BBC 1 and 2 are basically showing the same programmes.
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Friday, 9 April 2021 18:44 (three years ago) link
Oh FFS, just went onto iPlayer for our Saturday morning routine.
In the words of a Liverpool supporter I once heard at Portman Road when there was a minute's silence for the Queen Mother, "Vive la République!"
― Chewshabadoo, Saturday, 10 April 2021 06:29 (three years ago) link
the Saturday repeats were in the epg when i looked yesterday but that might change.
― koogs, Saturday, 10 April 2021 06:31 (three years ago) link
They're being shown at 1am.
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Saturday, 10 April 2021 08:49 (three years ago) link
I was also looking forward to the Masterchef final last night :(
― chap, Saturday, 10 April 2021 11:46 (three years ago) link
went to watch Battlestar Galactica this morning and got Edwina Curry
― koogs, Saturday, 10 April 2021 12:02 (three years ago) link
She's definitely a Cylon.
― chap, Saturday, 10 April 2021 12:24 (three years ago) link
is the grand national going to be on? I mean I'm sure he would be in favour of some cruelty to horses on TV.
― Bastard Lakes (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 10 April 2021 12:29 (three years ago) link
How about some re-runs of Love Thy Neighbour and Mind Your Language?
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Saturday, 10 April 2021 12:50 (three years ago) link
Or re-runs of programmes broadcast several hours earlier, becasue according to BBC iPlayer this week's two TOTP episodes have been cancelled.
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Sunday, 11 April 2021 07:14 (three years ago) link
Another sad weekend morning in chez Chew.
― Chewshabadoo, Sunday, 11 April 2021 07:27 (three years ago) link
Surely this is the event that will get us to finally abolish the monarchy, let's go lads
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 12 April 2021 10:51 (three years ago) link
...and that event would be Vanilla Ice performing live on TOTP?
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Friday, 16 April 2021 20:24 (three years ago) link
he put on a good enough show I guess? though I was easily pleased after hearing Pray AND Saviour's Day AND This One's For The Children by NKOTB.
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Friday, 16 April 2021 20:34 (three years ago) link
Yeah Robert Van Winkle was easily one of the finer performers in this episode.
― chap, Friday, 16 April 2021 23:52 (three years ago) link
I thought The Dream Warriors on the other show also showed good chops.
― Chewshabadoo, Saturday, 17 April 2021 07:06 (three years ago) link
Some really good performances these last two episodes but some terrible dross as well (Cliff particularly). There's no doubt that both Dream Warriors and Vanilla Ice were able to get a genuinely enthusiastic response out of the audience. But Vanilla looks like a dork trying too hard sometimes, especially when he dances (and particularly in the video where he's dressed like a waiter at a wedding reception). Jim Carrey's parody had already ben broadcast in the US on In Living Color back in October, but no social media back then so not many people in the UK would have seen it. On the other hand IIRC we'd already switched over to thinking of the Iceman as being a tool.
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Saturday, 17 April 2021 07:23 (three years ago) link
The 90's were full of this apolitical "let's make the world a better place" messaging, as seen on the entries by KNOTB and most egregiously Twenty 4 Seven (racism bad! being nice to animals good!); old school christian pablum by Sir Cliff fits right in. I think I used to assume I just remembered it that way because I was a child at the time but it does seem to have been everywhere.
― Daniel_Rf, Sunday, 18 April 2021 11:23 (three years ago) link
and then you have vanilla ice singing about his tech 9
― koogs, Sunday, 18 April 2021 11:35 (three years ago) link
Vanilla boasting about being involved in a drive by shooting but the cops let him go because he's white?
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Sunday, 18 April 2021 11:44 (three years ago) link
So very white white, baby...
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Sunday, 18 April 2021 11:45 (three years ago) link
seen on the entries by KNOTB and most egregiously Twenty 4 Seven
Also The Farm, which is actually a pretty crappy song despite its iconic chorus.
― chap, Sunday, 18 April 2021 12:00 (three years ago) link
I give that one a pass for being about a specific event and thus marginally less vapid, even if what the lyrics take away from that event is pretty naive and, yeah, not a great song in general.
