Dave Gorman - Genius BBC 2

mike65

Gorman is usally worth a watch, this is a cross over from BBC radio and is on at 11:35pm if you have BBC 2 NI or 10 pm for everyone else.

Latchy

How many Dave Gormans are there again ?

keefg

Nice one Mike.

I like Dave Gorman's programmes.

tech77

Yeah.
I've always liked Dave Gorman.
Love his wry (is that the right word?) humour.

What's he up to now?
He travelled across most of the US states recently by car, relying only on small businesses or something, didn't he?

Dingatron

Yep watched that a few weeks back and enjoyed it. It was called America Unchained

Try not to give any money to The Man
http://www.davegorman.com/projects_america_unchained.html

lostexpectation

hmm not the may west, sorta a replacement for room 101

elshambo

lostexpectation wrote: »

hmm not the may west, sorta a replacement for room 101

Its a really good radio show!
On the radio they tend to get really good comedians in as the guest and the cheapness of the radio show is part of the joke

Im worried that the bit of expense and the "BIG" guest star bit will ruin the joke!

mikom

Dingatron wrote: »

Yep watched that a few weeks back and enjoyed it. It was called America Unchained

Try not to give any money to The Man

Or entertainment to the viewer.
Was a pile of horses**t I thought.

ronnie3585

I was really looking forward to this, I like Dave Gorman a lot. Unfortunately, I thought it was crap, didn't like it at all. A bit too mainstream, dare I say tabloid. I expected a lot more from Mr. Gorman:(

2fivers

I like him too, and was a bit surprised when Private Eye did a big story on how his management struck a book deal for the anti-corporate stance of "America Unchained" with, ermm...Random house, (A subsiduary of Bertelsmann, which owns Sony BMG, Rtl, Arvato, The Direct group, and Europes largest magazine publishers Gruner & Jahr. )

Red faces all round.

eth0_

Terrible show. Worked much better on radio.

sillyputty

I found it mildly entertaining bit disappointing compared to his previous shows. I really enjoyed America Unchained and Are you Dave Gorman? and didn't he also do one where he followed his horoscopes for a month

tech77

sillyputty wrote: »

I really enjoyed America Unchained and Are you Dave Gorman? and didn't he also do one where he followed his horoscopes for a month

Haha.
I'm just remembering the horoscopes one now.
I just love the notion of taking (what many see as) crazy populist garbage and testing it scientifically.
All done in that bemused, mock-serious way that he has.

lostexpectation

was it on the radio?

MOH

Was a bit disappointing alright. Parts of it seemed scripted. If they weren't, that taxi driver was a nut.
Did find it mildly amusing that the first idea which initially seemed a bit rubbish was by far the best compared to what came after, but overall wasn't Dave Gorman's best TV ever.

lostexpectation

i thought some the first few ideas are funny, and the hood was funny and the democracy bus and how he destroyed was very dave gorman its just te spinning set and the big buttoms and the ginormus set make it seem overblown.

keefg

MOH wrote: »

but overall wasn't Dave Gorman's best TV ever.

Hmm....not by a long shot. Let's hope this isn't a sign of things to come.

artvandulet

Just saw the 2nd episode. I loved the radio show.
They reused two of the 4 ideas in this episode from the radio show! At the beginning they claim to have had 10000 suggestions, yet they rehashed 50% of them from sveral years ago on the radio.
This could have been a very good show but just doesn;t quite work the way it is.

lostexpectation

johnathan pyrce? was hilarious

grumpytrousers

lostexpectation wrote: »

johnathan pyrce? was hilarious

he was. Best guest i've seen on a TV program in an age. He completely got into the spirit of it and if there's a god, Pryces, 'weather in accents' will be a staple of best of compilations in years to come!