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Guilty TV pleasures

At the cheap and deep end of freeview.
 

My Mrs is obsessed with Abandoned Engineering. I still love and still cannot get enough of Scrapheap Challenge.  The shit they make.  It is such an old show (90s?) but there is still something beguiling about watching hairy midlanders carving up transit vans to make competitive hoverboatvanearthmovertrikemudracers.

Just one question…How the bejesus did they persuade Lisa Rogers to have anything to do with it? 

Yes it does. 
 

I agree the original E China ones are best.

I have watched all of these a million times. 
 

It’s very clear that Mike Brewer just annoys the shit out of people who actually know stuff and work for a living. 

So a follow up question if I may.   Let’s assume I’m mid 50s, about to retire and need a hobby.  Is tinkering with a classic car a good plan, bearing I mind I have literally no prior experience?  Currently thinking about a 70s US muscle car for laughs.  Like the look of Rockford Files era Firebird.  Is that a daft ambition?! 

For a first one I would get something that is simple (four cylinder ir straight six engine Triumph, MG  etc) and well supplied with parts and spares, and easily worked on with standard tools. 

Not so long ago I decided to work through the entire Upstairs Downstairs back catalogue. Feck knows where I found it, or what I was thinking really, but I was properly immersed.

Elephantinthewild - yes, I do the made for Netflix Christmas romance films too.

It is, indeed, utterly shameful.  I hate January when I can't find them any longer.

 

I always enjoy "Great [....] Railway Journeys" with Michael Portillo.

For my money the earlier ones in the UK were better as he spent more time talking about the history of the railway line he was on rather than just the the place he ended up stopping at. 

Also, I have no idea where he finds some of the hideously coloured trouser and blazer combinations. 

also these are new and worth watching. my OP was about the sort of chewing gum TV that I like to waste time to, that was probably made 20 years ago, that I have probably seen many times already etc. and involves MIG welders. 

 

I also like Great Railway Journeys Wang.  I think Portillo's nose is getting wider and more weird.  The pastel shades are absurd. His early UK stuff with his trusty Bradshaw's was good.

OGR, Upstairs Downstairs is fantastic.  I hated it as a kid as it seemed to be always on but as an adult, I now understand it better and really enjoy it.  Pauline Collins really stood out.

Fritz, yes, Below Deck.  It proves that having bundles of money doesn't mean you have any class (fur coat, no knickers).

Only Connect is one my other favourites.

The Great Railways thing is TV at its finest. I thought this thread was about guilty pleasures, i.e. things you know you shouldn't like but still do. Since we have now expanded the scope, I remember about 15 years ago there was a mini-series called Wild Gourmets - they went around different parts of Britain collecting mushrooms, cress, berries etc., anything you can find in the wild, and cooked astonishingly delicious-looking meals from it. Mid-noughties I think. TV was really good back then.

K-dramas, especially the romantic ones (there's bloody hundreds of them). 

In case there are any Extraordinary Attorney Woo fans out there, Park Eun-bin's new drama Castaway Diva has at last started on Netflix.

Had a great family binge of Below Decks during a wet week in Lockdown. 
 

The clients were utter arseholes and many of the women looked like hookers. Presumably many of them were.    
 

 

I didn't realise until recently that Portillo's dad was a fairly left wing Spanish republican who fled Spain following the rise of Franco. Seems slightly odd is son became a fairly right wing tory. 

I used to love American Chopper on discovery channel, no idea if its still going. 

OGR there was one episode of Below Deck where the female guests were definitely prostitutes. The "host" made them do nude pictures and some other gross stuff. It was all really rather unpleasant. But I think that was an exception. Most of the other guests seem to be genuine groups.

My favourite bit is in BDMed S1 when Bobby completely loses his shit and just totally starts F-ing and blinding at his colleagues in the hot tub and almost gets violent. Fantastic.

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