― Daniel_Rf, Sunday, 18 April 2021 13:22 (three years ago) link
I always assumed this was just a regular pistol.
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Sunday, 18 April 2021 19:22 (three years ago) link
bloody snooker
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Friday, 23 April 2021 20:12 (three years ago) link
this is worse than 9th april
― koogs, Friday, 23 April 2021 21:04 (three years ago) link
Jesus christ.
― Chewshabadoo, Saturday, 24 April 2021 07:34 (three years ago) link
Mmm, snooker is better than Phil docs, but.
― Mark G, Saturday, 24 April 2021 07:41 (three years ago) link
but both are a load of old balls?
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Saturday, 24 April 2021 09:36 (three years ago) link
snooker next Friday too
― koogs, Saturday, 24 April 2021 09:50 (three years ago) link
snooker loopy nuts are weus and them and him and mewe'll show youwhat we can dowe can mess up the scheduleworse than Prince Phillip too
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Saturday, 24 April 2021 10:15 (three years ago) link
pot the reds andscrew thatbecause Vanilla Ice is nevercoming backsnooker loopy nuts are wewe're all snookerloopy
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Saturday, 24 April 2021 10:16 (three years ago) link
they're just trolling us now
― Daniel_Rf, Saturday, 24 April 2021 12:45 (three years ago) link
Re-runs resume. Bizarre to see Shaky perform a Christmas song in May but we've landed in mid December 1990.
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Friday, 7 May 2021 19:05 (three years ago) link
the trolling continues
― koogs, Friday, 7 May 2021 19:11 (three years ago) link
Of the video for 'Freedom', George Michael said something to the effect that "people will enjoy watching it more that I'm not in it".
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Friday, 7 May 2021 19:16 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7w8XVtETu98from 14m25s onwards
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Friday, 7 May 2021 19:34 (three years ago) link
return to form there for jive bunny.
not much mixing in that grease megamix.
― koogs, Friday, 7 May 2021 20:22 (three years ago) link
Worst two show run of the year?
― Chewshabadoo, Saturday, 8 May 2021 07:32 (three years ago) link
Yes. There have been worse individual shows but these last two are the worst back-to-back shows in a while.
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Saturday, 8 May 2021 12:28 (three years ago) link
I guess Christmas is often the time of the year the charts are at their most tedious, but fingers crossed January might bring something better.
― Chewshabadoo, Saturday, 8 May 2021 13:05 (three years ago) link
there are already green shoots of recovery in the breakers section, first show was bizarre in that there were four climbers in the top 10 and they played none of them!
― A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 8 May 2021 13:38 (three years ago) link
Christmas Day 1990 TOTP on now.
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Friday, 14 May 2021 20:02 (three years ago) link
Andi Peters in 'about to hit the gym' action.
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Friday, 14 May 2021 20:07 (three years ago) link
That could have been edited down to half an hour and there'd still have been filler.
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Friday, 14 May 2021 20:59 (three years ago) link
I really am not sure why they didn't edit out the old Xmas number one clips.
― A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 14 May 2021 21:11 (three years ago) link
Coming very soon then; Shoe-gazing hits!
― piscesx, Saturday, 15 May 2021 02:20 (three years ago) link
High point was the live version of Killer, it wasn’t the worst Christmas show at all though, even if all the old clips were a bit dull - maybe in 1990 you weren’t bombarded with them quite as much as now when November 1st appears to be the start of Christmas.
― Chewshabadoo, Saturday, 15 May 2021 08:25 (three years ago) link
Some Killer mostly filler.Radio 1 did play Slade's Zmas joint back in the early 90s but it definitely wasn't like today's streaming dominated chart where for Nov/Dec it's seemingly every Christmas song ever recorded including at least three versions of 'Let It Snow' and Tones & I's 'Dance Monkey'.
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Saturday, 15 May 2021 09:32 (three years ago) link
I wasn't into the reworked Killer, it changed a lot of what was so great about it and added nothing much in the way of good new bits.
― A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 15 May 2021 09:33 (three years ago) link