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00:00:35 ◼   ► this episode we're going to be talking [TS]

00:00:36 ◼   ► about british TV this is the episode [TS]

00:00:39 ◼   ► where people from North America do you [TS]

00:00:41 ◼   ► see fit to judge television from that [TS]

00:00:45 ◼   ► little island in Europe known as the [TS]

00:00:48 ◼   ► United Kingdom joining me to talk about [TS]

00:00:51 ◼   ► Blighty and its programs that's m.b.s [TS]

00:00:56 ◼   ► are my wonderful panel Erica and sign [TS]

00:00:59 ◼   ► expert in Doctor Who a British program [TS]

00:01:01 ◼   ► that we're going to just put on the [TS]

00:01:02 ◼   ► board as a given is here hello hello [TS]

00:01:05 ◼   ► yeah thank you for giving me doctor who [TS]

00:01:07 ◼   ► has a given because yeah everybody likes [TS]

00:01:09 ◼   ► that right we just put that up there on [TS]

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00:01:13 ◼   ► also here Andy not co hi Andy hello [TS]

00:01:17 ◼   ► Jason good to have you here [TS]

00:01:19 ◼   ► good to be here i'm glad i'm also glad [TS]

00:01:21 ◼   ► that doctor who was taken because it's [TS]

00:01:24 ◼   ► it prevents me from having to cover up [TS]

00:01:26 ◼   ► the fact that i've only seen four [TS]

00:01:27 ◼   ► episodes which I'll enjoyed greatly sure [TS]

00:01:29 ◼   ► but I've only seen for it's fine it's [TS]

00:01:31 ◼   ► fine it's on the board [TS]

00:01:32 ◼   ► it's a given you can catch up anytime [TS]

00:01:33 ◼   ► now it's on the board it's on the boards [TS]

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00:01:36 ◼   ► go kart it is that's right it's okay [TS]

00:01:39 ◼   ► well done it monday ashley is also out [TS]

00:01:41 ◼   ► there hi Monty hi [TS]

00:01:43 ◼   ► speaking of Monty's can we assume [TS]

00:01:44 ◼   ► everybody knows about Monty Python's [TS]

00:01:46 ◼   ► Flying Circus let's put it on the board [TS]

00:01:47 ◼   ► put it on the board there it is [TS]

00:01:49 ◼   ► Monty Python's Flying Service on surface [TS]

00:01:51 ◼   ► playing surface they took a Microsoft [TS]

00:01:53 ◼   ► out with me through it with Monty [TS]

00:01:55 ◼   ► Python's Flying surface ok Monty [TS]

00:01:58 ◼   ► Python's Flying Circus on the board and [TS]

00:02:00 ◼   ► i have not introduced david lower hello [TS]

00:02:02 ◼   ► hello [TS]

00:02:04 ◼   ► are there any other british shows we [TS]

00:02:05 ◼   ► should put up their Sherlock will put [TS]

00:02:07 ◼   ► your lock on the board put it up there [TS]

00:02:08 ◼   ► we talk about Sherlock a lot she locks [TS]

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00:02:12 ◼   ► done and dusted alright so british TV I [TS]

00:02:17 ◼   ► i I've been watching british TV since I [TS]

00:02:21 ◼   ► was a kid my parents and I watched [TS]

00:02:24 ◼   ► british TV on PBS when you know and i [TS]

00:02:28 ◼   ► have fond memories of it and show that i [TS]

00:02:29 ◼   ► will probably mention later and there's [TS]

00:02:31 ◼   ► lots of great british TV on there and [TS]

00:02:33 ◼   ► now and these days it back in the day [TS]

00:02:35 ◼   ► I'm in the usps the only place to get [TS]

00:02:37 ◼   ► this stuff and [TS]

00:02:39 ◼   ► and these days there's british TV all [TS]

00:02:41 ◼   ► over the dial it's on BBC america of [TS]

00:02:45 ◼   ► course that's on PBS and it's on all [TS]

00:02:47 ◼   ► sorts of other networks as well and I I [TS]

00:02:50 ◼   ► my plan tonight was really that we were [TS]

00:02:52 ◼   ► just kind of go around in something [TS]

00:02:53 ◼   ► that's not quite a draft but really it's [TS]

00:02:55 ◼   ► more of a go around and tell me a thing [TS]

00:02:56 ◼   ► that you like which it sort of a draft [TS]

00:02:59 ◼   ► but not there's no point to it other [TS]

00:03:01 ◼   ► than to talk about things we like and i [TS]

00:03:03 ◼   ► just also want to stipulate for all of [TS]

00:03:05 ◼   ► those people who are very knowledgeable [TS]

00:03:06 ◼   ► about british television that it is [TS]

00:03:09 ◼   ► official incomparable policy that all [TS]

00:03:11 ◼   ► british television news from the BBC ITV [TS]

00:03:15 ◼   ► channel for Sky TV BBC when we say that [TS]

00:03:19 ◼   ► it's on the BBC we mean it's on British [TS]

00:03:21 ◼   ► television i know that there it's not [TS]

00:03:23 ◼   ► all on the BBC I don't care [TS]

00:03:25 ◼   ► as far as I'm concerned channel for his [TS]

00:03:27 ◼   ► BBC channel for ITV BBC ITV just all BBC [TS]

00:03:32 ◼   ► to me [TS]

00:03:33 ◼   ► I mean I just don't care it's all [TS]

00:03:35 ◼   ► because the beat it's all bc i'm an ugly [TS]

00:03:37 ◼   ► American and it's all on the BBC there's [TS]

00:03:39 ◼   ► one channel in the UK and only broadcast [TS]

00:03:40 ◼   ► good things all the embarrassing things [TS]

00:03:43 ◼   ► that they don't export don't exist they [TS]

00:03:45 ◼   ► don't exist it's all good stuff and it's [TS]

00:03:47 ◼   ► only on the BBC which airs roughly from [TS]

00:03:50 ◼   ► about 10 am-2 about 7pm and then they go [TS]

00:03:53 ◼   ► off the air and there's a test pattern [TS]

00:03:54 ◼   ► that is my my crazy American view of [TS]

00:03:57 ◼   ► british television but it's all good [TS]

00:03:59 ◼   ► when it's on the air it's all good and [TS]

00:04:00 ◼   ► then they go off and they have a little [TS]

00:04:01 ◼   ► sign off the Queen comes on live from [TS]

00:04:04 ◼   ► her palace and waves goodnight and tucks [TS]

00:04:06 ◼   ► everybody and and then they go off the [TS]

00:04:09 ◼   ► air and that's it as i am currently in [TS]

00:04:11 ◼   ► the Commonwealth right now I'm shaking [TS]

00:04:13 ◼   ► you mr. Snell sure enough it will see [TS]

00:04:16 ◼   ► where we're here we're here to we're [TS]

00:04:18 ◼   ► here to give us much entertainment as [TS]

00:04:19 ◼   ► possible to those are friends of us [TS]

00:04:21 ◼   ► across the pond and yeah we would be [TS]

00:04:22 ◼   ► disappointing them if we deny them the [TS]

00:04:24 ◼   ► opportunity to say oh you stupid gets [TS]

00:04:26 ◼   ► the Incas England Scotland Scotland [TS]

00:04:29 ◼   ► Wales as whales and there's more than [TS]

00:04:31 ◼   ► one TV channel you know and course you [TS]

00:04:33 ◼   ► would say it no I of damn i missed [TS]

00:04:35 ◼   ► opportunity i should have done that in a [TS]

00:04:36 ◼   ► really bad British accent so you can [TS]

00:04:38 ◼   ► make fun of how Americans try to have [TS]

00:04:40 ◼   ► like one accent for all of great britain [TS]

00:04:42 ◼   ► when there's actually regionals but this [TS]

00:04:44 ◼   ► is our gift to you make fun of us that [TS]

00:04:46 ◼   ► we're Americans we think that we know [TS]

00:04:47 ◼   ► what we know and so trying to learn what [TS]

00:04:49 ◼   ► we don't know why we're north americans [TS]

00:04:52 ◼   ► I have no idea what we're talking about [TS]

00:04:53 ◼   ► i just want this is our disclaimer [TS]

00:04:55 ◼   ► portion which is because i know we're [TS]

00:04:56 ◼   ► gonna get responses from knowledgeable [TS]

00:04:58 ◼   ► English people who are gonna say boy you [TS]

00:05:00 ◼   ► guys have no idea what you're talking [TS]

00:05:02 ◼   ► about [TS]

00:05:02 ◼   ► staz agreed and now on with the show [TS]

00:05:06 ◼   ► what what do North Americans like about [TS]

00:05:10 ◼   ► british television things that things [TS]

00:05:12 ◼   ► that we think that our listeners should [TS]

00:05:13 ◼   ► seek out you might not know about [TS]

00:05:14 ◼   ► because they're not products of the [TS]

00:05:16 ◼   ► Hollywood television system but they [TS]

00:05:18 ◼   ► came to us from a cut across the pond [TS]

00:05:20 ◼   ► and by golly where they wouldn't say by [TS]

00:05:23 ◼   ► golly over there I don't know what they [TS]

00:05:24 ◼   ► would say but you know right key [TS]

00:05:27 ◼   ► I don't know they you should watch them [TS]

00:05:29 ◼   ► it's a fact right common written ok a [TS]

00:05:34 ◼   ► holy they'd say no they're not sailors [TS]

00:05:36 ◼   ► what is that anyway so I thought I'd go [TS]

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00:05:41 ◼   ► you would like to recommend to our great [TS]

00:05:45 ◼   ► and comfortable worldwide listenership [TS]

00:05:46 ◼   ► that are are great and they're from [TS]

00:05:48 ◼   ► England and let's start with Monty do [TS]

00:05:50 ◼   ► you have a suggestion for us [TS]

00:05:52 ◼   ► I i would like to recommend kind of a [TS]

00:05:54 ◼   ► cluster of really brilliant political [TS]

00:05:57 ◼   ► satires starting with Yes Minister which [TS]

00:06:01 ◼   ► aired in the nineteen eighties was about [TS]

00:06:05 ◼   ► Jim hacker a minister of parliament [TS]

00:06:08 ◼   ► who's pretty much useless and feeble and [TS]

00:06:12 ◼   ► sir Humphrey Appleby played by the great [TS]

00:06:14 ◼   ► Nigel Hawthorne who was his bureaucrat [TS]

00:06:19 ◼   ► minder who kind of controlled him and [TS]

00:06:23 ◼   ► forced him to do what the bureaucracy [TS]

00:06:24 ◼   ► wanted not what the voters wanted they [TS]

00:06:27 ◼   ► were joined by Derek fouls as Bernard [TS]

00:06:30 ◼   ► Willie and it was a really entertaining [TS]

00:06:33 ◼   ► show you then turned into Yes Prime [TS]

00:06:36 ◼   ► Minister when Jim hacker somehow became [TS]

00:06:38 ◼   ► prime minister and spiritually I'm going [TS]

00:06:44 ◼   ► to claim it led to a great show called [TS]

00:06:46 ◼   ► the thick of it [TS]

00:06:47 ◼   ► ahh yes whoo good created by armando [TS]

00:06:52 ◼   ► iannucci mostly starring peter capaldi [TS]

00:06:55 ◼   ► who is going to be a doctor of some sort [TS]

00:06:58 ◼   ► on an upcoming television show [TS]

00:06:59 ◼   ► yes as [TS]

00:07:02 ◼   ► the whip for the prime minister who [TS]

00:07:04 ◼   ► curses and bullies at lesser ministers [TS]

00:07:08 ◼   ► up and taken together these three shows [TS]

00:07:12 ◼   ► Yes Minister Yes Prime Minister and the [TS]

00:07:14 ◼   ► thick of it show what politics is [TS]

00:07:16 ◼   ► actually like and why you shouldn't [TS]

00:07:18 ◼   ► expect much out of your politicians I i [TS]

00:07:22 ◼   ► give you i I've seen some episodes of [TS]

00:07:23 ◼   ► yes minister and and Hardy agreement on [TS]

00:07:27 ◼   ► the thick of it which I've been watching [TS]

00:07:29 ◼   ► because of Peter Capaldi because i heard [TS]

00:07:31 ◼   ► so many great things about it and he was [TS]

00:07:33 ◼   ► cast as a doctor of some sort and i [TS]

00:07:35 ◼   ► thought i would go back and watch him [TS]

00:07:36 ◼   ► and it's also if you've seen the HBO [TS]

00:07:38 ◼   ► series veep that is that is largely the [TS]

00:07:41 ◼   ► American extension with the same writers [TS]

