…post it to YouTube. Nobody’s Watching is from the writers of Family Guy and Scrubs. It didn’t get picked up by the US networks, probably because The WB got merged with UPN into The CW and there were enough shows to go around already at that point. But they’ve posted the whole thing to YouTube anyway so you can watch the unaired pilot. It’s in three chunks, because of YouTube’s 10 minute video limit, but it’s watchable all the same.
Year: 2006
News
Alan Sugar regenerates into Greg Dyke
Channel 4 have a new Apprentice-style show coming out soon. In Get Me The Producer, Greg “Not at all bitter about the Hutton Report” Dyke will oversee the antics of two teams of TV producers, who will compete to get a lucrative TV production contract. Each week, the teams will have to make a different genre TV show, with Dykey firing the worst-performing candidate at the end of it. No doubt he’ll pick whichever producer drinks the fewest low-fat lattes and talks the least about synergies, brand extension and “the viewer’s journey”.
Channel 4 to start streaming its shows
Got broadband? Now here’s a chance to really enjoy it. As of Tuesday, according to Broadcast, Channel 4 is going to simulcast all its programmes on the web. They won’t be streaming any US shows, since they don’t have the rights, but negotiations are under way.
Later in the year, Channel 4 also plans to expand on that nice beginning by offering on-demand programming. By which time, of course, the BBC’s iPlayer will be around, subject to Ofcom and the Governors, of course.
It’s all go on the Web, isn’t it?
US TV
Borat trailer now available
You may love him, you may hate him, but Borat – aka Sacha Baron Cohen – is probably the most famous Kazakhstani in the world. He now has his own movie and there’s a trailer available for your delectation over on Yahoo!.
That picture’s probably made you go blind, though, hasn’t it?
The mysterious lure of panto for Americans
The Hoff was all up for it. He wanted to do panto this Christmas. He was all set to be Captain Hook until the unpatriotic Simon Cowell stole him away from us.
Now we have the news that Patrick Duffy – Bobby from Dallas or the eponymous Man from Atlantis if you prefer – is to appear as Buttons in Cinderella in Woking.
What is this strange allure that panto holds for these all-star, all-American actors?