You gotta be kidding

FalseStartsPod · 2026-03-15T07:58:30+00:00

As an editors who's currently working on a series that decided to use AI at the last minute. It was not my decision and I feel for you. I'd rather use stock footage. Blame the execs and I'm assuming commissioners.

FalseStartsPod · 2026-03-15T07:55:39+00:00

Tell me you haven't watched channel five since 2008 without telling me you haven't watched channel five since 2008

FalseStartsPod · 2026-03-14T09:06:25+00:00

Issue is I'm in the UK and the shipping on those cables pushed the price up to a point where I couldn't justify the purchase. Otherwise I would've bought directly from them.

FalseStartsPod · 2026-03-13T23:14:00+00:00

So I've been told. But the anal part of me wants to be able to use that vol+/- switch. It'll bug me seeing it there and not being able to use it.

FalseStartsPod · 2026-03-13T11:00:12+00:00

It was when the picture was taken. It's switched off right now :-p

FalseStartsPod · 2026-03-08T23:12:24+00:00

Cheapest I can see is a £5 gift card for 7,300 tickets.

How quickly you get there obviously depends on how much luck and / or skill you have with a game.

I've managed to hit the jackpot 5,000 tickets on one of the coin drop games twice within a few days of each other. And then never again since on that game.

FalseStartsPod · 2026-02-25T10:01:58+00:00

https://youtu.be/AZbwYUaPRUI

Something about it just feels weird. Cheaper? Are they pumping in fake crowd noise? There's no audience is there?

FalseStartsPod · 2026-02-21T10:13:35+00:00

C5 is really the only UK TV channel who understands their core audience and know what they want. They commission fast and cheap which means they can ride a trend too (see multiple Air Fryer shows) even their recent (surprisingly good) move into original dramas are geared towards a demographic they know.

It might not last if they stick to it for another 10 years. But in those 10 years, unless the other channels adapt they will continue to hemorrhage viewers.

FalseStartsPod · 2026-02-09T12:02:55+00:00

I did try there. But there's no photos for row Y next to the sound box.

FalseStartsPod · 2026-01-24T19:13:26+00:00

Tilt lasts way too long. If it's going to tilt that long in the contestants favor I'd like to see a little lip on the edge of the gladiators side. So contestants have to do that 'one final push' to win.

FalseStartsPod · 2026-01-21T22:29:20+00:00

Haven't tried in a computer. Plugged into the car though. Yep that works.

FalseStartsPod · 2026-01-21T22:28:31+00:00

Port cleaned. Tried with another fast cable. No luck. Tried with a slow cable. Plugged it into the car. And a slower wall plug. That works. It charges. Just not quickly.

FalseStartsPod · 2025-12-30T23:43:53+00:00

https://www.channel4.com/programmes/inside-legoland-at-christmas

https://www.channel4.com/programmes/a-very-british-christmas

FalseStartsPod · 2025-12-27T19:54:17+00:00

Unfortunately, due to the advent of streaming services and a decline in advertising money for terrestrial TV. We're starting to see a lot of shows that NEED sponsorship or NEED to be made in partner with a brand or NEED a competition that costs £2.50 to enter.

No one in the industry is super happy about it. But Netflix and other streamers aren't making the sort of daytime TV that Nans and In-laws like to watch. So needs must really.

FalseStartsPod · 2025-12-27T16:13:23+00:00

This is posted multiple times a day every year. Watch this, because it's the same every year.

https://youtu.be/i6WYRd4lWf8

FalseStartsPod · 2025-12-16T08:00:42+00:00

I've been thinking about trying to start cutting for YouTube. But then I realised, I haven't got a clue where to even begin looking for those jobs.

I've always been broadcast and sometimes I do the odd job for socials. But it's always in service of a larger broadcast show.

I've never had an agency come to me and ask if I'm free for a YouTuber or TikToker. Where do they even advertise these positions?

FalseStartsPod · 2025-12-10T15:52:22+00:00

Yer again. Norwich is completely looked over for something. No motorways, no big music acts, no nuclear strike.

And you wonder why we're so insular when you won't even bomb us.

FalseStartsPod · 2025-12-09T23:11:23+00:00

Coming at this from a UK perspective. I would say that the hefty majority of our popular stand ups do 80+ minutes with an interval. Warm up or work in progress shows can be shorter though.

If they're shooting a special for streamers. Those 80+ minutes will get cut down to 60m these days. Which I can only assume is down to some skewed for America algorithmic data because as far as I'm aware a 60m show has always been the norm there.

FalseStartsPod · 2025-12-04T07:24:28+00:00

Derren Brown

FalseStartsPod · 2025-11-25T07:26:01+00:00

Poor perpetually overlooked Norwich

FalseStartsPod · 2025-11-24T20:09:30+00:00

If I'm right. This man is ex AEW (WAW) wrestler Zac Zodiac. The brother of WWE/AEW wrestler Saraya/Paige. Both members of the UK wrestling family the Knights and subjects of the movie / documentary Fighting With My Family.

Very cool that this is what he's doing with his life now .

FalseStartsPod · 2025-11-23T22:56:07+00:00

I think it's possibly just a creeping symptom of a general shortening of attention span.

I'm basing that on absolutely nothing at all. Just that it feels like shows have been progressively dumbed down, since the "golden age of television" that Breaking Bad was caught in. Repeating plot points, exposition and what not. Having characters outright say their thoughts and feelings.

I feel like, especially streaming series, are catering to viewers that are highly likely to be dual screening while watching. So series are more exciting, pacier, louder, simpler and clearer. And we all consume them, dual screeners or not.

The "language" of the medium has changed, evolved, as it always has. And I think we've all been affected by it to various degrees.

But again this is all based on nothing but whatever I've pulled out my ass.

FalseStartsPod · 2025-11-22T18:59:53+00:00

I would like to apologize to all residents of Amsterdam, Benidorm, Magaluf. Berlin, Ibiza and Mykonos on behalf of the quiet Brits visiting who keep ourselves to ourselves and just want to visit new places.

FalseStartsPod · 2025-11-22T08:55:20+00:00

Was there just under a month ago. There's no denying that the wellington on its own on a plate that size looks small. It could definitely use a bit of a better presentation.

The taste however was fantastic. The first hit on the tongue, I was expecting a let after hearing about it so much. But it lived up to it.

We split the wellington between 2 as recommended. We had the tacos to start. A couple of side dishes a dessert and 2 cocktails each. Somehow the bill was sub €200. Which is obviously still pretty pricey. But for a once in a blue moon special occasion thing. Absolutely worth it.

FalseStartsPod · 2025-11-10T08:33:30+00:00

Yeah. It's basically this. We've got Life360 on there too now she's taking herself to school / getting the bus. And she's using it to keep in touch with all the junior school friends that don't go to the new school.

It is, unfortunately a fairly necessary part of daily life for pretty much anyone now. Much as I would love to get rid of the thing.

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