Yeah, it's just a paycheck now. Yet, I keep on watching...
Life on Mars (uk)
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You get paid for it?
I do/did the same with Stargate, Star Trek Voy and Ent, Smallville and others, it seems kinda common with "American" style writers rooms/writing teams.
I hear that. Once DS9 had finished I was pretty much just watching Voyager because it had Star Trek in the title. Every now and then I catch it on Virgin 1 and think "how the hell did I ever sit through 7 seasons of this shit?"
You get paid for it?
I do/did the same with Stargate, Star Trek Voy and Ent, Smallville and others, it seems kinda common with "American" style writers rooms/writing teams.
That's what I found interesting about My Family... the fact that it was British comedy written by a "room". It seemed like an interesting case study anyway. Of course, now it's just blah...
You'd think more writers would mean less burn out, but I guess it also means less consistency?You get paid for it?
I do/did the same with Stargate, Star Trek Voy and Ent, Smallville and others, it seems kinda common with "American" style writers rooms/writing teams.
That's what I found interesting about My Family... the fact that it was British comedy written by a "room". It seemed like an interesting case study anyway. Of course, now it's just blah...
It was never the same after the ginger son left. Mind you, it was hardly brilliant to begin with.
I was never a regular viewer, so I couldn't say, but I always felt it had that forced, kinda pathetic feel to a lot of the comedy whenever I did catch bits of it here and there. But that was probably 5 or 6 series in anyway.
Yeah, it is very "ol' ball and chain", "mother-in-law" and "sunday drivers". A bit pish really.
I know it was reported that there was a point a series or two ago Zoe Wanamaker and Robert Lindsay apparently refused to work because of how bad they felt the scripts were getting, which kinda says it all.
What we need is a british equivalent of Curb your Enthusiasm. But, y'know, a funny one. Not Lead Balloon.
I never could get in to Curb Your Enthusiasm, or Lead Balloon.
*cough* *splutter* *brbrbrbrbr*
And I had you pegged as a man of taste and learning, sir!
Seriously, yeah Curb does take a conscious effort to get into. Once it 'clicks' though it's gold.
Lead Balloon just gets shitter with every watch though.
And I had you pegged as a man of taste and learning, sir!
Seriously, yeah Curb does take a conscious effort to get into. Once it 'clicks' though it's gold.
Lead Balloon just gets shitter with every watch though.
I think that's probably because they try to emulate Curb Your Enthusiasm, but it's heavily scripted, you can't really get that ad-libbed feel in a script.
I've watched Curb once or twice, had a couple of chuckles and plenty of cringing but nothing that makes me feel like I should watch it ever week.
I got really frustrated with Lead Balloon as I wanted to like it but it never clicked.
Though it is a hell of a lot better than anything BBC3 puts out. They seem to make TV out of every bad script they can get their hands on.
The only BBC Three thing I got into was Human Nature - and only because the 2nd AD was giddy with the thought of a vampire, a werewolf and a ghost on the same show when he told me about it.
I really enjoyed that pilot for Human Nature, probably the most interesting BBC 3 original to date. Not that it has any stiff competition.
I think you all mean Being Human. The cast (apart from Russell Tovey (the werewolf) has been changed, they're "going for a lighter tone" and the pilot no longer means anything. It starts in at the end of the month I believe.
Thats the one - my mind must have been on Doctor Who.
I'm not surprised they went ahead with the series and ditched Phoo Action. It's cheaper to make and had more potential. I was glad to see an ad for it on BBC3 recently, but I have a feeling it'll be sucked into the mediocrity of the channel.
A non-BBC3 Britshow I watched recently was No Heroics on ITV3, playing in the early hours of the morning a week or two ago. It didn't have any moment which made me laugh out loud, but for some reason I liked it enough to watch the whole series.
Indeed. Probably got mixed up with that Doctor Who episode or something.
So it sounds like they're tweaking it beyond all recognition, probably ruining it in the process. Oh well.
I was the same. It was a bit thin on punchlines but it had some intangible factor to it that made it immensely watchable.
Although maybe I just fancied Electroclash...
