I'm currently working on a sitcom set in a holiday camp but as I type all I can think about is HI-DE-HI. Apart from the setting my sitcom is so far away from that show it's more benidorm with rain crossed with early doors but I worry that if production companies see 'Holiday Camp' they won't touch it - am I worrying too much about nothing?
If "Not Being Hi-De-Hi" was an issue then Miranda would never have made it to our screens.
Also, Peep Show is Men Behaving Badly is The Likely Lads.....
The Office is The Squirrels
Shameless is Yus, My dear
Someone stop me....
Stop!
It's been a while. Don't sweat it.
Who the f**k goes to holiday camps thesedays?
Or is this an entry for one of the BBC's "placate the Northerners" comedy competitions?
If worried about drawing comparisons with Hi-De-Hi, then why not just give the setting a subtle twist? Instead of a holiday camp, why not - say - a concentration camp instead?
It could be like a small-screen Life Is Beautiful, but with some laughs. And without that irritating lanky Italian prick.
Best of luck, anyway.
There is a Butlins in Margate, perhaps you visited with family?
It is not a Northern thing, I hate it! Have taken sons to Pontins ,perhaps
that is why they hate me?
Stop being 'Southist' but glad you are here to irritate me.
When I was a kid my family did indeed make the mistake of spending a week in a holiday camp in North Wales, in an attempt to try "something different".
My most vivid memory was being reduced to tears after witnessing a drunken Scouser beating-up his girlfriend by the crazy golf course.
So, thank you, Butlins, for introducing a ten year old to the exciting, rollercoaster world of domestic violence.
OH no not witnessed that crap, but remember at Pontins a mealy-mouthed beast complaining that the fat bastard 'nigger' couldn't sing, so had the sudden urge to fain an asthma attack, his table was upturned and all his grog ended on floor I felt smug- result. 
Quote: Tim Walker @ January 28 2012, 3:13 AM GMTIf worried about drawing comparisons with Hi-De-Hi, then why not just give the setting a subtle twist? Instead of a holiday camp, why not - say - a concentration camp instead?
Life's a Gas would be a good title, though I think Ricky Gervais has already taken out an option on it.....
Yes, followed by ; 'Open all Hours', then 'Hello Hello' and 'Sorry'.
Tim a lot of people go to holiday camps I'm not talking the traditional family type I'm talking stag weekends and slags and northern soul weekends more adult themed than the stereotypical view of a holiday camp. I'm from the north and intend to make it as northern as possible and not some soft southern nancy politically correct 'lets not offend anyone' shite.
Yeah We used to tip the southern bastards out of their canoes on the boating-lake, and bash them with snooker cues if they dared win a game, great times!
The holiday camps I've been to have been dreary spectacles, that's down to the food and accommodation but the kids entertainment is great...anyway, as for the sitcom, if you're doing more the adult weekender take, then I'd consider that a pretty good setup. Plenty of scope in that setting for all sorts of characters and scenarios, I wouldn't worry whether it's been done before (I can't think of any) and just concentrate on making it authentic and funny.
Quote: MrBucktrout @ January 28 2012, 3:57 PM GMTsoft southern nancy politically correct
How pleasant.
Quote: dellas @ January 28 2012, 5:54 PM GMT
Quote: MrBucktrout @ January 28 2012, 3:57 PM GMTI'm from the north and intend to make it as northern as possible and not some soft southern nancy politically correct 'lets not offend anyone' shite.
Doesn't the politically correct shite come from "Socialists" whose traditional heartland is the North?