BBC2 WTF?
A programme about arch ponce Lawrence Llewelyn Bowhead flogging his tacky wares. A reality series about hairdressing and Family guy on a loop. Never have I felt so much like Disgusted from Tunbridge Wells.
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adman says
LLB on Beeb2 vs Mrs Brown on BBC1, like a choice between herpes and chlamydia.
marmiteboy says
Thankfully I was watching neither of these. A lucky escape I feel.
walker1 says
But we did get university challenge and only connect earlier. I certainly switched off before lib though. I think with bbc3 being confined to online in due course we may get more of this sort of thing on BBC2 unfortunately.
Moose the Mooche says
Laurence Llewellyn Bowen? Is he still bloody at it? I thought he’d been given his marching orders at the same time as the 4:3 aspect ratio.
Surely now we have Russell Brand (slighty pseudo intellectual man with girl’s hair and Byronic delusions) there’s no reason for him to exist. Not that there was anyway.
madfox says
LLB gave me one of my most satisfying TV moments of all time when, during an episode of “Changing Rooms” I think it was, the tremendous c*nt machine-sewed one of his ridiculous Regency cuffs onto a cushion. This was something I had prayed for many times and when it actually came to pass, I was almost literally beside myself. To his great credit, I must say, he allowed the embarrassing incident to remain after the edit.
BaldySlaphead says
He literally sewed the cuff of the shirt he was wearing to a cushion?
At first I thought you meant he’d added a Regency-style cuff to a cushion, and I just thought ‘surely that’s the sort of feeble nonsense you’d expect?’
madfox says
Ah, yes, I see the ambiguity now. Mm, he sewed the cuff of the garment he was actually wearing, such was its grandiosity and conspicuity, to the cushion he was pointlessly tarting up.
Thanks for clarifying.
I should add, in fairness, that I heard him chatting to customers outside his wife’s shop in Port Isaac a few years ago and he came over as very grounded and normal. But I prefer to still think of him as a twat.
Moose the Mooche says
” I prefer to still think of him as a twat” along with “I blame Simon Cowell, even though it isn’t his fault” are definitively Afterwordian positions . Fine work.
madfox says
I accept your endorsement with pride.
mikethep says
As do I.
Clive says
My ex mother in law is a big fan of the above mentioned fop bandit and when my ex wife met him and told him at some fop festival he made a big deal of later pretending he knew the MIL which she was over the moon about. All round top bloke by all accounts.
andielou says
I’m pleased he’s a sound guy in real life: I’ve always been quite charmed by his over the top fop TV persona.
You can tell he’s just acting like a biff for effect. We need more characters like that in this boring age.
Give him a second series Tony Hayers!!
andielou says
What’s more- Katherine Ryan (presenter of Hair) is brilliant. So, target market right here…
johnw says
Calendar check complete: It’s not 1976. Phew!
Nobody (except my mum!) thinks that there are only 4 channels. What’s the problem with two of the BBC channels showing what may seem like crap? There’s so much more on and, unless you’re in a far off hotel room you probably have access to the entire output of BBC TV for the past 30 days along with a huge amount of the Channel 4 output of the past 30 years and UKTV stuff and a few weeks of ITV stuff. I suggest that nobody (while they’re at home) needs to worry about scheduling…. and (ignoring sporting occasions) when was the last time there were more than 3 BBC1 shows in a single week, worth watching?
davebigpicture says
I’m usually a big supporter of the BBC but the programme quality is declining fast. Last night I watched a stream of Person of Interest, daughter looking at cat videos on line and my wife was on Facebook. There was nothing to interest us on any of the channels, Freeview or cable. It used to be that summer schedules were poor but the winter is just as bad now.
retropath2 says
Yeah, cos there’s so much good stuff on cable…..
Right.
The more there is the less there is.
Steerpike says
Whilst the OP was redolent with slightly mock outrage, the truth in the jest is that BBC2 has traditionally been the home of more serious stuff and more intelligent comedy. Your comment that I can access the last 30 years of BBC output misses the point that the BBC should be making new good stuff. The cable channels are stuffed full of regurgitated stuff from years ago. If I want stagnation I’ll watch Dave.
davebigpicture says
How very dare you!
johnw says
Surely the BBC is still making quality programmes. Many of these are on BBC4. These days, for example, except at festival time, I wouldn’t expect to see any programmes about rock music on BBC2. I thought I watched a lot of television but I’ve always got a backlog to watch that I’ve recorded and I don’t really care what channel they came from, effectively I’m the scheduler and it’s my channel. The BBC knows that this is the case with a lot of viewers. I was being flippant before about the year but we do live in a different time and very few of us are reliant on a single source for our viewing. If there’s nothing to watch on All4 that you either want to see again or missed the first time round then you’re probably either very very picky (which is OK in itself but it’s a little harsh to expect to be served at all times – it’s a bit like me wanting more vegetarian choices on a menu) or you watch a lot of television which is also unusual in this day.
ianess says
Be fair, their annual income is only £5.1bn (£3.4bn from license fees). How do you expect them to make decent programmes on that meagre budget?
ganglesprocket says
My wife has met him, said he was absolutely lovely.