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I can understand that. Had my share of poorly dogs in my youth.Hmm, then you best be careful with the BBC back catalogue...See, to me first seeing that at the age of about 8, it was entrancing. In hindsight, it's held up at least no worse than most of the old back catalogue and in many ways it held up better, because it's not quite so ridiculous as some of the monsters.Yeah, it's a legend. The remake was ridiculously bad, however. Even though I'm a fan of Ian McKellen, I gave up part way into episode one.No, I didn't. I've seen him in other things since watching him as Who and it just doesn't work for me.There's not a great deal that's current that's really worth watching in the UK to be honest.It's allegedly a panel knowledge based quiz show. I saw 'allegedly' because while it has such a format, it's not exactly adhered to. The right answer is usually irrelevant, and answers that are interesting (and often irrelevant) are rewarded. Answers that are boring and wrong (especially if they're common myths) are frequently penalised, which is why Alan Davies is usually the loser by voicing the expected, very wrong answer for a 10 point penalty. Honestly, I can only remember the occasional episode that Davies even has a *positive* score, let alone a winning one.

I only have the first series on DVD, but even on that series, we have Bill Bailey, Hugh Laurie,[1] Phill Jupitus, Sean Lock, John Sessions, Jo Brand, Clive Anderson, Jimmy Carr... you get the picture.

Also, that reminds me. When it's on, you might enjoy (or thoroughly despise) Mock The Week. It's pretty polarising and I find it hilarious.I don't think you're really missing that much.David Jason... thought you'd recognise the name more. Other than OFaH, he's also been in Pratchett adaptations and also the TV series A Touch of Frost. (That's a pretty good detective series.)

Lyndhurst... Goodnight Sweetheart is probably his best known work, but he was definitely an 80s actor and looks rather out of place these days.Ah, yes, you have seen them. His role in Hogfather is pretty much typical for his career (except in A Touch of Frost). We're talking about someone who was the voice/narrator from Count Duckula and Dangermouse.

For me, Jason fits both parts - just not together, but he fits in better in Hogfather - leaving the question of who you'd cast as Rincewind. It's never clear from the book how old Rincewind is really supposed to be, especially as he's always depicted as oldish on the covers.Let me save you most of the build-up and insanity, suffice to say that Rodney is a slightly ineffectual male who does roar like a lion when called (but invariably is the lamb being led to slaughter), Cassandra is his wife who is the big shot, a lawyer I believe, but she's the one who calls the shots, and an in attempt to revitalise their marriage, they suggest dressing up as each other's fantasies, writing the names down on pieces of paper and leaving them for each other. (You can already see the parallels; Rory is a lot like Rodney and Cassandra is a lot like Amy, just not as fiery)

He cites someone off The Bill (being a sucker for someone in a police uniform; it wouldn't be the first time he had been attracted to a policewoman, only the previous time it actually *was* a policewoman, complete with handcuffs), while she mentions Gladiator.

So you get the pivotal scene of them walking into the living room to confront each other, and disappear off to the bedroom. Due to other circumstances, they get interrupted by a phone call... and they emerge from the bedroom - just like Amy and Rory do in the Christmas Carol...It's worth giving it a try, but if you don't get hooked by the first couple of episodes (in particular, the second is a lot brutal), you're probably not going to get much mileage out of the rest of it.Yeah, they're the sort of shows I kind of overlooked as well, though I'm wishing I hadn't so much now.Good adaptations are always appreciated. I wasn't a fan of Peter Ustinov in the one adaptation of Murder on the Orient Express, for example, and several of the Holmes adaptations (Basil Rathbone anyone?) were not so great.

CSI is one of those shows you will either like or not. It's OK, but it's not exactly brain-stretching fare.

