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10 O'Clock Live - Series 3 Page 2

Quote: Tursiops @ April 25 2013, 7:42 AM BST

I am sceptical; there are enough gobby arseholes out there without needing to resort to that.

Katie "social inequality is a good thing" Hopkins?
Interesting that the guy representing the lower classes had the best manners.

Great opening show, good quality content.
My only slight reservation is with the production. Yes, the Americans do this sort of thing very well, but that doesn't mean we have to copy them, and sometimes the Americanised bits of this show, particularly the rocking musical links, grate against the Britishness of the rest. Why not use quirky British music?

Quote: Tursiops @ April 25 2013, 7:42 AM BST

To be fair only Jimmy Carr is a stand-up.

>_<

I was watching P&R so I only caught the last ten minutes but how has that dreadful rabidly right-wing Apprentice woman managed to get a career as a pundit? She's like Aaron with a vagina.

Quote: chipolata @ April 25 2013, 9:17 AM BST

I was watching P&R so I only caught the last ten minutes but how has that dreadful rabidly right-wing Apprentice woman managed to get a career as a pundit? She's like Aaron with a vagina.

Breast implant went well, Aar?

I wish Daisy Donovan was on this, I miss Daisy Donovan.

Quote: Lee @ April 25 2013, 10:03 AM BST

I wish Daisy Donovan was on this, I miss Daisy Donovan.

I know what you mean, she was lovely and funny, I don't really think the girl on this, can't remember her name is suited to it, or witty enough to compete with the other three.

Quote: Tim Azure @ April 25 2013, 9:30 AM BST

Breast implant went well, Aar?

They'd take your breath away, Tim.

Quote: chipolata @ April 25 2013, 9:17 AM BST

I was watching P&R so I only caught the last ten minutes but how has that dreadful rabidly right-wing Apprentice woman managed to get a career as a pundit? She's like Aaron with a vagina.

These shows often rely on known faces, not 'professional' pundits.

Quote: Aaron @ April 25 2013, 11:35 AM BST

These shows often rely on known faces, not 'professional' pundits.

And hermaphrodites, at least according to chip...

Quote: Nil Putters @ April 24 2013, 10:04 PM BST

Was is Lauren acting so put out by some of the comments? It doesn't help the jokes.

I don't know how much of the around table material is scripted but her and Brooker always seem uneasy with Jimmy Carr's quips. I really like Charlie but his bewilderment appears put on and his snipe at Jimmy "What's your advice on avoiding attacks (a tax)" came across as a bit of a ploy to put distance between him and the "bad tax avoider man"

If they ditched Lauren I think no one would complain, even she would shrug her shoulders and agree that she was a dead weight.

That was good. The debate looked like it might spiral out of control, Mitchell probably needs to be more forceful in keeping everyone in check. Laughed a lot though. I actually though Lauren Laverne was better this time, she actually got some laughs. I don't mind her as much as others do, she sort of acts as the glue that keeps the other three together. Although I suppose if she wasn't there, Mitchell would be the one to take command and lead them into the next section.

Quote: Nil Putters @ April 24 2013, 10:04 PM BST

Pretty good I thought, they seem to have got rid of the bits that didn't work from the first two series.

I didn't even notice that, but you're right, they have.

10 O'Clock Live managed to lose more than 80 per cent of its audience over the hour it was on air last night.

The third series opened on Channel at 10pm with a solid 1.36 million viewers in its first five minutes.

But by the end of the satirical show an hour later, just 239,000 were remaining, according to overnight Barb figures supplied by Attentional.

Overall, the episode - presented as always by Lauren Laverne, Charlie Brooker, Jimmy Carr and David Mitchell - averaged 919,000 viewers, below the 1.16 average for that slot.

http://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2013/04/25/17706/10_oclock_turn-off?

Satire is dead.

Tis doomed.

Quote: Jinky @ April 25 2013, 8:54 PM BST

10 O'Clock Live managed to lose more than 80 per cent of its audience over the hour it was on air last night.

The third series opened on Channel at 10pm with a solid 1.36 million viewers in its first five minutes.

But by the end of the satirical show an hour later, just 239,000 were remaining, according to overnight Barb figures supplied by Attentional.

Overall, the episode - presented as always by Lauren Laverne, Charlie Brooker, Jimmy Carr and David Mitchell - averaged 919,000 viewers, below the 1.16 average for that slot.

http://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2013/04/25/17706/10_oclock_turn-off?

Satire is dead.

Probably all the normal, balanced people put off by their raging socialism. Whistling nnocently

I hate the audience on this. Bunch of know-nothing-lefties! And that's coming from a Know-nothing-leftie!

Quote: Jinky @ April 25 2013, 8:54 PM BST

10 O'Clock Live managed to lose more than 80 per cent of its audience over the hour it was on air last night.

The third series opened on Channel at 10pm with a solid 1.36 million viewers in its first five minutes.

But by the end of the satirical show an hour later, just 239,000 were remaining, according to overnight Barb figures supplied by Attentional.

Overall, the episode - presented as always by Lauren Laverne, Charlie Brooker, Jimmy Carr and David Mitchell - averaged 919,000 viewers, below the 1.16 average for that slot.

http://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2013/04/25/17706/10_oclock_turn-off?

Satire is dead.

But it wasn't on for a full hour, it ended at 10:55. Does that figure in fact include five minutes of the following programme, which had been shunted into a graveyard slot after flopping in primetime?

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