00:07:44 ◼   ► i believe almost entirely of the the [TS]

00:07:47 ◼   ► thick of it pivots on hulu plus you can [TS]

00:07:49 ◼   ► you can see their fear in the US and [TS]

00:07:51 ◼   ► it's great and so you know quality is [TS]

00:07:53 ◼   ► great as this evening operative [TS]

00:07:56 ◼   ► political operative but also some of the [TS]

00:07:58 ◼   ► hapless members of parliament to work [TS]

00:08:00 ◼   ► whoo-hoo he chews up and spits out over [TS]

00:08:02 ◼   ► the course of various seasons are so [TS]

00:08:04 ◼   ► wonderful as they are terrible and bad [TS]

00:08:07 ◼   ► at their jobs and destroyed that it's a [TS]

00:08:09 ◼   ► very funny show and I'd like to give a [TS]

00:08:11 ◼   ► special note for the book versions of [TS]

00:08:14 ◼   ► yes minister and yes prime minister [TS]

00:08:15 ◼   ► which are practically unique in the [TS]

00:08:18 ◼   ► world of book adaptations of television [TS]

00:08:22 ◼   ► shows because they might be better than [TS]

00:08:24 ◼   ► the show instead of just taking the [TS]

00:08:26 ◼   ► scripts and printing them [TS]

00:08:27 ◼   ► the books are in the form of the diaries [TS]

00:08:31 ◼   ► of the characters so you get extra [TS]

00:08:35 ◼   ► thoughts you get more framing devices [TS]

00:08:37 ◼   ► and even if you haven't watched the show [TS]

00:08:40 ◼   ► you can sit down with the book of Yes [TS]

00:08:42 ◼   ► Prime Minister and really really enjoy [TS]

00:08:45 ◼   ► yourself [TS]

00:08:46 ◼   ► great those are great choices [TS]

00:08:50 ◼   ► yeah pic of it is a that wasn't that was [TS]

00:08:53 ◼   ► a natural i don't know if anybody else [TS]

00:08:54 ◼   ► want to jump it jump in and say things [TS]

00:08:56 ◼   ► about the thick of it that is [TS]

00:08:57 ◼   ► such-and-such a hilarious and crazy show [TS]

00:09:01 ◼   ► is definitely worth watching especially [TS]

00:09:02 ◼   ► if you're excited about Peter Capaldi [TS]

00:09:05 ◼   ► being on Doctor Who because then you [TS]

00:09:08 ◼   ► when you see him and Doctor Who you'll [TS]

00:09:09 ◼   ► say wow he's not swearing nearly as much [TS]

00:09:11 ◼   ► David [TS]

00:09:15 ◼   ► Laura what do you have for us well i'm [TS]

00:09:19 ◼   ► going to pick one of my very favorite [TS]

00:09:21 ◼   ► panel shows qi which stands for quite [TS]

00:09:26 ◼   ► interesting i came across it by accident [TS]

00:09:29 ◼   ► years and years ago just because it's [TS]

00:09:33 ◼   ► hosted by stephen fry and I mean hey [TS]

00:09:36 ◼   ► Stephen Fry and it's it's a wonderful [TS]

00:09:39 ◼   ► show was created by John Lloyd who if [TS]

00:09:42 ◼   ► you know anything about british comedy [TS]

00:09:44 ◼   ► in the last 35 years you know he was [TS]

00:09:48 ◼   ► instrumental in Hitchhiker's Guide in [TS]

00:09:50 ◼   ► the radio and then in the TV version he [TS]

00:09:53 ◼   ► co-wrote the deeper meaning of lift with [TS]

00:09:56 ◼   ► douglas adams he is sort of shepherded a [TS]

00:10:01 ◼   ► lot of comedy over the years and he [TS]

00:10:04 ◼   ► wanted to do this show called Qi where [TS]

00:10:07 ◼   ► you have four panelists mostly comedians [TS]

00:10:11 ◼   ► sometimes actors sometimes just [TS]

00:10:13 ◼   ► prominent people in Britain and he asks [TS]

00:10:17 ◼   ► them questions that are blindingly [TS]

00:10:20 ◼   ► obvious and someone gives the blindingly [TS]

00:10:23 ◼   ► obvious answer and a klaxon goes off and [TS]

00:10:25 ◼   ► all the lights flash and then he [TS]

00:10:27 ◼   ► explains why the obvious answer is [TS]

00:10:29 ◼   ► completely wrong and it's another one of [TS]

00:10:32 ◼   ► the shows where the points don't matter [TS]

00:10:33 ◼   ► but you get points you get points if you [TS]

00:10:37 ◼   ► get a the right answer you get points if [TS]

00:10:39 ◼   ► you have an interesting or funny answer [TS]

00:10:42 ◼   ► and really it's not about points it's [TS]

00:10:45 ◼   ► not about even the comedy so much for [TS]

00:10:48 ◼   ► sharing these really really bizarre [TS]

00:10:50 ◼   ► things that you thought you knew and you [TS]

00:10:52 ◼   ► didn't and it's just it's it's hilarious [TS]

00:10:56 ◼   ► and I think they're up to each season is [TS]

00:11:00 ◼   ► themed on a letter each series i'm sorry [TS]

00:11:02 ◼   ► series [TS]

00:11:03 ◼   ► yes we're proper British right now so [TS]

00:11:05 ◼   ► it's a series i think they're up to [TS]

00:11:09 ◼   ► l think L is the next series and it's [TS]

00:11:14 ◼   ► just it's a lot of fun and the more i [TS]

00:11:16 ◼   ► watched it the more I started saying why [TS]

00:11:19 ◼   ► isn't this on over here and actually [TS]

00:11:21 ◼   ► contacted john lawrence said you know [TS]

00:11:24 ◼   ► i'm i'm dying to watch this legally and [TS]

00:11:27 ◼   ► and and he said [TS]

00:11:29 ◼   ► we've been trying for years nobody will [TS]

00:11:32 ◼   ► put it on in America because they all [TS]

00:11:33 ◼   ► say it's too intelligent a spa too [TS]

00:11:36 ◼   ► intelligent for American audiences so [TS]

00:11:39 ◼   ► but there are some episodes on hulu [TS]

00:11:42 ◼   ► there are many more in illicit pockets [TS]

00:11:47 ◼   ► of available on the internet on the [TS]

00:11:50 ◼   ► internet [TS]

00:11:51 ◼   ► yes but if you are able to access the [TS]

00:11:54 ◼   ► BBC iplayer on the web or or the iplayer [TS]

00:11:57 ◼   ► app you can watch it when it's running [TS]

00:12:00 ◼   ► current episode it is just just a lot of [TS]

00:12:06 ◼   ► fun [TS]

00:12:07 ◼   ► alright great qi Erica what about you [TS]

00:12:13 ◼   ► what do you have for us [TS]

00:12:14 ◼   ► doctor-who stipulated Doctor Who itself [TS]

00:12:18 ◼   ► is stipulated yes [TS]

00:12:20 ◼   ► however I need to fulfill my could [TS]

00:12:24 ◼   ► contractual obligation to cover the [TS]

00:12:27 ◼   ► Doctor Who quotient and since you [TS]

00:12:28 ◼   ► already took that off the table and I'm [TS]

00:12:30 ◼   ► gonna pull a little bit of a monte here [TS]

00:12:32 ◼   ► and put some spiritual siblings together [TS]

00:12:34 ◼   ► as my sort of first pick and pick the [TS]

00:12:37 ◼   ► two good spin-offs of Doctor Who no that [TS]

00:12:41 ◼   ► is not canine company you got his canine [TS]

00:12:43 ◼   ► company and I don't even know what the [TS]

00:12:46 ◼   ► the leela adventures [TS]

00:12:48 ◼   ► no go ahead instead I'm instead I'm [TS]

00:12:52 ◼   ► gonna be unusual and i'm going to pick [TS]

00:12:54 ◼   ► Torchwood and the sarah jane adventures [TS]

00:12:56 ◼   ► and and I I like putting the two of them [TS]

00:12:59 ◼   ► together like this because there's a [TS]

00:13:01 ◼   ► little bit of something for everybody if [TS]

00:13:02 ◼   ► you like the sort of harder-edged you [TS]

00:13:05 ◼   ► know adult type thing that would be [TS]

00:13:07 ◼   ► Torchwood the first two seasons of which [TS]

00:13:10 ◼   ► are sometimes adult just for the sake of [TS]

00:13:13 ◼   ► being adults it feels like but I think [TS]

00:13:16 ◼   ► at the same time they are still fun [TS]

00:13:19 ◼   ► there's there's a light heartedness to [TS]

00:13:21 ◼   ► the first couple seasons that I really [TS]

00:13:23 ◼   ► enjoy [TS]

00:13:24 ◼   ► excuse me series is that I really enjoy [TS]

00:13:27 ◼   ► and then the third series is actually [TS]

00:13:31 ◼   ► was kind of a miniseries it's just five [TS]

00:13:33 ◼   ► episodes one day after the next after [TS]

00:13:35 ◼   ► the next and it was called chilled [TS]

00:13:36 ◼   ► tortured children of earth and it is i [TS]

00:13:39 ◼   ► think still if my favorite five consent [TS]

00:13:43 ◼   ► cute of episodes of television ever but [TS]

00:13:46 ◼   ► it is insanely dark it is really really [TS]

00:13:49 ◼   ► really dark it's about it [TS]

00:13:51 ◼   ► the children and in bad things happen to [TS]

00:13:54 ◼   ► these children also Peter Capaldi is [TS]

00:13:56 ◼   ► Annette and it's doesn't go well doesn't [TS]

00:13:59 ◼   ► go well for better quality he is [TS]

00:14:01 ◼   ► fantastic you that is the reason I mean [TS]

00:14:04 ◼   ► I love the thick of it but I didn't seek [TS]

00:14:05 ◼   ► that out until after I knew he was cast [TS]

00:14:08 ◼   ► so the Torchwood children of earth is [TS]

00:14:10 ◼   ► the reason that i was so excited to see [TS]

00:14:12 ◼   ► him come in and play the doctor because [TS]

00:14:14 ◼   ► I I he has such amazing range and [TS]

00:14:17 ◼   ► ability to emote and there was also a [TS]

00:14:19 ◼   ► fourth series of torchwood called [TS]

00:14:21 ◼   ► miracle day but the less said about that [TS]

00:14:22 ◼   ► the better I thinking [TS]

00:14:24 ◼   ► so bad yeah but if you are if you fear [TS]

00:14:27 ◼   ► to the other side you just you really [TS]

00:14:29 ◼   ► kind of like things that are still good [TS]

00:14:31 ◼   ► storytelling still very exciting [TS]

00:14:33 ◼   ► adventure but a little bit more on the [TS]

00:14:35 ◼   ► light-hearted chill childish kind of [TS]

00:14:39 ◼   ► side that would be the sarah jane [TS]

00:14:40 ◼   ► adventures which is the spin-off [TS]

00:14:42 ◼   ► starring list Laden who played the [TS]

00:14:45 ◼   ► lovely sarah jane who was one of my [TS]

00:14:47 ◼   ► favorite companions from the age of five [TS]

00:14:49 ◼   ► on up and she teams up with some middle [TS]

00:14:53 ◼   ► school children to save the earth [TS]

00:14:55 ◼   ► repeatedly from monsters and aliens and [TS]

00:14:59 ◼   ► that sort of thing and and i know some [TS]

00:15:01 ◼   ► people aren't a big fan of it simply [TS]

00:15:03 ◼   ► because it's aimed at kids so there's [TS]

00:15:05 ◼   ► definitely not as much of a hard edge [TS]

00:15:07 ◼   ► but if that kind of thing doesn't bother [TS]

00:15:09 ◼   ► you it's still really great storytelling [TS]

00:15:11 ◼   ► and it's very much like I would say that [TS]

00:15:14 ◼   ► it's more like Doctor Who and Torchwood [TS]

00:15:16 ◼   ► is i would say the sarah jane adventures [TS]

00:15:17 ◼   ► is is Doctor Who light whereas Torchwood [TS]

00:15:20 ◼   ► is it's just sort of its only thing that [TS]

00:15:23 ◼   ► happens to 10 gently take place in the [TS]

00:15:25 ◼   ► Doctor Who universe [TS]

00:15:26 ◼   ► I think they're both great that's a [TS]

00:15:28 ◼   ► surgeon adventures is actually a lot [TS]

00:15:29 ◼   ► like the old classic Doctor Who if it [TS]

00:15:31 ◼   ► was on today it is it is definitely [TS]

00:15:33 ◼   ► geared towards children it's the short [TS]

