RIP Never Mind The Buzzcocks

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo

Sad to see it go. The crème de la crème of music based panel shows (the only music based panel show? ).

It was great while it lasted. We'll always have the memories.

The irreverent music-themed panel show launched on BBC Two in November 1996 and ran for 28 series and 269 episodes, the last of which aired in December 2014. The previous July, Rhod Gilbert joined the show as its first permanent presenter in five years, but he was unable to improve its ratings, which had been in steady decline for some time.
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enfant terrible

Was never the same when Simon Amstell left.

endacl

enfant terrible wrote: »

Was never the same when Simon Amstell left.

Was never the same when he started. Odious little polyp.

humanji

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Ranchu

Mark Lamarr was the show. Became unwatchable after he left.

Egginacup

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo wrote: »

Sad to see it go. The crème de la crème of music based panel shows (the only music based panel show? ).

It was great while it lasted. We'll always have the memories.

There was "pop quiz" in the 80's.

Ian Gillan knew everything and his team always won

ThisRegard

enfant terrible wrote: »

Was never the same when Simon Amstell left.

Yeah, last time it was good. And any episode with Phil Jupitus was to be avoided.

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enfant terrible wrote: »

Was never the same when Simon Amstell left.

endacl wrote: »

Was never the same when he started. Odious little polyp.

Well, let's just agree that it was never the same.

Basq

Amstell was marmite alright.. I thought he was excellent, but very cruel!

It wasn't just limited to Buzzcocks to be honest as was proved by his Popworld interviews:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bIC4V_DIrg

Watched all of the final season with Gilbert as host and he was very good to be fair.. the show needed a permanent host to be honest. The guest hosts format of the last few years just did not work!

Shame to see it go though!

cherryghost

Sad, I quite liked Rhod Gilbert...

Stillhouette

I thought it died years ago.

enricoh

Never the same after simon left, but if u,ve a spare 25minutes Google nmtb Frankie Boyle - legendary! Shoulda got Frankie in full time.
Noel fielding I never got him - a hair cut n ridiculous clothes to deflect that he was crap I thought!

Skid X

I think it has been dying since Simon Amstell left. The extended run of guest presenters did nothing for the show, most people had lost interest before Rhod Gilbert got his chance.

Time for the BBC to retire it and try something new, but it was a good show in its day. I enjoyed the early Mark Lamarr series and Simon Amstell's programmes.

It is well represented on Youtube, lots to enjoy

Agent Coulson

What Mark Lamarr up to these days?

I wasn't a huge fan of Amstell but this was fun.

Birneybau

ThisRegard wrote: »

Yeah, last time it was good. And any episode with Phil Jupitus was to be avoided.

Which was most of them.

lertsnim

I always assumed they stopped making it ages ago.

human 19

Got bored with it very quickly.
love music and music quizzes but the sections with the line-ups of some obscure backing musician from 1981, or the section where they had to reproduce a song introduction, bored the crap out of me

smilerf

When Sean Hughes and Lamar left I still watched but I didn't find bill funny at all. Had enough of Amstall after awhile. He's like an annoying friend you secretly want to dig the head off but you put up with him cos there is nothing else to do

darkdubh

endacl wrote: »

Was never the same when he started. Odious little polyp.

Repped,I always hated that horrible twerp.

darkdubh

human 19 wrote: »

Got bored with it very quickly.
love music and music quizzes but the sections with the line-ups of some obscure backing musician from 1981, or the section where they had to reproduce a song introduction, bored the crap out of me

And the fact that everyone on the panel had to pretend not to know who it was in order to draw it out more despite it being blindingly obvious straight off most of the time.

Schwiiing

When Amstell appeared all the guests were flavour of the month hipster gimps like Miquita Oliver and the rest of the skinny jeans/vest brigade.

Lamarr had proper music legends like Lemmy, Alice Cooper, Slash etc. Lamarr and Bill Bailey worked well off each other.

Lee Mack was excellent when he was host and should have been given the permanent job over Gilbert. As much as I like Frankie Boyle I don't think I could take his brand of humour every week.

fryup

was good when it first started but got a bit stale towards the end....

there was an element of bullying to it that i didn't like, most notably directed towards...

Preston, Jedward, Lemmy, Gail Porter, Bill Oddie

anyway anything that gets Phil Jupitus off the air can't be all that bad

evilivor

fryup wrote: »

was good when it first started but got a bit stale towards the end....

there was an element of bullying to it that i didn't like, most notably directed towards...

Preston, Jedward, Lemmy, Gail Porter, Bill Oddie

anyway anything that gets Phil Jupitus off the air can't be all that bad

It became more bullying and less funny. No loss.

Ally Dick

I love this one with Brian McFatten. Showed himself up to be a complete tosser

briany

Ah, the best episode was the one with Donny Tourette. His attempts to be punk were hilariously misguided.

(Tourette to Bailey)

"You'd do pretty well on the streets, 'cause you're pretty ugly..."

(Amstell to Tourette)

"I should explain something to you - Bill is a professional comedian....You won't win!"

I liked Lamarr for his music knowledge, but he could be very coarse. Both main hosts were good, IMO. Amstell had some great wit at times.

(Kelly Rowland to Amstell)

"The power of Christ compels you!"

(Amstell)

"I'm a JEWWWW!"

And it did get more hipstery with Amstell, but that wasn't lost on him or the show. Wasn't there an episode where they jokingly replaced a guest before the quiz began because he fell off the NME cool list?

Overall not sad to see it go. Definitely went past its sell-by date. Panel shows are tough going but they're cheap to make. I used to really like Room 101 because it was basically a chat show where the guests could have a good moan and be funny. They pannelised it, and it's never been the same since.

Skid X

briany wrote: »

And it did get more hipstery with Amstell, but that wasn't lost on him or the show. Wasn't there an episode where they jokingly replaced a guest before the quiz began because he fell off the NME cool list?

Yeah, whatever happened to Flipchart Hiatus?

I liked Simon Amstell's shows. He has a talent for taking the piss out of Pop people, as he also displayed on Popworld.

Schwiiing

Schwiiing wrote: »

When Amstell appeared all the guests were flavour of the month hipster gimps like Miquita Oliver and the rest of the skinny jeans/vest brigade.

Lamarr had proper music legends like Lemmy, Alice Cooper, Slash etc. Lamarr and Bill Bailey worked well off each other.

Lee Mack was excellent when he was host and should have been given the permanent job over Gilbert. As much as I like Frankie Boyle I don't think I could take his brand of humour every week.

In all fairness to Amstell, I reckon it was because they just couldn't get the good musical acts - the hipster of the weeks were the ones that were most eager to be there. If anything, Amstell knew that they probably wouldn't still be around by the time the episode aired and constantly made fun of them because of it.

briany

Skid X wrote: »

Yeah, whatever happened to Flipchart Hiatus?

I liked Simon Amstell's shows. He has a talent for taking the piss out of Pop people, as he also displayed on Popworld.

Yeah, that's him. I googled the name, and it turns out he was just an extra used to make that joke. I thought he was real. I'm sure I wasn't the only one who assumed he was just some uber-cool indie darling.

Technocentral

Ranchu wrote: »

Mark Lamarr was the show. Became unwatchable after he left.

Yeah he had the perfect tone for the thing, was utter crap after he left.

ThisRegard

Birneybau wrote: »

Which was most of them.

True, but with Amstell presenting you didn't mind, after that he was just a pain, same when he's on QI.

Everythin coming up Milhouse

It really should have ended after the compilation series 'What a load of Buzzcocks'. It was obvious that the show didn't have much of a future at that stage.