Quote: Tim Walker @ September 30 2009, 2:02 PM BSTTheir 'Ladies and Gentleman' pilot for Comedy Showcase 2007 wasn't up to much, to be honest.
I liked the idea - it might have needed a bigger budget or something.
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It could have done with a sharper script as well, really. I hated it because it blocked the door on a period sitcom of my own. 
Quote: Tim Walker @ September 30 2009, 2:02 PM BSTTheir 'Ladies and Gentleman' pilot for Comedy Showcase 2007 wasn't up to much, to be honest.
Was that the Reece Shearsmith one?
Quote: Tim Walker @ September 30 2009, 2:02 PM BSTTheir 'Ladies and Gentleman' pilot for Comedy Showcase 2007 wasn't up to much, to be honest.
I remember quite liking that one.
It was like Friends written by Dickens.
Quote: Lee Henman @ September 30 2009, 2:08 PM BSTWas that the Reece Shearsmith one?
Yep. It was good in places, but it felt like it hadn't had much work put into it. As though it was just an old script that Bain & Armstrong had dusted off.
Quote: Tim Walker @ September 30 2009, 2:07 PM BSTIt could have done with a sharper script as well, really. I hated it because it blocked the door on a period sitcom of my own.
You don't think it's something you could have another try at now? It was a little watched pilot from a few years back afterall. I was in a similar situation recently with something me and Bussell wrote. Finished the damn script only for a show far to similar to our own (in some respects) to pop up.
Mine (The Notorious Baker-Glenns) was really liked by one producer, but because of that pilot and the alleged expense of shooting period comedy, it never got any further. It's in my drawer of old scripts for when I run out of new ideas, I suppose. (Mine was actually not set in the Victorian era, but in the pre-war 1930s. In Tee-Vee land this seems to count as the same period.)
Quote: Dolly Dagger @ September 30 2009, 1:50 PM BSTWas it One Free Hand? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANs3ifTmNQY
I just watced this and thought it was very funny. Strangely I have been writing about chimpanesees becoming more human only yesterday.
And I mentioned Planet of the Apes, spooky. 
Quote: Marc P @ September 30 2009, 2:31 PM BSTI just watced this and thought it was very funny. Strangely I have been writing about chimpanesees becoming more human only yesterday.
And I mentioned Planet of the Apes, spooky.
What the hell was that for?
It's fun to watch pilots which never made it beyond that stage. I was watching Eddie Izzard's "Cows" on YouTube, and I kept thinking the same thing that I thought whilst watching 'One Free Hand', that they're both somewhere between interestingly quirky, and plain embarrassing.
Quote: Dolly Dagger @ September 30 2009, 2:48 PM BSTWhat the hell was that for?
A book what I am writing for delivery this Christmas and publication next summer innit. I thought it best to have something on stand by in case the producer cocks up on the radio front!
Quote: Nogget @ September 30 2009, 2:52 PM BSTIt's fun to watch pilots which never made it beyond that stage. I was watching Eddie Izzard's "Cows" on YouTube, and I kept thinking the same thing that I thought whilst watching 'One Free Hand', that they're both somewhere between interestingly quirky, and plain embarrassing.
I liked it. Basically they have taken the interior monologue from Peep show and articulated it in the voice of the monkey so that other people can sometimes hear the interior thoughts too, so it's anot a stellar leap in difference of style, jusyt a way of having a female peep show I guess. And my guesses are pretty damn good I tell ya! Sorry morphed into Dr Mato then for some strange reason. Maybe it was the radioactive 'mato I had in my sandwich.
Quote: Marc P @ September 30 2009, 2:55 PM BSTA book what I am writing for delivery this Christmas and publication next summer innit.
There's chimps in it now? 
I know someone who looks like an orang-utan from Planet of The Apes.
Quote: Dolly Dagger @ September 30 2009, 2:59 PM BSTThere's chimps in it now?
See above. No just a article referenced to it in the New York Times which discusses a particular Chimp's behaviour. Dr Kate Walker (no relation) uses it as a device to comment on the sad state of the modern human condition. 
Quote: Marc P @ September 30 2009, 3:01 PM BSTSee above. No just a article referenced to it in the New York Times which discusses a particular Chimp's behaviour. Dr Kate Walker (no relation) uses it as a device to comment on the sad state of the modern human condition.
Get you! Funnily enough I have a second cousin (female) who is a Dr Walker. I won't say her first name.