Oh dear not the Uma site.
I wander if Osama is sitting in a cave cursing how one elderly comedy writer still tracks his every move.
BBC's New Writing Initiatives Page 4
Quote: sootyj @ August 23 2010, 4:34 PM BSTOh dear not the Uma site.
I wander if Osama is sitting in a cave cursing how one elderly comedy writer still tracks his every move.
you naughty boy, I'll go and say duas for you
Quote: bushbaby @ August 20 2010, 5:46 PM BSTI've PMd you.
Why PM? Is it an opinion you don't want to share?
Quote: ContainsNuts @ August 24 2010, 8:59 AM BSTWhy PM? Is it an opinion you don't want to share?
this is not the forum to discuss it, that's all. Aaron would soon delete
Quote: bushbaby @ August 24 2010, 11:50 AM BSTthis is not the forum to discuss it, that's all. Aaron would soon delete
No he wouldn't, not unless it was in a thread dedicated specifically to a UK sitcom or sketch show, and even then he's only make it grey and very small.
I wonder what those DM spaz magnets would think of some of the posts on here. Probably much the same as some posters think of them.
Yes the phrase 'spaz magnet' is a little unfortunate in a post attacking people for attacking political correctness.
Nothing new I think but http://www.thestage.co.uk/news/newsstory.php/29301/bbc-launches-competition-to-find-sitcoms-that
The point is that the BBC should be cultivating writers of talent not conforming to a pre-existing agenda.
I'm not entirely sure how, say, a good Indian writer who centres his work on his own family would be more indicative of 'multiculturalism' than a good English writer who uses his own family. Unless, as I suspect, they are looking for someone to construct a happy utopian fantasy of racial harmony.
You can rest assured that whoever the winner is, far from being 'diverse', they will conform entirely to the BBC's metropolitan 'liberal' worldview.
Quote: Cheesehoven @ August 24 2010, 7:59 PM BSTYou can rest assured that whoever the winner is, far from being 'diverse', they will conform entirely to the BBC's metropolitan 'liberal' worldview.
Which consists almost entirely of northern monkeys. On BBC3 anyway.
They've certainly set themselves a multi-task.
I'm not going to slate the Comedy College (or the BBC) for this, but I have to say I am a bit disappointed by the multiculural theme of the strand in question. It seems a bit bland and cliched to me - sort of 'community-theatre'.
Don't get me wrong I'm all for a multicultural society, but I think this idea (on it's own) is a bit old hat. I'm mixed-raced so probably could squeeze out an idea but it wouldn't really be what I want to do at the moment.
I wish they could have come up with something fresher as a theme - Science versus Religion, climate-change*, or...I dunno,something else that's making waves at the moment but isn't as done-to-death as multiculturalism.
Still, it p*ssed off the Daily Mail - always a good thing 
* I might be a bit biased - I've got a hilarious courtroom-based sitcom where Jesus prosecutes Richard Dawkin after it turns out Dawkin is responsible for global-warming because he ripped the burkha of a muslim woman and threw a bacon sarnie at a jew and...y'know, I may enter this anyway.
The last BBC TV sitcom that bordered on multiracial was the Crouches.
Which was written by a white scots bloke.
That the BBC is in a feeble small way trying to make some effort to meet it's charter requirements. And perhaps represent 10% of it's audience is not a sign of the left revoloution.
And even then it says scripts that represent diverse London. A writer who can't empathise or write about anyone outside of their narrow ethnic slice.
Isn't much of a writer.
Quote: Griff @ August 24 2010, 12:36 PM BSTGay.