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Quote: Tim Walker @ December 21 2010, 6:38 PM GMT

This is on tonight and looks like a potentially very fun 15 minutes...

https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/little_crackers/episodes/1/5/

Yes, I know, it's on Sky Television... but I hear that Sky is now available even in some of the most respectable households (and not just sink estates, crack dens and "massage parlours"...).

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I've been watching all of those (there's 12). Catherine Tate's was good, Victoria Wood's was alright too. Chris O Dowd's and Julain Barratt's were funny, although I didn't quite get Julian's.

15 minute shorts, each written and directed by a different comedian.

Quote: Griff @ December 21 2010, 7:03 PM GMT

I've got The Stars Tennis Balls saved up for a rainy day.

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It's a pretty good read. Enjoy.

Quote: Alfred J Kipper @ December 21 2010, 12:42 AM GMT

AP Knowing Me Knowing You suffered from this,

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It did?

I am watching TOTP2. Therefore Christmas has officially arrived. Not voiced by the great Steve Wright but the ever personable Marcus de Radcliffe.

Quote: Tim Walker @ December 21 2010, 6:38 PM GMT

This is on tonight and looks like a potentially very fun 15 minutes...

https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/little_crackers/episodes/1/5/

Yes, I know, it's on Sky Television... but I hear that Sky is now available even in some of the most respectable households (and not just sink estates, crack dens and "massage parlours"...).

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Quote: Griff @ December 21 2010, 6:40 PM GMT

Blimey, Stephen Fry's had his money's worth out of this story. It's a big chunk of Moab Is My Washpot, it was a big chunk of his one-man show earlier this year, and now this! I recommend people read the book.

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Turned out to be a very warm and fun 15 minutes, this. High production values as well. Daniel Roche captured a version of a young Stephen Fry very well (even, it seems, being coached on including a couple of his facial mannerisms). Bodes well for his appearance in Just William - he obviously has some range beyond Ben in Outnumbered.

Crystal Maze.

Last year we had the cheesy but likeable Day of the Triffids. Is there nothing like that this Christmas?

BBC2 The Two Ronnies: The Studio recordings - behind the scenes

'Ronnie Barker: A BAFTA Tribute' - what a great chance to watch and pretend to enjoy many of those oft-forgotten classic Barker moments.

And I must say Ronnie B's looking great during his acceptance speech, all things considered.

Watching weird yet wonderful rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar on ITV1 (the international television network equivalent of a TB-infested glass of brown ale, as drunk through stretch-marked lips by an ageing tattooed whore in a 1950s Middlesborough launderette).

An oddity of a Christmas tradition. ITV shows this every Christmas without fail. I think some commissioner must have accidentally paid £100 million for the TV rights back in 1982 and therefore they feel obliged to show it for the next 100 years. I remember first seeing it on ITV when I was about 9.

A genuinely original and interesting rock opera (Matt Berry also a fan!) and Lloyd-Webber/Rice's finest hour. Directed by Norman Jewison, the screenplay was by Melvyn Bragg you know... Oh yes.

I preferred the follow up with with David Hasslehoff as Judas and Kitt as Jesus

Jesus Christ Supercar

Quote: Griff @ December 24 2010, 1:28 AM GMT

A musical about Jesus, at Christmas!?? What crazy thought process must be going on in their heads?

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Touché!

What I mean is that I've always found it odd that ITV has chosen this as their annual nativity staple (especially as it's an Easter movie, if anything). A hippy rock opera basically starring what looks like half the Manson Family.

Quote: Griff @ December 24 2010, 1:58 AM GMT

Generally I find it hard to fathom the reasonsing behind 99% of what ITV chooses to broadcast.

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The last time I 'got' ITV's reasoning was when they commissioned French Fields, the sitcom (late 80s/early 90s) starring Anton Rogers and Julia McKenzie. It made perfect sense, you see, as it was set in France and was the follow-up to Fresh Fields, so it sounded sort of the same? If it had been set in Spain, however, it would have been called Spanish Fields, which wouldn't have sounded similar to Fresh Fields at all - and I would have been questioning ITV's programming logic.

Fortunately, it was called French Fields. Which sounded a bit like Fresh Fields.

Now watching Lorenzo's Oil, where Nick Nolte and Susan Sarandon play a couple desperately trying to find a chemical cure for their son's crippling genetic disease. Can't help but think that if the chemical in question was crack or metamphetamine, Nick Nolte would manage to find the cure a lot f**king quicker.

The holiday ads are on. Christmas is over.

Quote: Griff @ December 24 2010, 1:28 AM GMT

A musical about Jesus, at Christmas!?? What crazy thought process must be going on in their heads?

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Though Chrimbo does tend to be more associated with mangers than nailing to crosses. Showing the cruxification at Christmas is a bit like screening Olive the Other Reindeer on Good Friday.