― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 29 January 2005 23:19 (nineteen years ago) link
which bit?
Dean Lerner and the bloke from Boosh bodes well. looked all a bit like that soap set in a web design office. can't remember the name now...
the very first tv trailer was based on manic miner loading screen. = good.
― koogs (koogs), Monday, 31 January 2005 10:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― Miles Finch, Monday, 31 January 2005 10:06 (nineteen years ago) link
"They don't realise it's not good cos it's rude, yeah?""Yeah, it's good because it looks like it's good because it's rude." (the lazy-gobbed questioning-intonation is a bonus)
I had to install QT* to watch that again, which meant I had to install iTunes. I'm LIVING IN THE FUTURE.
(Funny cos I had to deliver a project in QT last week and I couldn't even watch the finished article at my desk.)
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 31 January 2005 10:48 (nineteen years ago) link
"Once the idiots were just fools gawping in through the windows. Now they've entered the building..."
― Momus (Momus), Monday, 31 January 2005 13:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― Momus (Momus), Monday, 31 January 2005 13:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― debden, Monday, 31 January 2005 13:47 (nineteen years ago) link
I think a lot of the comedy in the print version came from the unhinged, psychopathic overstatement of the narrator's hatred of Barley for relatively trivial crimes against taste and morality. Who was this fellow, if not Barley's repressed, self-hating alter ego? I'll be interested if they show Ashcroft as a 'centre of goodness' – a reasonable and likeable man – or a jittering neurotic Goebbels, full of repressed, passionate, hissing, spitting, volatile-projected self-hatred.
― Momus (Momus), Monday, 31 January 2005 13:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― Miles Finch, Monday, 31 January 2005 14:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― debden, Monday, 31 January 2005 14:03 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1405547,00.html
key words relate to bleeding-edge 'creatives' being perfectly able to satirize themselves. i always thought the savagery of tvgohome was maxed so that you wdn't confuse it with halfway-house shite like shoreditdch twat -- it isn't comfortable satire, it's flamewar.
― Miles Finch, Friday, 4 February 2005 12:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alienus Quam Reproba (blueski), Friday, 4 February 2005 12:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 4 February 2005 13:03 (nineteen years ago) link
hmmmm.
― Pete W (peterw), Friday, 4 February 2005 13:05 (nineteen years ago) link
BUT the trailers look good and thinking on it, there's no really new paradigm that's emerged to displace the barleys in "new media" circles, so it can't be that dated.
sleaze nation is still going, right? i love the dnb soundtrack on the trailer, it's exactly right.
also i have a lot invested in barley. my first ever paid piece of writing was on tvgohome, three years back. i got to use 'cunt', 'fuck', and 'pissant' in my maiden piece! woo!
xpost -- watts, say nothing!
― Miles Finch, Friday, 4 February 2005 13:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― stelfox, Friday, 4 February 2005 13:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― stelfox, Friday, 4 February 2005 13:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 4 February 2005 13:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alienus Quam Reproba (blueski), Friday, 4 February 2005 13:14 (nineteen years ago) link
i can't remember how i came across tvgohome but i was 18 years old and not living in london -- but anyway, my line was nathan barley helps 'explain' things that normals do know about, in advertising, magazine design, fashion, ect. after all comabat trousers, scooters, trucker caps all ended up quite high street.
i've never been a part of the media-wanker circus but have had first-hand experience of barleys -- it isn't that small a world, perhaps.
― Miles Finch, Friday, 4 February 2005 13:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― Pete (Pete), Friday, 4 February 2005 13:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alienus Quam Reproba (blueski), Friday, 4 February 2005 13:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― Miles Finch, Friday, 4 February 2005 13:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― Miles Finch, Friday, 4 February 2005 13:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Friday, 4 February 2005 13:45 (nineteen years ago) link
I hate to be a hata, but HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 4 February 2005 14:02 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=15150907&method=full&siteid=89488&headline=the-man-who-drinks-petrol-name_page.html
― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 4 February 2005 14:39 (nineteen years ago) link
sleaze closed last year after a relaunch. i remember reading tvgohome with relish back during my shockingly short stint editing the music section there. there were some great people at the mag, but plenty of nathan barleys too. it didn't seem like satire, more reportage. so i will enjoy the series, i reckon.
i snuck the word 'pisspoor' into the times, early on in my career. my dad thought it was poor journalism to use the word!
