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?
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Another UKTVplay fave is Forbidden History with Jamiue Theakston looking totally out of his depth
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I love mindless US comedy - Friends, Big Bang Theory, Community etc!
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I watched The Hangover again last night.
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Does Wheeler Dealers count? With a particular penchant for the early Ed China set up? I know literally nothing about ICEs or cars generally, but I love it!
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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.
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Time Team!
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+1 for the Eddddd China era Wheeler Dealers
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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?!
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agree, Scrapheap Challenge was awesome. i used to love Robot Wars as a kid - similar vibe
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I once we t to robot wars live in guildford spectrum. It was fooking ace
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ah I used to envy the live audience. good how they put the perspex sheet there to prevent anyone getting brained by chunks of robot
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Yes they made a big deal of it being bullet proof
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Pinot. There is a lot to learn but there is always time. Restoring a US car just adds time and cost.
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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.
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Christmas films on one of those channels you have to scroll right down to find (Hallmark).
Utter crap but strangely compulsive.
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Not the made for Netflix Christmas Romance Films? I have watched quite a few. Absolutely shameful.
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The Christmas channels are up and running…
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Deadliest Catch especially now it’s got Sig’s hot daughter.
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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.
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Good tip, thanks. Agreed better to start with something more manageable etc
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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.
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Abandoned engineering is great. And the one about Nazi superstructures
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Thinking of Scrapheap Challenge the Strawbridges are in the Times magazine today.
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Back in the day it was Eurotrash.
[Theatrical yawn] Oh it’s getting late, time to head upstairs.
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Flog It and the Repair Shop
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Upstairs Downstairs was one of the greatest TV programmes ever made.
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Bridesmaids
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+1 Wheeler Dealers pre-Ant era.
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Cockpit - Secrets of the London Underground is fascinating and wonderful to watch. I love it.
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Lovejoy, of course. In fact, not guilty at all.
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Below Deck. I know it’s trash TV and I am losing brain cells from watching it, but I can’t resist it.
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Top nostalgic tv tip: itv X has cocked up and I have had a lovely afternoon alternating between watching lewis and the rain.
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Sorry, should have mentioned the cock up - mo ads
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I'm on series 4 of Hetty Feather.
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Made in Chelsea
I know, I know
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Rogermellie - nooooooooo , please nooooo
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Ghosts was good, but Ghosts US is actually better.
The new Frasier is good too.
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I really bet it isnt
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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.
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Ghosts was good, but Ghosts US is actually better.
The new Frasier is good too.
in order: yes, no, no.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I think the guilty pleasure about Great Railway Journeys is that it's Michael Portillo
It cleaned up his image.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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"June June Hannah"
I miss Hannah
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Wasn’t there talk of a certain future Duchess being a ‘Yacht Girl’?
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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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How about when Ashton got dragged overboard?
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How about when Ashton got dragged overboard?
Yeah that was intense, but he made it out ok, so all good.
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Seth Evrikans are made of tough stuff
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Ashton is brilliant. I also love the part where he accuses Aesha, who is my absolute favourtie, of being "whorish". DRAMA!
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Aesha is very beautiful but I couldn't cope with her constant positivity.
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She is wonderful. I would crawl over broken glass to listen to her intoxicating laugh even for just a few minutes.
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