You get genius moments like this:

GUI interface using visual basic to track the killers IP address CSI

Yes, this was in CSI: NY, it's not a hoax or a mash-up, that did actually happen. The plots aren't bad, the execution a bit OTT at times, http://lolwtfcomics.blogspot.com/2011/10/csi-comic-enhance-on-license-plate-zoom.html pretty much sums up how CSI feels sometimes (and Jesus H Christ on a crutch, David Caruso, will you PLEASE STOP TAKING YOUR DAMN GLASSES ON AND OFF EVERY DAMN SENTENCE!)

If I do watch it, it's mostly for the character interaction, not for the crime solving, and I make a point of avoiding CSI: Miami for the above insanity. (CSI: NY is OK, Vegas is good)It's certainly one of those quirky things, and while Alan Davies had reached out in certain areas as a comedian, it was Jonathan Creek that really made his name.*nods* Sounds good, I'll try and dig it out.Miss Marple works for me, but it's an inversion on the detective motif; had Miss Marple not been so successful, we'd never have had Murder, She Wrote. Hmm, maybe that wasn't such a good thing after all :lol:

But Joan Hickson is pretty much *the* character Christie wrote about.I doubt you'd appreciate it, actually. It's not exactly high-brow fare, it is pretty much something that you watch and ignore.Never got into Angel.No problems :)

Funnily enough, I just thought of something; I mentioned Mock the Week, and then I realised that an earlier show created by the same people still holds my interest when it's on: Whose Line Is It Anyway? While it's largely an American show *now* it was originally a British show, though having American guests on it.

Also, you might find either Spitting Image or Drop the Dead Donkey good watching, but in both cases, they're related to what was going on in the country and the world at the time, being quite politically satirical; DtDD at least starts the re-runs (and, AFAIK, the DVD releases) with a brief note as to what was happening at the time so that you're not completely without context. But it's pretty niche humour these days because it's so intrinsically tied to what went on at the time.


Also, in reference to Grimlock, he's one of the Transformers, and like all of the Dinobots, he's pretty bad-ass. For example, in the movie (the proper one :P), they're up against Unicron, which is a giant planet-eating monster Transformer. The Dinobots, despite being miniature in comparison, do not care that they're tiny in comparison.

This video, around the 5 minute mark:

G1 Movie: Part 10: "You Underestimate Me, Galvatron"

1.	And the chemistry there between him and Fry is just spiffing!

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Good UK shows depends on your preferences.

QI is always worth watching for comedy, with Stephen Fry and Alan Davies as regulars, and a whole host of random people as guests for silliness and Alan Davies losing each week. Also, if you like the later series of Blackadder, they were partly written by Richard Curtis, who is also responsible for a couple of rather watchable rom-coms (Love Actually in particular), but also for The Vicar of Dibley. If you don't have an aversion to Dawn French, it is watchable enough.[1]

Other comedy to watch out for is Porridge,[2] or if you're of a more 1970s vogue, Open All Hours.[3][4]

If drama is more your thing, I'd suggest Spooks (start from the start, though),[5] Hustle's quite good too,[6] plus you might like New Tricks, not so sure about that though.[7]

If murder/mystery is your thing, I'd suggest Jonathan Creek[8], or the ITV adaptations of Sherlock Holmes (starring Jeremy Brett as Holmes), Poirot (with David Suchet as Poirot), and/or Miss Marple (Joan Hickson as Miss Marple, not the later ones) - they're a bit older to find though.

If you're more into the CSI method of murder mystery rather than the detective using their brains, either Bones or Waking The Dead would be good watching.[9]

That's about all I can think of for now at least.

