TCRT 10: The TCRT Strikes Back (retroactively titled TCRT10: Episode V – The TCRT Strikes Back)

No. It's still an exceptional game show, just needs the right presenting team.

Lagamorph wrote:Just scrap regular Countdown altogether and replace it entirely with the far superior 8 Out of 10 Cats version.

Regular Countdown is an absolute classic. That shouldn't be going anywhere.

Without Sean Lock ( ) you might as well scrap 8 out of 10 cats though

Is there a single one of these "comedy" panel quiz shows that isn't excruciatingly unfunny?

RetroCora wrote:She's awful. They should get Stelling back in for it, he's the only really decent host they've managed since Richard Whiteley died.

Stelling was great. Did he leave because of the commute? They film it up in Yorkshire.

Memento Mori wrote:

RetroCora wrote:She's awful. They should get Stelling back in for it, he's the only really decent host they've managed since Richard Whiteley died.

Stelling was great. Did he leave because of the commute? They film it up in Yorkshire.

I think it was the workload more than just the commute - filming that many episodes every year alongside the weekly Soccer Saturday stuff, plus I think at the time he was the face of various companies and doing sales work for a construction company on the side.

I vote for Richard Madeley.

Nibble wrote:Is there a single one of these "comedy" panel quiz shows that isn't excruciatingly unfunny?

8 out of 10 cats does Countdown was almost always great.
Mock the Week used to be great but it went off a cliff after Frankie Boyle left.

How is Have I got News for you these days? I don't think I've watched it in years now.

Best panel shown is Would I Lie To You, especially when the GOAT Bob Mortimer is on

Lagamorph wrote:Just scrap regular Countdown altogether and replace it entirely with the far superior 8 Out of 10 Cats version.

DPL

Jenuall wrote:Beat panel shown is Would I Lie To You, especially when the GOAT Bob Mortimer is on

This is the only panel show I really enjoy watching and Bob is king yeah.

Jenuall wrote:Best panel shown is Would I Lie To You, especially when the GOAT Bob Mortimer is on

Yep

WILTY is the only panel show I'll watch. Every other panel show I've seen is just a rotation of the same few comedians telling painfully unfunny jokes in a slightly different format.

Lotus wrote:WILTY is the only panel show I'll watch. Every other panel show I've seen is just a rotation of the same few comedians telling painfully unfunny jokes in a slightly different format.

A lot of the jokes seem really staged and rehearsed as well

Just going over my credit card bill and found an £18 charge to somewhere called chicken.com on last night I went on that I have no memory of. Doesn't sound great really.

Lagamorph wrote:How is Have I got News for you these days? I don't think I've watched it in years now.

It's just the same old tired format, the jokes are stale, Paul Merton still shouts out silly answers on cue, and the whole thing just feels like it's reached a dead end.

Tomous wrote:Just going over my credit card bill and found an £18 charge to somewhere called chicken.com on last night I went on that I have no memory of. Doesn't sound great really.

I won't know for sure until i get my statement, but there's a chance HMV might have charged me 11 times for a single blu ray after their systems went haywire at the end of last week. They said all wrong payments would be refunded, but the last time they promised me a refund for an item, i was never reimbursed. Messaged them again today to try and get some info but have not heard back so far.

I stopped watching it about 12 years ago; even at that point it was tragic watching Merton dining out on the same old, zany comments about dolphins. It's, like, so random!

And Hislop doing that thing where he starts laughing at his own joke midway through a sentence with a smug grin on his face.

Vermilion wrote:

Lagamorph wrote:How is Have I got News for you these days? I don't think I've watched it in years now.

It's just the same old tired format, the jokes are stale, Paul Merton still shouts out silly answers on cue, and the whole thing just feels like it's reached a dead end.

Tomous wrote:Just going over my credit card bill and found an £18 charge to somewhere called chicken.com on last night I went on that I have no memory of. Doesn't sound great really.

I won't know for sure until i get my statement, but there's a chance HMV might have charged me 11 times for a single blu ray after their systems went haywire at the end of last week. They said all wrong payments would be refunded, but the last time they promised me a refund for an item, i was never reimbursed. Messaged them again today to try and get some info but have not heard back so far.

Surprised HMV is still going to be honest

Tomous wrote:

Vermilion wrote:

Lagamorph wrote:How is Have I got News for you these days? I don't think I've watched it in years now.

It's just the same old tired format, the jokes are stale, Paul Merton still shouts out silly answers on cue, and the whole thing just feels like it's reached a dead end.

Tomous wrote:Just going over my credit card bill and found an £18 charge to somewhere called chicken.com on last night I went on that I have no memory of. Doesn't sound great really.

I won't know for sure until i get my statement, but there's a chance HMV might have charged me 11 times for a single blu ray after their systems went haywire at the end of last week. They said all wrong payments would be refunded, but the last time they promised me a refund for an item, i was never reimbursed. Messaged them again today to try and get some info but have not heard back so far.

Surprised HMV is still going to be honest

The online store is actually (normally) excellent, especially as they offer free delivery on orders over £20 (so i just group together my pre-orders).

Works out a hell of a lot cheaper than Amazon when it comes to delivery costs.

Just had my next door but one neighbour angry at my door because the day before yesterday I moved 3 large rocks he has on the (Council owned) grass infront of his house. I moved them because they were blocking me from going around a car parked on the shared driveway infront of thr house between us.
This neighbour used to park a huge van on the shared driveway infront of his house, which required me and others to drive on the grass patch to get around, so he originally put some smaller rocks there as the grass was getting torn up. I kept moving them out of the way, but he kept putting them back, so eventually I just took the rocks away entirely. A little bit after that he got the larger rocks that I continued moving out of the way.
Eventually some people moved in on the other side of him (the two houses there, also on the shared drive, had been show homes up to that point) and I presume they complained to him because shortly after that he started parking his van and car up on his front garden instead of blocking the shared drive.

Things had been fine like that until the other day when I had to move the rocks again to get by, but he's ow decided to come knocking on my door to angrily have a go at me for moving them and asking why I can't just go the other way off the shared drive (It's semi-circular so joins the main road at both ends) however to reverse my car out of my private driveway it's far easier for me to reverse out to infront of my house, then go past his to exit the shared drive. Reversing out the other way would require more time, more back and forth and if there's a car parked infront of the house between us (as was the case the other day) then it's even more difficult to reverse out that way.

He complained that he had me on camera moving "his rocks" (which I'm 99% certain he actually took from the corner up the road as there's now only 1 rock there where there used to be 4, and he has 3 rocks infront of his house that are the exact same type as the one remaining up the road), but so what? He's putting them on council owned land and obstructing right of access on the shared driveway. He also threatened that if I keep moving them he's going to just put a huge boulder there and put one infront of my car to stop me from getting out of my driveway. All whilst wearing his DPD uniform

I eventually just shut the door and he walked off. I'm thinking of just writing a politely worded letter outlining that I have a right of access across the shared driveway, just like every house on it, and that the land he's placing these rocks on is not his land and is infact council land.
I can't decide if I should include a part that if he continues to behave aggressively towards me I will be making complaints to the council, about him using their land to cause an obstruction, and that if he does block my car I will be making complaints to not only the police but also his employer, as he has been behaving aggressively and making threats to me whilst wearing his company uniform. But part of me thinks that might be going in too hard and I should save that for a second letter if he continues being aggressive if I have to move the rocks in order to get through.

just throw the rocks through his window