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Delta Forever

Does anyone know anything about this show apart from what's on the front of this site?

COMEDY: Delta Forever
On: BBC Three
Date: Monday 19th May 2008
Time: 23:00 to 23:30

Comedy pilot about the obsessive online fans of a series of novels about teen-hero Delta, whose lives revolve around an unofficial fan-site on which they meet and greet, rubbish their rivals and generally show off. The film studio holds a secret preview screening in London of the first movie adaptation of the beloved Delta series.

Actually sounds worryingly like us lot, in a way. :-/

(That's all I got.)

After placebo and admin maybe its 3rd time lucky? Although I'm no fan of "wacky situation" instead of descent writing so who knows.

I found this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2r_Hs27qdk

Edit: IMO the trailer isn't funny. The only good thing about it is Antonia Campbell-Hughes, and she doesn't even speak. Heh.

hmmmmmm.

what was it? won't let me view it in Ireland

I got bored halfway through the clip, which doesn't bode well. And it looks like yet another addition to the increasingly big kidcom category.

Looks a bit poo.

Some nice comments on the Harry Potter screen conversion, but that just wasn't funny. I think I sniggered twice through the episode, with another one or two during the closing credits. Evidently having a writing team doesn't ensure a good show.

Just ... Not funny. Don't think there's anything more that can be said.

Quote: Aaron @ May 19 2008, 11:41 PM BST

Evidently having a writing team doesn't ensure a good show.

As many, many, many American shows have proven?! :)

Best of the 3 (placebo/admin/this) but still not great - some nice moments of dialogue (last 30 secs!) but a wacky plot that distracted.

It was all right. Some funny lines!

I liked the idea.
It might have worked better if they were obsessed with a real book/film rather than the invented one. I dunno.

Quote: Alan Cornforth @ May 19 2008, 11:45 PM BST

As many, many, many American shows have proven?! :)

True, true... Still. Point being, it was bad.

Quote: Alan Cornforth @ May 19 2008, 11:45 PM BST

As many, many, many American shows have proven?! :)

Well, presumably there are a zillilon crap ones for every Friends so yeah, they also prove it!

Quote: zooo @ May 19 2008, 11:49 PM BST

It might have worked better if they were obsessed with a real book/film rather than the invented one. I dunno.

they should have gone one way or the other - dont dress it up like harry potter then drop in names like Radcliffe....we arent stupid, we get the idea!

Quote: zooo @ May 19 2008, 11:49 PM BST

It was all right. Some funny lines!

I liked the idea.
It might have worked better if they were obsessed with a real book/film rather than the invented one. I dunno.

It just didn't feel like it had direction. And all of that weird makeup? I'm sorry, but no. It had no one setting so didn't really work as a sitcom, and apart from people hating a movie of a book, there didn't seem to be any story. Just didn't work at all for me.

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