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The Goggle Box Thread

Two episodes of Stranger Things left to go. It's decent and I've enjoyed watching it but it's nothing groundbreaking.

Onto season two of Halt & Catch Fire as well, there's something really mesmerising about it and I can't quite put my finger on it. Some great performances from Lee Pace and Scoot McNairy really make this 80s tech drama shine.
 
Boozad said:
Two episodes of Stranger Things left to go. It's decent and I've enjoyed watching it but it's nothing groundbreaking.

Onto season two of Halt & Catch Fire as well, there's something really mesmerising about it and I can't quite put my finger on it. Some great performances from Lee Pace and Scoot McNairy really make this 80s tech drama shine.
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I've started watching Halt and Catch Fire on your recommendation Booz and I'm really enjoying it, loving the music as well as the story and the characters are engrossing too.

(I'm only 2 episodes off the end of GoT after watching it from Season 2) and watching lots of them back to back there's some real inconsistency in the story telling)
 
Johnny75 said:
I've started watching Halt and Catch Fire on your recommendation Booz and I'm really enjoying it, loving the music as well as the story and the characters are engrossing too.
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Glad you're enjoying it mate. I'm struggling to see what I like about it so much, on paper it should be really fucking dull but it's not! It's one of the best opening titles to a show ever as well, the theme tune is fucking stonking.
 
Would appear a few folk on the Twittersphere are a tad fucked off this evening as the Great British Bake Off is off to Channel 4 next year as the BBC can't afford to match what C4 offered for the licensing.
 
Shocking news. It is the most BBC programme ever broadcast. At least ITV haven't got it, imagine the destruction they'd do to it!
 
Tyrannosaurus Dan said:
Shocking news. It is the most BBC programme ever broadcast. At least ITV haven't got it, imagine the destruction they'd do to it!
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I fully expect C4 to do a Naked version and one with Benefit claimants as well
 
I have zero interest in the Bake Off but a C5 version called 'My Son Has A Head The Size Of A Fucking Massive Jam Sponge' might have drawn me in.
 
It's quite simple really, the production company wanted a bigger slice of the pie, and the Beeb wouldn't offer enough dough.
 
And it is announced on the day Beeb start showing Ripper Street that they cancelled and then had to buy back from Amazon. Somebody at Auntie is a shocking decision-maker. I suppose it leaves them more money to throw at the excrement that is strictly...
 
Paddingtonwolf said:
And it is announced on the day Beeb start showing Ripper Street that they cancelled and then had to buy back from Amazon. Somebody at Auntie is a shocking decision-maker. I suppose it leaves them more money to throw at the excrement that is strictly...
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Simply don't have the budget anymore when it comes to buying the licensing for shows such as Bake Off. Not their show so they have to rely on those who own it giving them a chance but when a Channel armed with commercial money comes along the BBC are out on their arse. C4 will be looking forward to product placements galore in a cooking show. Proper £££££ for them

Was Ripper Street a BBC original or another they purchased off the actual owners? (Buying it back as "repeat" will be a hell of a lot cheaper than buying the Premier)
 
They made it and cancelled it. Amazon picked it up and re-commissioned it. BBC then have had to buy it back.
 
Paddingtonwolf said:
They made it and cancelled it. Amazon picked it up and re-commissioned it. BBC then have had to buy it back.
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I guess the costs of making it were too high and buying it back when someone else has made it was the cheaper option.

As it is, Amazon have now cancelled Ripper Street. Poor show can't get a break can it
 
Just been reading up on it....costs and the fact I'm a Celeb was smashing it in the ratings meant the BBC binned it. If the I'm a Celeb hadn't had been around, then it may have survived on the BBC. So blame Kangaroo Bollock eating wannabe desperate "celebs" and the fact people want to watch that.
 
I think it's episode 4 of Ripper st tonight. Not entirely sure it's improved since the Beeb ditched it.

It's a bit of a myth that the Beeb don't have the budget, they have more money than Channel 4 and 5 on license fees alone. They clearly have a very administrative heavy organisation and have made terrible decisions of late. It's a shame nobody has bought that glittering turd that is Strictly.
 
They pay inexplicable people stupid amounts of money. Anne Robinson was still earning something ridiculous a year or so ago despite only doing Watchdog these days (and not very well either).
 
Graham Norton is on a shitload as well.

Don't think they hand out those kind of contracts anymore though.
 
Beeb has some serious issues. Top Gear is probably dead, although LeBlanc might just revive the corpse. Bake Off is gone. Bar Poldark their only big show is now Strictly. And Victoria is beating up Poldark in the Sunday ratings war.

BBC are therefore throwing everything behind Strictly. Which is the worst thing on television, and I include Tipping Point in that comparison.
 
It is their only big success really, well, bar bloody Eastenders. Both shows will be around for a long time yet. The problem is what else will they be filling the schedules with? I assume Masterchef is going nowhere as well.

Oh I know - they could commission ANOTHER series with the Hairy Bikers as they aren't over-exposed at all.
 
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