Unopened Boxsets that I liked the look of from the Pilot: The ILX Television 51 Show Countdown Extravaganza!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

when do we get more reveals?

xp - the gay stereotype jokes were made by other gays though so that was OK.

yeah the guy from grange hill's gay couple was excrusiating. still, LIZZY CAPLIN!

when do we get more reveals?

― antastic mr ox (darraghmac), Tuesday, 3 November 2009 11:35 (8 minutes ago) Bookmark

Soon. After lunch maybe.

I've just eaten my lunch.

wait, i'm having lunch at 1. be done by 1.30.

sned me the list, actually- i'll look at the next one as soon as i'm done eating.

39. Gillette Soccer Saturday (9 votes, 1360 points.)
http://www.catflapmag.com/football-blog/content/binary/Jeff-Stelling.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZOgBEws1EY

unbelievable!

dancing on the streets of gillette soccer saturday tonight, in your face total britphobe solutions fc

sound

GSS making it totally makes this list worth doing.

but will Final Score place?

Jeff Stelling >>> Chappers or wusshername who does inside sport.

Although,

Garth Crooks >>> Paul Merson or Charlie Nicholas.

Merson's inadequacies bring the lols, Nicholas is a prick, I'd put Crooks in the middle. Have we ever had a pundits thread (probs no need as they get discussed more than football on the football threads)?

Ali G haters are tripping

we have this ITV football coverage: Urge To Kill Rising

used to enjoy Crooks challops but no more

38. Black Books (9 votes, 1440 points.)
http://www.librarything.com/userpics/BlackBooks-big.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4wBLUBa8YI

I see this thread is really generating discussion. Everyone just waiting to moan that [HIGH PLACING SHOW] made it so high? Or the fact that you can't make it a discussion about Radiohead getting you down?

#37 is incoming any minute now.

37. Oz (11 votes, 1530 votes.)
http://blog.newsok.com/television/files/2009/05/oz1.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sT3IMsPrNNQ

moaning about everything seems kinda lame, that's all.

but:

black books is a rubbish show that makes rubbish use of the comedic talents of a distinctly unrubbish cast. it's always been a big disappointment to me. rubbish.

first season of black books was great, i thought

Black Books is perhaps Dylan Moran's finest hour.

all seasons of black books were great. as a rule of thumb- if you have a drunken sociopath as your main character, your show will most likely be worth watching (black books, the wire, i'm sure susan kennedy got a bottle of vodka in her purse...)

Love Black Books. Hope the IT Crowd doesn't place higher, it's distinctly inferior.

all seasons of black books were great

cosign. Manny Come Home (ep1 series 3) is an incredible piece of dark and disturbing slapstick.

Manny is one of the all time great put-upon sitcom characters.

I never watched Oz. I guess I should. It's The Wire in prison, right?

It's quite a bit hammier. Good though.

First series of Black Books was great, but it dropped off after that (was that the only series Lineham did?).

Never seen Oz, though I'm aware that it's the kind of thing I should have by now.

Oz is pretty much a prison soap opera, although there are definitely some long-term character interactions that make it more cerebral at times.

also lots of nudity

36. Dexter (12 votes, 1560 points.)
http://tv.popcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/dexter.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2OEmZFRxvA

I haven't watched much Dexter it the plot seems pretty wtf. Dude becomes a cop AND a serial killer because he hates criminals, and thus has to investigate his own crimes?

always sounding distressingly close to that donald kaufman film in adaptation.

none of my votes have shown up yet, though I'm glad Gilmore Girls placed.

dexter is ridiculously entertaining even though you can always see the plot coming a mile away.

Yeah, I'm kind of annoyed I didn't vote for Dexter, because it's fun (for a cop show about a serial killer).

If I like Breaking Bad would I like Dexter? I've heard them mentioned in the same breath a few times...

I dunno. In Breaking Bad, the characters acknowledge what they are doing is batshit insane and thus there is a- this is totally the wrong word but 'normality' about it. Dexter is treated like oh hei, cop who is also a serial killer, yeah! great! thats such a great tv show idea! like it is a regular thing and not total wtf.

Says the guy who has only watched a few episodes of it, so I could be totally wrong.

They're similar only in that we're rooting for criminal protagonists who struggle with what they do but don't have much of a choice in doing it.

Breaking Bad is much better written and acted imo but Dexter is funnier and while it does occasionally get very dark (esp in the first season), it's never quite as bleak as Breaking Bad can be.

I should give it a go, I do like stuff where you're rooting for the criminal (Patricia Highsmith etc).

Dexter also has this coming-of-age subtext intertwined with the killing/police work.

Oz was one of the best things ever made about prison, so it had that going for it. It was framed by Harold Perrineau in a wheelchair, narrating things almost as spoken-word performance, though that seemed to fit. I tuned out after a few seasons, maybe because its fiction seemed a little too beholden to plots keeping things in a holding pattern, but Oz is often cited as setting the template for The Sopranos and everything that came after in terms of gritty HBO big-budget, cinema-like R-rated TV cable drama. The original HBO movie Against the Wall, about Attica, was a precursor.

Well pleased that GSS made the poll, I thought I'd be the only one voting for it.

35. Friday Night Lights (11 votes, 1 first place vote, 1630 points.)
http://polaris.gseis.ucla.edu/cmediavi/images/fridaynightlights.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYN4jnA8fKs

favourite Linehan joke in Black Books is the fly buzzing around the shop and then the door closing after it exits. and "maybe I'll swing by the bakers" is a favourite quote of mine.

FNL maybe not the best show to reveal while Americans by and large are still caffiene deprived (if i've got my times right). Is it even on Britisher telly?

(And if it was, would any give a toss? American Football is wank.) /getting-a-sb