dinnerladies and Coogan's Run directors
beat the bootleggers with official YouTube comedy channel
London, UK - Pozzitive, the multi-award winning comedy production company, consisting of Geoff Posner and David Tyler, whose credits include French & Saunders, Not The Nine O'Clock News, Harry Enfield & Chums, The Paul & Pauline Calf Video Diaries, Spitting Image, Victoria Wood As Seen On TV, The Young Ones, Coogan's Run, dinnerladies, Little Britain, Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive and The Comic Side of 7 Days, have decided to launch an official YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/PozzitiveComedy which will let viewers watch clips from some of their best shows, spanning 20 years, for free.
Pozzitive's directors Geoff Posner and David Tyler said they were tired of people watching grainy, low-quality clips of their shows online and wanted to launch their own channel straight from their private vault as a way of beating the bootleggers and driving revenue back to their comedians via the sale of official shows.
Pozzitive's Geoff Posner, whose many credits include Little Britain, French & Saunders and Victoria Wood - As Seen On TV, said: "Over the past few years, we've seen the widespread uploading of our copyright-protected clips from some of our biggest shows on media sharing sites like YouTube. Rather than sue fans or having all the clips removed, we decided to take matters into our own hands and fight free videos with free videos by putting up our own versions, in higher quality, from our official vault. Our YouTube channel will allow viewers to watch higher-quality clips from some of our best sketch shows, sitcoms and programmes for free as well as showcasing new and exclusive material. The channel will also help to drive revenue back to the talented comedians we work with as it links to our main site www.pozzitive.co.uk where people will be able to buy official DVDs and Download-To-Own audio from Amazon & Audible.co.uk."
Pozzitive's YouTube channel currently features videos from shows like Coogan's Run and The Comic Side of 7 Days as well as an exclusive behind the scenes look at the making of tlc, the black comedy set in the NHS, featuring Reece Shearsmith and Alexander Armstrong. More clips are promised in the future.
Pozzitive recently launched an encyclopaedia of British comedy at www.pozzitive.co.uk spanning 20 years of material from their vaults which includes:
•Over 570 rare photos including never-before-seen shots of comedians
•Exclusive, behind-the-scenes footage from shows
•Over 70 different audio clips, including exclusive specially-edited highlights
•Extracts from untransmitted pilots
•Specially-made trailers and extracts from shows never released on CD
•Over 50 video clips including material from shows never released on DVD
•Publicity material from shows, trailers, publicity postcards, scripts and over 76 series written up in full, including full casts and crew list sourced from the original tapes and paperwork.
(Had a few emails about this now (as I expect others have) - so thought I may as well post it for those who are interested.)
