Be Excellent To Each Other

Victoria Coren Mitchell is a QPR fan at least, so I've got to like her a bit.

The new Buzzcocks was unwatchable because of Daisy May Cooper's constant screaming.

That’s much the same as me. It’s probably not helped by the fact that I find the adverts themselves annoying simply by their existence. I haven’t watched ITV/Channel 4 since I was a kid, so I’ve kind of been immune to adverts for many years. Now that we’ve got this Lego show on the go, and Russell likes Taskmaster, the flow of the program is interrupted by that awful clip of proto Alan Carr saying he turned down some Bonjela every five minutes. Why do the advert breaks containers the same five ads for every break? Why on earth would you think I wanted to watch that?

And let’s not forget Mrs Browns Boys. The show everyone hates and yet I’ve yet to meet someone who has actually seen it. We know we hate it, though.

I don’t dislike VCM, but she shouldn’t write her own stuff, and I get a bit bored of ‘if you want to go and play a dumb persons quiz, go to those other shows. This one is for clever nerds, (guffaw)’. Maybe I do dislike her. I don’t know. I feel like I want to like her but dislike what she says.

She is not in the new (started this week) series. Looks like they are going to do guest captains on that team.

The first week was Courtney Love, and despite her saying she's not had alcohol for several years, the evidence begs to differ (unless it was something MUCH stronger). I don't think anyone else had much fun on that episode.

Once again, it's got the problem that I don't really like Greg Davies, and he's presenting it. Not that keen on Jamali Maddix coming up with Hilarious Back Stories for each member of the Line Ups either.

There is just enough there to keep me coming back, but If I came into the Sky version of this cold, I probably wouldn't have kept watching after the first one or two.

Cunk on Earth was brilliant though, loved that.



I suppose someone somewhere likes it.
I only needed a few short moments to know that I absolutely fucking hate it.

I don't think I've seen more than 30 seconds at a time, and that was plenty to make an informed choice.

Eesh. I've not seen the new buzzcocks but that sounds horrible.

I think what was good about original buzzcocks was it felt a little like you were in a boozer with them all and felt less like showmanship and more like banter. I suspect it doesnt help that my attachment to current music is very limited. And if they are including the bands I know, it probably feels overly nostalgic.

There's a music quiz show out here called 'Spicks and Specks', it's very long running and it has a nice mix of humour and friendly chat. There's a bit of banter but it's not BANTZ, it's far more gentle an good natured. It's actually aged quite well and old episodes are still entertaining, even though some of the guests are very 'low budget', many of them I have no clue who they actually are.

It's strange, as although I find I feel like l'm moving away from the nasty/sarky kind of humour in general, I still really like the offensive / dark sort of humour. Last year I watched a few Anthony Jeselnik specials - wow, so incredibly funny (and offensive, but clever, and funny).

I'm on episode 2 and it's glorious.

After you're done watching S2, move over to Guy Montgomery's Guy Mont Spelling Bee, which is also good fun. Although I've only seen the original NZ version of that, not the AU version.

I tried giving new Buzzcocks a go and it was ruined by Courtney Love being even more annoying than Daisy May Cooper would have been.

Also, Noel Fielding is just rubbish isn't he? He's pure getting carried on GBBO by Alison Hammond (who is great).

Rivals on D+ is great, obv.

I'm putting in here because it's the most English thing ever.

Rivals on Disney+ is absolutely amazing

I said to Russell that I bet you’d be watching that.

I am probably late to the party.

Slow Horses on Apple TV+ Is just fantastic. Great scripts and Gary Oldman is just great as a spy master.

Watched the entire thing the day it came out.

I watched the first episode, but my wife wants to watch it with me, and we just haven't found the time to do this yet.

Come for the sex. Stay for the Independent Broadcasting Authority.

Two episodes in and there's nothing left of the scenary left to chew on. It's awesome (and obviously the spiritual successor to Garth Marengi's Dark Place)

Rivals is superb, enjoying it much more than I expected.

Now you should all read the book!

I had no doubt.

We watched an ITV drama called ‘The Suspect’ over the past few nights. It’s like every other mild ITV psychological thriller, but the whodunnit element was completely destroyed by their being a really tight cast of characters and only one incidental character who appeared over and over for seemingly no reason, so of course it was that character otherwise why was he part of the show?

Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl. This shits on just about everything else over the Christmas period and has Easter eggs everywhere. The geezer who's taken on the voice of Wallace is excellent.

Welcome return to Gladiators yesterday, and delighted with the return of the hamster balls.

Still slightly annoyed about the lack of sync between the amazing theme tune and the visuals on the intro however- how hard is it to flip a gladiator on the beat?

We saw Giant in panto this Christmas. He is one massive dude.

He’s everyone’s favourite in this house, but we also really like Legend. His character is superb.

Legend is my spirit animal

Legend is playing such a great character, and it’s funny to see when he can’t keep a straight face.
Viper is just shit.

Viper is for the under 10s basically

Darwin is under 10 and thinks Viper is rubbish. Your opinion poll of one disproves your theory.

Late to the party as ever, but I watched Bodyguard (the BBC series with Richard Madden and Keeley Hawes) and Ludwig (with David Mitchell) recently.

Bodyguard was incredibly tense, and although a few things stretched my suspension of disbelief a little bit it held my attention to the end. Hopefully we'll end up getting a second series, but after 6 years it seems unlikely.

Ludwig was also great, reminded me very much of Jonathan Creek. That _is_ getting a second series, which I can't wait to see!

We're smashing Black Doves on Netflix, that's pretty good so far.

'Patience' on Ch4. Created by Matt Baker, who also created Professor T, so it makes sense that this one is about an autistic criminal records keeper who helps the fuss solve crimes. Mrs W and I binge watched it yesterday and thoroughly enjoyed it.

Disappointed to learn that they haven't fixed the constant high pitched whine. I honestly can't understand why it's there or other people haven't complained about it

That's Bradley Walsh JR.