it doing anything wrong, there was no agenda. It was just straight up showing you the horrible effects of a really cruel disease. Compelling and sad stuff. In a completely different direction, Louis' next documentary will air in June and it is a follow up of the pornography one he did about eleven years ago. I'm really looking forward to the second installment as the original is a favourite of mine along with the Survivalist doc. I can't wait to see what JJ Michaels is up to nowadays!

[Fox Piss]

Biff Louis has a book out where he revisits loads of past people from his docs. Well worth checking out as he meets JJ and one the men from the Survival ep.

[BiffingtonClyro]

Biff Louis has a book out where he revisits loads of past people from his docs. Well worth checking out as he meets JJ and one the men from the Survival ep.

 

Wow, I didn't actually know that. I've just looked at the synopsis and it seems like a very interesting read. I shall hopefully pick up a copy in toon tomorrow! Thanks for the heads up!

[Astro Hollywood]

Just watched Louis Theroux's documentary about dementia. Another fine piece of work from the man. He can do no wrong in my book. This was very different from his other stuff as there wasn't a hint of anyone in it doing anything wrong, there was no agenda. It was just straight up showing you the horrible effects of a really cruel disease. Compelling and sad stuff. In a completely different direction, Louis' next documentary will air in June and it is a follow up of the pornography one he did about eleven years ago. I'm really looking forward to the second installment as the original is a favourite of mine along with the Survivalist doc. I can't wait to see what JJ Michaels is up to nowadays!

 

Every time he announces a new one, I'm all "Man, I wish Louis would go and do a silly doc like the old days, instead of all this serious stuff!" but he's really become an exceptional filmmaker. Tonight's was completely devastating. It's awesome that his stuff is on the BBC, but I'd love to see what the 2012 Louis Theroux could do with a more cinematic 100 minutes.

 

And yeah, the book is fantastic. I've read it about eight times. JJ's in there, as well as the Are You Being Served-loving Nazi, the Nazi twin kids, Mello T the rapper, Mike the survivalist and some others. There's also a chapter following up on someone who never made it to TV on the UFO episode, which I'll put in a spoiler, because there's a pretty amazing revelation in there

 

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When they'd just started out on Weird Weekends, and were looking for interview subjects, they contacted the Heaven's Gate cult, but they declined saying they had more important commitments - which turned out to be their mass suicide, so their spirits could join the spaceship hiding behind the Hale Bopp comet. When that hit the news, one of the production team remembered an envelope from them, with a video and a bunch of documents inviting Louis down to where they were staying at a certain date, and they realised that Heaven's Gate had planned for Louis to turn up to their encampment with his cameras and be the one who discovered all the bodies and broke the story to the world. Had that envelope been opened, Weird Weekends, and Louis himself, would have occupied a very different place in history

 

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There's a chapter about Ike Turner too, who he filmed for months for a When Louis Met that was never completed.

[BiffingtonClyro]

I was thinking the exact same thing regarding Louis going back to his knock about comedy days. I recently rewatched his doc with Max Clifford and it was by far one of the funniest things he's ever done. Max Clifford pretending he left his mic on by accident was comedy at its finest. Louis then asking Simon Cowell if he's gay seemingly every time he meets him was also a treat. The main thing I got from the Clifford one was that Simon Cowell seems like a real stand up guy.

[Astro Hollywood]

I was thinking the exact same thing regarding Louis going back to his knock about comedy days. I recently rewatched his doc with Max Clifford and it was by far one of the funniest things he's ever done. Max Clifford pretending he left his mic on by accident was comedy at its finest. Louis then asking Simon Cowell if he's gay seemingly every time he meets him was also a treat. The main thing I got from the Clifford one was that Simon Cowell seems like a real stand up guy.

 

The thing I got most out of that was that Cowell really, really wanted people to think he was straight. For some reason.

[CuckedByMenry]

And yeah, the book is fantastic. I've read it about eight times. JJ's in there, as well as the Are You Being Served-loving Nazi, the Nazi twin kids, Mello T the rapper, Mike the survivalist and some others. There's also a chapter following up on someone who never made it to TV on the UFO episode, which I'll put in a spoiler, because there's a pretty amazing revelation in there

 

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When they'd just started out on Weird Weekends, and were looking for interview subjects, they contacted the Heaven's Gate cult, but they declined saying they had more important commitments - which turned out to be their mass suicide, so their spirits could join the spaceship hiding behind the Hale Bopp comet. When that hit the news, one of the production team remembered an envelope from them, with a video and a bunch of documents inviting Louis down to where they were staying at a certain date, and they realised that Heaven's Gate had planned for Louis to turn up to their encampment with his cameras and be the one who discovered all the bodies and broke the story to the world. Had that envelope been opened, Weird Weekends, and Louis himself, would have occupied a very different place in history

 

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Sweet Jesus.

[The Cum Doctor]

I had no idea that was Jerome Flynn in Game of Thrones. Fuck me, that's a turn up for the books.