I hope you never watch Airplane then

Marvellous. The BBC prides itself on the quality of its programmes and this is top class.

Tip-off : Go to that link to the BBC iPlayer Desert Island Discs archive - Clare Balding's just been added to it, very listenable, my favourite sturdy girl.

Mr HWS is just reading her biography now. I didn't think he'd like it but he said if it was about anyone but her he wouldn't have. She is well liked in the White Star House

Is you didn't see Citizen Khan's Christmas - it's on iPlayer. Marvellous.

I really shouldn't but b[iu[/igger it.
Your daughters got you the box-set for Xmas.

Hope so.

The present under the tree right adjacent to it is a set of five socks from Titan.
You'll be able to immediately mop up after watching a couple of episodes.

I'm currently enjoying Walt Disney's Fantasia on BBC2

I last saw it at the Cecil Cinema in Hull, shortly after dropping a tab of acid. An experience I could only describe as surreal

Never seen it the whole way through: tb's watching while I carry on doing prep for tomorrow, but at least I can hear the music.

[iGremlins[/i on later, and we sat and relished [iThe Ladykillers[/i earlier – still my absolute favourite Ealing comedy. IIRC, [iThe Titfield Thunderbolt[/i is on at around 7pm on BBC2.

Titfield Thunderbolt is on BBC4 Minty, BBC2 is showing carols from Kings Bollege Bambridge

Instead of watching childrens TV I've been watching That's RL 1960s, 1970s and 1980s on that well know video sharing website. Some great action from some great players, just a shame there wasn't more!

Ah.

Not that I mind carols – I can enjoy them every bit as much as I can a decent requiem mass.

Anybody else see Vic & Bob's new sitcom offering last night?
I found it fairly amusing.

No but I did watch a full episode of 'Till Death Us Do Part" from the series where Dandy Nicholls was very ill and was written out of those episodes with a storyline that she was visiting her sister in Australia.

Very funny comedy of the sort that you just do not see anymore, very sharp, precise script writing with a critical political twist but also very funny.

Its on that You-thing and its the episode where they watch one of the Ali-Frazier fights, this type of program may not be good for you if you apply todays morals to everything as it refers to skin colour an awful lot.

I like it. Bunch of mentalists but fooking funny.

I watched it for the first time last night - completely barmy but I laughed throughout it, surreal comedy at its best in the way that "Big Night Out" also was, the scene with them trying to keep quiet in the kitchen was superb.

The true test of any decent comedy is if my wife laughs or turns it off, if she laughs at something then its got to be rubbish, if she turns it off then its worth watching, she refuses to even turn on anything to do with Vic Reeves so its a sure bet right from the start.

Not everything works, you can't expect it too when it's that barmy, but a lot of it does.


Vic and Bob sketching together is still the funniest for me but the nutty, bearded, singing lothario with the buttercup yellow belt has been excellent in the first few episodes.

I like Bosh (yer 2@)

Bob's toupee just sat solo on top of his chefs hat whilst they were in tbe kitchen had me tittering.

Have watched the pilot episode on iPlayer this morning - its even better.



The bird next door is a bit of a nutter isn't she ?

Yes, she's desperate for cock and I don't thinks she's particulary bothered who the sausage owner is.
Akin to a Francis de lt (I can't be d to look surname spelling up) in Rising Damp.

Kay Burley being ignored by a mumbling Prince Charles on his flood crisis tour, comedy gold.

Bit disappointed with last nights offering.
Weakest of the series so far in my opinion.
Was a bit sleep so perhaps my humourometer was a bit wonky.

I shall have to watch on catch-up.

Thats a problem with sit-com and even sketch shows though, the joke only works a few times and if you've only got three episodes worth of humour it must be difficult to stretch it out to six, and for this m'lud I refer you to the item of evidence labelled "Terry and June Episode 496".