"The BBC Writers Room - Where Scripts Go To Die"
I want to know how people get in touch with BBC producers by other means. I've heard of the old "find out who produces the programmes you like and add a @bbc.com" but does that actually work?
Scripts versus performance Page 5
Quote: Martin Holmes @ January 7, 2008, 8:23 PM"The BBC Writers Room - Where Scripts Go To Die"
I want to know how people get in touch with BBC producers by other means. I've heard of the old "find out who produces the programmes you like and add a @bbc.com" but does that actually work?
Not so much any more. The Beeb don't really have any 'staff producers' like they used to, most are freelance. And the ones they do have are leaving - probably due to BBC uncertainty, and the freedom they get working for themselves.
Quote: bushbaby @ January 7, 2008, 5:59 PMYeah, there must be millions of Asian comedians/writers/actors in the UK eh, and I'm sure particularly the women would go a bundle on a sitcom situated in a massage parlour.....just their thing for their women is it?
I'm not usually sensitive about this stuff,and maybe its meant differently than I'm reading it but comments like this and your 'vietnamese couldn't speak english before coming here' seem pretty racist to me. There are plenty of British Asians-'their' woman are our women and they may well go for a massage parlour based sitcom-if its funny. If a comedy is so colloquial that only people who've been resident in that area for several generations will get it then its not going to get anywhere is it.
Getting your stuff read by someone who gets your humour is always going to be pot luck unless you're sending to a known person.Thats why many great comedys have to do the rounds before they get picked up
Quote: niteowl @ January 8, 2008, 2:00 AMI'm not usually sensitive about this stuff,and maybe its meant differently than I'm reading it but comments like this and your 'vietnamese couldn't speak english before coming here' seem pretty racist to me. There are plenty of British Asians-'their' woman are our women and they may well go for a massage parlour based sitcom-if its funny. If a comedy is so colloquial that only people who've been resident in that area for several generations will get it then its not going to get anywhere is it.
Getting your stuff read by someone who gets your humour is always going to be pot luck unless you're sending to a known person.Thats why many great comedys have to do the rounds before they get picked up
Do you think the Royle Family would be funny had it been an Asian family/cast?
Quote: bushbaby @ January 8, 2008, 7:40 AMDo you think the Royle Family would be funny had it been an Asian family/cast?
>_<
Perhaps Shameless would be a better example
Quote: bushbaby @ January 8, 2008, 7:40 AMDo you think the Royle Family would be funny had it been an Asian family/cast?
Please explain why that wouldn't be funny.
Quote: David Bussell @ January 8, 2008, 9:48 AMPlease explain why that wouldn't be funny.
I didn't say it would/wouldn't be, I'm asking niteowl if he thinks it would be.
Quote: ajp29 @ January 8, 2008, 7:54 AM>_<
Not borderline enough for you? Or am I the wrong poster? What's the difference here from the other poster saying the scottish aren't funny?
Quote: bushbaby @ January 8, 2008, 11:43 AMNot borderline enough for you? Or am I the wrong poster? What's the difference here from the other poster saying the scottish aren't funny?
Theres no difference. You're both equally ignorant
but you joked about one ignorant remark
Many years ago there was a childrens' talent show on Blackpool pier called the Uncle Peter's. My daughter who was then 8 years old did a comedy stand-up act that she had written herself. The audience loved it and she won the heat. She was in the finals two weeks later. She died on stage as hardly anyone chuckled, never mind laughed. Reason? On the first heats it was lancashires two weeks summer holiday period. At the finals it was the scottish two weeks hols. Different sense of humour, not that the scottish don't have any. Same with Asians and Vietnamese, different sense of humour, yet one theory is supposedly racist, whilst the other isn't.
Quote: bushbaby @ January 8, 2008, 12:22 PMbut you joked about one ignorant remark
I wasn't approving his position I was trying to make a joke out of some word play. e.g. Cos theres a border he is racist. Thus hes a borderline racist. I wouldn't call it racism anyway i'd call it xenophobia if I was making a serious point.
I start from the position that everyone is equal untill proven otherwise by their words or actions. So anyone could have played the parts you were saying and I would stave off my judgement untill i've seen them in those parts.
EDIT: I see the point you are making now. It wasn't clear before. Yes there may be cultural differences but you should only acknowledge those when they become apparent not before. Vietnam may have a Royale Family like sitcom for all I know
Quote: bushbaby @ January 8, 2008, 11:43 AMWhat's the difference here from the other poster saying the scottish aren't funny?
That was me, and yes I think that Scottish people aren't funny.
Also, I agree with you that the Royle Family wouldn't work with an Asian family. Anyone who disagrees is just being a politically correct cum guzzler.
Quote: Eat_My_Shirts @ January 8, 2008, 12:32 PMAlso, I agree with you that the Royle Family wouldn't work with an Asian family. Anyone who disagrees is just being a politically correct cum guzzler.
Moral Rightedness has never tasted so salty 
Quote: Eat_My_Shirts @ January 8, 2008, 12:32 PMThat was me, and yes I think that Scottish people aren't funny.
Also, I agree with you that the Royle Family wouldn't work with an Asian family. Anyone who disagrees is just being a politically correct cum guzzler.
And if it had have been produced as such, there'd have been massive demonstrations as to how it offends the Asian communities