The League of Gentlemen - C/D? (now with added Psychoville)

I really enjoyed The Wicker Man one. There are a couple of duds in each series but for me the overall quality hasn't really dropped very much.

I tend to watch the first and last five minutes and skip the rest now. At some point after eight-six series you'd think they would've figured out how to create actual people as opposed to the same old saucy postcard caricatures.

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And this is one of the most baffling things I've ever read on this website.

inside number 9, the quiz show, was quite different from usual. just a pity it was lee mack as host.

i think they've skipped one though

No, the numbers are wrong because they've decided to count the Christmas one as part of the series.

The biggest problem with the 'surprise' episode (and this whole series really) is that it hasn't been funny at any point.

I'm basing that on the movie poster 'next week' thing at the end of one episode not matching the next episode and the continuity announcer saying the next one wasn't as advertised. but then i missed the first two due to recorder fail (the recorder being me, not knowing it had started)

yeah, listings mag had 'hold on tight' with robin asquith. poster was a pastiche of 'on the buses' and was 5/6. this week's is 5/5 and next week's is a repeat of mr king.

oh, you're right that ep 1 was the Christmas episode, so i only missed one

enjoyed the quiz show episode. not expecting any of them to be funny tbh, don't see it as a comedy series.

quiz show totally threw me. i started watching wondering if it was what it was, but Lee Mack and the contestants played it so straight (except for the older woman) and there was nothing funny, I initially switched it off.

i think the whole 'buses' posters/promo pics was part of the quiz show wind up i.e. so the announcer sounded genuine re it not being shown, so here's a new quiz show instead.

oh, that's a good idea, one that went right over my head.

(and it's borne out by the internal bbc database which doesn't list it, just 6 episodes and one clip

although oddly this image is called "Hold On Tight"

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/976x549_b/p0fp60w7.jpg

but shows lee mack)

series 3 of LoG is on That's TV (Freeview ch65) at the moment. i guess I saw it at the time but not since. bloke and his kid in an improvised Knight Rider car fighting crime? Spit and Polish. it has that confusing but at the end where all 6 episodes culminate in the same scene, but you've no idea what's going on for the first couple.

it's daily, and continues into season 4, which i'm not sure i even knew existed.

and Reece is in both in In The Earth and A Field In England on film4 tonight

Think S4 was the one they did years later, about 5 years or so ago xp

the episode guides talk about the town being bulldozed for a new road, and that rings a bell.

series 3 feels a bit o_O in 2024

I remember really liking S3 at the time. I liked the dark / experimental way it was morphing into more of a 'Tales of the Unexpected' type affair, rather than going for the more obvious laughs - something they'd continue with Inside No 9. I don't know how I'd feel about it now, it's been ages since I saw it and the comedic landscape's changed considerably since then. The Christmas Special will always be my fave

Not very funny is my memory of it.

I find the whole show borderline unwatchable now, despite loving it at the time. Always lukewarm on stuff past S2 though.

series 4 started last night and it's obviously going to be 6 episodes of throwbacks to previous characters before they literally bulldoze over it all.

Geoff Tibbs going to London to become a stand-up comedian is a great episode.