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Watching Telly: Two Tribes

By | June 13, 2014

I’ve spent Friday afternoon and evening watching new Remarkable BBC2 quiz Two Tribes with Richard Osman. In my head it worked a certain way, the reality is actually a bit more interesting up to a point. The set is round. Osman stands back to audience, the stage is dominated by two large desks, one with… Read More »

Don’t Ask Me Ask Britain

By | May 16, 2014

This isn’t really a pilot, it was a run through with an audience in front of various international commercial commissioning big wigs – doing these with an audience is fairly unusual, the hope is someone sees something in the idea to order a fully fledged pilot. So there’s little point going on about the set… Read More »

CSI: South Korea

By | May 13, 2014

So, if you’ve been following our Korean chum Bump. on Twitter you may have gathered there’s a new show called Crime Scene currently airing. In it six Korean celebrities roleplay as suspects in a mocked-up murder (apparently based on an actual real case but with the personal details changed). As is traditional in these things, all… Read More »

A house built on Sand – it’s Eurovision 2014!

By | May 6, 2014

Semi-finals Tuesday and Thursday night 8pm (UK), BBC3 – The UK can vote only in Thursday’s semi. Final Saturday night 8pm (UK) BBC1 Live streaming internationally on Eurovision.tv BBC site Once again it’s time to find out which opinion out of “it’s all a joke, LOL!” and “actually it’s a very serious competition and politics… Read More »

Show Discussion: Draw It!

By | May 4, 2014

4:30pm Weekdays, Channel 4 First there was the briefly popular Zynga app Draw Something, then about six months to a year later they filmed this new show based loosely on it, and now a year later it’s finally getting an airing. Channel 4 riding the zeitgeist as ever. Still it’s got some good people behind… Read More »