― stevie (stevie), Friday, 4 February 2005 15:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― Miles Finch, Friday, 4 February 2005 15:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Friday, 4 February 2005 15:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― Miles Finch, Friday, 4 February 2005 15:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― stevie (stevie), Friday, 4 February 2005 16:07 (nineteen years ago) link
he has a point here but i'll reserve judgement 'til i've seen tonight's episode which i'm really looking forward to!
― jed_ (jed), Friday, 4 February 2005 19:39 (nineteen years ago) link
can't wait for torrents.
― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 4 February 2005 19:45 (nineteen years ago) link
1) Who'll turn up in the series first: Kevin Eldon or Mark Heap?2) Which episode and how long into it will this be?
Winner gets something or other.
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 4 February 2005 20:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Friday, 4 February 2005 20:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 4 February 2005 20:05 (nineteen years ago) link
he has been involved in just about everything the past 6 years.
― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Friday, 4 February 2005 23:51 (nineteen years ago) link
tvgohome was intensely vitriolic, but i al ways felt it was the bitter anger of just some old guys who werent really in touch anymore, but just took it out on a bunch of idiots. the "cunt" bits of tvgh were the least funny anyway.
― ambrose (ambrose), Saturday, 5 February 2005 01:05 (nineteen years ago) link
"it became difficult to distinguish between genuine creatives and opportunistic charlatans."
oh yeah real creatives theres a ton of them about, many of them with the surname Boorman, eh neil?
"Why the real players in youth culture are never drafted in to help is a mystery"
hahahaha WTF you mean, like, kids? oh no, you mean NB and a bunch of failures from sleaze. theyre the real players in youth culture.
that article is pathetic
― ambrose (ambrose), Saturday, 5 February 2005 01:08 (nineteen years ago) link
from the stills gallery: is this kevin eldon?
http://www.trashbat.co.ck/images/barley/gallery/programme_stills/still_5.jpg
if it is, then my bet's on him.
― Slump Man (Slump Man), Saturday, 5 February 2005 01:28 (nineteen years ago) link
-- Markelby
Hata.
― Anna (Anna), Saturday, 5 February 2005 13:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― nick.K (nick.K), Saturday, 5 February 2005 23:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 6 February 2005 06:48 (nineteen years ago) link
I haven't seen even a trailer for the show, but I imagine this idea of casting to be the truth.
― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 6 February 2005 20:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― Momus (Momus), Monday, 7 February 2005 07:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― Miles Finch, Monday, 7 February 2005 09:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 7 February 2005 11:18 (nineteen years ago) link
ep5 of dead set (which i'm in, heh).okay where?― Ant Attack |=| (Ste), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 13:13
okay where?
― Ant Attack |=| (Ste), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 13:13
well...
haven't seen any of it yet though...
― CharlieNo4, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 12:05
so i don't know. but i'm what's known as a "background zombie"... so i might get a quarter of a second's bloodied screen time.
― CharlieNo4, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 14:31 (fifteen years ago) link
i'm what's known as a "background zombie"
new user name for you there.
― remorseful prober (grimly fiendish), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 14:49 (fifteen years ago) link
(or me, if you don't snap it up first.)
Or a useful phrase for an ILX Lurker?
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 14:50 (fifteen years ago) link
splendid idea!
― Background Zombie (CharlieNo4), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 14:52 (fifteen years ago) link
ach, it was only on for half hour tonight totally wasn't expecting that.
still enjoying it.
― Ant Attack |=| (Ste), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 22:33 (fifteen years ago) link
watched last night's, and about 10 minutes of tonight. that'll be it for me. it's so fucking dull. beyond the basic premise -- big brother! zombies! -- there's absolutely nothing there, is there? the characters are ciphers, the action is predictable, the outcome interests me not a jot.
― remorseful prober (grimly fiendish), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 23:38 (fifteen years ago) link
(and i appreciate what chewshabadoo says upthread about the characterisation improving, but i can't be arsed waiting around for that to happen!)
