BBC Three

Sitcom about a small-time dope dealer. A penniless Moz calls in his debts. However, his mates seem reluctant to pay him back. Jess falls under the spell of Cartoon Head.

Lucy uses all the tricks at her disposal to keep looking young, yet is outraged by daughter Sherelle's barely-there hemlines. (R)

I'm now fully convinced that Beeb 3 is some kind of dystopian social experiment. Now I'm going to yell at some kids on my lawn.

currently on BBC Three - comedy show parodying hip-hop, starring blacked-up actors.

currently on BBC Three - comedy show parodying hip-hop, starring blacked-up actors.

― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Saturday, June 11, 2011 12:38 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I have been out of the country for a few months. Please tell me this is not a real thing.

It's Angry Boys, by the Australian guy who did Summer Heights High. So it's not racist, it's a well-observed sideways swipe at illiberal modern society, obviously. Or something.

https://twitter.com/BBCNewsEnts/status/542621062752923648

genuinely thought that was a parody tweet at first

true but it got your attention, it made you click, it made you share = it did its job

possibly more worrying is that bbc three appears to be using the same criteria for its editorial decisions

do people even make distinctions between things that get ppl's attention and make them click because they are horrified versus because they are excited?

not that i shared that shit of course

bbc three - make u think

Lonely commissioning editor at BBC3 just thinking baout things

lex you shared it with us!!

there's a horrible ad absurdum argument to be made about clicks=victory

^ why I pretty much ignore everything nowadays

ignoring things is for the best

Broadcasting is back:

BBC Three will return to TV screens after six-year break

"CBBC will close early"

there would have been riots if they treated CBEEBIES with such contempt!

but cbeebies closes at 7, the same frequency is used for bbc4 after that.

yeah but I presume they are still cutting some of the broadcasting schedule off CBBC if they are closing it earlier?

not that I watch CBBC but my son does sometimes.

CBBC goes on till 9pm just now! A child would kick a ball in the street etc.

they need to move with the times and run the closing "now it's time to say goodnight at the end of a lovely day" song at 2am!

cbbc is on too late, it's true, I support all kids' TV being turned off at 8pm, also the internet if possible.

They don't even have enough stuff to fill up the time, they just endlessly recycle the same programmes. Meanwhile CITV have given up completely and just show cartoons.

I don't really remember watching Children's ITV for anything else (I was Swap Shop square, not Tiswas)

as bad things can get I don't think I've seen anything as awful as Press Gang on CBBC

I think ITV had better children's shows than the BBC? The Beeb was all middle class and Blue Peter.

yeah blue peter was always the fucking pits, always felt very alienating if you weren't in the scouts and into tortoise shagging with john noakes and had lived in a nice spacious house with a pond in the back garden.

hadn't

I did see a few weeks back Richard Bacon firmly denying that he did a line of gear off the back of a Blue Peter tortoise

Press Gang was ITV

when there was only 4 channel buttons on the b/w tv it was easy to get confused!

I fully admit that I made some bad choices in my childhood TV-watching.

my childminder's three kids had control over the TV, so I saw a lot to T-Bag, Pink Windmill and Wizbit as a kid, not a lot of fond memories of that shit.

When I was on a ferry on a school trip once there were some production staff from The Pink Windmill recruiting kids to be in the audience or something. They never approached me :(

Oh god, the T-Bags thing epitomises my memories of non-cartoon Children's ITV.

Sorry, T-Bag, not T-Bags. Getting mixed up with Grotbags, silly me.

Good god:

https://www.angelfire.com/crazy/grotbags/

the last bit of bit of children's tv that really blew my mind was Boohbah

what was Grotbags a spin-off from? Was it Orville?

wasn't she originally in Rentaghost?

no it seems I'm getting her mixed up with Hazel the McWitch

Her I could handle. I guess it was Grotbags' green facepaint that turned my stomach.

Grotbags' 70s northern soul banger: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEYaxZoQ188

a mate once turned up at our house with a woman who looked like grotbags, he'd pulled her at the petrol station, he couldn't take her back to his house because he lived with his parents, pretty grim stuff all round, I left them to it in the living room and went out to the pub

Grotbags was originally in The Pink Windmill.

Thanks Tom

there is a fascinating couple of children's entertainer/panto types of some kind who live down the road from me. Sometimes they are doing gardening still in their working costumes. The bloke always says hello to my kid with a big hearty wave and a HHHEEELLLO! His partner has a polka dot car and even paints silver polka dots on the lower overhanging leaves in the garden! Although sadly I have not seen that much of them during the lockdowns - it must have been tough on them.

I think that post of Cam's is going to haunt my thoughts for a while now!