I've literally never seen that happen before on live TV.

Wonder if they'll go for a fourth!

I've recently watched the new Grand Tour and whilst looking at lots of discussions boards and social media, this whole "Francis Bourgeois is a fake" perspective has seemed to crop up again and it really grinds my gears.

People keep seeming to use the "Francis Bourgeois is not his real name so he must be faking it." As well as the "he's pretending to be autistic and doesn't actually care about trains" argument; and I just feel that both of these arguments are just really vapid statements made by people who have never actually looked at the guys content.

If you look at the stuff hes been releasing on both social and traditional forms of media you find out very quickly that the guy is not "pretending" at all, and if he was the guy would be putting a hell of a lot of effort into the bit. The sheer amount of knowledge this guy knows about trains is insane in itself and there are literal hours of content that back up the fact that he knows his bloody stuff. I can understand the point that he might be playing into that trope a bit more for the camera but the same can be said for almost every media personality that has ever existed and I just don't understand why he gets slated so much for doing so compared to other media personalities.

Secondly, the whole "since Francis isn't his real name, it must be all fake" malarkey has never really made sense to me as almost everyone who uses the internet uses some form of alias via having a username yet we don't call every single person who has ever used the internet or produced content a fake because of it. Furthermore, it's very understandable for Francis to use a fake name especially since at the start of his internet career he was in a fairly stable career and most likely did not want Rolls Royce (who he was working for at the time) to easily find his content as a lot of companies have quite strict policies as to what their employees post on the internet, so it really isn't the gotcha moment people seem to think it is.

Finally, to my knowledge, Francis has never publicly disclosed whether he has autism or not so this whole idea that he is capitalising on faking being autistic is once again rather vapid as he himself has never claimed to be autistic.

Examples include This Way Up, Catastrophe, Fleabag, Back to Life, Babies, I Hate Suzie, Lovesick, Trying… am I missing any?

I was thinking about this after reading about a French crew that was filming a documentary about a NY firefighter, and they happened to be filming on 9/11 of all days, so obviously the documentary turns into a harrowing look into that (ended up as the only documentary filmed inside the towers on the day) instead of a gentle look at the life of a fireman in New York.

Anyway, has a British TV show had something occur that veered it way off course like that?

I was looking at all these shows that seem to dominate telly nowadays, like that one last night with Fred Sirieix going to posh hotels and the Kemps going to Ireland, and wondered if something like that has ever occurred on the day of something dreadful, or if something went wrong that turned it into a different show than originally planned? Like (bad examples) David Dickinson filming a doc about antiques in Japan and then surviving a tidal wave or Allison Hammond filming a documentary about baking in the US and a shooting happening?

As far as I remember the visuals were fruit crashing into sticks of wheat. I’m pretty sure the advert was for some kind of cereal like alpen or special K, basically could have been any of those sugar fruit based cereals they used to market as healthy

Random I know, me and my gf heard the song and we both remembered the advert but can’t remember what the product was so we can’t find it anywhere on YouTube

Just rewatched Coupling for the third time and it’s genuinely my favourite show EVER.

I rlly enjoyed Miranda and four weddings and a funeral the series as well.

I’m basically looking for British sitcoms with a similar vibe. Very funny and with a bit of a romcom element.

I’ve watched a bit of peep show but haven’t finished it yet. Extraordinary and lovesick were okay but not rlly my favs.

Thanks!

What do people think? I thought she was a fun minor addition to the show, but I know others were more divided on her... acting. Also, if she's back we can assume that the Prince she works for will be returning too? Eddie taking the operation even more international.

After watching last night’s episode of 24 Hours in Police Custody, it got me thinking.

I genuinely think watching half a dozen of those episodes goes to the core of so many societal problems that politics has actively failed to address.

Mental health, drugs, abuse, violence, benefits, employment, housing, young people, immigration, policing, courts, trust, community cohesion and on and on and on.

For my money, it’s an invaluable lens into the issues within British society and politics. But what other shows offer this?

There’s a frame in the Born Survivor clip where Bear Grylls gets stung and his expression shifts from rugged survivalist to “Benedict Cumberbatch solving a murder in rural Dartmoor.” It’s the closest nature has come to casting its own Sherlock reboot.

I had to stop myself from spending all night watching the whole season, yet I still found myself laying in bed watching YouTube videos that just show you how contagious his amusement and excitement really is, the video with Chris Harris in the Black series chasing a steam engine is on another level of emotional. He just brings everything together with Thomas and James who are superb at their job too. I'm so glad this trio worked so well for this.

