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Does anyone watch any of those American programmes on Discovery and/or Nat Geo that are basically people going about their jobs?

There's cake making, pawn shop, car tuning/ruining, building custom bikes, making guns, tuna fishing, other fishing, driving a truck, lumber jacks, going to storage, antiques and somehow they all end up the same show.


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Watched the final episode of Years and Years tonight. Then straight away watched the news. I wasn't 100% sure that it wasn't the same programme. 

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I watched the last two episodes in a row via iPlayer. The sense of attention to detail comes across, just as it did in the previous series. Not just in the little things you see in passing (the Samuel

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Does anyone watch any of those American programmes on Discovery and/or Nat Geo that are basically people going about their jobs?

There's cake making, pawn shop, car tuning/ruining, building custom bikes, making guns, tuna fishing, other fishing, driving a truck, lumber jacks, going to storage, antiques and somehow they all end up the same show.

New series of Wheeler Dealers started this week.

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Does anyone watch any of those American programmes on Discovery and/or Nat Geo that are basically people going about their jobs?

There's cake making, pawn shop, car tuning/ruining, building custom bikes, making guns, tuna fishing, other fishing, driving a truck, lumber jacks, going to storage, antiques and somehow they all end up the same show.

Or preparing for Doomsday

Bedford Roughyed

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Moonshiners was a good one.

Pawn Stars, Storage Wars, Restoration Man, American Pickers, Cajan Pawn Stars, Swamp People, Axmen, Ice Road Truckers, Gold Rush.... I get to watch them all at work...Bangla Bangers was a fave from a while ago.

With the best, thats a good bit of PR, though I would say the Bedford team, theres, like, you know, 13 blokes who can get together at the weekend to have a game together, which doesnt point to expansion of the game. Point, yeah go on!

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Does anyone watch any of those American programmes on Discovery and/or Nat Geo that are basically people going about their jobs?

There's cake making, pawn shop, car tuning/ruining, building custom bikes, making guns, tuna fishing, other fishing, driving a truck, lumber jacks, going to storage, antiques and somehow they all end up the same show.

Such variety. Look at the Food Network. They seem to have only two varieties of show.

1. People making cupcakes.

2. People going to diners and eating unreasonably large portions of junk food, while making fake gang signs with their fingers and overusing the word 'awesome'.

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hindle xiii

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Or preparing for Doomsday

That's different, I watched the first two episodes of Doomsday Preppers, it's amusing. Paranoid Americans stock-piling a decades' worth of food and guns.

I just have one question for them; they're preparing for "what if", well what if "what if" never happens?

Still, funny old world.

AuroraXIII

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room at the top was good on BBC4 last night.

Did you think so? Apart from a couple of performances I thought it was a bit clunky. Although most of the reviews this morning were positive so I could be out of step!

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Bedford Roughyed

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Finaly watched both series of Game Of Thrones, very impressive, good story, northerners, bad guys, good guys, guys who are bad and good, blood, gore, humour and sex. All boxes ticked!

With the best, thats a good bit of PR, though I would say the Bedford team, theres, like, you know, 13 blokes who can get together at the weekend to have a game together, which doesnt point to expansion of the game. Point, yeah go on!

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Finaly watched both series of Game Of Thrones, very impressive, good story, northerners, bad guys, good guys, guys who are bad and good, blood, gore, humour and sex. All boxes ticked!

And Wilko Johnson.

The next series can only live up to the last one if John Cooper Clarke and Karl Harrison are in it.

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Amber Avenger

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So many people have told me to get into Game of Thrones, but I just don't get it myself. Watched the first two or three episodes a few times in a vein attempt to get into it, but to no avail. Shame as I do want to like it (it looks superb on Blu Ray), but just one of those things I guess.

My current obsession is Breaking Bad. No spoilers please, but just finished Season 3 and I thought the last two episodes were some of the best tv I have ever seen. Getting Season 4 at the weekend and am quite excited.

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Futtocks

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Last night on BBC4, More old Jews telling Jokes. Great fun, and surely one of the cheapest programmes to make there's ever been. :D

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hindle xiii

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Really enjoying the third season of The Walking Dead. Best thing on telly by far.

Agree. Shame there's only two left before the second half starts again in the Spring.
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Agree. Shame there's only two left before the second half starts again in the Spring.

Ahem, just one for me :ph34r: . Mid season finale looks like a cracker.

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Wolford6

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I watched a great film on Sky last night ... The Debt, starring Helen Mirren as a former Mossad agent.

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Griff9of13

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don't talk to me about TV, ours has packed up. :(

"it is a well known fact that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it."

gingerjon

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don't talk to me about TV, ours has packed up. :(

If only somebody had invented the internet.

Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life. (Terry Pratchett)

Griff9of13

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If only somebody had invented the internet.

It's ok. I've thought of an even better alternative. Pub. :D

"it is a well known fact that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it."

Wolford6

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don't talk to me about TV, ours has packed up. :(

Have you only got the one telly?

I've got three. My daughter's house has five!

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Griff9of13

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Have you only got the one telly?

I've got three. My daughter's house has five!

Yep just the one. I only have the one pair of eyes. ;)

"it is a well known fact that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it."

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Futtocks

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I'm sure there are a fair few on here that would have enjoyed Speed Dreams: The Fastest Place on Earth, last night on BBC2.

It follows six British teams and their speed record attempts, five on bikes, one in a car. A lot of footage of hairy blokes in sheds, tinkering with a pretty wide range of machinery.

The first episode ended with them arriving at the Bonneville Salt Flats, so next week we'll see whether they succeed or fail.

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