00:15:35 ◼   ► 25-minute multi-unit two-part episodes [TS]

00:15:37 ◼   ► that they are two parts stories that [TS]

00:15:39 ◼   ► they tell and and it's definitely kids [TS]

00:15:41 ◼   ► show but it's definitely got it sweet [TS]

00:15:44 ◼   ► it's it's it's a lot of fun and it's a [TS]

00:15:46 ◼   ► shame because was Slayton passed away [TS]

00:15:48 ◼   ► and they they didn't get a chance to [TS]

00:15:49 ◼   ► sort of properly wrap it up but it's a [TS]

00:15:52 ◼   ► lot of fun i actually have to admit [TS]

00:15:54 ◼   ► there were there are only a few episodes [TS]

00:15:56 ◼   ► it's in the final season and i have not [TS]

00:15:59 ◼   ► watched them yet because I just can't [TS]

00:16:00 ◼   ► bring myself to do it because once that [TS]

00:16:02 ◼   ► once they're done they're done now [TS]

00:16:03 ◼   ► whereas Torchwood yeah you're totally [TS]

00:16:05 ◼   ► right about that last season of [TS]

00:16:07 ◼   ► torchwood series of torchwood whatever [TS]

00:16:08 ◼   ► was in the American co-production we [TS]

00:16:11 ◼   ► call the season it wasn't it wasn't good [TS]

00:16:14 ◼   ► children / I don't really like the end I [TS]

00:16:15 ◼   ► thought the last episode kinda fell [TS]

00:16:17 ◼   ► apart but those first four episodes are [TS]

00:16:18 ◼   ► amazingly good so it's a very x-files [TS]

00:16:22 ◼   ► kind of show it's like x-files meets dr. [TS]

00:16:24 ◼   ► who and it is got it does have some [TS]

00:16:26 ◼   ► really funny moments too [TS]

00:16:28 ◼   ► yeah and I great i do agree that the [TS]

00:16:30 ◼   ► last the end of it was the weak the weak [TS]

00:16:32 ◼   ► point but i still liked it enough like [TS]

00:16:35 ◼   ► they were the rest of it enough that i [TS]

00:16:36 ◼   ► was kind of still coasting on the the [TS]

00:16:37 ◼   ► top of that wave always got mad at the [TS]

00:16:40 ◼   ► people on Torchwood because there's a [TS]

00:16:41 ◼   ► there a tiny team they're charged with [TS]

00:16:43 ◼   ► practically protecting the entire planet [TS]

00:16:45 ◼   ► and they spent so much time sleeping [TS]

00:16:48 ◼   ► with each other and pointin guns at each [TS]

00:16:49 ◼   ► other at the leading professional [TS]

00:16:51 ◼   ► organization i've ever seen [TS]

00:16:53 ◼   ► there is so dysfunctional it's [TS]

00:16:55 ◼   ► ridiculous they're just all bad at their [TS]

00:16:57 ◼   ► jobs but it's fun to watch [TS]

00:17:00 ◼   ► get it together people you got to save [TS]

00:17:01 ◼   ► the world no time for this stuff [TS]

00:17:03 ◼   ► oh that's all they do is have time for [TS]

00:17:05 ◼   ► that stuff [TS]

00:17:06 ◼   ► ah alright Andy it's your turn what do [TS]

00:17:08 ◼   ► you have for us [TS]

00:17:09 ◼   ► I just finished binge-watching foyle's [TS]

00:17:13 ◼   ► war and there was one of those series [TS]

00:17:15 ◼   ► where I realized that wow how dumb I am [TS]

00:17:18 ◼   ► I could have been watching this series [TS]

00:17:19 ◼   ► as early as like 10 years ago but don't [TS]

00:17:22 ◼   ► be me i only discovered it about 3-4 [TS]

00:17:24 ◼   ► weeks ago [TS]

00:17:25 ◼   ► it's a really great mystery show and [TS]

00:17:29 ◼   ► because of the context of where the [TS]

00:17:31 ◼   ► stories take place it takes place in [TS]

00:17:32 ◼   ► 1940 nineteen forties England [TS]

00:17:35 ◼   ► specifically starts like 19 for the [TS]

00:17:38 ◼   ► first three starts in 1940 the very [TS]

00:17:40 ◼   ► start of the war at the end the Chief [TS]

00:17:44 ◼   ► Superintendent Foyle is of course in [TS]

00:17:46 ◼   ► charge of you know investigating murders [TS]

00:17:48 ◼   ► that are happening in this English [TS]

00:17:50 ◼   ► Channel facing town at a time when [TS]

00:17:53 ◼   ► regular policing is kind of taking a [TS]

00:17:57 ◼   ► back burner to just defending the nation [TS]

00:17:59 ◼   ► against and a german invasion that [TS]

00:18:02 ◼   ► everyone believes is going to happen [TS]

00:18:03 ◼   ► anytime now like in the very first [TS]

00:18:05 ◼   ► series things are so tense that he's [TS]

00:18:07 ◼   ► investigate he's investigating a murder [TS]

00:18:09 ◼   ► and he's talking to [TS]

00:18:10 ◼   ► someone who's basically knows that ok i [TS]

00:18:12 ◼   ► know that you're involved in this sum [TS]

00:18:13 ◼   ► here and you need copper will cooperate [TS]

00:18:15 ◼   ► with me and he says flat-out well look [TS]

00:18:17 ◼   ► everybody knows that like the german [TS]

00:18:19 ◼   ► invasion is on there going to be here in [TS]

00:18:21 ◼   ► four days [TS]

00:18:22 ◼   ► by that time your you will have been [TS]

00:18:24 ◼   ► taken out and shot and I think I can do [TS]

00:18:26 ◼   ► it I can have a better time dealing with [TS]

00:18:28 ◼   ► whatever German they have running the [TS]

00:18:29 ◼   ► town in four days time so I'm not gonna [TS]

00:18:31 ◼   ► help you do squat [TS]

00:18:33 ◼   ► it's so nicely done not only because of [TS]

00:18:36 ◼   ► this sort of disconnect of how that he [TS]

00:18:39 ◼   ► can know exactly who's done it but maybe [TS]

00:18:41 ◼   ► someone in the military is going to come [TS]

00:18:43 ◼   ► down and say yeah but he's in he's real [TS]

00:18:45 ◼   ► this person who's been who you did [TS]

00:18:48 ◼   ► review accused of racketeering he really [TS]

00:18:51 ◼   ► is very important in getting things [TS]

00:18:52 ◼   ► moving from point A to point B so we're [TS]

00:18:54 ◼   ► gonna have to ask you not to prosecute [TS]

00:18:56 ◼   ► him and rather than do this really lame [TS]

00:19:00 ◼   ► thing where he finds a way to subvert [TS]

00:19:01 ◼   ► all that he just has to know [TS]

00:19:03 ◼   ► yes to eat dirt and and take it because [TS]

00:19:05 ◼   ► of the times even though he's [TS]

00:19:07 ◼   ► desperately unhappy with the way things [TS]

00:19:08 ◼   ► are going in a broader sense i love the [TS]

00:19:11 ◼   ► fact that these are 90 minute episodes [TS]

00:19:13 ◼   ► they remind me a lot of colombo in that [TS]

00:19:16 ◼   ► there's so much there so there's so much [TS]

00:19:18 ◼   ► time to deal with every episode that [TS]

00:19:21 ◼   ► they have time to do lots of little [TS]

00:19:23 ◼   ► character scenes that you know that not [TS]

00:19:24 ◼   ► every scene has to do with the with the [TS]

00:19:26 ◼   ► solving of the crime they can just have [TS]

00:19:29 ◼   ► have a 10-minute spread across an hour [TS]

00:19:31 ◼   ► about how hungry this person is somehow [TS]

00:19:34 ◼   ► whether that when a leg when the [TS]

00:19:37 ◼   ► racketeer ever record ring is broken up [TS]

00:19:40 ◼   ► and there is a fully dressed turkey [TS]

00:19:42 ◼   ► that's been seized as evidence and [TS]

00:19:45 ◼   ► everybody's looking at this turkey in [TS]

00:19:47 ◼   ► the evidence Locker calculating the [TS]

00:19:49 ◼   ► amount of time is going to how many days [TS]

00:19:51 ◼   ► have to go by before it will be so [TS]

00:19:52 ◼   ► spoiled that it can't be and trying to [TS]

00:19:55 ◼   ► work on the Sunfoil as I look you can we [TS]

00:19:57 ◼   ► just like take a picture of it and that [TS]

00:19:59 ◼   ► will be the evidence that can we just [TS]

00:20:00 ◼   ► eat that it's a shame to let this turkey [TS]

00:20:02 ◼   ► Drive we've haven't had this kind of [TS]

00:20:04 ◼   ► fresh degree in Indian years and the [TS]

00:20:06 ◼   ► other great thing is especially when [TS]

00:20:08 ◼   ► you're talking about navigating a [TS]

00:20:09 ◼   ► mystery when you have a when you have a [TS]

00:20:12 ◼   ► show like like house or monk you know [TS]

00:20:15 ◼   ► that your you have so much experience [TS]

00:20:17 ◼   ► with these little 42-minute dramas that [TS]

00:20:19 ◼   ► you know that if the detective like [TS]

00:20:22 ◼   ► happens to meet so if they happen [TS]

00:20:24 ◼   ► to have a conversation with a custodian [TS]

00:20:27 ◼   ► at the high school where the murder [TS]

00:20:28 ◼   ► happened and this person has more than [TS]

00:20:30 ◼   ► three lines you know that ok they would [TS]

00:20:33 ◼   ► not have wasted two and a half minutes [TS]

00:20:34 ◼   ► our conversation with this guy who just [TS]

00:20:36 ◼   ► added you just as all well you know i'm [TS]

00:20:38 ◼   ► i'm just here on tuesdays and wednesdays [TS]

00:20:40 ◼   ► I've just here i'm just old newly the [TS]

00:20:42 ◼   ► broom Smith don't mind me you know that [TS]

00:20:44 ◼   ► he's going to be either the key witness [TS]

00:20:45 ◼   ► or he's the guy who did it but that's [TS]

00:20:47 ◼   ► the law of the economy of characters [TS]

00:20:48 ◼   ► that's a classic [TS]

00:20:50 ◼   ► so you think there's a lot of [TS]

00:20:51 ◼   ► disorientation there's a lot of freedom [TS]

00:20:53 ◼   ► to do all kinds of other things and the [TS]

00:20:55 ◼   ► last thing is that i love these shows [TS]

00:20:57 ◼   ► that give you sort of a backdoor [TS]

00:20:58 ◼   ► education on history or a certain time [TS]

00:21:01 ◼   ► now this isn't here to teach history but [TS]

00:21:03 ◼   ► nonetheless you know there's a there's a [TS]

00:21:05 ◼   ► just a street scene which everybody is [TS]

00:21:07 ◼   ► in period dress they're walking down the [TS]

00:21:09 ◼   ► street and you know gee everybody seems [TS]

00:21:11 ◼   ► to be carrying a little cardboard [TS]

00:21:13 ◼   ► rectangular box on a string around their [TS]

00:21:15 ◼   ► shoulders and what that's all about it [TS]

00:21:16 ◼   ► then you realize oh those are gas masks [TS]

00:21:18 ◼   ► nobody wants to leave their house unless [TS]

00:21:20 ◼   ► they're carrying again oh wow that [TS]

00:21:22 ◼   ► that's an intense part of the present [TS]

00:21:24 ◼   ► tense time to be to be alive in 1940 and [TS]

00:21:27 ◼   ► in Britain so for those were also i will [TS]

00:21:29 ◼   ► mention Sherlock earlier this is a very [TS]

00:21:31 ◼   ► similar format where it's the long [TS]

00:21:32 ◼   ► episodes and there aren't very many of [TS]

00:21:34 ◼   ► them / / series it's a very similar [TS]

00:21:36 ◼   ► format to Sherlock it's like a little [TS]

00:21:38 ◼   ► bunch of little movies [TS]

00:21:40 ◼   ► yeah i think i think the last series is [TS]

00:21:42 ◼   ► actually three episodes i've been [TS]

00:21:43 ◼   ► watching them on amazon prime and it's [TS]

00:21:46 ◼   ► like binge watching me okay I'm absent [TS]

00:21:48 ◼   ► episode 3 episode 4 away there is no [TS]

00:21:50 ◼   ► episode 4 no okay still be made though [TS]

00:21:53 ◼   ► still still still being made [TS]

00:21:55 ◼   ► alright Foyle's War good one and take a [TS]

00:21:58 ◼   ► break to talk about one of our sponsors [TS]