I haven't been this excited for a motoring show since the premiere of TGT from the old gang.

P.S. I don't care if you think I'm glazing, it is that good.

I feel so brutal for the driver of the Lexus. He’s obviously been used for cash. He had job interview lined up and they’re gna do a check on him and see arrested eh? Still watching the episode but need to vent as he’s being questioned as I’m home alone.
Just shows you how being with the wrong person can totally wreck your life regardless if you’re the one doing the drugs etc it leads to messy life.

Does anybody here know someone who took part as a contestant on one of those BBC3 reality shows back in the day? Or better yet, did anybody here actually take part in one?

I'd love to know how they feel looking back?

If my memory serves me correctly, they always cast 18/19 year olds, and the entire premise of all these shows was usually "haha look how dumb they are!"

I wonder how many of them regret it, or if they just look back on it as just a laugh.

It's also interesting that these shows never seemed to produce any Z-List celebrities came from these shows the way they do on Love Island, Traitors, Big Brother etc either. Unless I'm forgetting somebody obvious, it seems all of them just completely disappeared afterwards.

This has bothered me for years. I remember a documentary where (I think) a man was discussing the history of sex on screen. The key memory I have is that some form of talking puppet snake was involved in the in-between scenes.

I distinctly remember after some clips of sex scenes, the snake said to the man something along the lines of ‘don’t tell me you didn’t enjoy that’.

I cannot remember the name of the show and that’s about all I remember. I’m not sure if it was on Channel 4, but I suspect so since the programme’s content seemed particularly raunchy.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Can someone please explain why every time I settle down to watch a film I am subjected to several minutes of “entertainment news” about some vacant celebrity gobshite who has apparently “opened up” about their “journey”?

What journey? From the kitchen to the fucking photocopier?

I couldn't care less what some overpaid nobody has been doing, wearing, shagging, launching, endorsing or “creating”. Every day it's the same: “And now, Hollywood star Darren Plop has revealed his exciting new range of scented candles.”

FUCK OFF DARREN.

Then comes the so-called journalist, grinning and nodding like a Labrador that's just been shown a sausage, asking such penetrating questions as, “How does it feel to be you?”

Meanwhile I'm sitting there thinking, “How does it feel to be ME? It feels like I WAS WATCHING A FUCKING FILM.”

These celebrity interviews are basically toddlers shouting “LOOK WHAT I DONE!” except the toddler has £4 million in the bank and some desperate cunt with a microphone crawling up its arsehole.

And what really boils my piss is that they call it “news”.

News is a war. News is a government collapsing. News is a plague of locusts descending upon Sheffield.

“Former reality star Tiffany Bungle has designed a handbag.”

THAT ISN'T NEWS.

That's an object.

And I'd actually prefer the adverts for funeral plans and life insurance that come on afterwards. At least those have the decency to tell me I'm going to die, my children will be fighting over my toaster and some sweating bastard from Croydon will inherit my pension.

Bring back proper television, I say.

Or, failing that, show me a two-hour static picture of a brick.

It would have more personality.

I had an eye operation 2 weeks ago, been mostly blind since (sporadic eye openings being hampered by sensitivity to light).

In that time, I’ve watched 4 series of Peep Show and 2 series’ of Red Dwarf.
I’ve always been a person who says they’re going to start watching something, watch a few episodes and move on to a new series, leaving masses of shows half started.

I’m not letting that happen again, I’m sticking with a show to the end.

My wife and son start back at work/nursery on Monday and I’ll have 2 weeks off work for recovery, so hoping to finish as many series in that time.
I know Red Dwarf is going to be a long slog (12 series/movie) but I’m enjoying them thus far so I’ll stick with it.

What else can you recommend, around 2/3 series. Preferably classics. The sort people look at you funny when you say you’ve never watched it.

This got me thinking, who do you watch The Voice with? Or are television viewing habits really becoming lonelier and lonelier?

A) 2nd September 2026 - https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m003117b/eastenders-02092026

- what is the song playing from 13:20 to 14:10 ?

B) 3rd September 2026 - https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m003118n/eastenders-03092026

- what is the song playing from 12:18 to 13:22 ?

Thank you!!

these were great shows dont let the nickname "diddy" bring the shows down i loved these shows growing up