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Pointless is the best entertainment show out there

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    #9752
    Dozen Wicked Words
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,325 ✭✭✭✭Dozen Wicked Words


    babs-gif.gif


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    #9753
    Welsh Megaman
    Registered Users Posts: 72,251 ✭✭✭✭Welsh Megaman


    Raffingora wrote: »
    No they weren't - too eccentrically British to be popular internationally. They did make one attempt to appeal to the American market when casting Phil Silvers (who had been successful as Sgt Bilko in the TV series) in "Carry On Follow That Camel". But that was in 1967 whereas the Bilko series had finished in 1960 so his poularity in the USA had long lapsed by then. And he didn't get on with the Carry On regulars (especially Kenneth Williams) so the experiment was never repeated.

    That's a surprise, especially given the popularity of Benny Hill in the US.

    *puts on 'Carry On Girls'*

    ;)


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    #9754
    FunLover18
    Registered Users Posts: 6,793 ✭✭✭FunLover18


    Welsh Megaman wrote: »
    That's a surprise, especially given the popularity of Benny Hill in the US.

    *puts on 'Carry On Girls'*

    ;)

    I only discovered recently that Jane Leeves (aka Daphne Moon) started off on Benny Hill


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    #9755
    Raffingora
    Registered Users Posts: 16,479 ✭✭✭✭Raffingora


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    My Carry On tray, tea towel & collection of books.

    Everything you always wanted to know about "Carry On" but were afraid to ask...


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    #9756
    FunLover18
    Registered Users Posts: 6,793 ✭✭✭FunLover18


    Raffingora wrote: »
    $_1.JPG

    My Carry On tray, tea towel & collection of books.

    Everything you always wanted to know about "Carry On" but were afraid to ask...

    Is that a Charles Hawtrey biography? Wasn't he crazy?


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    #9757
    Raffingora
    Registered Users Posts: 16,479 ✭✭✭✭Raffingora


    FunLover18 wrote: »
    Is that a Charles Hawtrey biography? Wasn't he crazy?

    Weren't they all?

    My favourite Charles Hawtrey story was when his house in Deal (which Kenneth Williams described as "like a lodging house which all the boarders had suddenly deserted with a revolting smell of rising damp and cat's fish") caught fire from a discarded cigarette while he was upstairs in bed with a rent boy. He ran into the garden naked to raise the alarm and then climbed to the top storey of the smouldering property so that he could be carried down, naked, by a fireman.


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    #9758
    brian_t
    Registered Users Posts: 6,669 ✭✭✭brian_t


    Next week it's back to repeats of Series 7

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01mg3kl/broadcasts/upcoming


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    #9759
    TICKLE_ME_ELMO
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 23,930 Mod ✭✭✭✭TICKLE_ME_ELMO


    I don't mind the repeats so much as I only really started watching around September or October of last year, so they're still usually new to me.


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    #9760
    Mr.Prodston
    Registered Users Posts: 16,305 ✭✭✭✭Mr.Prodston


    Once the repeats hit February and March of 2013 then I'll have new repeats but until then this news makes me sad


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    #9761
    Eeden
    Registered Users Posts: 17,912 ✭✭✭✭Eeden


    brian_t wrote: »
    Next week it's back to repeats of Series 7

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01mg3kl/broadcasts/upcoming

    Thanks for letting us know. They seem to just jump back and forward with little logic. It messes me up because I record Pointless to watch later, and suddenly I'll find they've skipped to a new random earlier season, so I miss it. Even if I've seen them before, I still like to have my daily/weekly fix (I almost never remember the earlier shows unless the contestants are particularly memorable; just me probably)


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    #9762
    brian_t
    Registered Users Posts: 6,669 ✭✭✭brian_t


    Eeden wrote: »
    They seem to just jump back and forward with little logic.

    Over the past 6 months whenever they have shown repeats they have always been for 3 weeks at a time.

    Starting Mon Sept 2 they had new episodes for 5 weeks

    Starting Mon Oct 7 they had repeats for 3 weeks.

    Starting Mon Oct 28 they had new episodes for 5 weeks.

    Starting Mon Dec 2 they had repeats for 3 weeks.

    2 weeks break for Christmas

    Starting Mon Jan 6 they had new episodes for 4 weeks.

    Starting Mon Feb 3 they had repeats for 3 weeks.

    Starting Mon Feb 24 they had new episodes for 6 weeks.

    Starting Mon Apr 7 more repeats.


