Bonekickers

[Cid]

<watches more> Or actually could this just be so spectacularly bad that it looks like a parody?

 

[ringo]

This is my new favourite programme, spectacuarly bad. Even worse from an archaeologist's point of view. I reckon they didn't even bother paying one as a consultant.

Diggers have been musing on how bad a series could be for decades, but this goes beyond anything.

Loved the bit when they started shouting about "stratigraphy" and "layers" and then opened up another trench based on one of them's vision or funny feeling. That "give up your secrets" line was the best of the programme. Not worth going into the techy aspects too much, but I enjoyed the fact that every one of their finds was impossible. The wrenching of a lump of Christ's crucifix out of the ground in England was priceless.

Great to see them working into the night and setting up an incident room nicked straight off the set of Waking The Dead.

They're a bit clean though aren't they? Should have a couple of dreads in there, including a proper filthy crusty, complete with slightly addled pagan/reincarnation beliefs. The only fairly accurate one is the professor describing pert third year students and wanting to go to the pub. Liked the waxed sou'wester trench coat and hat though, always an object of derision on sites.

I wasn't sure how they could make an episode worse than that, having covered about 80% of all archaeology cliches, but then I saw that next week's is about slavery. Great news, can't wait to see their "sensitive" covering of that.

Anyone know what the other episodes cover? Probably Stonehenge, druids, Bosnian mass graves, Henry VIII's wives, Shakespeare's secret diary and some dinosaurs.

 

[Belushi]

So did anyone else watch the second episode

Fucking astoundingly bad, I am hooked though

 

[trashpony]

So did anyone else watch the second episode

Fucking astoundingly bad, I am hooked though

You masochist

 

[Belushi]

You masochist

It was ace; it had slaves, a Black US presidential candidate and all sorts

 

[FiFi]

It was hilarious.

"Senator JOY"

 

[Belushi]

It was hilarious.

"Senator JOY"

'I am a Warrior!'

 

[ringo]

Yep, that was really awful. The Virginia Creeper growing in the shape of a cross and the sword obsession are truly bonkers.

I found out that the archaeological consultant was Mark Horton, who's on telly a fair bit, mainly on Coast. He's getting some stick.

Boudicea next week!!!

 

[wiskey]

I cant believe this has managed to survive more than one episode . . . . . . its truly truly awful and I've managed a whole 5 minutes.

 

[Belushi]

High Bonneville would have been done for sexually harrasing that poor girl ages ago irl

 

[dylanredefined]

Trying to cross an ancient roman minefield the bird wants to start talking about relationships .Indy never had to put up with that. Gloriously mad tv.

 

[Belushi]

I'm hooked, everytime I think it cant get any worse it does

 

[Cid]

Yep, that was really awful. The Virginia Creeper growing in the shape of a cross and the sword obsession are truly bonkers.

I found out that the archaeological consultant was Mark Horton, who's on telly a fair bit, mainly on Coast. He's getting some stick.

Boudicea next week!!!

Ah that tit, his pieces on coast were just irritating.

 

[Badger Decoy]

I've managed to catch the last couple of episodes of this by accident and its bloody hilarious- can't believe it got commissioned. It makes Indiana Jones look like a carefully researched documentary. I love the way they chuck their precious archealogical finds around- its almost as if they thought they were just cheap, cardboard props!

My one reservation about this programme is that some people might actually think this programme is based on historical fact thereby lowering the IQ of the nation a few points more- still its worth it for the comedy value.

 

[ringo]

I'm hooked, everytime I think it cant get any worse it does

This.

Proper rubbish last night, I couldn't decide which bit was the most ludicrous. I'm so glad the script and plot are as bad as the archaeology, it's almost perfect.

 

[Badger Decoy]

The Roman 'hand grenade' that still worked after 2000 years in a damp cave under Bath was a genius stroke.

 

[marty21]

I'm hooked, everytime I think it cant get any worse it does

me too - gloriously awful -

 

[secretsquirrel]

Due to the severe lack of anything else on in that timeslot when we're generally just schlumping in front of the TV with our dinner we have actually watched all three. With an increasingly incredulousness. I mean, is it deliberately that bad? Did the writers think Garth Marenghi's Darkplace was a real programme?

And I'm v.v.disappointed in Hugh Bonnaville - what was he thinking!?!

*tunes in next week to be amazed all over again*

 

[yardbird]

It's just crap.

But I did watch 20 mins of it, 'cos I've just got Freesat and it's in HD

 

[spanglechick]

Due to the severe lack of anything else on in that timeslot when we're generally just schlumping in front of the TV with our dinner we have actually watched all three. With an increasingly incredulousness. I mean, is it deliberately that bad? Did the writers think Garth Marenghi's Darkplace was a real programme?

And I'm v.v.disappointed in Hugh Bonnaville - what was he thinking!?!

*tunes in next week to be amazed all over again*

and Adrian "finest Henry V of his generation" Lester!

 

[8ball]

I heard that Bonekickers has passed the 'Johnny Mnemonic Event Horizon' and has now become so bad it's actually very good.

Any truth in this?

 

[Stigmata]

This sounds like my sort of thing. I suppose i'll wait for the DVD now.

 

[Belushi]

I heard that Bonekickers has passed the 'Johnny Mnemonic Event Horizon' and has now become so bad it's actually very good.

Any truth in this?

Watch it, its astonishingly bad. Just when you think it cant get any worse it proves you wrong.

I'm hooked.