Yep
A shining example of 'you know the Friday Panel is talking complete Horlicks when ...'

I think if Louise says she's having such fun and really enjoying it just a couple more times, she will have convinced herself

Try convincing parents that Waterloo Road isn't an accurate reflection of teaching... Ex-OH was a police officer and brother was a fireman. The hilarity/frustration with The Bill, London's Burning and the like were a constant theme.

Are we spotting a pattern here?!

My sister was a veterinary nurse and she despaired over some of the programmes about vets or animal hospitals!

*de-lurking* to add... I am a nurse... Jo Brand's 'Getting on' is probably the most realistic representation of general ward life - none of this Holby or Casualty malarkey

My paramedic relative spends most of those muttering at the tele, 'killed him ... maimed him ... killed him as well'.

I'm an archaeologist, have never once been chased by a boulder or melted the faces off any nazis. Though I am still training so I suppose there's something to aim towards.

My mum was a teacher and was always yelling at Waterloo road 'that'd never happen!' 'You can't send everyone to the cooler!'

I don't suppose you turn to your fellow archaeologists on a weekly basis and explain the known, regular rates of decay of carbon 14 either. Twenty years they did Time Team and almost every week they explained that to us yet again.

I cried for days when Mick Aston died (the koala hair guy off Time Team). He was so missing from my idea of the world when he died. The atheist in love with early Church history. He was an individual.

You're going to tell me now that Time Team is nothing like real-world archaeology, and I'll be more or less relieved. Tony Robinson is a tad unremitting

I loved that programme. I know the characters were broadly drawn but the stereotypes and situations did seem real. I always felt mean for laughing at poor Gerry, Damien's cameraman.


This 'so much fun' malarky is a pain in the rear. You're not being paid to have fun. Just do the damn dance properly and cut out the fun fun fun bit.

I would like to unappreciate whoever took the bottle away from Anneka Rice. Granted, she had nothing really to say about the competition, but I do feel she was only a glass away from saying something interestingly indiscreet if irrelevant. Equally, I would have preferred Mel to tell us more about the shenanigans and malarkey that happened on tour rather than banalities about the dance off...

Me too. There was far more of a 'friendly' feeling last year than this year, which is much more competitive. I saw a lot of mucking about on stage, so I would love to hear what they got up to off stage!

Like many, deeply unappreciating Danny's AT music, but I absolutely loved him saying on ITT that he hated it too. How many times have we ever heard either a pro or a celeb say there was something they didn't like? Unappreciated him then not sticking to it and saying he had been brought round.

Craig was refreshing as ever - admitting freely that this year, the judges were going to be able to do very little (because I think this year, some of the largest public vote is going to the 'duffers' and at the top of the leaderboard, it's very close). Last year, excluding J for these purposes, the vote (according to polls) was generally going towards the better dancers - Anita, Helen, Georgia. Maybe because the 'comedy' contestants weren't as interesting/popular last year?

Unappreciating whoever did not alert Anneka to the fact she should have parted her hair the other way (she had it covering her face to camera most of the time). You would have thought she had enough TV experience not to make that mistake.

Looks like Danny & Oti have been getting tips form Vincent & Flavia.
https://twitter.com/dannymaconline/s...58067683880961

Taking Danny to see their stage show Last Tango is a good idea.
Actually getting a lesson from them would be better.

I think before their AT, Kristina took Jason to see Silence of the Lambs

Explains much.

Even now, when in a tragedy struck area, there's a shot of a lone teddy bear, we say 'oh, look, Damien's been'

Louise had the air of someone whose had enough now, pleased thank you very much.

Zoe should have been able empathise with Danny - she loathed the music to one of her dances. Paso?

Add me to the absolutely adored Mick Aston group as well. Cried like I knew him when he died.

I wonder just how brought round he really is. Perhaps he was just trying to make sure that the producers wouldn't try to make him do an elegant, sophisticated waltz to James Brown's Sex Machine, followed by a cheeky salsa to Bring your daughter to the slaughter by Iron Maiden.

It is and it isn't, it shows real archaeologists at work but in such a contrived for the telly situation. Plus a nice telly budget!

Mick was amazing, the jumpers! He did a lot of public engagement work too.

My parents worked in the prison and probation sectors. Their thoughts on any series based on a prison are not to be repeated!


I got Pig Hogger. I think maybe the tool thought I wanted an insult for David Cameron. Either that or we now know why Cameron is unlikely to be a Trump fan.

Appreciating that for the first time in three weeks I'm actually going to be around to watch the show live this evening!

Me three. He was so clever but didn't flaunt it, and I loved that he could appreciate religious art and architecture without having a religious belief himself. I love old churches and churchyards but am a totally failed Catholic. There is a Protestant church near us with the most glorious genuine Pre-Raphaelite windows. (I only mention the Protestant bit because the heavens did not rend asunder when I walked into it 0


Oh yes please! Or maybe a ballroom tango. Not sure what Day Varch and his singers would make of it though.

I completely unappreciated the dream I had last night where Daisy and Danny ended up in the bottom two. Please no.

Not that I want to start on something I like but did Mel say she wouldn't mind seeing Louise and Kevin in the bottom two as they hadn't been there already or did she leave that dubious pleasure for just the male celebs (she definitely said it for Danny, Greg and Ed).

Anyone who has not been in the dance off yet she mentioned by name excluding Louise. Partly I suspect because she had not got on a roll with the idea when their routine was discussed.

Possibly. It's just my cynicism is growing by the hour - for example, I completely forgot to ask if she mentioned it within Claudia and Rinder's critique. The fact that she did means my cynicism is just rising further.

Oh yes


Ah yes, the heart wrenching image of devastation

You and me both, I absolutely loved him.

This is deeply cynical but does anyone think Danny might get 'punished' for some of his honesty? He mentioned a debate over unbuttoning his shirt recently as well. Fair play to him for taking it all seriously though and speaking up when he's being pushed into something he doesn't like.

All three were a waste of space. Why do people actually care about what these pointless time fillers added to the programme think?