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Just read on the BBC website that Bill Bailey is leaving Never Mind The Buzzcocks.

Complete bummer that one. He is apparently being replaced with a series of temporary captains, ala Have I Got News For You.

Something tells me the unfunny swine known as Noel Fielding will eventually replace him.

So, thats one less programme I have to worry about watching now.

er...what?


The US and Britain, two great countries separated by a common language...

nooooez

Bill Bailey's the reason I watch that show!

Edit: The new series of Fonejacker was on yesterday... makes me feel slightly better

Fonejacker? Please tell me you are pulling my leg. Can't stand that show. Stopped finding Prank Calls a laugh when I was 14.

And Jfraz, Never Mind The Buzzcocks is one of the funniest quiz games I have ever watched, and all music based.

Will just have to console myself with QI instead. And of course, Mock The Week.

Which 'Have I got news for you' team captain left? I missed that one.

Angus Deayton... ok, so he wasn't the captain, same idea though.

That Simon whatshisface bloke is waaaaaaay funnier than Mark Lamaar could ever even dream of being!!!

Phew!

Used to watch it when I lived in the UK in 1999 and 2000.

A show that needs to be exported to the rest of the world is Countdown... mesmerising stuff.

And with prizes like this teapot, who wouldn't want to compete?

I would compete just to smash the kitschy piece of gak at the award ceremony. Damn teapots and their vapor laden pollution in my kitchens! have at thee!

One show I like is Corner Gas, The Peter Seferowitz-er-something show (pretty fething funny), and that one show with Sir Digby Chicken Caesar.

VermGho5t wrote:I would compete just to smash the kitschy piece of gak at the award ceremony. Damn teapots and their vapor laden pollution in my kitchens! have at thee!

One show I like is Corner Gas, The Peter Seferowitz-er-something show (pretty fething funny), and that one show with Sir Digby Chicken Caesar.

Peter Serafinowicz and That Mitchell and Webb Look are the names you're after good sir.

IT's the Kettle that produces the vapour.

The Teapot is for brewing. Silly Americans.

Nuclear Mekanik wrote:Angus Deayton... ok, so he wasn't the captain, same idea though.

That Simon whatshisface bloke is waaaaaaay funnier than Mark Lamaar could ever even dream of being!!!

Your kidding right? Mark Lamar was actually a grumpy, embittered man brought on by the fact that the guests every week were a bunch a lousy pop
failures. He destroyed them and it was funny. Simon's scripted and obvious jokes are nothing in comparison.

Bill Bailey will be sourly missed though. Frankly they should just end the show and start something new.

That Mitchell and Webb Look is great, we get it late at night here in Australia.

My favorite UK show ATM is Top Gear. Of course we are miles behind but The interaction of the 3 hosts is just fantastic. Nevermind the great cars and challenges.

Have you got as far as their attempt to launch a Robin Reliant into Space?

I watch Top Gear on BBC America sometimes. Good stuff. The other BBC production the wife and I like to watch (guilty pleasure) is Secret Diaries of a Call Girl, though that's on Showtime over here. Va va va voom.

Thats on ITV2 that, which I can;t get. No Billie Piper in her scanties for the Doc, more's the pity!

I have always envied the brits for the quality of there TV shows. Life on Mars, Black Adder, Chef, and Red Dwarf and the list goes on. Of course Hollywood is stealing them all and turning them into American shows (The Office and Life on Mars!)

You only see the good bits.

Thankfully, you are spared tripe like Sunday Night Project, anything with Jimmy Carr, anything else with Alan Carr, and the general rubbish I try to dodge as much as possible.

Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:You only see the good bits.

Thankfully, you are spared tripe like Sunday Night Project, anything with Jimmy Carr, anything else with Alan Carr, and the general rubbish I try to dodge as much as possible.

You should get a load of some of our crap. of the top of my head. The View, and 101 shows with a Judge it it.

We had Friends, and that was quite bad enough, thank you very much!

Least you get high quality Sci-Fi like Firefly once in a while.

Secret diary of a call girl series 1 is a few weeks in here in Oz. Billie Piper FTW!

We had the Robin into space a couple months ago.
Anything with the Vaeron is my favorite part of Top Gear.

Australia has little in the way of decent shows. Except for 'Underbelly' shown earlier this year, telling the story of the 10 year gangland war in Melbourne. Essentially suburban bogans vs mafia type inner city heavies fighting over the drug trade.