00:21:59 ◼   ► it's Squarespace the on one platform [TS]

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00:22:03 ◼   ► your own professional website portfolio [TS]

00:22:05 ◼   ► and online store you may be saying to [TS]

00:22:07 ◼   ► yourself you know I'm not a super [TS]

00:22:08 ◼   ► computer genius [TS]

00:22:09 ◼   ► I don't know how to build my own website [TS]

00:22:11 ◼   ► you may actually be saying i am a super [TS]

00:22:13 ◼   ► computer genius i know lots of things [TS]

00:22:15 ◼   ► but one of the things that I'm not [TS]

00:22:16 ◼   ► totally up to speed on his web design [TS]

00:22:19 ◼   ► and the latest web technologies and I [TS]

00:22:21 ◼   ► don't want to be bothered maybe i do [TS]

00:22:22 ◼   ► some of that my day job but what I want [TS]

00:22:24 ◼   ► to make this website for my side [TS]

00:22:26 ◼   ► business or the project that i'm working [TS]

00:22:28 ◼   ► on for a family member or or something [TS]

00:22:31 ◼   ► that you're working on with a friend [TS]

00:22:32 ◼   ► some plan to like take over the universe [TS]

00:22:34 ◼   ► or something and you need a website for [TS]

00:22:36 ◼   ► that because you gotta have a website at [TS]

00:22:37 ◼   ► each [TS]

00:22:37 ◼   ► therefore everything Squarespace doesn't [TS]

00:22:39 ◼   ► do t-shirts but they do websites this is [TS]

00:22:41 ◼   ► what Squarespace is they make it simple [TS]

00:22:43 ◼   ► and easy to build websites you don't [TS]

00:22:45 ◼   ► have to know this stuff there are [TS]

00:22:46 ◼   ► beautiful designs these pre-formatted [TS]

00:22:49 ◼   ► templates that look gorgeous and they [TS]

00:22:51 ◼   ► are responsive so they work on mobile as [TS]

00:22:53 ◼   ► well as desktop and they're all [TS]

00:22:54 ◼   ► modifiable their customizable you can [TS]

00:22:57 ◼   ► start with a blank page and build your [TS]

00:22:58 ◼   ► own Squarespace templates you can modify [TS]

00:23:00 ◼   ► the templates that are there they're [TS]

00:23:02 ◼   ► tools are really easy to use as well [TS]

00:23:04 ◼   ► they've got drag and drop content tools [TS]

00:23:07 ◼   ► there's great support if you get stuck [TS]

00:23:09 ◼   ► if you again as I said are not a [TS]

00:23:11 ◼   ► complete master of all things web design [TS]

00:23:14 ◼   ► and web development there's twenty four [TS]

00:23:16 ◼   ► seven support to live chat and email [TS]

00:23:19 ◼   ► they've got support located all over the [TS]

00:23:21 ◼   ► globe that's why the people are not like [TS]

00:23:24 ◼   ► talking to you in the middle of the [TS]

00:23:25 ◼   ► night all the time even if it's the [TS]

00:23:26 ◼   ► middle of the night where you are it's [TS]

00:23:28 ◼   ► not necessarily where they are because [TS]

00:23:29 ◼   ► they've got great support New York City [TS]

00:23:31 ◼   ► dublin and other places around the world [TS]

00:23:33 ◼   ► and plans are affordable which is [TS]

00:23:36 ◼   ► another great thing about Squarespace [TS]

00:23:37 ◼   ► you hear us all talking about [TS]

00:23:39 ◼   ► Squarespace on podcast and you think [TS]

00:23:40 ◼   ► this is this giant monolithic [TS]

00:23:42 ◼   ► corporation they are going to suck like [TS]

00:23:44 ◼   ► five hundred dollars a day of my wallet [TS]

00:23:48 ◼   ► and it's not true plans started eight [TS]

00:23:49 ◼   ► dollars a month and if you sign up for a [TS]

00:23:51 ◼   ► whole year they will register a free [TS]

00:23:53 ◼   ► domain name for you [TS]

00:23:55 ◼   ► so that's just on the house for [TS]

00:23:57 ◼   ► something for a year of Squarespace and [TS]

00:23:58 ◼   ► plans are cheap now also if you want to [TS]

00:24:02 ◼   ► sell things [TS]

00:24:03 ◼   ► let's say you're not taking over the [TS]

00:24:04 ◼   ► world yet but you do need to sell things [TS]

00:24:06 ◼   ► on the internet as part of your plan to [TS]

00:24:09 ◼   ► take over the world well [TS]

00:24:10 ◼   ► Squarespace comes with an online store [TS]

00:24:12 ◼   ► it's not some weird like bonus thing you [TS]

00:24:16 ◼   ► could graft on from some other source it [TS]

00:24:17 ◼   ► comes with an online store you just get [TS]

00:24:20 ◼   ► it when you sign up so I think I've made [TS]

00:24:22 ◼   ► my point here if you are a super villain [TS]

00:24:24 ◼   ► or superhero quite frankly Squarespace [TS]

00:24:27 ◼   ► can serve you if you're selling things [TS]

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00:24:51 ◼   ► geeky at checkout Squarespace a better [TS]

00:24:54 ◼   ► web starts with your website and thank [TS]

00:24:56 ◼   ► you so much to squarespace for [TS]

00:24:59 ◼   ► supporting me uncomfortable [TS]

00:25:00 ◼   ► it's my turn i am going to i have so [TS]

00:25:03 ◼   ► many to choose from oh my god how long [TS]

00:25:05 ◼   ► can we be here [TS]

00:25:05 ◼   ► uh-huh special eight-hour episode 1 [TS]

00:25:08 ◼   ► yeah so I part 1 of the BBC and it's all [TS]

00:25:11 ◼   ► bc again I'm just saying [TS]

00:25:13 ◼   ► actually this is I don't even know what [TS]

00:25:16 ◼   ► what uh what what channel is this on i'm [TS]

00:25:19 ◼   ► just going to say the BBC it is a BBC [TS]

00:25:22 ◼   ► show it's that mitchell and webb look [TS]

00:25:24 ◼   ► featuring david mitchell and Robert Webb [TS]

00:25:27 ◼   ► this is a fantastic sketch comedy series [TS]

00:25:29 ◼   ► it is perhaps my favorite sketch comedy [TS]

00:25:31 ◼   ► series of all time [TS]

00:25:33 ◼   ► these are the david mitchell rubber web [TS]

00:25:36 ◼   ► are a comedy duo they starred in the [TS]

00:25:39 ◼   ► sitcom Peep Show which a lot of people [TS]

00:25:41 ◼   ► like and I kind of don't like so much [TS]

00:25:43 ◼   ► but mitchell and webb that mitchell and [TS]

00:25:46 ◼   ► webb look this this series which is [TS]

00:25:48 ◼   ► which errors semi-regularly you can find [TS]

00:25:51 ◼   ► it on I think BBC america and the u.s. [TS]

00:25:53 ◼   ► and there are lots of great clips on [TS]

00:25:55 ◼   ► youtube where you can go check it out [TS]

00:25:56 ◼   ► and it's been on netflix to yeah yeah [TS]

00:25:58 ◼   ► and you should go you should check it [TS]

00:26:00 ◼   ► out it is a great set of of sketches [TS]

00:26:04 ◼   ► numberwang is a good one it is the most [TS]

00:26:06 ◼   ► nonsensical and complicated game show [TS]

00:26:08 ◼   ► ever [TS]

00:26:09 ◼   ► there is the there's the game show that [TS]

00:26:11 ◼   ► is after the after the incident which is [TS]

00:26:14 ◼   ► a there's been a holocaust that nobody [TS]

00:26:16 ◼   ► wants to talk about and they have a sort [TS]

00:26:18 ◼   ► of really very sad game show that [TS]

00:26:21 ◼   ► generally just reminds you to remain [TS]

00:26:23 ◼   ► indoors and then lots of other great sir [TS]

00:26:26 ◼   ► digby chicken caesar the homeless [TS]

00:26:28 ◼   ► homeless guy who have wanders around and [TS]

00:26:33 ◼   ► thinks he's as a secret-agent and as [TS]

00:26:36 ◼   ► like a a HS mounted camera so the whole [TS]

00:26:39 ◼   ► everything he does is this weird [TS]

00:26:40 ◼   ► perspective shot that's really great [TS]

00:26:42 ◼   ► just some great TV bit some great [TS]

00:26:44 ◼   ► character bits fantastic group of actors [TS]

00:26:48 ◼   ► who are on the show with them most [TS]

00:26:50 ◼   ► noticeable most notably Olivia Colman [TS]

00:26:52 ◼   ► and Patterson Joseph really funny and [TS]

00:26:56 ◼   ► the best single i think comedy bit about [TS]

00:26:59 ◼   ► sports I've ever seen which is there at [TS]

00:27:02 ◼   ► their bit advertising the it's basically [TS]

00:27:05 ◼   ► the sky TV's football coverage and you [TS]

00:27:09 ◼   ► should check out that clip on youtube [TS]

00:27:11 ◼   ► because the mitchell and webb football [TS]

00:27:12 ◼   ► bit is inspired anyway I was brilliant i [TS]

00:27:16 ◼   ► could not I I it is yeah it is my [TS]

00:27:18 ◼   ► favorite TV sketch show I think maybe [TS]

00:27:21 ◼   ► mark a lot of money pythons in the Hall [TS]

00:27:22 ◼   ► of Fame so we'll let it go but it is a [TS]

00:27:24 ◼   ► great show the end and these guys are [TS]

00:27:27 ◼   ► are really versatile and fun and they've [TS]

00:27:29 ◼   ► got a great supporting cast so i highly [TS]

00:27:31 ◼   ► recommend that you seek out that [TS]

00:27:32 ◼   ► mitchell and webb look and there's a [TS]

00:27:34 ◼   ► doctor who connection [TS]

00:27:35 ◼   ► yes they were robot voices in right in [TS]

00:27:38 ◼   ► dinosaurs on a spaceship [TS]

00:27:39 ◼   ► they also started the back in the pc and [TS]

00:27:41 ◼   ► the British back vs pc ads yes they were [TS]

00:27:44 ◼   ► the British mac and pc that is [TS]

00:27:45 ◼   ► absolutely right it's great and so do i [TS]

00:27:48 ◼   ► definitely check it out so that mitchell [TS]

00:27:49 ◼   ► and webb look and then they also do that [TS]

00:27:51 ◼   ► mitchell and webb sound which is a radio [TS]

00:27:54 ◼   ► version where sometimes they try out [TS]

00:27:56 ◼   ► sketches before they do them on the TV [TS]

00:27:58 ◼   ► version but a lot of them are unique to [TS]

00:28:01 ◼   ► the radio because they wouldn't work on [TS]

00:28:03 ◼   ► in visual so so well with looking for [TS]

00:28:07 ◼   ► that's number way that's not that bad [TS]

00:28:09 ◼   ► and and since you and since you have [TS]

00:28:11 ◼   ► have gotten number one David Monty gets [TS]

00:28:14 ◼   ► to go next Monty what do you have [TS]

00:28:17 ◼   ► well I don't think we're being nerdy [TS]

00:28:20 ◼   ► enough so i'm going to explain to [TS]

00:28:22 ◼   ► everybody that they need to watch spaced [TS]

00:28:24 ◼   ► if you haven't watched spaced your full [TS]

00:28:27 ◼   ► and we could practically put that on the [TS]

00:28:28 ◼   ► board but if de Morgan's not here so go [TS]

00:28:30 ◼   ► ahead [TS]

00:28:31 ◼   ► Edgar Wright directed it's written by [TS]

00:28:35 ◼   ► simon pegg uh-huh and it has nick frost [TS]

00:28:39 ◼   ► in it so the first thing you notice is [TS]

00:28:41 ◼   ► that it's the same people as in the [TS]

00:28:42 ◼   ► Cornetto trilogy [TS]

00:28:43 ◼   ► yes but it's also everybody that's doing [TS]

00:28:47 ◼   ► british comedy these days right Jessica [TS]

00:28:50 ◼   ► Stephenson is in that who is now Jessica [TS]

00:28:53 ◼   ► Hynes right and then she co-wrote it [TS]

00:28:56 ◼   ► yeah with with simon pegg Doctor Who [TS]

00:28:59 ◼   ► connection there to them [TS]

00:29:00 ◼   ► well my theory and i'm using space to [TS]

00:29:03 ◼   ► jump off from this is that England is a [TS]

00:29:06 ◼   ► very small country and there's only so [TS]

00:29:10 ◼   ► many people that you can put in your [TS]

00:29:11 ◼   ► show [TS]

