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Quote: Nil Putters @ August 9 2010, 11:26 PM BST10 minutes in and I can't say I've laughed out loud.
And that bloody song is getting on my tits.
That was overused, yeah.
Many congrats to jdubya for getting commissioned, but (unsurprisingly) this wasn't for me. Don't know if the world really needs the single camera bastard offspring of a Swingers' Night clusterf**k involving the pasty parts of Two Pints..., Grownups, Coming Of Age and Lunch Monkeys...
Sorry.
It was better than Grandma's House, if that helps?
EDIT: Oh, and is it official BBC Three policy to make the majority of the end credits on its programmes unreadable? Some sort of TV Production Witness Protection Scheme going on?
Quote: Aaron @ August 9 2010, 11:06 PM BSTThere was something about it that didn't feel quite right for me - but it was more this episode specifically I think rather than anything about the characters or their dynamic that could be changed for a series.
I dunno; to me it seemed that perhaps in the support officers and the Dad and Son combo there were potentially interesting dynamics and characters; but that group of five friends fealt a bit nothing, they needed to be more distinct, rather than just a bunch of Hollyoaks friends who drink and talk about sex. As I say, I think there was more potential in the other two tribes, but that bunch need a shake up. What about the pretty boy is going to make me want to watch and laugh? Or his girlfriend? Or the slouchy guy who used to be in Corrie? What is it about them and their characters that is going to create comedy? It's obvious what's going to be mined in the other two groups, but not that one. To me at least. If this were to get a series then I think they need to be seriously looked at.
That's my opinion anyway, if you are seriously looking for opinions on areas to look at, Mr Jacob! Like I know what I'm talking about . . . 
Quote: Matthew Stott @ August 10 2010, 12:34 AM BSTWhat about the pretty boy is going to make me want to watch and laugh?
Your frankly flagrant latent homosexuality coupled with your addiction to nitrous oxide, Matthew? 
Quote: Tim Walker @ August 10 2010, 12:39 AM BSTYour frankly flagrant latent homosexuality coupled with your addiction to nitrous oxide, Matthew?
Baby wants to f**k!!
Quote: Matthew Stott @ August 10 2010, 12:44 AM BSTBaby wants to f**k!!
A yes, the community support officers, thanks for reminding me. They were very LOTSW.
One of your own, so I should be careful:
Clearly well written and well structured but (as above ad infinitum) do we really need another teen gross out that revolves around a pub? And jokes about stealing flowers off a dead dog's grave? - edgy!
Having said that I liked the young attractive couple trying very hard not to be boring and failing - those characters were fresh and have legs. Not so sure about the community support officers, but I'm clearly in the minority there.
This is not for me, by which I mean that it so relentlessly targetted at a TV exec's idea of a young audience, that I suspect my opinion is neither solicited nor valued. (There are hints that something more nuanced might originally have been intended.)
TV in its heyday was an inclusive medium, in which programmes found their own audiences; the BBC's obsession with market fragmentation seems based on a model in which viewers are as stereotyped as the characters put on screen. It is set in a pub? Young ravers go to pubs; make it for BBCTeenies. It is about hiking? Old farts go hiking; make it for BBCStuffy.
Do young people go to pubs anymore? 2 or 3 close every week in Britain so clearly they're not the focal point of social life that they used to be.
They do, just not pubs I would choose to go to. Another sector where there has been market fragmentation.
Quote: Bomsh @ August 10 2010, 2:11 AM BSTHaving said that I liked the young attractive couple trying very hard not to be boring and failing - those characters were fresh and have legs. Not so sure about the community support officers, but I'm clearly in the minority there.
Agree about the young couple who are happy to be what passes for dull in a BBC 3 world; but that storyline was rather swamped in all the gross out shennanigans.
The PCSO storyline rather played to the stereotype. Someone should make a sitcom about a PCSO who is not a sad wannabee. I did like the gag at the end where they were dancing to the car alarm.
Apart from the the views of people who REALLY didn't like it, comments at work, here and elsewhere are all focusing on similar areas, so should we be fortunate enough to get a series commission, what people have been saying will be reflected on screen, vindicating the usefulness of pilots.