At 10pm on Tuesdays, Virgin 1 are showing HBO's new animated comedy Life of Tim, created by Steve Dildarian, a former host of Saturday Night Live and the man behind the Budweiser lizards. According to the press release:
"Tim’s an everyday, nice, working guy who can’t help but get himself into the worst situations. No matter the situation, life's little challenges always manage to demand the most offensive solutions, which wouldn't be such a problem if he weren't continually caught red-handed".
To get people watchingcelebrate the launch of the show, they've launched a sketching tool that enables you to create animated sketches featuring Tim and the other characters of the show.
The reason I mention any of this is: sketch creators will also get the chance to win a Sony Bravia 32" TV, signed animation cells from the show and the chance to have their sketched shown on the Virgin1 website. So it's worth a punt, basically.
Here's a clip from the show, so you can see what it's like.
June 16, 2009 | Reply
I watched the first episode last week, it uses the embarrassing social situation formula but injects wildly inappropriate and over the top subject matter into it for comedy effect. First episode - Tim invites a hooker to a meal with his girlfriend's parents. Second - Tim makes up some exaggerated party stories to help out a friend but ends up being a fake victim of hobo rape.
I quite enjoyed it but I think people are going to be divided on it depending on their tolerance for the repeating formula.
June 16, 2009 | Reply
My patience for animated comedy seems to have dropped off of late. I couldn't be bothered to give Sit Down, Shut Up or The Goode Family a gander, either.
June 16, 2009 | Reply
I couldn't take Adventures of Tim and barely made it through the first episode. If it weren't for the shows I do watch on HBO, I'd have canceled that premium channel because of it!
Goode family - kept coming back to the first episode during slow parts of a Broadway documentary I was watching. It didn't feel right, but I'll check it out again once it (maybe) gets its sea legs.
Sit Down, Shut Up - it seemed like its only recommendation was the talent involved for the voices. Wasn't enough for me to even check it out....