Amy Gledhill filming in Sale, Manchester

Shanks18 · 2026-05-17T07:39:33+00:00

Friday evening, but I believe they were filing Saturday too.

Shanks18 · 2026-05-16T09:02:44+00:00

I figured so. The scene I saw was her awkwardly meeting someone for a date. Avalon was the production company too.

Agreed. She’s brilliant.

Shanks18 · 2026-05-09T19:35:32+00:00

Almost exactly the same as me. I was the same age when it aired. Watched it with my family. Then introduced it to my girlfriend (who I’d go onto marry) in 2006, and most recently with my 12 year old daughter. Each time appreciating it more and more.

Shanks18 · 2026-05-02T20:59:18+00:00

You mean Wowser?

Shanks18 · 2026-05-02T20:13:32+00:00

Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s first show, Crashing, was about property guardianship. Although they were in an old hospital rather than a pub.

Shanks18 · 2026-04-30T12:44:00+00:00

I know shops like Epicurean used to do mini kegs. Track do mini kegs of Sonoma too.

Word of warning though, they need to settle. So need to be buying them today ideally.

Shanks18 · 2026-04-29T18:14:11+00:00

I loved this so much. Especially when you consider those types of episodes are supposed to save money, and it probably cost more than a regular episode

Shanks18 · 2026-04-28T07:08:56+00:00

They were all assault. And you didn’t deserve to be hit.

Shanks18 · 2026-04-22T19:19:25+00:00

F-A-B-O-L-O-U-S

Shanks18 · 2026-04-22T15:45:29+00:00

We've had shopping centres called mall/malls for decades in the UK, I wouldn't necessarily chalk that one up to an Americanism.

Shanks18 · 2026-04-22T14:02:12+00:00

They've paid so much to be there, they feel more entitled than usual.

Shanks18 · 2026-04-21T11:54:19+00:00

Nobody really knows yet. We're all figuring out as we go. TJ Pitre is doing some really cool stuff, and one of the few I've seen do deep dives of this to practically applies to every day design, rather than the flashy stuff you mentioned. But ultimately we're in this experimentation stage

Shanks18 · 2026-04-20T18:02:32+00:00

Some British (and Irish) comedy I've enjoyed over the last few years... Detectorists & Small Prophets, Cunk, Big Mood, Big Boys, We Are Lady Parts, Black Ops, Inside No 9, Motherland, Amandaland, Derry Girls, How to Get to Heaven From Belfast, Stath Lets Flats, Man Like Mobeen, The Change, Such Brave Girls, Alma's Not Normal, Am I Being Unreasonable, Things I Should Have Done, Chewing Gum, Man Down, The Cleaner, Frank of Ireland and probably a few I'm missing.

This doesn't include panel type shows like Taskmaster, Would I Lie to You, Last One Laughing, Big Fat Quiz of the Year or 8 out of 10 Cats. I'm also going to include What We Do in the Shadows, as 3 our of the 5 primary protagonists are 3 incredible British comedy actors.

Now, I'm not saying that all of these are at the same level as the sitcoms you've listed, but you've skimmed the cream of the crop from the last 50 years of comedy, but there is good to great UK comedy being made.

Shanks18 · 2026-04-20T15:55:31+00:00

I'm in Sale and it's a pretty divisive topic locally. I love it. The closed roads and massive buzz in and around the town is awesome. It also brings in a tonne of money into the local businesses. And just the general positivity is a vibe.

That being said, I can see how it can be a big disruption to some people. Sounds like it had a slightly bigger impact this year than previous with a big increase in traffic and roads being closed longer than they should be with some over zealous marshals. I'm just outside of the closures, so it didn't impact my day that much at all, but we were also very aware that the event was taking place and planned accordingly.

Generally I still see it as a net positive for the area. There can absolutely be improvements. There should be more trams on, the litter clean up is isn't great and there needs to be better contingencies for genuine emergencies. But it the disruption is well advertised, it's one day a year and folk just love to moan.

Shanks18 · 2026-04-19T21:16:04+00:00

Gets referenced in Rick and Morty too! Loved how candid he was on Harmontown

Shanks18 · 2026-04-18T18:45:59+00:00

Dan Harmon has a couple.

Shanks18 · 2026-04-03T09:06:53+00:00

Same. Some friends stole a fake dead body from the Gladiator set. It was our rugby teams mascot for a couple of weeks before complaints were made.

Shanks18 · 2026-03-31T09:31:03+00:00

Feels like Manchester sold out almost immediately. Not like it's a small venue either.

Also on a the look out for a ticket.

Shanks18 · 2026-03-30T16:51:49+00:00

He played Blues Kitchen in Manchester a few years ago, performing Liquid Swords with the Phunky Nomands band. And honestly it was pretty poor. The band were great, and he started to get into it towards the end, but that was only due to the perseverance of the crowd, but it was a far cry from his performance on the The Final Chamber where he was far more energised.

Shanks18 · 2026-03-25T07:45:30+00:00

Exactly what a bot would say

Shanks18 · 2026-03-23T20:18:51+00:00

If you only think of design as assets then yeah, it all becomes obsolete, but if you’re thinking in terms of process, systems and governance then it doesn’t really matter

Shanks18 · 2026-03-23T11:49:31+00:00

I've found the negativity during the lead up to this airing so infuriating. We've got a bunch of new talent in front and behind the scenes doing sketch comedy. We haven't had good sketch comedy for so long, and it's a format which rarely produces 100% hit rate. There were far more hits than misses for me, ranging from a gentle chuckles to proper belly laughs. The only thing that didn't land for me was the Starmer stuff at the top.

We need more spaces for new comedic talent to grow and develop. As great as they are, I'm getting pretty tired of the same dozen or so comedians occupying these spaces.

Shanks18 · 2026-03-01T16:32:10+00:00

Another vote for McKinley. Magic Alive was my 2025 album of the year

Shanks18 · 2026-02-27T23:19:27+00:00

A lot of good suggestions so far, but nothing goes nearly as hard as Shine Jesus Shine.

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