Jake Laverde Nov 6, 2017
Fans of Digitiser? Here's why Mr Biffo's Found Footage might just be the web series you were looking for...
Memory is a funny thing. Rather than the fixed viewpoint we expect it to be, memories are malleable objects. Their shapes changed over time, exact details fading away replaced with approximations. But what we remember with sharp clarity is how we felt. TV shows, films music and books can fuel our nostalgia and bring us back to cosier simple times.
It’s the cracks between memories that Mr Biffo’s/Paul Rose Found Footage resides in; a web sketch show that mixes in genuine VHS footage with surreal sketches that play with memory and nostalgia. Riffing on high concept 80s detective shows, cartoon spin offs and songs dedicated to early microcomputer pioneers Steve Wozniak and Sir Clive Sinclair all rendered in gloriously glitchy VHS effect. Further selling the...
Fans of Digitiser? Here's why Mr Biffo's Found Footage might just be the web series you were looking for...
Memory is a funny thing. Rather than the fixed viewpoint we expect it to be, memories are malleable objects. Their shapes changed over time, exact details fading away replaced with approximations. But what we remember with sharp clarity is how we felt. TV shows, films music and books can fuel our nostalgia and bring us back to cosier simple times.
It’s the cracks between memories that Mr Biffo’s/Paul Rose Found Footage resides in; a web sketch show that mixes in genuine VHS footage with surreal sketches that play with memory and nostalgia. Riffing on high concept 80s detective shows, cartoon spin offs and songs dedicated to early microcomputer pioneers Steve Wozniak and Sir Clive Sinclair all rendered in gloriously glitchy VHS effect. Further selling the...
- 11/2/2017
- Den of Geek
Channel 4 has commissioned a pilot for a new sci-fi sitcom.
Space Ark - written by Pete Versus Life duo George Jeffrie and Bert Tyler-Moore - follows 200 humans who have survived the destruction of earth.
The pilot will star Georgia King (The New Normal), Tom Stourton (Siblings), Justin Edwards (The Thick of It), Alex Beckett (Twenty Twelve), Ricky Grover (EastEnders) and Nico Tatarowicz (The Armstrong and Miller Show).
A synopsis for the pilot reads: "It's 6 months, 1 week, and 4 days since the earth was destroyed by an asteroid. 200 humans survive on board a huge 'Space Ark'. Their mission? To find a new planet where the human race can be re-established.
"The ship is populated by the finest minds the earth had to offer, plus an inept crew, an android-bear pilot and a member of the public who won his place by lottery.
"In the pilot episode the crew encounter a seemingly friendly alien race,...
Space Ark - written by Pete Versus Life duo George Jeffrie and Bert Tyler-Moore - follows 200 humans who have survived the destruction of earth.
The pilot will star Georgia King (The New Normal), Tom Stourton (Siblings), Justin Edwards (The Thick of It), Alex Beckett (Twenty Twelve), Ricky Grover (EastEnders) and Nico Tatarowicz (The Armstrong and Miller Show).
A synopsis for the pilot reads: "It's 6 months, 1 week, and 4 days since the earth was destroyed by an asteroid. 200 humans survive on board a huge 'Space Ark'. Their mission? To find a new planet where the human race can be re-established.
"The ship is populated by the finest minds the earth had to offer, plus an inept crew, an android-bear pilot and a member of the public who won his place by lottery.
"In the pilot episode the crew encounter a seemingly friendly alien race,...
- 12/12/2014
- Digital Spy
Interview Sarah Dobbs 6 Nov 2013 - 07:35
Sarah caught up with Simon Farnaby and Martha Howe-Douglas to talk Yonderland, Horrible Histories and Last of the Summer Wine...
Read our Yonderland interview with Laurence Rickard and Ben Willbond, here.
Apparently you start to get used to new smells after about ten minutes, and by the time Martha Howe-Douglas and Simon Farnaby dropped by the press table, the earthy, sweet smell of bark and leaves had started to seem normal. The massive troll puppet over Farnaby’s shoulder was still a bit distracting, though…
Howe-Douglas and Farnaby are also key members of the Horrible Histories cast, though you might also recognise her from Doctors or The Armstrong and Miller Show, and him from The Mighty Boosh or Jam & Jerusalem. They’re both playing important parts in Yonderland, too, and here’s what they had to say about it…
Martha, you’re the star of the show.
Sarah caught up with Simon Farnaby and Martha Howe-Douglas to talk Yonderland, Horrible Histories and Last of the Summer Wine...
Read our Yonderland interview with Laurence Rickard and Ben Willbond, here.
Apparently you start to get used to new smells after about ten minutes, and by the time Martha Howe-Douglas and Simon Farnaby dropped by the press table, the earthy, sweet smell of bark and leaves had started to seem normal. The massive troll puppet over Farnaby’s shoulder was still a bit distracting, though…
Howe-Douglas and Farnaby are also key members of the Horrible Histories cast, though you might also recognise her from Doctors or The Armstrong and Miller Show, and him from The Mighty Boosh or Jam & Jerusalem. They’re both playing important parts in Yonderland, too, and here’s what they had to say about it…
Martha, you’re the star of the show.
