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The Bulls*** Detective

Fingers crossed for this; I saw it advertised last night but were it not for this heads-up, almost certainly would have missed it. Presumably inspired by Penn and Teller & Mythbusters, that write-up sounds even better than I imagined from the trailer.

ETA - DAMN! It's Bones night tonight. Hope this is repeated :(
 
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Yeah, thanks also. I'd have missed this too if not for the post.

(Big Les - is Bones any good? Never watched it as figure it'd be hard to adjust to Angel as a detective)
 
Surprisingly good, I think. The first series was a bit too hip and stylish for its own good, and even a bit corny in places. Annoying superficial, whiny, mannered characters too. And the sci-fi equipment they have continues to be a bit silly, if used a bit less now. But with series 2, the actors and characters have improved greatly, plus now they have a pathologist leading the team rather than the characture of an academic/anthropologist they had before. I've actually stopped thinking of David Boreanaz as Angel now. Well, during the show, anyway. There's some chuckle-worthy humour/interplay as well, which Ang..I mean Boreanaz does well.

As to BS detective, you can catch it late, or again in the 8pm slot before the new episode is shown. See here.
 
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Surprisingly good, I think. The first series was a bit too hip and stylish for its own good, and even a bit corny in places. Annoying superficial, whiny, mannered characters too. And the sci-fi equipment they have continues to be a bit silly, if used a bit less now. But with series 2, the actors and characters have improved greatly, plus now they have a pathologist leading the team rather than the characture of an academic/anthropologist they had before. I've actually stopped thinking of David Boreanaz as Angel now. Well, during the show, anyway. There's some chuckle-worthy humour/interplay as well, which Ang..I mean Boreanaz does well.
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Thanks, now tempted to give it a try. :)
 
As proven on TV - Werthers Originals Healing Therapy! At last the angle I've been looking for!

:D

(the "feedback" e-mail link on their website failed, so I'd try the other to post suggestions to them)
 
Big Les said:
Surprisingly good, I think. The first series was a bit too hip and stylish for its own good, and even a bit corny in places. Annoying superficial, whiny, mannered characters too. And the sci-fi equipment they have continues to be a bit silly, if used a bit less now. But with series 2, the actors and characters have improved greatly, plus now they have a pathologist leading the team rather than the characture of an academic/anthropologist they had before. I've actually stopped thinking of David Boreanaz as Angel now. Well, during the show, anyway. There's some chuckle-worthy humour/interplay as well, which Ang..I mean Boreanaz does well.
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One of my favorites - in one of the new episodes, Temperance came out as an atheist and actually made fun of religious beliefs.
 
Im told Bull***t Detectives will be repeated Tuesday 8pm.

Re Bones. Saw the first two episodes of series 1 on Sky Three. At 10pm I flipped over to ITV 4 to watch episode 1 of Attila the Hun. Personally I think this was a wise decision.
 
JQH - I must admit I wouldn't have stuck with if my other half hadn't have been so keen on it. With the second series they've toned down the cheese, the over-acting, and the sci-fi gimmicks, and the result is good popcorn viewing if nothing else.

Waiting for the Tuesday repeat of BS Detective - it's great to see British TV doing something like this. Now we just need to get Ben Goldacre fighting Gillian McKeith with those big cotton-bud/Q-tip things from Gladiators...
 
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Waiting for the Tuesday repeat of BS Detective - it's great to see British TV doing something like this.
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BBC Three does other related shows of a sceptical bent, such as "The Real Hustle" demonstrating scams, "Conning The Conmen" where they pull stunts on known rogues, and not forgetting it was the channel that brought us the finest psychic of the lot, Shirley Ghostman :)
 
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BBC Three does other related shows of a sceptical bent, such as "The Real Hustle" demonstrating scams, "Conning The Conmen" where they pull stunts on known rogues, and not forgetting it was the channel that brought us the finest psychic of the lot, Shirley Ghostman :)
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I haven't seen Conning the Conmen. But as well as being a huge fan of Shirley, I'm an avid Real Hustle watcher. I do wonder how many of their fake scams are...fake though. Some seem to be filmed very clearly from multiple camera angles. They did actually do a psychic scam once, but it involved a hidden guy with a notepad rather than cold reading or anything more everyday. It did at least serve as a warning I suppose.

And that woman is just an actress, and only there as eye candy, which is a bit of a shame in some ways.
 
They did do a variant of "Find the Lady" on Brighton beach. Think this was a genuine scam - you used to see people doing it on Tottenham Court Road pavements in the 80s
 
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