00:29:12 ◼   ► there's only about 10 actors in England [TS]

00:29:14 ◼   ► that people don't know this but there's [TS]

00:29:15 ◼   ► really only 10 and so when you see that [TS]

00:29:17 ◼   ► said that guy doctor who and then he's [TS]

00:29:18 ◼   ► on Sherlock [TS]

00:29:19 ◼   ► and and then he's on space you're like [TS]

00:29:20 ◼   ► oh well I mean they have to reuse actors [TS]

00:29:22 ◼   ► because there's only about ten exactly [TS]

00:29:24 ◼   ► you watch space and you say who's this [TS]

00:29:25 ◼   ► neat guy with the deep voice well that's [TS]

00:29:27 ◼   ► Peter Sarafina which and he's also on [TS]

00:29:29 ◼   ► look around you and he's also on black [TS]

00:29:31 ◼   ► books and he's on everything because [TS]

00:29:32 ◼   ► everybody's on everything [TS]

00:29:34 ◼   ► yeah but specifically spaced um it's [TS]

00:29:39 ◼   ► great it's directed interestingly it's [TS]

00:29:42 ◼   ► about nerds it is if you like the [TS]

00:29:47 ◼   ► incomparable i am confident you would [TS]

00:29:49 ◼   ► like Spencer you be watching [TS]

00:29:52 ◼   ► yes I think that I think that's exactly [TS]

00:29:53 ◼   ► right if you like the incomparable you [TS]

00:29:55 ◼   ► need to watch spaced yes that's a great [TS]

00:29:59 ◼   ► one [TS]

00:29:59 ◼   ► that's what I think that's Dan morons [TS]

00:30:01 ◼   ► favorite TV show might be surrendered [TS]

00:30:03 ◼   ► his favorite TV show to it's definitely [TS]

00:30:04 ◼   ► up at the top for both of them too so [TS]

00:30:07 ◼   ► that's great space you can't you can't [TS]

00:30:09 ◼   ► go wrong with spaced David what do you [TS]

00:30:10 ◼   ► have in the second round of the thing [TS]

00:30:13 ◼   ► that is not a draft ok David what do you [TS]

00:30:16 ◼   ► have for us but well I am gonna serve [TS]

00:30:21 ◼   ► them with couple of things together [TS]

00:30:23 ◼   ► yeah that's fine that's fair because i'm [TS]

00:30:26 ◼   ► i'm a big fan of spy TV shows I and I i [TS]

00:30:29 ◼   ► grew up on several of them but then I [TS]

00:30:32 ◼   ► want to lead into like a slightly [TS]

00:30:34 ◼   ► different spy series hmm [TS]

00:30:37 ◼   ► growing up i watch The Avengers and the [TS]

00:30:40 ◼   ► New Avengers which isn't quite as good [TS]

00:30:42 ◼   ► but I you know I loved them i grew up [TS]

00:30:44 ◼   ► watching secret agent and then of course [TS]

00:30:47 ◼   ► the prisoner which we could do a whole [TS]

00:30:49 ◼   ► episode about all by itself should and [TS]

00:30:51 ◼   ► at some point yes and one of these days [TS]

00:30:53 ◼   ► and you know they're all I mean the [TS]

00:30:56 ◼   ► prisoners a little more serious and [TS]

00:30:58 ◼   ► secret agent is a little more serious [TS]

00:30:59 ◼   ► but they they're all in a similar kind [TS]

00:31:03 ◼   ► of sixties spy vain but the one I really [TS]

00:31:08 ◼   ► wanted to mention which doesn't get as [TS]

00:31:10 ◼   ► much attention over here at least is a [TS]

00:31:13 ◼   ► series from the late seventies called [TS]

00:31:15 ◼   ► the sandbaggers which is much more in [TS]

00:31:19 ◼   ► that sort of John lekar a smileys people [TS]

00:31:22 ◼   ► mold and greg rucka who does the the [TS]

00:31:26 ◼   ► comic and graphic novel Queen and [TS]

00:31:29 ◼   ► country has said that that was pretty [TS]

00:31:32 ◼   ► much the inspiration it's it's almost [TS]

00:31:34 ◼   ► the same kind of structure to the [TS]

00:31:36 ◼   ► organization and they used similar terms [TS]

00:31:39 ◼   ► and yeah i mean i don't want to say it's [TS]

00:31:41 ◼   ► more realistic i mean it's it's [TS]

00:31:44 ◼   ► obviously fiction but it's a much more [TS]

00:31:47 ◼   ► procedural it's the there aren't car [TS]

00:31:50 ◼   ► chases there aren't action scenes there [TS]

00:31:52 ◼   ► that everybody's bitter and the smoke a [TS]

00:31:54 ◼   ► lot and they drink a lot of coffee and [TS]

00:31:57 ◼   ► stuff happens and people die and it's [TS]

00:31:59 ◼   ► it's kind of it's kind of like a [TS]

00:32:01 ◼   ► complete 180 from the light froth fun of [TS]

00:32:04 ◼   ► the Avengers so but but i recommend all [TS]

00:32:08 ◼   ► of them yeah I thought you were going to [TS]

00:32:09 ◼   ► go with spy and you want a totally [TS]

00:32:11 ◼   ► different direction than spy if you [TS]

00:32:13 ◼   ► haven't seen to buy you want you don't [TS]

00:32:14 ◼   ► know that what that is but maybe people [TS]

00:32:16 ◼   ► will mention i have seen I have scenes [TS]

00:32:18 ◼   ► by all right it's a very different show [TS]

00:32:19 ◼   ► and not really about spies anyway maybe [TS]

00:32:21 ◼   ► we'll get to that Erica what do you have [TS]

00:32:24 ◼   ► and this is dr. related is this going to [TS]

00:32:26 ◼   ► be Blake seven are you going to pick [TS]

00:32:27 ◼   ► Blake's 7 but I will admit that Blake's [TS]

00:32:30 ◼   ► 7 is somewhere on my lips that I alright [TS]

00:32:34 ◼   ► alright I'm gonna do another kind of 241 [TS]

00:32:38 ◼   ► because it's two shows that i like sort [TS]

00:32:41 ◼   ► of for the same reason you know if this [TS]

00:32:43 ◼   ► was a draft this would be cheating [TS]

00:32:45 ◼   ► see I know it's not a draft that I feel [TS]

00:32:47 ◼   ► empowered [TS]

00:32:50 ◼   ► anyway the first one is a monarch of the [TS]

00:32:52 ◼   ► glen which is sort of a a a charming [TS]

00:32:56 ◼   ► pastoral Scottish oh that's loosely [TS]

00:32:58 ◼   ► based on a circumference Mackenzie's [TS]

00:32:59 ◼   ► highland novels they were set in the [TS]

00:33:02 ◼   ► nineteen thirties and forties but the [TS]

00:33:04 ◼   ► show actually ran from like 2000-2005 [TS]

00:33:06 ◼   ► and and was sort of setting in modern [TS]

00:33:09 ◼   ► day times and it starts out being about [TS]

00:33:12 ◼   ► this city boy who kind of gets suckered [TS]

00:33:15 ◼   ► into sticking around to try to restore [TS]

00:33:18 ◼   ► his his childhood home and in the [TS]

00:33:21 ◼   ► Scottish Highlands and he doesn't really [TS]

00:33:22 ◼   ► want to be there and you know it's the [TS]

00:33:24 ◼   ► the city boy getting used to the country [TS]

00:33:26 ◼   ► life again thing and it's it's it's just [TS]

00:33:29 ◼   ► kind of quirky and cute and charming and [TS]

00:33:31 ◼   ► then final two seasons [TS]

00:33:33 ◼   ► well actually it in the beginning of the [TS]

00:33:35 ◼   ► show richard briers who's a very [TS]

00:33:37 ◼   ► well-known British actor who was in a [TS]

00:33:40 ◼   ► doctor who's in paradise towers he's of [TS]

00:33:42 ◼   ► he's the infuriating curmudgeonly all [TS]

00:33:45 ◼   ► old old father and then later on that [TS]

00:33:48 ◼   ► the sort of old fellow role is taken [TS]

00:33:51 ◼   ► over by none other than Tom Baker the [TS]

00:33:52 ◼   ► fourth doctor himself he comes in and [TS]

00:33:55 ◼   ► plays that characters brother for the [TS]

00:33:57 ◼   ► last couple of seasons and things are [TS]

00:33:59 ◼   ► kind of falling apart plot-wise buy it [TS]

00:34:01 ◼   ► by that time but it's fun to watch Tom [TS]

00:34:03 ◼   ► Baker being he's kind of just being Tom [TS]

00:34:05 ◼   ► Baker to be perfectly honest but it's [TS]

00:34:07 ◼   ► really fun to watch [TS]

00:34:08 ◼   ► so I i recommend it up when i watched it [TS]

00:34:11 ◼   ► was on netflix i don't know if it still [TS]

00:34:14 ◼   ► is [TS]

00:34:15 ◼   ► things are a little different here in [TS]

00:34:16 ◼   ► Canada but i would i would recommend [TS]

00:34:18 ◼   ► searching that out and the other one [TS]

00:34:19 ◼   ► that I like four sort of similar reasons [TS]

00:34:21 ◼   ► because its pastoral and charming and [TS]

00:34:23 ◼   ► quirky is a show called born and bred [TS]

00:34:25 ◼   ► and it was a British drama the air right [TS]

00:34:30 ◼   ► around the same time it was 2002 2005 [TS]

00:34:32 ◼   ► and it is it's another one that just has [TS]

00:34:35 ◼   ► a bunch of these sort of Apple [TS]

00:34:36 ◼   ► countrified characters that are a little [TS]

00:34:39 ◼   ► bit strange and a little bit silly and [TS]

00:34:42 ◼   ► this is a show that I get teased [TS]

00:34:44 ◼   ► mercilessly for for liking every time I [TS]

00:34:46 ◼   ► run into Rob Sherman at a convention [TS]

00:34:48 ◼   ► because he tells me I'm I'm dumb and [TS]

00:34:50 ◼   ► wrong for for liking it despite the fact [TS]

00:34:52 ◼   ► he wrote one of the episodes but he [TS]

00:34:55 ◼   ► missed the things very silly so it's a [TS]

00:34:59 ◼   ► father and son who run a cottage [TS]

00:35:01 ◼   ► hospital in this fictional lancashire [TS]

00:35:04 ◼   ► village in the fifties so this one's got [TS]

00:35:06 ◼   ► a little bit more of the old school [TS]

00:35:07 ◼   ► charm in it and it's it's just adorable [TS]

00:35:11 ◼   ► so if you if you like that sort of [TS]

00:35:13 ◼   ► pastoral type cutie show i highly [TS]

00:35:16 ◼   ► recommend both of those born and bred [TS]

00:35:18 ◼   ► and monarch of the glen right and [TS]

00:35:20 ◼   ► monarch of the Glen is on netflix even [TS]

00:35:22 ◼   ► now for those in the US who would like [TS]

00:35:25 ◼   ► to watch it i should say born-and-bred [TS]

00:35:26 ◼   ► was actually created and written mostly [TS]

00:35:30 ◼   ► written by Chris Chibnall so there's [TS]

00:35:31 ◼   ► another doctor who connection there [TS]

00:35:33 ◼   ► christian know who is a the road quite a [TS]

00:35:37 ◼   ► few things that a lot of people aren't [TS]

00:35:38 ◼   ► fondos there you go [TS]

00:35:40 ◼   ► yeah that's true Andy what do you have [TS]

00:35:43 ◼   ► for us another another great pic from [TS]

00:35:47 ◼   ► PBS mystery mystery theater Cadfael [TS]

00:35:50 ◼   ► which I burned through about five or ten [TS]

00:35:54 ◼   ► years ago this is another really great [TS]

00:35:56 ◼   ► mystery series because it's did the [TS]

00:35:58 ◼   ► twisted is once again because it's an [TS]

00:36:00 ◼   ► interesting times and interesting [TS]

00:36:02 ◼   ► circumstances the lead character is [TS]

00:36:05 ◼   ► brother cat filing a monk and abby at a [TS]

00:36:08 ◼   ► monk at the at the during a medieval [TS]

00:36:11 ◼   ► times 11 hundreds and at eight in a town [TS]

00:36:15 ◼   ► that's sort of at that precipice of [TS]

00:36:17 ◼   ► about to become a much bigger town [TS]

00:36:20 ◼   ► because it's not like a crossroads for [TS]

00:36:21 ◼   ► travelers come from the the monastery is [TS]

00:36:24 ◼   ► a very very big deal for commerce and [TS]