- 11/6/2013
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
Last Sunday saw the broadcast of the sixth episode of Series Three of BBC2 sketch show Harry & Paul. Or the fourth if you count Ruddy Hell It’s Harry & Paul as its first series. And to be honest, I wouldn’t be surprised if the next episode – the final in the series – turns out to be the last overall.
Created by sketch show virtuosos Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse, Harry & Paul saw their return to sketch comedy with them mixing their intrinsic talent for class and character-based comedy with the absurdity of the modern world. The initial few series were never going to reach the level of their previous hit Harry Enfield’s Television Programme but it was still entertaining enough with reliably funny sketches such as a middle class family with a pet Geordie, and the Benefits, an aggressive antisocial family living on state handouts. It wasn’t astounding,...
Created by sketch show virtuosos Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse, Harry & Paul saw their return to sketch comedy with them mixing their intrinsic talent for class and character-based comedy with the absurdity of the modern world. The initial few series were never going to reach the level of their previous hit Harry Enfield’s Television Programme but it was still entertaining enough with reliably funny sketches such as a middle class family with a pet Geordie, and the Benefits, an aggressive antisocial family living on state handouts. It wasn’t astounding,...
- 12/8/2012
- by James T. Cornish
- Obsessed with Film
New 6-part comedy series Spy starts on Sky1 on Fri 14th October 2011 at 8:30pm on Sky1.
Newcomer Jude Wright stars as nine year old Marcus, the young son of trainee spy Tim, played by Darren Boyd, alongside Robert Lindsay as the Examiner.
Spy is the story of Tim, a single father trying to win back the respect and affections of his horribly precocious nine year old son, Marcus. In the hope of proving that he is not a complete loser, Tim quits his dead-end job but his life changes forever when he is accidentally recruited as a trainee spy for MI5.
Supervising Tim at work is irrepressible MI5 boss, The Examiner, who teaches the recruits his own unorthodox approach to the espionage game.
Adding to the chaos of Tim's life are his acidic ex-wife, Judith, her enthusiastic new boyfriend Philip and his anti-social friend Chris.
And romance may be...
Newcomer Jude Wright stars as nine year old Marcus, the young son of trainee spy Tim, played by Darren Boyd, alongside Robert Lindsay as the Examiner.
Spy is the story of Tim, a single father trying to win back the respect and affections of his horribly precocious nine year old son, Marcus. In the hope of proving that he is not a complete loser, Tim quits his dead-end job but his life changes forever when he is accidentally recruited as a trainee spy for MI5.
Supervising Tim at work is irrepressible MI5 boss, The Examiner, who teaches the recruits his own unorthodox approach to the espionage game.
Adding to the chaos of Tim's life are his acidic ex-wife, Judith, her enthusiastic new boyfriend Philip and his anti-social friend Chris.
And romance may be...
- 9/25/2011
- by noreply@blogger.com (ScreenTerrier)
- ScreenTerrier
Ben Miller has claimed that his friendship with Alexander Armstrong is the reason their comedy - namely The Armstrong and Miller Show - is so successful. Speaking to TV Choice Magazine, Miller suggested that the pair have a good chemistry because they know each other well. "I think it's our long-running friendship," he said. "The friendship is more important than comedy. Most of what Xander and I talk about is not comedy, it's just normal everyday stuff, friends we've got in common, things like that. "Our experiences (more)...
- 10/28/2010
- by By Catriona Wightman
- Digital Spy
Stephen K Amos, Wallace and Gromit, Armstrong and Miller, Brimstone and the Psychoville Halloween Special. Plus great movies too in the coming week on UK TV!
This week, naturally, it's all about the scares and there are plenty of films and shows to provide the shivers for Halloween and the next seven days or so.
But the scheduling genies have also managed to squeeze in the laughs among the shrieks this week, for those too squeamish for the scream-inducing telly treats.
We start off with a newcomer to the eponymously named stand-up comedian sketch show club with The Stephen K Amos Show airing tonight, Friday, October 29th at 10:00pm on BBC2. There's plenty of room for series of this sort and we look forward, with a warm welcome, to Mr Amos' particular brand of funny stuff.
Those UK fans of the world's first loveable serial killer who managed to...
This week, naturally, it's all about the scares and there are plenty of films and shows to provide the shivers for Halloween and the next seven days or so.
But the scheduling genies have also managed to squeeze in the laughs among the shrieks this week, for those too squeamish for the scream-inducing telly treats.
We start off with a newcomer to the eponymously named stand-up comedian sketch show club with The Stephen K Amos Show airing tonight, Friday, October 29th at 10:00pm on BBC2. There's plenty of room for series of this sort and we look forward, with a warm welcome, to Mr Amos' particular brand of funny stuff.
Those UK fans of the world's first loveable serial killer who managed to...
- 10/28/2010
- Den of Geek
Ben Miller has joked that he had a "comedy affair" with Alexander Armstrong. The duo appear together in The Armstrong and Miller Show but Miller has now revealed that his sidekick was involved in another double act when they met. "It was kind of love at first sight," Miller told Pa. "This is a terrible thing to admit, but I went to see him in a double act that he was actually already in and I just thought he was the funniest person I'd ever seen in my life." Miller explained that he tried to persuade Armstrong to team up with him instead. "I was trying to encourage him to have an affair really, I suppose," he said. "Meeting in bars and showing him a sketch and him saying, 'I can't (more)...
- 6/18/2010
- by By Catriona Wightman
- Digital Spy
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