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    #9763
    brian_t
    Registered Users Posts: 6,669 ✭✭✭brian_t


    On a positive note last Thursday Richard tweeted
    Filming 17 shows this week. I think that might be a new record.
    https://twitter.com/richardosman/status/449119238369075200


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    #9764
    Go Harvey Go
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,038 ✭✭✭Go Harvey Go


    Mr.Prodston wrote: »
    Once the repeats hit February and March of 2013 then I'll have new repeats but until then this news makes me sad

    For my first post on this thread in four months, I'm going to say that this repeat run makes me very happy. :D

    Why? Well, like most repeat runs, this one is picking up where the last one left off - which was the end of series 6 and the start of series 7.

    Which means that we'll be seeing a certain contestant named Emma... :D:D:D;););)
    Go Harvey Go wrote: »
    For me, Paul and Emma from last September are a prime example. Not only were they 40-somethings with good personalities, but Emma... well, let's just say I wouldn't hesitate to get into bed with her if she hadn't already been taken by Paul.

    Worth pointing out that when I made that post last June, it was just the 299th on this thread. Ten months later, we're very close to the 10,000-post limit and the creation of "Pointless is the best entertainment show out there - Part 2"... :eek: :eek: :eek: :D:D;)

    As Chris Tarrant said on a certain other quiz, "Well done, everybody." :D;)


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    #9765
    brian_t
    Registered Users Posts: 6,669 ✭✭✭brian_t


    Go Harvey Go wrote: »
    Which means that we'll be seeing a certain contestant named Emma...
    Go Harvey Go wrote: »
    For me, Paul and Emma from last September are a prime example. Not only were they 40-somethings with good personalities, but Emma... well, let's just say I wouldn't hesitate to get into bed with her if she hadn't already been taken by Paul.

    Spoiler alert there.

    No doubt there will be plenty of BOOMS awarded here for that repeat. :D


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    #9766
    Mr.Prodston
    Registered Users Posts: 16,305 ✭✭✭✭Mr.Prodston


    Hiya, Hello.


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    #9767
    Welsh Megaman
    Registered Users Posts: 72,251 ✭✭✭✭Welsh Megaman


    Co-eee!


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    #9768
    FunLover18
    Registered Users Posts: 6,793 ✭✭✭FunLover18


    'Allo, 'allo

    Dave V? I really hope the 'V' stands for Viking


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    #9769
    Welsh Megaman
    Registered Users Posts: 72,251 ✭✭✭✭Welsh Megaman


    Revenge Of The Nerds!


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    #9770
    FunLover18
    Registered Users Posts: 6,793 ✭✭✭FunLover18


    Welsh Megaman wrote: »
    Revenge Of The Nerds!

    Except in this case no one is rooting for them


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    #9771
    Welsh Megaman
    Registered Users Posts: 72,251 ✭✭✭✭Welsh Megaman


    Five
    Rose
    Winter
    Dagger
    ?
    Yorick
    Breach


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    #9772
    FunLover18
    Registered Users Posts: 6,793 ✭✭✭FunLover18


    ?
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    Winter
    Knife
    ?
    ?
    Brink?


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    #9773
    Mr.Prodston
    Registered Users Posts: 16,305 ✭✭✭✭Mr.Prodston


    Rose
    Dagger

    That's my English junior and leaving cert education coming in use :pac:


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    #9774
    Raffingora
    Registered Users Posts: 16,479 ✭✭✭✭Raffingora


    Hiya...

    Rose
    Winter
    Dagger

    Yorock
    Breach


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    #9775
    Welsh Megaman
    Registered Users Posts: 72,251 ✭✭✭✭Welsh Megaman


    *sound of Starship Enterprise doors opening*


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    #9776
    FunLover18
    Registered Users Posts: 6,793 ✭✭✭FunLover18


    And Kirsten has open her mouth and won my heart

    *swoon*


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    #9777
    FunLover18
    Registered Users Posts: 6,793 ✭✭✭FunLover18


    Dagger!!! I'm such an idiot


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    #9778
    Raffingora
    Registered Users Posts: 16,479 ✭✭✭✭Raffingora


    April Dr00ls wrote: »
    should have been 'alas poor yoric i knew him, ____'

    well..

    No. A popular misconception.


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    #9779
    Welsh Megaman
    Registered Users Posts: 72,251 ✭✭✭✭Welsh Megaman


    Who'd mess with Erin's Mum's partner?!?!


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    #9780
    FunLover18
    Registered Users Posts: 6,793 ✭✭✭FunLover18


    Raffingora wrote: »
    No. A popular misconception.

    I ****ing love that misconception. You're such a hipster!


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    #9781
    Welsh Megaman
    Registered Users Posts: 72,251 ✭✭✭✭Welsh Megaman


    Arrows
    ?
    ?
    Music
    ?
    Ides
    ?


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