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tweedledum
First contestant (Joe) on Catchphrase tonight was on the BBC Two quiz Perfection all this week.


He was very, very competetive! Razz
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RDJ
Still really disliking Stephen on this.

He's still slagging off the contestants thinking it's funny.

And he's speaking directly to the camera asking if we've got it at home like he's on CBeebies.

He needs to go next series. There are a lot more competent presenters than him.
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gottago
RDJ posted:
Still really disliking Stephen on this.

He's still slagging off the contestants thinking it's funny.

And he's speaking directly to the camera asking if we've got it at home like he's on CBeebies.

He needs to go next series. There are a lot more competent presenters than him.


You do realise he would have been told to say all that? Any presenter would have done the same.
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Gary McEwan
RDJ posted:
Still really disliking Stephen on this.

He's still slagging off the contestants thinking it's funny.

And he's speaking directly to the camera asking if we've got it at home like he's on CBeebies.

He needs to go next series. There are a lot more competent presenters than him.


I think Stephen can get away with it though. I don't think anyone else could, and also the contestants don't seem to mind much either as they laugh whenever he says something cheeky.
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David
I think Stephen can get away with it though. I don't think anyone else could, and also the contestants don't seem to mind much either as they laugh whenever he says something cheeky.


They are hardly going to show the contestants who slit their wrists are they?
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tweedledum
I think Stephen has been quite good actually, I like how he mixes presenting and being funny at the same time. I think he deserves a bigger role within ITV, and he would be a good contender to present This Morning if Phil was ever to leave, but I doubt he would leave! Very Happy
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bilky asko
I think Stephen has been quite good actually, I like how he mixes presenting and being funny at the same time. I think he deserves a bigger role within ITV, and he would be a good contender to present This Morning if Phil was ever to leave, but I doubt he would leave! Very Happy

I think that if Stephen Mulhern were ever to be a regular presenter on This Morning, that would be the death knell for it.
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Cando
I think Stephen has been quite good actually, I like how he mixes presenting and being funny at the same time. I think he deserves a bigger role within ITV, and he would be a good contender to present This Morning if Phil was ever to leave, but I doubt he would leave! Very Happy

I think that if Stephen Mulhern were ever to be a regular presenter on This Morning, that would be the death knell for it .


Totally agree. I can tolerate 99% of presenters but Mulhern annoys the hell out of me.
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littlesmegger
The theme remix is great, as for the CGI... I'm hoping they go back to the cartoon-style next series because, like Les Dennis's first series of Family Fortunes in 1987... just because it's the latest technology, it isn't always better!


I'd presume it's CG this time as a result of it now being quicker to render this type of animation [especially given how they're only using a dozen or so environments for the characters to interact in]. Where as 2D animation would take longer, hence Disney even moving away from it.
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JAS84
Same reason a lot of cartoons are CGI these days. Even those that look 2D are actually CGI these days (The Simpsons for example). But weren't Catchphrase's animations always CGI? Just the very primitive BBC Micro style originally?

14 days later

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Jon
Mulhern has even resorted to using, Les Dennis's "I'd give you the money myself" catchphrase this week. I can imagine he'll take legal action.
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bilky asko
JAS84 posted:
Same reason a lot of cartoons are CGI these days. Even those that look 2D are actually CGI these days (The Simpsons for example). But weren't Catchphrase's animations always CGI? Just the very primitive BBC Micro style originally?

I think you're conflating 3D and CGI. The Simpsons is 2D, and is CGI. It isn't 3D because it is CGI.

2D CGI in the style of a traditional cartoon is hardly the same as 3D animation in a style as far removed as possible from cartoon animation, and that is what people are objecting to. The original Catchphrase used computer generated animation, but it wasn't the 3D we are seeing today.

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