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The simply wonderful Brass Eye is being repeated tonight (the whole series), but sadly it's on E4.

― DG, Saturday, 30 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

[observe this blatant bid to get this into the recent answers]

― DG, Saturday, 30 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

E4 = not telly, but a wicked scam

Brass Eye = genius

Surprise = DG's usual rubbish taste in TV suddenly flowering thus

[I know you mentioned BE before, but I have Eevil Payamsters to Suck Up To...]

And you're still wrong abt Buffy

― mark s, Saturday, 30 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Er...usual rubbish taste in telly? Explain, please.

― DG, Saturday, 30 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Dislike of Ant and Dec = cast-iron case, m'lud

― mark s, Saturday, 30 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Pfffff! Dislike of Ant & Dec = FUCKING MARVELLOUS TASTE.

― DG, Saturday, 30 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Are Brass Eye and Jam available on vid/ DVD, btw? The sketch in Jam where the parents of a missing child sang a little song to it, with a casio keyboard = SCARIEST THING I EVER SAW ON TV, I think.

― mark s, Saturday, 30 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

DG-marvellous taste in TV. Big up to Vids=highly underrated post-pub grossarama.

Quit with the pro-Ant and Dec bullying. Everyone knows they're as funny as cancer of the rectum. Chris Morris is genius.

― Michael, Saturday, 30 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

They aren't, Mark: by all accounts Brass Eye would probably be unclearable. I have both series in full, though.

And there's a new Brass Eye Special on Thursday night on C4, followed by an episode from the original series - hopefully we should get Sutcliffe! this time, and see again the extent to which the faces of the UK media say what they're told, not what they believe, and how one can believe nothing ...

― Robin Carmody, Saturday, 30 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

If Brass Eye was out on video I wouldn't have waited the best part of 5 years and got digital telly specifically to tape it. I've just watched the first two, and unbeliveably it *is* as good as I remember. They've put the Sutcliffe musical back in to the last one, though obviously I haven't seen it yet but will tell all once I have. I bet the C4 special is a crappy compilation, but it'll be taped anyway, just in case. As for Jam, I missed taping the first one so got into a rhythm of taping the Saturday night 'remixes', which if you didn't see them were exactly the same apart from some sketches had different video effects.
Got any Clarky Cat?

― DG, Saturday, 30 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think the original Blue Jam radio series is out on CD, and it's a lot of the same material.

― Graham, Sunday, 1 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"What am I - FUCKING NODDY?"

― D*A*V*I*D*M, Sunday, 1 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Rrrrrrrrrrrrright...
The Brass Eye special on Channel 4 this Thursday is, so I'm led to believe, a completely new episode. I don't know if they're repeating the whole series on C4, I've heard rumours but the phrasing of the blurb in this week's Radio Times makes it seem unlikely.
As for Sutcliffe the musical, the execution of the sketch is no more tasteless than the rest of BE, so it was blatantly only pulled because of fear of complaints.

― DG, Sunday, 1 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Apparently, an extra in "Sutcliffe!" was a friend of a hack on the Daily Telegraph, and was foolish enough to leak it to the 'Graph ***as though they weren't going to expose it***. Of course, the Devon-laptop-burning cunts revealed all, the local papers in Yorkshire got hold of the story, and C4 were in an impossible position ...

― Robin Carmody, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It's not even that great, apart from John McCririck's opinions.

― DG, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

arse, the new brass eye has been pulled according to the Grauniad

story here:

http://www.mediaguardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,7493,517214,00.html

― cabbage, Thursday, 5 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Did you see it on E4, DG? McCririck once told me to clear off, but that's the least of his faults. I'm led to believe he says "forfeited their rights to society by doing this damage to society", or similar.

― Robin Carmody, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I got digital (OnDigital actually, now ITV Digital - I feel dirty) especially to tape the whole uncut series in one go. That is what McCririck said, the silly man. Why did he tell you to clear off, eh Robin? Were you up to mischief again?
As much as I hate to admit it, Mark's right about E4. It's rubbish. However digital telly rules due to CARTOON NETWORK! Especially as Kilroy's been moved to 9:30, at 9:00 on CN they show the Moomins! I'm trying to catch up with you Moomin lovers.

― DG, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Is it the right Moomins though?

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Friday, 13 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I don't know, what is the *right* Moomins? Is it a breakaway racist authoritarian faction?

― DG, Friday, 13 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

No, you're thinking of the Continuity Moomins.

― Nick, Friday, 13 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Richard means: is it the Polish fuzzy felt animation shown on ITV in the 80s or the rubbish Japanese cartoon shown on the BBC in the 90s? I'm guessing the latter, sadly.

DG: my father took me to a meeting at Sandown Park as a child, and McCririck told me to clear off and that I was a troublemaker because I came up and asked for his autograph (!). Says it all, really.

― Robin Carmody, Sunday, 15 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I have this image of a mini-Robin being chased across Sandown Park by an irate McCririck now. "Clear off, you scallywag!" or something like that being shouted by the hirsute one.
Yes, it's the cartoon Moomins. I have very vague memories of the puppet Moomins, I don't think that's been on since I first saw it back in the early 80s. I can't remember much about that and I've never read the books, so I don't know if the cartoon is bad or not...why is it?

― DG, Sunday, 15 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Here's what my brother told me at the weekend (he spends far too much time on the interweb and generally talks bollocks): The whole paedophilia thing was a hoax and was never actually made. What they have done is set up a hoax website somewhere (I don't remember the address), and the new episode will be shown at the end of the series and will be about reaction to the website. Of course this is probably all made up.

― Graham, Monday, 16 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Apparently the special has been scheduled for transmission on Thursday the 26th. And it is about paedophilia. Possibly.

― DG, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I don't believe any of this "conspiracy" stuff for a moment.

"Clear off, you scallywag": yes, it was in that vein ...

― Robin Carmody, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

this thread is like in the first star trek movie when spock mindmelds with v-ger and gets weird fucked-up alien special effects instead of the normal mindmeld stuff. like, what the hell are you talking about?

― ethan, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I could go for a mind melding now, and a tuna melt

― Mike Hanley, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It's about various but related UK comedy programmes, old boy. And very funny ones too (unless you're Tarden). Go here for more info, or in the case of UK posters who KNOW, but want to know what's *really* going on about the Brass Eye special, here.

― DG, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I thought I'd bring this to the top to remind people that the special is on tomorrow at 10:35. I've seen the trailer, and as expected, my brother was talking nonsense and it will be about paedophilia (He did go into elaborate detail about it though).

― Graham, Wednesday, 25 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

We were both right - it's about paedophilia and they set up a hoax website. They'd better show it this time or I'll be...quite cross.

― DG, Wednesday, 25 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I've just come home from art opening SPECIFICALLY to watch Brasseye, much to derision of artworld friends. Fuck 'em: C Morris nailed Barbara Follett, Gary Lineker, Seb Coe, Phil Collins and many others. When I am sober I will have virtual chat with pal Andrew who played the young Jarvis in the first series (and now runs E4) and lovely Graham who wrote lots of Brasseye and 50% of Fatha Ted. My social net catches many fish - including y'all - which is why I moved to London in the first place, no bitchin', kidz.

Mmmmmm. BRILLIANT telly.

― suzy, Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I don't remember that.

Anyway, don't forget Dr Fox. "It's proven scientific fact. Even though there's absolutely no evidence, it's scientific fact."

― Graham, Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Dr Who? Sorry, microceleb. Does not compute ;).

― suzy, Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

eight months pass...

your all fucking lunatics if you hate ant and dec

― bunny droppings, Saturday, 13 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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