Today we start woth another Charlie and Lola – Yes I Am, No You’re Not.
Lola tells Charlie she’s very clever. “My brain is as big as this.”
Charlie and Lola squabble sometimes. Like who can crunch the loudest at breakfast.
Squabbling over sweets.
About whether to watch Bat Cat or a programme about dogs. Lola knows what’s important about their viewing. “How many dogs does it have being brushed?”
Lola makes a lot of noise playing with her animals.
They have a very distressing argument while drawing. It’s at this point that I want to ask if they’re hungry.
They have to sit on the simmer down chairs.
Charlie has an idea to help them get on. He’s Squabble the Dog, and Lola is Bat Cat.
They imagine it’s a real Bat Cat story. “It’s a disaster. My hairbrush is locked in that building and I haven’t got a key.
Bat Cat flies off to get it.
“Now I can go to the Dog Show. Thank you Bat Cat.” I love that they paid off the earlier line about brushing dogs.
Because they’ve behaved so well, they get to go and see some Chinese puppets. And they are very amused that the two dragons are squabbling.
Media Centre Description: Children’s animation. Join Lola and Charlie, a brother and sister, as they deal with topics that effect their everyday lives. Charlie and Lola are looking forward to going to see a Chinese puppet show, but they are in a squabbling mood. In fact, today they do nothing but squabble. Will they ever simmer down and learn how to talk nicely to each other?
BBC Genome: BBC TWO Thursday 19 October 2006 08:30
The next recording starts with a trailer for Torchwood, and one for The Catherine Tate Show.
Then, another episode of Extras. Andy is on the Jonathan Ross show.
Andy is asked by a fan if he can visit her young son in hospital. He tries to wriggle out of it, of course.
Robert Lindsay is in the Green Room. He wonders why the boy didn’t ask him, given he’s far famouser. “No, she probably saw me and thought, “I’d love to ask him first, being one of Britain’s best-loved actors. Let’s not forget, he can sing and dance, and has won awards on Broadway, for Christ’s sake.””
Maggie is on a date. He takes her back home. It’s Number 9, so there’s going to be a twist. The twist is that he lives with his parents, who grills her about whether she’s using contraception.
She calls Andy, but he blows her off because he’s having fun in Jonathan Ross’s green room.
Andy wants his agent Darren to get him on Robert de Niro’s new film which is shooting in the UK. Darren can’t even understand how time zones work.
Obligatory TVC establishing shot.
Andy’s getting a bit offhand with Maggie. He asks her if she’ll go with him to visit the sick boy, so he’ll have someone to talk to.
There’s a romantic montage of Andy’s bromance with Jonathan Ross, to the sound of Nik Kershaw’s “Wouldn’t it be good”.
While Maggie is in the mud on a film set.
They visit the sick child. It’s awkward, of course.
His mother asks Andy if he would speak at the boy’s funeral in the event the boy dies.
Then Robert Lindsay turns up uninvited. He does a bit of song and dance. “Well, I’m not really into musicals.” “So, what ARE you into?” “Well, comedies with catchphrases, like Andy’s.” “Freedom for Tooting! Power to the people.” “What’s that?” “Your kid does not know comedy. Sort it out, now.”
Leaving the hospital, Maggie asks if he wants to go for a quick drink, but he has another showbiz event planned. “I am going to the Ivy restaurant. You know Vernon Kaye and Tess Daly? They invited me out for a meal.” “Why?” “Just want to hang out with me.” “Is there room for one more? No, I think the four’s made up.” “Who’s the four?” “Jamie Theakston.” There’s also the weirdest mistake in the subtitles on iPlayer. Andy says “What’s Theako gonna be like after a few beers? He’s mental enough sober!” but the subtitles say “What’s Steve Coogan gonna be like”.
Andy visits Darren to see how he’s getting on arranging a meeting with Robert de Niro. But he finds Darren wanking over a saucy pen that Shaun had left on the table. Andy threatens to fire him, but Darren counters with a meeting he’s set up with Robert de Niro. Andy doesn’t believe a word of it. “So it’s win-win for me. Either I turn up and meet De Niro, or I turn up and he’s not there, and you’re fired, and I get a proper agent.”
Maggie rings Andy to tell him she’s heading to the hospital, and she’s bringing Operation. He has to tell her he can’t make it because he’s going to the supposed meeting with de Niro. She thinks it’s an excuse, he gets cross. But she sends a text to wish him good luck.
Amazingly, the De Niro meeting is real. Darren is there, waiting for Andy.
But after he got the text from Maggie, Andy decided to go to the hospital instead. She gets cross with him again, telling him he should go to the meeting, but he just stays there. “It’s my turn to operate.”
De Niro is very impressed with Darren’s pen.
Darren calls Andy and tells him that he and De Niro are going to a nightclub. Andy asks if he can bring Maggie, and once they’ve finished playing Operation, they leave.
Robert Lindsay turns up again. “He doesn’t want to see you, Robert.” “Yes, he does. He does because I’ve brought DVDs of My Family. Everyone likes these.” “I don’t. I prefer that edgier stuff on BBC Two.” “What are you, a critic?”
This was quite a strong ending for the series, thankfully free of the rather worrying homophobia of previous episodes. It’s not quite the Office Christmas Party, but it’s warm enough.
Media Centre Description: Sitcom about a former TV extra who gets his own BBC sitcom. Andy Millman has changed. With a new celebrity chum, Jonathan Ross, he seems to be leaving old best friend Maggie behind. He even decides to get rid of his useless agent.
BBC Genome: BBC TWO Thursday 19 October 2006 21:00
After this, there’s trails for Simon Schama’s Power of Art and a brief tease for The State Within.
There’s a trail for QI and another tease for The State Within, then the start of That Mitchell and Webb Look.
The next recording overlaps, and is this episode of That Mitchell and Webb Look. There’s a prehistoric Police Procedural. “Sometimes I think the whole advance into stone technology has been a bit of a double edged sword.” “A what?” “Nothing.” “No what did you say?” “I have no idea.”
Admiral Dönitz is thrilled to be made the Fuhrer after Hitler’s suicide and he’s full of ideas.
It’s Wordwang today.
An Estate Agent asks a woman who works with survivors of torture what’s the worst thing that’s ever happened to someone she’s counselled, and he regrets it when she tells him.
“The incredibly intimidating and aristocratic people who still unaccountably sell clothes.”
One of their “behind the scenes” conversations gets increasingly meta.
The historian who loves making history fun, whose wife misses the old him. “You were cool. You were an angry, brilliant young historian. You used to order martinis and only buy cigarettes in soft packs.”
David’s Chiropracter objects to the sketch he wrote about a conversation they had.
Sir Digby Chicken Caesar partakes of the holy sacraments.
The snooker commentators perform the secret snooker words to Lady in Red.
Media Centre Description: Comedy sketch show starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb. The world’s earliest forensic detectives believe they may be up against the perfect crime. The Enthusiastic Historian, Sir Digby, ends up in prison and the Snooker Commentators discuss depression and reveal the special secret snooker words to Lady In Red in a grand musical finale.
BBC Genome: BBC TWO Thursday 19 October 2006 21:30
After this, there’s a trail for Mock the Week, more teasers for The State Within and a trail for Never Mind The Buzzcocks.
Then the recording stops after a few minutes of Mock the Week with panellists Andy Parsons, Mark Steel and Russell Howard.
And Frankie Boyle, Hugh Dennis and Adam Hills.
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