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Post by The Collector on Oct 4, 2007 11:38:25 GMT
www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/thursdays/The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle - 4 Oct 9pm Jennifer Saunders and Dr Tanya Byron have created a formidable new force in chat-based television. Find out more about that very soon... Don't think I'll watch that The Peter Serafinowicz Show - 4 Oct 9.30pm A new fast-paced sketch show from Peter Serafinowicz, as seen in Spaced and Look Around You (amongst others). Expect some top notch impressions thrown into the mix too. Will watch that!
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Post by The Collector on Nov 1, 2007 22:11:20 GMT
Tonights 'The Peter Serafinowicz show' eatured a sketch that may have offended some Laurel and Hardy fans...Beautifully done with proper Title card, Background musis and the style of film stock...Why may it offened...'Stan' said in nearly every sentense a variation on the word f*cking...
Personally I thought it was a well done parody, unlike the Harry Enfield...
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Post by The Collector on Nov 14, 2007 14:39:47 GMT
New shows from tommorow
9pm - Never mind the Buzzcocks
9-30 Lead Balloon
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Post by Stan Butler on Nov 14, 2007 17:34:39 GMT
New shows from tommorow 9-30 Lead Balloon I can't believe that one got a 2nd series!  |
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Post by Zoot on Dec 30, 2007 14:24:04 GMT
Couldn't get The Peter Serafinowicz show here - D'oh!
My mate recorded them & showed me some edited highlights, though. Thought the impressions were very good but the sketches were a bit hit & miss.
Did think the Butterfield Detective Agency was funny - the sketch with the disguises had me in tears laughing!
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Post by The Collector on Dec 30, 2007 16:30:39 GMT
Butterfield was definatly the best bit...Wonder why Wales opted out?...Considered changing my name on here to butterfield...But I like being KK!
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Post by Zoot on Feb 29, 2008 7:30:47 GMT
Thursdays are funny....... unless you live in Wales! BBC2 Wales had decided to opt out of the comedy line up, choosing instead to show some welsh documentary or something.
Typical.
Thankfully I can get English BBC2 on my little portable tv on an inside ariel in my room - so I just about watched Mitchell & Webb last night, but the picture was rubbish!
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Post by The Collector on Sept 30, 2008 12:25:18 GMT
New Thursday's are funny
Buzzcocks
Beautiful People
Graham norton
The 2nd show is new...Details below
Beautiful People, a sparkling new comedy series for BBC Two – first episode: 9.30pm, Thursday 2 October 2008
From the creator of Gimme Gimme Gimme and the producer of Absolutely Fabulous comes Beautiful People, a six-part comedy series for BBC Two exploring what it's truly like for all of us to be fabulous via starry ambition, youthful optimism and one very loving, yet very dysfunctional, family.
Beautiful People is written by Jonathan Harvey (Gimme Gimme Gimme, Beautiful Thing) and based on the best-selling wild childhood memoirs of Simon Doonan, Creative Director of Barneys, New York. The series starts in October.
This glittering and hilarious series delves inside Simon's youthful memories and his desire to escape suburban Reading and live amongst the "beautiful people" - from his perspective as a window dresser in a New York department store.
Surrounded by dreams of the big and all the beautiful people that go with it, 13-year-old Simon (Luke Ward-Wilkinson) can't open a fridge door without belting out a show tune.
But such behaviour will always fall flat on a family even more eccentric than Simon's latest attempts to be fabulous. The Britain of 1997 might be changing, but the Doonan clan remain consistently nuts.
Mum Debbie is a peroxide whirlwind of matriarchal warmth and a passionate pride for husband Andy – a culture-savvy plumber-cum-homemade winemaker.
Simon's sister Ashlene is a wannabe ghetto queen, blind lodger Aunty Hayley has a guide-dog who is far from size zero, lobotomised grandma Narg has just lost God and replaced him with a foul mouth and best mate Kylie/Kyle aspires to be Reading's own Princess of Hearts.
Beautiful People stars [glow=red,2,300]Olivia Colman[/glow] (Peep Show, That Mitchell And Webb Look), Meera Syal (Goodness Gracious Me, The Kumars At No. 42), Aidan McArdle (Me And Orson Welles, Not Only But Always), Layton Williams (Billy Elliot in the West End), Samuel Barnett (The History Boys) and 13-year-old Luke Ward-Wilkinson (Wild at Heart) as young Simon.
Guest stars include Brenda Fricker as Narg and Frances Barber as Miss Prentice.
Beautiful People struts a dazzling and sequinned path through one boy's life and the realisation that the beautiful people are always closer than we think.
Beautiful People is 6 x 30-minute episodes commissioned by Controller of BBC Two Roly Keating, and Lucy Lumsden, Controller of Comedy Commissioning. The series' executive producer is Jon Plowman (Absolutely Fabulous) and it is produced by Justin Davies.
Beautiful People, Simon Doonan's wild memoirs of growing up in Reading, is published by Harper Collins.
The soundtrack to BBC Two's Beautiful People, including cover versions specially recorded for the series, is released by EMI on 20 October
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Post by Mr Levity on Sept 30, 2008 21:03:29 GMT
"I never could get the hang of Thursdays"- Arthur Dent.
Looks like they might be about to get better ?
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Post by Zoot on Oct 3, 2008 12:39:47 GMT
Again, BBC Wales completely messes up the comedy schedule.... Norton bumped for a sports show! I didn't bother staying up for it.
As for Beautiful People...... not sure yet.
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Post by The Collector on Oct 3, 2008 13:18:34 GMT
Buzzcocks - Apart from a dance routine...not very good
Beautiful People - Will give it another go, not sure
Norton - Didn't watch
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