― remorseful prober (grimly fiendish), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 23:42 (fifteen years ago) link
the installments are too short. would have been cool 90 minutes than two 60 minutes.
looks quite good for the budget. Obviously going off that whole current-horror movie thing with the fast cutting, the handheld, the shutter speeds etc..., but it's fine. Hardly groundbreaking or terribly inventive so far, but still a really enjoyable zombie horror by my standards. Glad the satire hasn't really got in the way of anything.
― Gukbe, Wednesday, 29 October 2008 02:46 (fifteen years ago) link
lol at Pippa telling that producer guy he was using up the oxygen
"it's not a fucking submarine"
― Ant Attack |=| (Ste), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 09:23 (fifteen years ago) link
Dead Set thread here:Dead Set - E4 Big Brother Zombie thing!
― koogs, Wednesday, 29 October 2008 13:50 (fifteen years ago) link
is this out of print on DVD? anyone know where i can order it, preferably cheaply, and have it shipped to the US? (it's ridiculously expensive on amazon.co.uk.)
― i'd rather cut cane for castro (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 1 March 2009 16:41 (fifteen years ago) link
if you know how to use torrents then you can get it on http://thebox.bz/ - i think they have open sign up just now but if you need or want an invite then give me a shout.
― jed_, Sunday, 1 March 2009 16:45 (fifteen years ago) link
It *is* out of print, aggravatingly (my copy was scratched when I lent it to someone). It went from being stacked in every HMV for 5 pounds to being tough to find in a matter of weeks, seemingly. The first 2 Charlie Brooker books are similarly tough to track down!
― Shannon Whirry & the Bad Brains, Sunday, 1 March 2009 21:30 (fifteen years ago) link
Sold my copy of Brookers' TV Go Home book for £40 on eBay, to none other than... actor Michael Fenton Stevens
― Blap for Lashes (The stickman from the hilarious xkcd comics), Sunday, 1 March 2009 21:32 (fifteen years ago) link
£40?! That makes it the most valuable book I own!
― nate woolls, Sunday, 1 March 2009 21:43 (fifteen years ago) link
the DVD is awesome. comes with that booklet and so many extras on the DVD itself. torrents don't really compare to the whole package.
― cutty, Sunday, 1 March 2009 22:20 (fifteen years ago) link
true true, my friend ran off te manchester wit mine. bitch.
― a raggamuffin is a type of cat (a-bomb), Sunday, 1 March 2009 22:21 (fifteen years ago) link
keep it foolish yea
― a raggamuffin is a type of cat (a-bomb), Sunday, 1 March 2009 22:23 (fifteen years ago) link
oh great, downloaded this as a torrent and none of the files work AWESOME thanks internet go die.
― i'd rather cut cane for castro (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 2 March 2009 17:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Pssst-http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=Kfairy&view=videos
Not amazing quality, but perfectly watchable.
― chap, Monday, 2 March 2009 17:38 (fifteen years ago) link
thanks, yeah, i know (that's where i saw them the first time). problem is my wife wants to watch it, and for reasons i can't go into here (or fathom) she hates watching video on the computer.
― i'd rather cut cane for castro (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 2 March 2009 18:08 (fifteen years ago) link
saw this just before christmas in hmv and bought it thinking it was out of print. amazon has cheaper copies so i guess they've repressed it, or whatever you do with dvds. bum.
― koogs, Tuesday, 29 December 2009 20:48 (fourteen years ago) link
still a great dvd to own.
― bum-sniff deviant (cutty), Tuesday, 29 December 2009 20:53 (fourteen years ago) link
hell, I don't think I have a region-free player hooked up now, I might have to copy this over to my pc
― mh, Tuesday, 29 December 2009 21:49 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm not a preacher man
― mh, Tuesday, 11 June 2019 03:41 (five years ago) link
keep it chopped out, yeah?
― meaulnes, Tuesday, 11 June 2019 22:44 (five years ago) link
Toby, you rim-licker. How's it fucking collapsing?
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 11 June 2019 22:47 (five years ago) link
well fucking weapon
― mh, Tuesday, 11 June 2019 23:06 (five years ago) link