00:36:25 ◼   ► for people to cut pilgrims to come on [TS]

00:36:27 ◼   ► religious quests and so a lot of things [TS]

00:36:29 ◼   ► that happened is also like well there's [TS]

00:36:32 ◼   ► also a bit a lot of political intrigue [TS]

00:36:34 ◼   ► because there's a big fight for the [TS]

00:36:36 ◼   ► crown of England so politically people [TS]

00:36:39 ◼   ► coming through my key backers of members [TS]

00:36:42 ◼   ► mod another one might be Emperor backer [TS]

00:36:45 ◼   ► of King Stephen and people trying to put [TS]

00:36:47 ◼   ► people into the monastery of the [TS]

00:36:49 ◼   ► higher-ups of the disorder are trying to [TS]

00:36:51 ◼   ► put their own political allies in [TS]

00:36:54 ◼   ► positions of power but the big deal [TS]

00:36:56 ◼   ► though is that the lead character is the [TS]

00:36:58 ◼   ► detective Soto speakers brother Cadfael [TS]

00:37:00 ◼   ► and although most of the people most of [TS]

00:37:02 ◼   ► the monks in the monastery are people [TS]

00:37:05 ◼   ► who had been placed there as teenagers [TS]

00:37:08 ◼   ► are as weather in student age they [TS]

00:37:10 ◼   ► basically got the calling to God very [TS]

00:37:12 ◼   ► very early Cadfael is unique because he [TS]

00:37:15 ◼   ► was a soldier here in the Crusades he [TS]

00:37:17 ◼   ► was a sailor he only got the calling in [TS]

00:37:19 ◼   ► his forties and so on the bad side that [TS]

00:37:22 ◼   ► means that a lot of people who had been [TS]

00:37:23 ◼   ► there who have been taken up the hood [TS]

00:37:25 ◼   ► for about 20-30 years trying to look [TS]

00:37:28 ◼   ► down on him as sort of a monk come [TS]

00:37:29 ◼   ► lately at the other hand he has [TS]

00:37:33 ◼   ► experience in the greater world he is a [TS]

00:37:35 ◼   ► much better judge of human nature these [TS]

00:37:38 ◼   ► people who have never really lived in [TS]

00:37:40 ◼   ► the real world he has experience and [TS]

00:37:42 ◼   ► learning from the outside world and this [TS]

00:37:44 ◼   ► is why i like the abbot of the monastery [TS]

00:37:45 ◼   ► often lose quite quite sharp often leans [TS]

00:37:49 ◼   ► on him to say that [TS]

00:37:50 ◼   ► yeah we need well we need a delegation [TS]

00:37:52 ◼   ► to go visit this other church to have [TS]

00:37:54 ◼   ► this sort of conversation about what [TS]

00:37:56 ◼   ► we're going to do about this money [TS]

00:37:58 ◼   ► that's coming into this political thing [TS]

00:37:59 ◼   ► i'm assigning I'm i want you to travel [TS]

00:38:02 ◼   ► with them because these other five [TS]

00:38:03 ◼   ► people are kind of dopes and if someone [TS]

00:38:06 ◼   ► if the other delegation someone says to [TS]

00:38:08 ◼   ► him [TS]

00:38:08 ◼   ► yes I I heard it [TS]

00:38:10 ◼   ► angel came and visited me last night and [TS]

00:38:13 ◼   ► said that the really valuable holy [TS]

00:38:16 ◼   ► relics that are at your monastery should [TS]

00:38:18 ◼   ► be in our monastery instead that's what [TS]

00:38:20 ◼   ► the angel sent by God said cat fails the [TS]

00:38:23 ◼   ► first one to say yeah right that's [TS]

00:38:25 ◼   ► totally that's not sure that's totally [TS]

00:38:27 ◼   ► what happened [TS]

00:38:28 ◼   ► he's mostly solving crimes murders and [TS]

00:38:30 ◼   ► stuff like that and this is a time where [TS]

00:38:32 ◼   ► you go there's there's no green lasers [TS]

00:38:34 ◼   ► there's no computers that he can say [TS]

00:38:36 ◼   ► that one move move 20 degrees and [TS]

00:38:38 ◼   ► enhance yes I can see that the the date [TS]

00:38:40 ◼   ► on the signet ring of this photograph he [TS]

00:38:42 ◼   ► has to really work these things out like [TS]

00:38:44 ◼   ► very quite manually and the other the [TS]

00:38:46 ◼   ► other thing though is that although he [TS]

00:38:48 ◼   ► is worldly he is still legitimately [TS]

00:38:51 ◼   ► religious so it's often really [TS]

00:38:53 ◼   ► interesting to see how he how he applies [TS]

00:38:57 ◼   ► his faith in God and his faith in a [TS]

00:39:00 ◼   ► higher order in a higher power with the [TS]

00:39:02 ◼   ► reality of the world around him there's [TS]

00:39:04 ◼   ► something there several times when he [TS]

00:39:06 ◼   ► actually suggests but we perform this [TS]

00:39:08 ◼   ► religious right to see what happens [TS]

00:39:11 ◼   ► there there's one there's one of the [TS]

00:39:14 ◼   ► episodes for this one this is not these [TS]

00:39:17 ◼   ► hour-and-a-half longer shows again but [TS]

00:39:19 ◼   ► there's one that's a copy of a [TS]

00:39:21 ◼   ► complicated claim of rights against [TS]

00:39:23 ◼   ► these religious relics and it's they [TS]

00:39:25 ◼   ► belong to the monastery they've been [TS]

00:39:27 ◼   ► asked to another monastery has asked we [TS]

00:39:29 ◼   ► look we've been wiped out by a flood we [TS]

00:39:31 ◼   ► borrow these relics for one year [TS]

00:39:33 ◼   ► pilgrims will come to our monastery that [TS]

00:39:34 ◼   ► will give alms and we'll be able to [TS]

00:39:36 ◼   ► rebuild our monastery [TS]

00:39:37 ◼   ► meanwhile there's a third kind of [TS]

00:39:39 ◼   ► opportunity so we'll look if you're [TS]

00:39:40 ◼   ► trying if princess benefits relics are [TS]

00:39:42 ◼   ► traveling i want to a cloud you actually [TS]

00:39:44 ◼   ► again my my little monkey here said that [TS]

00:39:47 ◼   ► he's got it was visited by an angel said [TS]

00:39:49 ◼   ► that they should want us to and so the [TS]

00:39:51 ◼   ► weight is the way to solve this problem [TS]

00:39:53 ◼   ► or not is ok we're going to have where [TS]

00:39:54 ◼   ► to put the Bible understand we're gonna [TS]

00:39:56 ◼   ► ready with a red you each one each one [TS]

00:39:59 ◼   ► of these three people who has a claim to [TS]

00:40:00 ◼   ► the relics are going to randomly open to [TS]

00:40:02 ◼   ► a page while blindfolded and randomly [TS]

00:40:04 ◼   ► put their finger down on a passage of [TS]

00:40:06 ◼   ► scripture and whatever that scripture [TS]

00:40:07 ◼   ► says is going to indicate God's God's [TS]

00:40:09 ◼   ► thoughts about your claim to the to the [TS]

00:40:11 ◼   ► relics and one of them is again [TS]

00:40:14 ◼   ► pin the tail on the donkey blindfolded [TS]

00:40:15 ◼   ► turn around three times readily goes to [TS]

00:40:18 ◼   ► a random page and quotes from Scripture [TS]

00:40:20 ◼   ► I where I am you can see me but you [TS]

00:40:22 ◼   ► shall not find me where I am [TS]

00:40:24 ◼   ► you can never be that he really turns on [TS]

00:40:27 ◼   ► the turns on the the monkeys happen is [TS]

00:40:30 ◼   ► it is monster you claim to have the [TS]

00:40:31 ◼   ► vision up [TS]

00:40:32 ◼   ► he's a liar he's a he speaks the devil's [TS]

00:40:34 ◼   ► word i have like I distance myself from [TS]

00:40:36 ◼   ► him but all things and then the the CAD [TS]

00:40:40 ◼   ► files and Abbott does the riffle in [TS]

00:40:42 ◼   ► point [TS]

00:40:43 ◼   ► it says you have not you have not asked [TS]

00:40:45 ◼   ► you have not looked for me however i [TS]

00:40:47 ◼   ► have looked for you [TS]

00:40:48 ◼   ► I got good so we get to keep the relics [TS]

00:40:50 ◼   ► so this is real nice cool disconnect [TS]

00:40:52 ◼   ► between what amounts to forensics and [TS]

00:40:54 ◼   ► around too well look there's something [TS]

00:40:56 ◼   ► that doesn't make sense we have to [TS]

00:40:57 ◼   ► unravel this and make sure and see why [TS]

00:40:59 ◼   ► this doesn't make sense there's a way [TS]

00:41:00 ◼   ► that we can figure out where these these [TS]

00:41:03 ◼   ► these hairs came from there's a way that [TS]

00:41:04 ◼   ► we can sort of figure out where these [TS]

00:41:06 ◼   ► bones came from if we can melt down all [TS]

00:41:08 ◼   ► the skin from and try to reconstruct the [TS]

00:41:10 ◼   ► skeleton but there's still this [TS]

00:41:11 ◼   ► religious aspect to it so it is it's [TS]

00:41:14 ◼   ► kinda like I like it for a lot of the [TS]

00:41:15 ◼   ► reasons why like why like foils for [TS]

00:41:19 ◼   ► because it seems like there's so few [TS]

00:41:22 ◼   ► fresh ways to present a mystery and when [TS]

00:41:25 ◼   ► you put it in a totally different time [TS]

00:41:27 ◼   ► in a totally different constant context [TS]

00:41:28 ◼   ► it's almost like that's disruptive [TS]

00:41:30 ◼   ► enough to your own brain that you can [TS]

00:41:31 ◼   ► really see these things fresh again [TS]

00:41:33 ◼   ► so there's like maybe a half dozen of [TS]

00:41:35 ◼   ► these on DVD they're on netflix to and [TS]

00:41:37 ◼   ► they're like they're like little movies [TS]

00:41:39 ◼   ► great actors great be a great scenery [TS]

00:41:40 ◼   ► great stuff [TS]

00:41:41 ◼   ► alright great and that's Derek Jacobi [TS]

00:41:43 ◼   ► who as as every British actor has been [TS]

00:41:46 ◼   ► contractually obligated to appear in [TS]

00:41:48 ◼   ► Doctor Who so we'll move on to as a good [TS]

00:41:52 ◼   ► one [TS]

00:41:52 ◼   ► I'm i'm going to i'm going to choose a [TS]

00:41:54 ◼   ► name a six-part miniseries so it won't [TS]

00:41:58 ◼   ► they only did one series but it's [TS]

00:41:59 ◼   ► fantastic it's from 2003 it's directed [TS]

00:42:03 ◼   ► by david yates who went on to direct [TS]

00:42:05 ◼   ► many many I think Harry Potter movies [TS]

00:42:08 ◼   ► and then he wanted to direct the Doctor [TS]

00:42:10 ◼   ► Who movie [TS]

00:42:11 ◼   ► yeah exactly right and made to proclaim [TS]

00:42:14 ◼   ► that fact you know nobody else would let [TS]

00:42:15 ◼   ► him I state of play is what it's called [TS]

00:42:19 ◼   ► it's got a fantastic cast this is the i [TS]

00:42:22 ◼   ► would say this is my favorite work of [TS]

00:42:24 ◼   ► fiction about journalism stars john simm [TS]

00:42:31 ◼   ► from TVs doctor who you may know him as [TS]

00:42:33 ◼   ► the master from TVs Doctor Who I he is a [TS]

00:42:37 ◼   ► reporter here [TS]

00:42:37 ◼   ► Cal he's a kind of scuzzy reporter for a [TS]

00:42:41 ◼   ► newspaper in London he's friends with a [TS]

00:42:44 ◼   ► member of parliament david Morrissey [TS]

00:42:46 ◼   ► from TVs doctor who by the way as well [TS]

00:42:50 ◼   ► as Bob blackpool which is also another [TS]

00:42:51 ◼   ► great you know David morsi's a member of [TS]

00:42:54 ◼   ► parliament who has a questionable he may [TS]

00:42:58 ◼   ► have had an indiscretion in his marriage [TS]

00:42:59 ◼   ► that may or may not be related to a [TS]

00:43:01 ◼   ► mystery there's a a murder of a kid in [TS]

00:43:06 ◼   ► London that seems completely unrelated [TS]

00:43:07 ◼   ► and yet it will blossom into a shocking [TS]

00:43:11 ◼   ► scandal that will potentially lay low [TS]

