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So what do we think of this TV list then?
JulesK Started conversation Jul 23, 2004
The fifty most influential UK TV programmes, apparently:
www.news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/3919275.stm#list
What do we think? (and sorry I can't link properly)
Jules
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katkodl Posted Jul 23, 2004
is it just me, or is this link simply not working at all? I copy-pasted, and it lead me to nowhere...
katkodl 
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Whisky Posted Jul 23, 2004
http://www.news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/3919275.stm#list" >http://www.news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/3919275.stm#list
You need the http:// at the beginning 
Off to look at it now!
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Loup Dargent Posted Jul 23, 2004
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/3919275.stm
This one seems to work
loup
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Emmily ~ Roses are red, Peas are green, My face is a laugh, But yours is a scream Posted Jul 23, 2004
I'm getting
'Unknown Host (Error 500)'
with that link Whisky 
Emmily 
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Whisky Posted Jul 23, 2004
Well, at least yours works, mine didn't!
Hmm, interesting list, though I can't for the life of me see why they listed Big Brother, Driving School and Pop Idol as influential... as far as I can see, one influenced all the others!
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Emmily ~ Roses are red, Peas are green, My face is a laugh, But yours is a scream Posted Jul 23, 2004
Gosh I'm slow 
2 Posts while I was sending one 
loup
Will probably be another 2 or even more now 
Emmily
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Loup Dargent Posted Jul 23, 2004
Working link here: F19585?thread=452678&post=5612294#p5612279 
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Loup Dargent Posted Jul 23, 2004
Simulpost...
"Waves at Emmily"
Off to w*rk right now...
Will have a look later on...
loup
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katkodl Posted Jul 23, 2004
Thanks for the link... checking out now...
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Loup Dargent Posted Jul 23, 2004
Ooooops... "waves at Whisky too"
loup[now really gone]
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katkodl Posted Jul 23, 2004
Why “Changing Rooms” after all? 
There so many shows like this on air, and as far as I remember “House Invaders” was the first one, wasn’t it?
So what do we think of this TV list then?
JulesK Posted Jul 23, 2004
*Tiptoes shamefacedly back following the link debacle 
*
There do seem to be a few too many 'reality' shows. And I wonder how they chose the drama ones - everyone probably thinks their favourite should be in the list (ie Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, Series 1 & 3).
Doctor Who made it though. And I expected Blue Peter to be there.
It's funny, it's tricky to think of what one would put in such a list but very easy to criticise an existing one!
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Trin Tragula Posted Jul 23, 2004
Successfully linked, read it ... 
bored already.
Quite right, Jules, far too easy to criticise the actual contents of these lists - but my question would be why they need *another* one? Every weekend of the last ten years seems to have had some kind of 'Top 100' show and they were enormous fun at first, but the exercise is getting increasingly tedious. The Big Read, Nation's Favourite Sitcom, Best Fifty TV Scenes with a Tortoise in them, Stuart Maconie and Jamie Theakston hauled out *again* to tell you why they loved Thunderbirds so much ... anyone else getting the tiniest suspicion that British TV is in danger of disappearing up its own fundament?
No reasons given, no naming of the people who chose it, no discussion: might as well just pick fifty programmes off the top of your head. And since when were televion programmes (or books, or music) supposed to be in competition anyway?
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I am Donald Sutherland Posted Jul 24, 2004
I am glad to see that World at War made the list. That is series that should be repeated every five years for as long as television exists.
Donald
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So what do we think of this TV list then?
- 1: JulesK (Jul 23, 2004)
- 2: katkodl (Jul 23, 2004)
- 3: Whisky (Jul 23, 2004)
- 4: Loup Dargent (Jul 23, 2004)
- 5: Loup Dargent (Jul 23, 2004)
- 6: Emmily ~ Roses are red, Peas are green, My face is a laugh, But yours is a scream (Jul 23, 2004)
- 7: Loup Dargent (Jul 23, 2004)
- 8: Whisky (Jul 23, 2004)
- 9: Emmily ~ Roses are red, Peas are green, My face is a laugh, But yours is a scream (Jul 23, 2004)
- 10: Loup Dargent (Jul 23, 2004)
- 11: Loup Dargent (Jul 23, 2004)
- 12: katkodl (Jul 23, 2004)
- 13: Loup Dargent (Jul 23, 2004)
- 14: katkodl (Jul 23, 2004)
- 15: JulesK (Jul 23, 2004)
- 16: Trin Tragula (Jul 23, 2004)
- 17: I am Donald Sutherland (Jul 24, 2004)
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