Walk On The Wild Side

I nearly didn't spot this new comedy show in the schedules because the BBC have given it no publicity and the listings make it look like a wildlife documentary... however, when I spotted Jason Manford's name in the voiceover list, I realised it's actually a comedy we should be listing.

Basically it's a family series in which Manford, Rhod Gilbert and others take the BBC's natural history footage and give the animals voices. Hard to say if it's going to hit the spot for an adult audience, but here's some taster videos:

https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/walk_on_the_wildside/videos/

Walk On The Wild Side starts on Saturday at 17:05 on BBC One.

Made me laugh.

Without looking through the videos, it sounds quite crap.

But I suppose someone must watch Badly Dubbed Porn, so there must be a market for that kind of thing.

Johnny Morris did it years ago. And Gervais does something similar at the beginning of his Animals show.

Animal Planet did this show about 3-4 months ago called 'Creatures Like Us' voiced by Julian Rhind-Tutt, Sally Phillips, Matt Berry and Daisy Haggard. Repeats are still on I think.

http://www.discoverychannel.co.uk/web/animalplanet/creatures-like-us/

But Johnny Morris did it 40 years ago.

Yeah I think the idea was 'inspired' from that show. Was it 'Animal Magic' or 'Animal Crackers'? One of the two anyway.

I thought it was alright. Nothing ground-breaking, but it's obviously aimed at families and the kind of dad that laughs at people falling over.

The ad-break was quite funny, in my opinion.

Dan

I did like the random quotes from other shows, The "Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan" from Alan Partridge (although trying to remember back the ten minutes since I watched it, was the groundhog actually yelling "Alan"?) and the "Oooo Betty" from Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em.

Yes, it was Alan. And then Steve. (Partridge, Coogan, I'd not made the link until now.)

There were a few funny ones, but really more for the audio than the audio with the visuals. On the whole it was light years improved upon the pilot, but still not really anything of note.

This was typically awful saturday teatime viewing - like a follow up to the dreadful 'Just For Laughs'.

Why watch this when 'Creature Comforts' is miles better and funnier?

I think people are forgetting this is aimed at a fairly young audience... there's no doubt kids in parks around the country shouting "Alan, Alan, Alan" right now.

For me, most of it fell flat, but there were some bits that made me smile a lot. Cute animals can easily charm.

Quote: Mark @ August 17 2009, 3:30 AM BST

I think people are forgetting this is aimed at a fairly young audience... there's no doubt kids in parks around the country shouting "Alan, Alan, Alan" right now.

For me, most of it fell flat.

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Me too.

I found it quite funny, to be honest. What happened to the DVD release? Should have been due to beginning of February but seems to have gone now. Pity!

It'll have been postponed until the broadcast of Series 2.