00:43:14 ◼   ► the British government and also [TS]

00:43:16 ◼   ► potentially quite threaten the [TS]

00:43:18 ◼   ► livelihood of the newspaper itself [TS]

00:43:20 ◼   ► kelly macdonald it has the most [TS]

00:43:23 ◼   ► delightful and attractive Scottish [TS]

00:43:25 ◼   ► accent I've ever heard and Bill Nye is [TS]

00:43:29 ◼   ► the publisher of the newspaper and a [TS]

00:43:31 ◼   ► very painfully young James McAvoy is a [TS]

00:43:35 ◼   ► new reporter on the desk at the [TS]

00:43:37 ◼   ► newspaper and it is a complicated story [TS]

00:43:40 ◼   ► with a lot of fascinating elements and [TS]

00:43:43 ◼   ► goes to a perhaps ridiculous conclusion [TS]

00:43:46 ◼   ► at the end but you know what I i love i [TS]

00:43:50 ◼   ► love the whole thing it was remade into [TS]

00:43:52 ◼   ► a movie starring red know Russell Crowe [TS]

00:43:57 ◼   ► not Brad Pitt russell crowe I I haven't [TS]

00:44:00 ◼   ► seen that movie I don't know why you [TS]

00:44:01 ◼   ► need to see that movie see the six-part [TS]

00:44:04 ◼   ► original british TV series state of play [TS]

00:44:07 ◼   ► it is fantastic [TS]

00:44:10 ◼   ► bill nye by the way also appeared TVs [TS]

00:44:12 ◼   ► Doctor Who anyway that's what i [TS]

00:44:15 ◼   ► recommend to play it is fantastic [TS]

00:44:18 ◼   ► where can we find that because that [TS]

00:44:19 ◼   ► sounds good i want to see it it's been [TS]

00:44:21 ◼   ► on it's been on the television many [TS]

00:44:24 ◼   ► times because I saw it on the television [TS]

00:44:25 ◼   ► just your local TV see it certainly on [TS]

00:44:30 ◼   ► DVD i don't know i don't think it's on [TS]

00:44:31 ◼   ► netflix right now but you should seek it [TS]

00:44:32 ◼   ► out it is the british miniseries it's [TS]

00:44:34 ◼   ► widely available it was distributed [TS]

00:44:36 ◼   ► pretty well in the US and other North [TS]

00:44:38 ◼   ► American countries presumably as well [TS]

00:44:40 ◼   ► and i highly recommend it is [TS]

00:44:42 ◼   ► spectacularly good so that's its to play [TS]

00:44:45 ◼   ► let's go around again Monty what you [TS]

00:44:47 ◼   ► have [TS]

00:44:48 ◼   ► well because I love books i'm going to [TS]

00:44:50 ◼   ► talk up [TS]

00:44:51 ◼   ► so that very space adjacent but is not [TS]

00:44:54 ◼   ► spaced it's black books its stars dylan [TS]

00:44:59 ◼   ► moran and Irish comic who has never been [TS]

00:45:01 ◼   ► on Doctor Who as far as i know it's only [TS]

00:45:04 ◼   ► a matter of time [TS]

00:45:05 ◼   ► nope he plays perfect i hope i hope they [TS]

00:45:09 ◼   ► never check that guy's paperwork because [TS]

00:45:10 ◼   ► if they find out he was never a doctor [TS]

00:45:12 ◼   ► who [TS]

00:45:13 ◼   ► oh boy the penalties on that well he's [TS]

00:45:15 ◼   ► Irish not English so I think he's [TS]

00:45:17 ◼   ► allowed he plays bernhard black a [TS]

00:45:20 ◼   ► drunken abusive owner of a bookstore who [TS]

00:45:23 ◼   ► hate selling books most of the used book [TS]

00:45:28 ◼   ► stores i've been in most college towns [TS]

00:45:30 ◼   ► yes he is assisted by many who is played [TS]

00:45:34 ◼   ► by Bill Bailey who is a tenth of comic [TS]

00:45:36 ◼   ► who has been on Doctor Who and the and [TS]

00:45:40 ◼   ► Tamsin Grieg who plays fran she's also [TS]

00:45:42 ◼   ► been on Doctor Who and she owns the [TS]

00:45:45 ◼   ► store next door that's pretty much the [TS]

00:45:47 ◼   ► whole show when you get into later [TS]

00:45:50 ◼   ► series more people start showing up like [TS]

00:45:52 ◼   ► peter serafinowicz and simon pegg but [TS]

00:45:55 ◼   ► mostly it's just about dylan moran and [TS]

00:45:58 ◼   ► Bill Bailey intention Greek bouncing off [TS]

00:46:00 ◼   ► of each other and dylan moran being [TS]

00:46:02 ◼   ► hilariously drunk and abusive to people [TS]

00:46:05 ◼   ► who just want to buy books from him and [TS]

00:46:07 ◼   ► it's just great [TS]

00:46:09 ◼   ► if you've ever been in a tiny bookstore [TS]

00:46:11 ◼   ► where you walk in and the person just [TS]

00:46:15 ◼   ► hates you on sight [TS]

00:46:16 ◼   ► you will notice show that's great black [TS]

00:46:21 ◼   ► books all right put it on the board [TS]

00:46:25 ◼   ► David did you know there's a board [TS]

00:46:26 ◼   ► there's a board and it's on now [TS]

00:46:28 ◼   ► David what do you have aside from law [TS]

00:46:31 ◼   ► and order UK which is the British law [TS]

00:46:33 ◼   ► and order starting free magic woman who [TS]

00:46:35 ◼   ► you may know from TVs doctor who and [TS]

00:46:37 ◼   ► peter davison who you may know from TVs [TS]

00:46:38 ◼   ► Doctor Who anyway go ahead and and [TS]

00:46:40 ◼   ► written by Chris Chibnall you may know [TS]

00:46:42 ◼   ► that from TVs Torchwood and TVs Doctor [TS]

00:46:44 ◼   ► Who yeah they're on the BBC i have to [TS]

00:46:48 ◼   ► say i'm kind of surprised it's taking [TS]

00:46:50 ◼   ► this long to get here so I'm going to do [TS]

00:46:51 ◼   ► it worth muriqui's dark place which is [TS]

00:46:56 ◼   ► only six episodes long it's it's kind of [TS]

00:47:00 ◼   ► nuts it's a very metal show [TS]

00:47:03 ◼   ► it's it's the entire thing [TS]

00:47:05 ◼   ► basically a flashback a rediscovered [TS]

00:47:08 ◼   ► classic show from the eighties and the [TS]

00:47:11 ◼   ► the whole thing is sort of narrated and [TS]

00:47:13 ◼   ► given context by the actors who appeared [TS]

00:47:16 ◼   ► in it as well as the writer and creator [TS]

00:47:18 ◼   ► and star and director girth merengue [TS]

00:47:21 ◼   ► who's kind of if you took stephen j [TS]

00:47:24 ◼   ► cannell and Harlan Ellison and shove [TS]

00:47:27 ◼   ► them together it's it's a little bit as [TS]

00:47:31 ◼   ► disturbing as that sounds [TS]

00:47:32 ◼   ► and so he's this egomaniacal brilliant [TS]

00:47:36 ◼   ► bad writer and well i guess in touch of [TS]

00:47:38 ◼   ► Stephen King and and be much worse than [TS]

00:47:41 ◼   ► any of them [TS]

00:47:42 ◼   ► I mean they're all like good and it's [TS]

00:47:46 ◼   ► it's it is possibly the best worst show [TS]

00:47:52 ◼   ► you've ever seen because members to show [TS]

00:47:54 ◼   ► their remembering you know they're [TS]

00:47:56 ◼   ► remembering it like it was God's gift to [TS]

00:47:58 ◼   ► television and then they show you the [TS]

00:48:01 ◼   ► clips from it and it is the worst [TS]

00:48:04 ◼   ► cheapest looking thing I mean it is it [TS]

00:48:07 ◼   ► is just brilliant and it coasters matt [TS]

00:48:11 ◼   ► berry you might know from TVs the IT [TS]

00:48:14 ◼   ► crowd and I don't know he's been a [TS]

00:48:17 ◼   ► doctor that's a good question and [TS]

00:48:19 ◼   ► Richard I owe a day from TVA IT crowd [TS]

00:48:22 ◼   ► but he also was involved in directing it [TS]

00:48:25 ◼   ► and he's also directed episodes of [TS]

00:48:27 ◼   ► community and and it's just and oh I [TS]

00:48:32 ◼   ► mean I can't say enough about it i think [TS]

00:48:34 ◼   ► the only place to find it right now is [TS]

00:48:36 ◼   ► on DVD but I the first place I saw it [TS]

00:48:39 ◼   ► was on i think it was on BBC america and [TS]

00:48:44 ◼   ► then it ran on adult swim for a couple [TS]

00:48:46 ◼   ► of cycles so it pops up out there was [TS]

00:48:50 ◼   ► well worth finding and then the the sort [TS]

00:48:52 ◼   ► of tangential spin-off what was it [TS]

00:48:56 ◼   ► man-to-man with Dean learner which is [TS]

00:49:00 ◼   ► Richard I O'Day's character interviewing [TS]

00:49:02 ◼   ► the actor who was Garth merengue but in [TS]

00:49:05 ◼   ► each episode [TS]

00:49:06 ◼   ► he's a different character so it's sort [TS]

00:49:08 ◼   ► of like this one-on-one interview show [TS]

00:49:10 ◼   ► with these really insane people [TS]

00:49:12 ◼   ► alright that's great I've never i love [TS]

00:49:14 ◼   ► it when there are things I've totally [TS]

00:49:15 ◼   ► never heard of South out that was one of [TS]

00:49:17 ◼   ► them that's good [TS]

00:49:18 ◼   ► Erica what do you have next I'll write [TS]

00:49:21 ◼   ► my next pick [TS]

00:49:23 ◼   ► I'm kind of going in a slightly [TS]

00:49:25 ◼   ► different direction is called Hotel [TS]

00:49:27 ◼   ► Babylon which is something that I kind [TS]

00:49:29 ◼   ► of randomly discovered on netflix a [TS]

00:49:32 ◼   ► while ago and it's a british show about [TS]

00:49:34 ◼   ► a hotel called Hotel Babylon and I've [TS]

00:49:36 ◼   ► always been a big fan of the the type of [TS]

00:49:38 ◼   ► show that you know the like The Love [TS]

00:49:41 ◼   ► Boat style thing that the hotel where [TS]

00:49:44 ◼   ► you have different people coming in and [TS]

00:49:45 ◼   ► out every week and also i'm just kind of [TS]

00:49:48 ◼   ► fascinated by hotels in general so the [TS]

00:49:50 ◼   ► show like this about the inner workings [TS]

00:49:52 ◼   ► of the hotel it follows the concierge [TS]

00:49:56 ◼   ► and bartender and just sort of that the [TS]

00:49:59 ◼   ► staff that's running this hotel in the [TS]

00:50:01 ◼   ► stuff that they have to put up with and [TS]

00:50:03 ◼   ► deal with and it's kind of more of a [TS]

00:50:06 ◼   ► flashy slick show sometimes it's a [TS]

00:50:08 ◼   ► little tawdry but overall it's mostly [TS]

00:50:11 ◼   ► just it's funny but there's my sense of [TS]

00:50:13 ◼   ► warmth to it at the core and it's one of [TS]

00:50:15 ◼   ► those things where as it went on it did [TS]

00:50:17 ◼   ► sort of fall apart a little bit i think [TS]

00:50:20 ◼   ► but I quite quite like it [TS]

00:50:22 ◼   ► the I think it was the first series is [TS]

00:50:24 ◼   ► actually based on a book of the same [TS]

00:50:25 ◼   ► name and but it went from 2006 2009 and [TS]

00:50:30 ◼   ► it was bc one i looked it up it's [TS]

00:50:32 ◼   ► actually the real BBC and it was just it [TS]

00:50:36 ◼   ► was just really cool i like the like [TS]

00:50:38 ◼   ► sort of you know putting myself in the [TS]

00:50:39 ◼   ► shoes of the people who are who are [TS]

00:50:41 ◼   ► running this place and having to deal [TS]

00:50:42 ◼   ► with it and also then you know it's [TS]

00:50:44 ◼   ► saying that the rock stars and crazy [TS]

00:50:46 ◼   ► actors and stuff is some of whom show up [TS]

00:50:48 ◼   ► and play themselves which is another [TS]

00:50:50 ◼   ► thing that I'm quite find of anyway yeah [TS]

00:50:53 ◼   ► it's a good show [TS]

