I thought you'd stopped writing. Class. You should not write more often.
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I've stopped the intention to write, I haven't stopped writing completely. Thanks though.
So, what, you accidentally write stuff?
That might be what happened to Addison. He ate a bit of cheese before he went to bed, and in the morning he'd written an entire crap sitcom.
Quote: Leevil @ July 30 2008, 1:35 PM BSTBALD MAN: Yes, yes they have a television.
OLD MAN: What they watching?
BALD MAN: Err.. Corrie I think?
OLD MAN: Turn it off, I'm taping it!!
DRIVER: How, it's 1953, where did you get a recorder?
OLD MAN: I have Sky+.
BALD MAN: What's that?
OLD MAN: I get the wife to watch it and then dictate it back to me.
DRIVER: Why do you call her Sky+?
OLD MAN: Because she's big and blue, plus she's full of air.
BALD MAN: Have you been drinking again?
OLD MAN: Yes.
It's like the old TV detector van public info film.
"They're got a television at number 53 . . . They're watching Columbo."
@ Leevil.
Bloody 'ell. Mike McShane's lost a shit load of weight!
Indeed.
When I saw him in a thing recently, he came on stage and half the audience gasped and whispered as one 'ooh, he's lost weight'.
Quote: zooo @ July 31 2008, 9:46 PM BSTIndeed.
When I saw him in a thing recently, he came on stage and half the audience gasped and whispered as one 'ooh, he's lost weight'.
Well done to the big fella (he's still tall isn't he? ). Thought the episode was rubbish though.
Quote: ContainsNuts @ July 29 2008, 4:52 PM BSTI wouldn't agree with that. I think its quite clear that the Chris Addison character is who we're supposed to empathise with and he's surrounded by a semi-psycho geek, a dappy assistant, a playfully-strict dutch dean and a egotistic prof. I think some of the plots and jokes miss the mark.
Hmmm, I also think it's fairly clear that we're *supposed* to empathise with Addison's character. Whether we do or not is a completely different matter. I'm with the naysayers on this one. There are plenty of cartoonish alt-reality sitcoms that have worked - and some that are praised beyond my understanding, like The IT Crowd - but I think the anonymous "established sitcom writer" mentioned earlier in the thread was right. Although I'm not an IT Crowd fan, I recognise it has decent enough characters. I don't think Lab Rats has, and that is its fundamental failing, despite some funny gags and ideas.
Alas, I cannot comment as I have not seen the show. Of course, I recognise that my inability to praise/savage the show without having seen it precludes me from ever being a part of the so called 'professional' television community, but there you have it. I'll just stay 'on the bins' and tip my hat to my betters as they flounce by.
Quote: Griff @ July 30 2008, 10:45 AM BSTAbsolutely every TV critic has laid into Bonekickers. Nancy Banks Smith (the greatest TV critic ever) was kinder than most but still unconvinced:
Bonekickers (BBC1) is, it has been noticed, only a syllable short of bonkers. Hugh Bonneville, a decent actor tragically seduced by the temptation of a Harrison Ford hat, plays Professor "Dolly" Parton. Based, he says, on the archaeological adviser for the series, who "literally froths at the mouth". Frankly, I'd hesitate to share a table in an all-night cafe with any one of them.
This episode, The Eternal Fire, was about the forbidden love of Boudicca and a susceptible Roman called Marcus Quintanus. Their affair was conducted, apparently, in the catacombs under the Roman baths at Bath, where the feretting archaeologists discover Boudicca herself. Crystallised, of course. There is some elementary Latin ("Regina mea!") and contemporary Italian ("So! You call me because the fire in your loins is lit once more!") and, as the catacomb fills with gas, a lot of coughing as if we were in for another adaptation of the Brontës. To be fair, the whole thing obviously cost about as much as Harrison Ford's hat.
LOL. That's quite brilliant. 
Of course, as every critic has ripped it to shreds, the public will adore it.
Quote: Griff @ July 30 2008, 2:47 PM BST* goes shopping for cheese *
Quote: Graham Bandage @ July 30 2008, 2:43 PM BSTSo, what, you accidentally write stuff?
I think he means that he doesn't sit around all day trying to write. It's not his primary interest anymore. But if something does come to him, he'll write it down.
Anyway, I found myself totally tuning out of this week's episode (mentally), so will have to watch again.
Anyway, I found myself totally tuning out of this week's episode (mentally), so will have to watch again.
Is Lab Rats still rubbish?
I'm not a huge fan of this show but yet still watch it every week (probably because I have nothing better to do). Thought the episode with the protesters was quite good and there are some funny gags every now and then. What's happened to Minty though? She seemed to be a regular character but don't think she has been in the last two episodes. Also thought the change of location in this weeks episode was a bit of a poor decision.
Tonight's was seven shades of awful. 
I watched 10 minutes. I sort of liked the running gag about the book. But only sort of.
Honestly, if I had written what I saw tonight, I wouldn't even think it was worthy of anybodys time in 'Critique', never mind as an offering to a professional production company with a view to it going out on mainstream TV.
The writer and actors are obviously shagging the producer.. or there are 'family ties', or quite possibly, both.
Here is proof, if you needed it, that you don't have to be any good to get on telly.