Who remembers TV offal? It was rather crude and managed to offend lots of people, even my friend who was a bit f a sicko himself. He became rather offended by a joke about drowning kittens.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6guw9sjg_E
Interview with Riz Ahmed A more modern example of British talent - I'm admittedly not even a great fan of "middle class arts" these days but this dude deserves some respect...
Must admit I did consider drama/acting in the 1980s/90s as a career, but my family would not have been able to afford putting me through training and the only parts I would have got anyway were "ethnic minority young offender in the Bill" and there was even a shit ton of competition for those...
Riz Ahmed: actor, rapper, ranter | Culture | The Guardian
Interview with Tony Garnett (famous British producer from the 1960s onwards). Even if you are way too young to remember his work (and the scenes shown there currently are from another era, even in these days of austerity) this is worth a read. I doubt you are going to get any more folk like him as the industry he worked in is now on its last legs unless public service broadcasting radically adapts very soon....
Television producer Tony Garnett: 'I'm only interested in love and politics' | Media | The Guardian
My brother the Islamist BBC3 Documentary (Terror suspect) Did anyone see this when it was on few years back. It was not exactly a fair insight to the situation because he was basically saying loads of stuff behind his step brothers back and only confronted him on a few things right as he was leaving to go home. These BBC docs are really poor if you ask me, especially those conspiracy theory debunk ones. They do such a poor job it just gives the Alex Jones worshipers worse.Anyway Richard Dart, who is one of the focus points of the documentary has been jailed for 6 years for plotting a bombing. He even had the brass to plead guilty.Here's the original documentary
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LorhdNH1C34
And here's some news
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British Muslim convert jailed for preparing acts of terrorism
Richard Dart and co-conspirators Jahangir Alom and Imran Mahmood were 'committed fundamentalists', says judge
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Richard Dart, who refused to stand as he was sentenced, saying: 'I believe ruling and judging is only for Allah.' Photograph: Metropolitan police/PA
Three British Islamic extremists including a Muslim convert and a former police community support officer have been jailed for terrorism.
Richard Dart, the son of teachers from Dorset, and his co-conspirators, Jahangir Alom and Imran Mahmood, were sentenced at the Old Bailey for engaging in conduct in preparation of acts of terrorism. They admitted the offence between July 2010 and July last year at a previous hearing last month.
Dart was jailed for six years, Alom for four years and six months and Mahmood for nine years and nine months. Mr Justice Simon told the trio they held "radical Islamist beliefs and have shown yourselves to be committed to acts of terrorism".
Mahmood and Dart were both given extended sentences, meaning they will serve two-thirds of their prison terms rather than half, and they will spend five years on licence.
Dart refused to stand when he was sentenced, saying: "I don't wish to stand up. I believe ruling and judging is only for Allah."
The judge said that they were all "committed fundamentalists" who would have been prepared to kill. He told Dart and Mahmood: "I'm satisfied to the required criminal standard that neither of you had ruled out an attack in the United Kingdom, and that you, Mahmood, were looking at arming yourself with a bomb."
Dart and Alom travelled to Pakistan to try to get terrorist training, and took advice from Mahmood who had already visited the country. Dart, a former BBC security guard, also discussed bomb-making with Mahmood, and the military repatriation town Wootton Bassett as a potential target.
Police discovered fragments of text on Dart's laptop that revealed that the pair had used the computer to have a "silent conversation" to avoid possible surveillance bugs. They would open a Word document and take it in turns to type, before deleting the text and mistakenly assuming that none of it would be stored on the machine.
However, forensic experts were able to plough through 2,000 pages of computer code to decipher fragments of what was said. These included Mahmood making a reference to Wootton Bassett and then adding "if it comes down to it it's that or even just to deal with a few MI5 MI6 heads".
Counter-terrorism teams also believe that the pair used the same tactic walking down the street with a mobile phone.
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THis is the cringiest thing I have seen in my life. 40 Year Old Virgins - 4oD - Channel 4
I know I shouldn't really laugh at other peoples misfortunes and this is actually rather sad.
But omfgwtf..this got me so embarrassed I had to look away at some points. Has anyone been watching it? Its full of what the fuck.
''This show follows two people in their 40s who have yet to lose their virginitys. We follow them as they discover their sexualitys and loose their virginitys at a 'virgin school''
Yeah you see the whole thing too. :o
UK : LDN : BBC Television Centre to close, and the testcard to be retired (again) I can understand why TV Centre is being closed down as there are less studio productions (in fact a glut of studios in London now not getting as much work) and they have nice new kit in the original Broadcasting House, but it is the end of an era and a stark reminder about how much broadcasting industry is downsized nowadays. In the 90s I worked on various obscure but important pieces of kit there (though never got to visit the place as it was all sent in parcels to and from Reading!)
must also have been a fair task to edit the farewell show whilst discreetly removing as many references to a dead nonce as possible..
BBC News - Goodbye Television Centre
BBC News - BBC TV Centre: Goodbye to the 'dream factory'
BBC - Blogs - Internet blog - HD Test Card Special
The revolution will be televised http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7rj_wqSbKzE
Don't know how dale maily didn't get a slap at that festival (I think it's glade). Still quite a funny watch though
Masterchef anyone watching the new series.. reminded me of these
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWnfyRr4Hso
theres possible innuendoes absolutely everywhere in this programme
Best Gangster Films Been on a gangster film session recently. List some of your favourites.
Here's some examples:
City of God
Carlito's Way
Goodfellas
True Romance
Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Resvouir Dogs
etc
Forget about it... you know the gritty stuff.12
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