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I can't believe the BBC showed that tonight. The BBC can expect a fatwa soon. Have they learned nothing from the Danish Cartoons furore? I wonder if they'll take it off Iplayer.
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It would be interesting to know if ANYONE actually enjoys this.
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i think its funny
nice to see people poke fun at themselves |
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It's an embarrassment of a programme, typical BBC political correctness.
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barry is surprised the bbc showed it
slippy finds it typical bbc seems adil ray is spot on ! |
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Bring back Alf Garnett
see which one gets the most viewers |
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You are Alf Garnett
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If I went to Pakistan I would be surprised to find a episode of steptoe and son tbh.
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Steptoe and Son is big in Pakistan.
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just as Norman Wisdom was in Albania.
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well it looks like I should be surprised then does'nt it
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this program is a great example of one obvious problem with the bbc which is that its multicultural agenda is often considered more important than the quality of the content. but because that criticism can often be considered to have racist undertones, which of course it doesn't, it's often ignored.
this show is sh1t. it's painfully unfunny. not only is it childishly unsophisticated, it often seems to forget the punchline. the canned laughter is desperate. but that's ok. lots of sh1t shows get commissioned. it's not as bad as coming of age which is the worst piece of comedy ever made. but this show was written by an unknown unestablished nobody. yes he had a run on the radio, but that does not make him a great comic actor or writer. it's clear he's neither. this program was commissioned directly into a primetime slot on BBC1. nearly all new comedy is shown on BBC3 first, the exception being stuff from established writers or - that Ben Elton excrescence (the Wright Way) being a good example. But new comedy from unknown writers NEVER gets commissioned straight to bbc1 let alone a Friday night prime time slot. I couldn't care less if this was on BBC3 and if ratings and reviews justified it but it should be nowhere near primetime. |
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10.30 pm is hardly primetime
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It was on tonight at 9.30
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not in this house it wasn't
I suffered one episode of the first series |
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tbh, One of the best pieces of cinematography I have ever seen.
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.... oops sorry, I thought you were talking about Citizen Kane
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Never seen it so just checked out a clip and found it reasonably amusing.
 Father explaining birds and bees to daughter and uses a cricket analogy if that's the right word. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoIgtEQ7kqY |
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what a load of old ****
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nothing wrong with having different cultures and people on tv, but its utter tripe. its stuck in about 1980, just like most other bbc sitcoms of recent years. that wrights way thing was just as bad. whatever happened to good quality sophisticated bbc sitcoms, like gimme gimme gimme.
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gimme gimme good quality pmsl
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it was crude boloks although the guy in it was superb in the thin blue line which WAS quality.
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defo makes me laff but then you you guys always put down what i like
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were all grumpy old buggers on here.
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I'm getting like Victor Meldrew.
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really? i dont believe it
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Do you think it would've been commissioned if it had been written by a caucasian?
I have an idea for a sitcom about some women who are in niqabs all the time. A kind of moslem Birds of a Feather if you will. But I wonder if the BBC would think it was inappropriate on a number of levels, and that it wasn't for me, a whitey to be writing that sort of thing. |
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i dunno, how many white sitcoms are written by non-whites?
how many sitcoms set in liverpool were not written by carla lane?? |
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surely citizen khan started life on a program written by two caucasian males .....
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did he donny? I didn't know that. I've watched it a couple of times and it's not that bad imo. Trouble is most sitcoms are a duff these days.
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hes a radio creation
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radio 4 creation
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just looked it up and its the writers behind Goodness Gracious Me and The Kumars at Number 42, so they've got form at the BBC.
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charlie higson and paul whitehouse did "down the line"
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It's terrible,but better than another panel game with David Mitchell,or Dora O'Briain.!
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Flicking through the channels on Friday i came across this at the point when 2 pakistani muslims and a somalian muslim were in an office in a mosque,When a female pakistani muslim came in with a tea tray and entered into some innuendo with the main caracter which resulted in him falling flat on his face.This could have been a scene from any British sit com from the last 60 years.Total gash.
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sorry disagree - skyplus it every week - oys only a sitcom but I enjoy it
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Complete rubbish but it makes me laugh. I have a lot of asian mates and it's the sort of stuff they come out with all the time when laughing at themselves and how they are perceived.
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