1.	Newly appointed woman vicar joins rural, rustic town and despite flaring up against the classical rural types, it all works out. Cue also having ditzy verger sidekick.
2.	Sitcom set in a prison, with the inimitable Ronnie Barker, the sadly-departed-too-soon Richard Beckinsale as his cellmare and a nice turn from David Jason as a very elderly prisoner. Might be harder to follow than some of the other comedies out there, it's pretty English in some of the wording of the jokes.
3.	Ronnie Barker runs a small convenience store, with a vicious till, David Jason as the slightly hopeless assistant. Great in its day, maybe not so much now.
4.	Note I'm not suggesting Only Fools and Horses. While it was great in its very original incarnation (David Jason as the rogue-ish dodgy dealing Derek 'Del Boy' Trotter, and Nicholas Lyndhurst as his dopey younger brother Rodney, it very quickly grew ever more ridiculous after both Del and Rodney end up meeting people and getting married. Though if you watch the very last group of specials, you will understand why Amy Pond is a policewoman and Rory Williams is a Roman centurion. Yes, it is essentially a throw-back to that scene where Rodney and Cassandra are trying to sort out their marriage and try... dressing up for each other.
5.	I've seen all of series 1-3, plus bits of later episodes, mostly haven't gotten round to buying it yet. The show's about the British intelligence service, MI5, looking at protecting the country, and the various things that they do. Technobabble aside, it is pretty good drama.
6.	Though personally series 4 was a let down for me and I'm still undecided about series 5, haven't got series 6 on DVD yet, though oddly enough it was a random series 6 episode that got me hooked in the first place. The show's about a group of con artists who do the 'big scores', setting up for big payoff, but it doesn't always quite go to plan.
7.	The premise is odd enough, get together a group of retired ex-police officers and form them into an 'unofficial' unit to investigate cold cases. Because they were often involved in the cases originally, there is all sorts of tension that might emerge.
8.	He's the creative consultant to a slightly sleazy magician, and because of his understanding of how tricks are performed, he can usually unravel the most bizarre murders. Unlike most shows, the focus is on how the murder was done, as opposed to the usual formulas of who did it, or we know who did it, how does the detective figure it out. It's also pretty funny in places, IMO it went downhill in series 4 which is why since then there have only been occasional specials.
9.	I don't actually watch these. I just couldn't get into them. They are popular enough, though.

Did you ever see Crime Traveller, btw? Though it was one of the BBC's mini-series deals that never went anywhere (mostly, IMO, because of Chloe friggin' Annett), the premise was interesting and even now I still think it was brilliantly written.

It centres on Chloe who is this scientist for the police and her detective friend, and she's built a mostly-working time machine in her basement. So they go back and investigate crimes, and very often in the investigation 'in the present', there's some 'guy' seen in the area that the police 'want to talk to', and of course it's one or both of them in the past.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_Traveller has more information, and as much as I love Jonathan Creek (which ultimately replaced it), I wish it had been renewed for more.

(Yes, I know the article cites tension in the Beeb at the time, but I'm not entirely convinced. I still think Annett is half the reason herself.)

Also I would note that she had some minor parts in Jeeves and Wooster episodes; it wasn't until I looked it up a long time later that I realised, because she actually *acts* in those and has some chemistry, but I wonder how much of that is rubbing off from Hugh Laurie.

Then isn't it wonderful that even if it were removed, you could reinstate it later with more options and flexibility? :P

There's nowhere in Wedge to do that at present... I'm not sure what you're referring to, actually.

Well, right now, the recent posts item is solely in the sidebar, and that's partly why I want to move it into a plugin, because I feel more comfortable doing bizarre things like supplying multiple templates and options to it as a plugin.

If it does become a plugin, I'd make the sidebar and board index (and welcome page, that's another story) into options.

As far as WD-recent-tickets goes, it would have the options of sidebar, board index (and welcome page) and at the top or bottom of the list of tickets in WD, or possibly anywhere else I end up making available.

Nope, I actually mean a mod that replaces the News items in the header with the list of topics from a board. http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=825 if you're curious (no, it's not updated for current versions but it shouldn't need *that* much work other than converting the query to 2.0 style)Too many options are not always a good thing and I know I've removed options in Wedge as well as added them, but yes, it's whether they can be proven useful.The logic and code is virtually identical, too.