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An archive of blog entries about UK TV programmes and production.

Tuesday’s “dead as a dinosaur” news

16 June 2009 Rob Buckley Post a comment

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Life of Tim competition

15 June 2009 Rob Buckley 3 Comments

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.

Monday’s disappearing husband news

15 June 2009 Rob Buckley 7 Comments

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Psychoville viral marketing takes a leaf out of Obsessed’s book

12 June 2009 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Psychoville

Two of the League of Gentlemen – Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton – have a new show called Psychoville coming to BBC2 on Thursday. To promote it, they appear to have taken a leaf out of the lovely Ali Larter’s promotional playbook and come up with a viral marketing campaign similar to that used for Obsessed.

Simply go to the Psychoville web site, enter a few details and upload a friend’s embarrassing photograph, and they’ll receive a mysterious warning from Graham Norton of a virus that will infect their computer – and a black-gloved man will threaten to expose all their secrets unless they do what he says. You can see a demo version done on David Tennant below.

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Review: That Mitchell and Webb Look 3×1

12 June 2009 Rob Buckley 5 Comments

That Mitchell and Webb Look

In the UK: Thursdays, 10pm, BBC2

They’re back. The ubiquitous Robert Webb and David Mitchell are back! Of course, being ubiquitous, it’s not like they seem to have gone away, of course, but here they are, back again, with a new series of That Mitchell and Webb Look, which is – equally, of course – based on their radio show That Mitchell and Webb Sound.

When people say ubiquitous, they generally mean that in a bad way. But having Robert Webb and David Mitchell on just about every TV and radio programme on every TV channel imaginable – whether it’s talking about poetry, dancing on Comic Relief, acting on Peep Show, appearing on game show panels or featuring in ads – is actually a good thing. Because they are very, very funny.

Most of the time.

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