00:50:54 ◼   ► I just really enjoy it like governor I I [TS]

00:50:57 ◼   ► can't even do it little let's figure it [TS]

00:51:00 ◼   ► can and 21 other sponsor on this episode [TS]

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00:51:07 ◼   ► you've heard me talk about them before [TS]

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00:51:12 ◼   ► work we have a site license for it it is [TS]

00:51:16 ◼   ► so great one of the things that the [TS]

00:51:17 ◼   ► people i work with always talk about [TS]

00:51:19 ◼   ► every year when we ask them for their [TS]

00:51:21 ◼   ► feedback about what makes a will make it [TS]

00:51:23 ◼   ► a better workplace one of the things [TS]

00:51:25 ◼   ► they say is training I want to learn [TS]

00:51:27 ◼   ► things I want to be better at my job i [TS]

00:51:29 ◼   ► want to learn [TS]

00:51:30 ◼   ► the stuff that I'm writing about I want [TS]

00:51:32 ◼   ► to get trained up in the latest [TS]

00:51:34 ◼   ► cutting-edge technology or I want to [TS]

00:51:36 ◼   ► improve my skills that are good but [TS]

00:51:38 ◼   ► could be better [TS]

00:51:39 ◼   ► these things come out in their natural [TS]

00:51:40 ◼   ► this happens to everybody and used to be [TS]

00:51:43 ◼   ► you had to go to like the Learning Annex [TS]

00:51:45 ◼   ► or something is that still a thing and [TS]

00:51:47 ◼   ► you had to find a class at a community [TS]

00:51:50 ◼   ► college or something like that and those [TS]

00:51:52 ◼   ► are all fine but sometimes that's too [TS]

00:51:54 ◼   ► much of a barrier and that is what [TS]

00:51:56 ◼   ► prompted the good people at lynda.com to [TS]

00:51:59 ◼   ► create their site lynda.com is a site [TS]

00:52:02 ◼   ► full of video training there more than [TS]

00:52:05 ◼   ► 2,400 courses all taught by the experts [TS]

00:52:09 ◼   ► in the field these are not amateurs who [TS]

00:52:12 ◼   ► are trying to read through a script [TS]

00:52:14 ◼   ► these are not people down in their [TS]

00:52:15 ◼   ► basement doing YouTube videos these are [TS]

00:52:18 ◼   ► industry experts more courses added [TS]

00:52:20 ◼   ► weekly being shot in Linda's [TS]

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00:55:10 ◼   ► draft but yes I wasn't sure why don't [TS]

00:55:13 ◼   ► want Stefan I don't step on anybody else [TS]

00:55:15 ◼   ► no no it's good [TS]

00:55:16 ◼   ► uh that's what we do at the end let's [TS]

00:55:19 ◼   ► let's talk about way what's the draft [TS]

00:55:21 ◼   ► was not addressed that all right that's [TS]

00:55:22 ◼   ► a separate issue really really fun show [TS]

00:55:25 ◼   ► on on of course on BBC which runs every [TS]

00:55:29 ◼   ► two british TV show called called penn [TS]

00:55:32 ◼   ► and teller fool us and it's its stars [TS]

00:55:35 ◼   ► pendant it's like a it's it's it's a [TS]

00:55:37 ◼   ► show in which a state show in which of [TS]

00:55:40 ◼   ► magicians perform one magic trick in [TS]

00:55:42 ◼   ► front of a live audience including penn [TS]

00:55:44 ◼   ► and teller and the gamble is that Penn & [TS]

00:55:48 ◼   ► Teller will watch the trick given only [TS]

00:55:50 ◼   ► the information of what they've been [TS]

00:55:52 ◼   ► able to observe as an audience member [TS]

00:55:53 ◼   ► they then when the trick is over [TS]

00:55:55 ◼   ► try to guess how it was [TS]

00:55:57 ◼   ► on they get one guess and one guess only [TS]

00:56:00 ◼   ► and if they're right well everybody [TS]

00:56:02 ◼   ► still got to enjoy a magic trick but if [TS]

00:56:04 ◼   ► they guessed wrong then they get the [TS]

00:56:06 ◼   ► magician gets a free trip to Las Vegas [TS]

00:56:08 ◼   ► to be the opening act for one show for [TS]

00:56:10 ◼   ► for the Penn & Teller show in las vegas [TS]

00:56:12 ◼   ► and it is at times really really funny [TS]

00:56:17 ◼   ► because you get to its it's great to [TS]

00:56:19 ◼   ► hear you get to really see the gears of [TS]

00:56:22 ◼   ► especially tellers mind running because [TS]

00:56:23 ◼   ► he still doesn't talk but he passes [TS]

00:56:26 ◼   ► notes he's clearly looking at things and [TS]

00:56:28 ◼   ► that he can ask what they can ask one or [TS]

00:56:29 ◼   ► two simple questions through the host [TS]

00:56:31 ◼   ► Jonathan Ross who knows how the trick is [TS]

00:56:33 ◼   ► done but it's the most satisfying thing [TS]

00:56:36 ◼   ► is when Penn using his you know mr. [TS]

00:56:39 ◼   ► know-it-all voice says well the thing [TS]

00:56:42 ◼   ► with magic using you did the move so [TS]

00:56:44 ◼   ► well so well that we almost didn't see [TS]

00:56:47 ◼   ► you do it but we think that there's [TS]

00:56:49 ◼   ► something weird about that box we don't [TS]

00:56:52 ◼   ► want to reveal it to you and then [TS]

00:56:53 ◼   ► there's that no it has nothing to do [TS]

00:56:55 ◼   ► with the box [TS]

00:56:55 ◼   ► oh okay then I guess you fooled us there [TS]

00:56:59 ◼   ► this there's if you go on youtube you'll [TS]

00:57:01 ◼   ► find lots and lots of these clips one of [TS]

00:57:04 ◼   ► them is one of them is particularly good [TS]

00:57:06 ◼   ► if there's a car trick revealed in which [TS]

00:57:10 ◼   ► they were really really sure what that [TS]

00:57:13 ◼   ► what the solution was not only were they [TS]

00:57:15 ◼   ► wrong but the magician also predicted it [TS]

00:57:18 ◼   ► ahead of time I bet he's going to think [TS]

00:57:20 ◼   ► that there's a gap or something inside [TS]

00:57:22 ◼   ► this box and so when they asked him [TS]

00:57:23 ◼   ► about that they when they pointed that [TS]

00:57:25 ◼   ► out he said just open the box which [TS]

00:57:27 ◼   ► there was one card so we said no that's [TS]

00:57:29 ◼   ► not it at which point you see teller [TS]

00:57:31 ◼   ► rise from his seat and start applauding [TS]

00:57:33 ◼   ► because he was so pleased that they got [TS]

00:57:36 ◼   ► trick that way so it's at so that the [TS]

00:57:39 ◼   ► clips are all over YouTube they're [TS]

00:57:40 ◼   ► really really funny i think the CW is [TS]

00:57:42 ◼   ► the network here is trying to this [TS]

00:57:44 ◼   ► summer the CW is airing this show on us [TS]

00:57:47 ◼   ► TV that's ok so maybe start technically [TS]

00:57:49 ◼   ► now a british show but it'sit's BBC us [TS]

00:57:52 ◼   ► BBC channel 18 i think that's right [TS]

00:57:55 ◼   ► accounts it's all BBC alright I am going [TS]

00:57:59 ◼   ► to go next and I have so many things to [TS]

00:58:02 ◼   ► choose from i really don't know what I'm [TS]

00:58:03 ◼   ► going to say here oh my god i am going [TS]

00:58:07 ◼   ► to go with one of my very favorite I [TS]

00:58:11 ◼   ► sitcoms of all time and I and yes this [TS]

00:58:18 ◼   ► is a sitcom created by the current [TS]

00:58:21 ◼   ► showrunner of tvs doctor who wait tvs [TS]

00:58:26 ◼   ► dr. what does this show you getting that [TS]

00:58:28 ◼   ► diet shit says it's the syfy don't worry [TS]

00:58:32 ◼   ► about it anyway but before before Steven [TS]

00:58:35 ◼   ► Moffat road doctor who he wrote one of [TS]

00:58:39 ◼   ► my very favorite sitcoms which is called [TS]

00:58:40 ◼   ► coupling it is a show that is that that [TS]

00:58:45 ◼   ► is configured like somebody said you [TS]

00:58:49 ◼   ► know that friends show was really [TS]

00:58:50 ◼   ► popular in the US we could do a show [TS]

00:58:52 ◼   ► with that same configuration where it's [TS]

00:58:54 ◼   ► a Glock kind of a nice set and [TS]

00:58:57 ◼   ► attractive people which you know this [TS]

00:58:59 ◼   ► seems normal to us Americans but BBC [TS]

00:59:02 ◼   ► shows tended not to look like that and [TS]

00:59:04 ◼   ► tended not to cast like that and so by [TS]

00:59:07 ◼   ► all accounts it looks like a friend's [TS]

00:59:08 ◼   ► knock off but the thing is at its heart [TS]

00:59:10 ◼   ► it's much more farcical the the scripts [TS]

00:59:13 ◼   ► are much sharper i would say and I liked [TS]

00:59:16 ◼   ► friends actually but if they're the [TS]

00:59:18 ◼   ► sharper and twisty ur doing many of the [TS]

00:59:20 ◼   ► tricks that Steven Moffat within later [TS]

00:59:22 ◼   ► do in Doctor Who but in sitcom form lots [TS]

00:59:25 ◼   ► of time jumps and cut back cuts back and [TS]

00:59:28 ◼   ► forth and some just fantastic dialogue [TS]

00:59:33 ◼   ► and and rants and very amusing [TS]

00:59:37 ◼   ► characters including the great character [TS]

00:59:39 ◼   ► of Jeff Murdock played by richard [TS]

00:59:41 ◼   ► richard coyle but honestly all of the [TS]

00:59:45 ◼   ► characters are in their own special way [TS]

00:59:47 ◼   ► unique the fourth season when richard [TS]

00:59:49 ◼   ► coyle is not as good as the first three [TS]

00:59:51 ◼   ► the first three are spectacularly funny [TS]

00:59:54 ◼   ► and my wife and I will quit lines from [TS]

00:59:56 ◼   ► coupling to this day i really like it so [TS]

00:59:58 ◼   ► we don't don't view it as it [TS]

00:59:58 ◼   ► we don't don't view it as it [TS]

01:00:00 ◼   ► as a sitcom a british sitcom knockoff of [TS]

01:00:03 ◼   ► American sitcoms in fact i'd argue that [TS]

01:00:05 ◼   ► the scripts have more more in common [TS]

01:00:06 ◼   ► with Frasier than friends in that they [TS]

01:00:09 ◼   ► are of a a a farcical construction in a [TS]

01:00:12 ◼   ► way and much less of a standard sitcom [TS]

01:00:14 ◼   ► construction and if if there's one [TS]

01:00:16 ◼   ► episode of a sitcom that you need to [TS]

01:00:18 ◼   ► watch for a laugh it let it be the girl [TS]

01:00:20 ◼   ► with two breasts from coupling which is [TS]

01:00:22 ◼   ► spectacular in its collection of jokes [TS]

01:00:25 ◼   ► and embarrassment i can't recommend [TS]

01:00:28 ◼   ► coupling highly enough available [TS]

01:00:30 ◼   ► everywhere that videos are available i [TS]

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01:00:37 ◼   ► it [TS]

01:00:38 ◼   ► oh man yeah you know uh what-what couple [TS]

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01:00:44 ◼   ► taught us which is don't just take the [TS]

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01:00:47 ◼   ► version and run and shoot them in the [TS]

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01:00:50 ◼   ► stopped using the UK scripts of the [TS]

01:00:52 ◼   ► office was much better and coupled with [TS]

01:00:54 ◼   ► the same way they they the network [TS]

01:00:56 ◼   ► completely interfered and then they just [TS]

01:00:57 ◼   ► reused Moffat scripts and and by the [TS]

01:01:00 ◼   ► time they started using their own [TS]

01:01:01 ◼   ► scripts it was far too late and it's a [TS]

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01:01:07 ◼   ► don't let the disastrous US edition fool [TS]

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01:01:14 ◼   ► top of the order one more time Monty [TS]

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01:01:19 ◼   ► well how about my favorite author PG [TS]

01:01:24 ◼   ► Woodhouse PG Wodehouse created a classic [TS]

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01:01:57 ◼   ► the 4 series of Jesus booster are [TS]

01:02:01 ◼   ► perfect adaptations of PG Wodehouse [TS]

01:02:04 ◼   ► stories and are a delight from start to [TS]