Echo Beach/Moving Wallpaper news

[Bob The Skutter]

I don't know if anyone but me and wamdue will be interested in this, but Echo Beach is officially axed (good news I say), but Moving Wallpaper is back, with a twist.

After weighing up the options, producers have decided to make a clean break for it and change the show entirely. So what's the new plan?

Ben Miller, returning as big-headed executive producer Jonathan Pope, told me: "We're coming back, although it's not about a soap opera. We're not going to be making Echo Beach any more. We're making a zombie show, a 28 Days Later-style pilot, so that's going to be quite fun."

Sounds like a good move to me. *fingers crossed* Hope it's as good, or better than before.[/quote

Oh, and for anyone who's interested, Moving Wallpaper is great, Echo Beach not so much, it's only worth it for the in-jokes between shows, if at all. But the box set of both is currently £8.97 on Amazon.co.uk, or Moving Wallpaper is £5.97 on it's own... Definitely worth having at those prices.

 

[Pingfah]

I had never heard of this before I read this thread.

What a bizarre concept, a fictional show set amongst the production team of a real life show that is on the same channel as the fictional show. Most unlike ITV to come up with something so unique

Isn't Echo Beach a horrible soap though? I mean it has Jason Donovan in it. I can't imagine it would be much fun to watch.

 

[Bob The Skutter]

I had never heard of this before I read this thread.

What a bizarre concept, a fictional show set amongst the production team of a real life show that is on the same channel as the fictional show. Most unlike ITV to come up with something so unique

Isn't Echo Beach a horrible soap though? I mean it has Jason Donovan in it. I can't imagine it would be much fun to watch.

Yeah, it's pretty much a bad rip off of Home and Away, but I can't tell if that's how it's supposed to be, because it's a parody, or if it's actually just a bad soap.
Moving Wallpaper was a lot of fun, and had a lot of little gags that ended up in Echo Beach. Such as the producer hiring a beach buggy thing, so they had to shoehorn it in to an episode. Or him accepting sex from an actress to get her a role in the show, that got increasingly bigger, because she started bribing him on Moving Wallpaper. I wouldn't have bothered watching Echo Beach if it wasn't for those little things.

 

[wamdue]

I gave up on Echo Beach after about 3 episodes.

meanwhile this zombie comedy, I wonder if it will actually air

 

[Bob The Skutter]

I gave up on Echo Beach after about 3 episodes.

meanwhile this zombie comedy, I wonder if it will actually air

I doubt it, I don't think they'd go the same route again after the failure last time. I hope there's clips in the show, or on the website though.

 

[tenmei]

Hmmm. Not sure what I think about this - would've rather seen them continue on making the fictional soap in Moving Wallpaper and us not seeing the soap itself, than changing the programme they're making. It's going to be a completely different show to the one we previously saw.

 

[wamdue]

I wonder how much cast changes there will be, seems kind of odd to think the same think Jonathan would keep the same crew around him for a zombie movie, that he would for a soap.

 

[tenmei]

Exactly what I'm thinking, wamdue.

 

[Captain Shaw]

I liked moving wallpaper from what i saw (kept forgetting it was on)
Echo beach was really bad i would have liked ITV to have made the zombie thing they could have made half an hour shows done right could have been a laugh like Shaun of the dead.

 

[Bob The Skutter]

Alan Dale and Kelly Brook have been cast in Moving Wallpaper.

From Digital Spy

Kelly Brook and Alan Dale are to replace Martine McCutcheon and Jason Donovan as the big-name stars on ITV1's Moving Wallpaper, it was confirmed today.

As was exclusively revealed on DS last month, the new series will continue where the previous one left off. Companion series Echo Beach has been axed, but a clause in the contract of executive producer Jonathan Pope - a role reprised by Ben Miller - requires ITV to offer him a pilot to produce.

The pilot, for a "ridiculous" thriller spoof, sees Brook and Dale star as passengers on board an aeroplane attacked by zombies. Titled Renaissance, it will air as a one-off special either on ITV1 or online; however, no airdate has yet been confirmed.

It'll be interesting to see if this new direction works...

 

[wamdue]

^ and if there is any TV show Alan Dale will say no to.

 

[Bob The Skutter]

^ and if there is any TV show Alan Dale will say no to.

I think zombie horror has more potential for comedy than the soap did, so I think it would work even better.
As for Alan Dale, if you start life on an Aussie soap the only place to go is up, isn't it?

 

[firehawk12]

I can believe I didn't watch this when it came out. Sounds like an awesome concept.

 

[wamdue]

I cant believe I didn't watch this when it came out. Sounds like an awesome concept.

it was on ITV, and lumbered with the god awful Echo Beach, so you can be forgiven.

^ and if there is any TV show Alan Dale will say no to.

As for Alan Dale, if you start life on an Aussie soap the only place to go is up, isn't it?

um, I think US soap might be a step down, but then it probaly reaches a much bigger audience.

 

[Bob The Skutter]

I can believe I didn't watch this when it came out. Sounds like an awesome concept.

Yeah, it's such a good concept I'm surprised ITV commissioned it.

Moving Wallpaper was really good, Echo Beach not so much. So I was glad to hear Moving Wallpaper got a pick up.
I just bought the box set of both shows, I figured it was worth £3 difference. I was annoyed to find that the box set has them set out with 1 Moving Wallpaper/1 Echo Beach.

 

[firehawk12]

Just noticed my typo. Yeah, I'm tired.
I'm going to have to hope that I grabbed this earlier this year, because it doesn't seem to be "out there" at the moment anymore.

Can you really watch one without the other though?

 

[Bob The Skutter]

Just noticed my typo. Yeah, I'm tired.
I'm going to have to hope that I grabbed this earlier this year, because it doesn't seem to be "out there" at the moment anymore.

Can you really watch one without the other though?

Yeah, I think at least a million more viewers watched Moving Wallpaper than Each Beach. The only reason I watched Echo Beach was for the little in-jokes between episodes, but you don't really need to watch them both.

 

[firehawk12]

Hrm, Echo Beach looks like it's actually a "serious" British soap... I dunno why, but I was expecting parody or something.

 

[Bob The Skutter]

Hrm, Echo Beach looks like it's actually a "serious" British soap... I dunno why, but I was expecting parody or something.

That's kinda the problem, at times it seems to be taking itself completely seriously, other times it seems to be parodying those type of soaps... If it were truly serious, I suppose it would have found its own fan base, and it it were a true parody it would have probably held on to the viewers from Moving Wallpaper, but as it stands it's just confusing.