Is this above or below the standards set by Monkey Tennis?
Monkey Tennis would be funny. Bald blokes isn’t.
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The 10th Anniversary Special was always planned to be a retrospective, not a new episode. It may have already been filmed.
They pretty much said they didn’t plan any future episodes or series last year and the last episode pretty much wrapped everything up. It now makes sense why they were perhaps non-commital about it absolutely being the last episode, but glad they got to finish it whilst he was still alive.
I think if they ever revived it I think like Not Going Out it needs a bit of a time jump to the brothers being married with kids and hosting Friday Night Dinner at their own homes, still continuing their brotherly pranks and having Grandma Jackie and Great Aunty Val pop up from time to time. Martin is irreplaceable and it would be foolish to do so.
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Now this is what you call super sombre - ITV’s ident for the royal death.
BBC’s commercial arm, BBC Studios owns UKTV, their channels went to obit mode and all ads, promos, continuity were dropped and replaced with this animated slide loop between shows. Following strict BBC procedures (as they’re owned by the BBC)
ITV2 had slides during their ad breaks pointing to ITV (main channel)
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Riveting content, and I thought we got some shit on our screens.
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Nikki Grahame, one of the most famous housemates in the UK version of Big Brother, has died at the age of 38. She has been battling anorexia all her life and just a month ago a fundraiser campaign to raise money for her treatment raised tens of thousands of pounds within a couple of days.
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Didn’t people get the shits over Prince Philip’s death in the UK! The BBC had to sent up a special complaints site, which when I visited, was just a spot for their name and email address.
I bet all of these will be virtually filed into the specialised folder on the desktop called “Recycle Bin” 
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This is something every news network should have. A place where people can just complain about too much of one story. I bet the BBC interns read them out for a laugh during lunch breaks.
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If their complaints process is anything like the ABC’s, then that’s a hundred times more dignified than the patronising way viewers/listeners will be told that they’re wrong.
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We were just talking about that in another thread the other day. Would be keen to see how they update the show.
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Has to be ethnically diverse, coppers can’t be shown to be brutal, all that jazz…
Surprised cop shows are being rebooted, after all Brooklyn Nine-Nine is winding down after all the controversy over police brutality etc…
This seems unlikely to go anywhere - no broadcaster attached and seemingly someone wanting to revive it without necessarily having the rights to do so.
Did you ever see the show? It was pretty diverse especially compared to competitive Australian shows of the periods
Yes I did. I’m just reiterating that any modern cop show, this one included, has to be diverse and trying to avoid anything that will fuel the anti-cop sentiment that exists at the moment.
There is one cop show which is absolutely peerless in UK television at the moment. The brilliant Line of Duty began it’s sixth series with over 9m viewers in the overnights, and 28 days later a total of 15,201,746 viewers have watched it. That’s basically 1 in 3 UK adults.
It’s absolutely deserved as well - it just gets better and better every week and so refreshing to have a drama where the viewers actually have to do quite a bit of the work rather than sit back and be spoonfed the story.
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(Line of Duty) reached the penultimate episode of its sixth season on Sunday night in front of an audience of 10.9 million, according to overnight BARB figures supplied by overnights.tv.
Created by Jed Mercurio, Line of Duty’s near 11M viewers makes it the most-watched television drama episode in the UK since Doctor Who’s Christmas Day special in 2008, which was watched by 11.7M viewers.