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Phil Mitchell - I should say Steve McFadden is the best EastEnders actor EVER!!!!

I love the scene where Del and Rodney dress up as Batman and Robin..... absolute classic. And it's not even a fancy dress party

UKTV Gold - you are as mad as Basil Fawlty himself. You've got it completely wrong!! There's NO WAY Comunication Problems is as good as The Germans. It's THE Fawlty Towers episode par excellence. Crazy stick insect on acid. Love it

Have you actually seen it though? It's actually very good - unlike the Goodies. Which is actually very very very bad.

I don't mean to be rude, but I've just come across this discussion and after reading all of the comments posted that are ranting about UK Gold scheduling, I'm just wondering if any of you (apart from the guy from UKTV) are actually involved in television at all?

I'm presuming not as your "why can't you do this? why can't you do that? why can't the sky be green?" comments seem a little naive to say the least. I have no idea about UK Gold's finances or stratgey etc, but it strikes me that they must be a successful business as they've been going for ages and they keep on starting new UK channels. Don't you think they must give an awful lot of thought into which programmes are going to be successful on their channels or do you honestly believe that when one person posts a message on their website saying something like:

"I like the last three episodes of series 3 of The Fall Guy and if you don't do want I want UK Gold and show them endlessly on a loop on Tuesday evenings then you obviously don't know how to run a business and I predict you'll go bust before I finish this sentence"

they're going to think - well we better abandon all the expertese and knowledge of our staff and all that expensive market research that we do and listen to Jim from Ipswich because he obviously knows his stuff.

Give them a break!! I don't want to come across as a UK Gold suck-up but I like some of the stuff they show, and I don't like some of the stuff they show, but I can take it or leave it. If I wanted to make a criticism, I'd probably post a message here and if they had the courtesy to answer I WOULD NOT be rude enough to shout them down and make fun of them and gernerally resort to being childish and unreasonable.

I visited the UK Gold messageboards cos I thought that people might be wanting to chat about classic TV - instead I find that the majority of posts and discussion is people moaning and moaning and moaning and whingeing (and it tends to be the same few as well).

Get a life!!!!!!

Hi UKTV People. When I was eight years old, my best friend caught me licking his snowman!! Iwas very embarassed! I was jealous because his snowman was better than mine and I was trying to melt it!! I'm sorry to say that we haven't spoken since that day...

I agree with PWickham that some of Mr Ickes views are perfectly coherent and mirror the concerns of many.

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I think it could be a good idea but a scratch card might be better than a lottery ticket – they look more colourful and nicer and the recipient can ‘play’ it straight away rather than wait for the draw. Also, the payouts on scratch cards are more limited and (let’s face it) if you gave someone a lottery ticket and they won big you’d be asking yourself “what if I’d kept it” for the rest of your life!
The other thing is that I only think it would make a good gift if there was at least one other present involved – otherwise statistically you’ve got a good chance of giving them nothing! You could have fun with it though – I once gave my friend three gifts wishing them ‘Good Health’ ‘Wealth’ and a ‘Long Life’. The ‘Good Health’ was a lovely bottle of port, the ‘Wealth’ was a scratch card and the ‘Long Life’ was a carton of Long Life milk! He laughed so hard that Cola came out of his nose!!!!!!!! Which was odd because he wasn’t drinking Cola at the time!

Hi Nigel

If you could change one part of your body, what would it be? Sometimes I think I'd like an extra hand so that I could make your lovely recipes even quicker! They do teke quite long some of them.