*Whispers* I quite enjoyed a lot of Lab Rats really.
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Quote: Matthew Stott @ September 18 2009, 9:09 PM BST*Whispers* I quite enjoyed a lot of Lab Rats really.
Quote: Nil Putters @ September 18 2009, 9:13 PM BST
Quote: Timbo @ September 18 2009, 8:21 PM BSTI do no think it was the sillines per se that sunk it; the far sillier Klang seems to have plenty of admirers. I think it was more the lack of a coherent comic vision. Lines ranged from the cleverly observational to the childishly silly, performances veered from the cartoonish to the naturalistic; and the sets, costumes, lighting etc, succeeded in being neither acceptably credible nor interestingly stylised.
'it was just a silly sense of humour kind of show, a bit like the Goodies I guess, and if you didn't get it then you didn't like it all seemingly. A marmite com.'
But I neither particularly liked or disliked it, I just didn't think it worked as well as it could have done. Should have been given a second series really, to see if they could fix it.
Quote: Timbo @ September 18 2009, 9:51 PM BSTBut I neither particularly liked or disliked it, I just didn't think it worked as well as it could have done. Should have been given a second series really, to see if they could fix it.
I agree with that but the fix it notion is what I worry about. And it's a concept that runs through the whole of the BBC at the moment which is worrying. I'm with Michael Palin.
Watchers. Obviously. Would you watch a load of sitcoms every week if you were trying to win the booker prize? The ability to read is needed but not a love for literature. You should love language though, ideally. I would also say though that if you don't love or at least like drama as well, then you may find it harder to create good sitcoms, or at least good traditional sitcoms. IMO. And by drama I suppose I really mean theatre.
Quote: Marc P @ September 18 2009, 10:17 PM BSTI agree with that but the fix it notion is what I worry about. And it's a concept that runs through the whole of the BBC at the moment which is worrying. I'm with Michael Palin.
Granted, but I kind of had in mind that Chris Addison would be given the chance to fix it, like say Richard Curtis was given the chance to Blackadder, rather than the current BBC culture of execs 'fixing' (as in neutering) shows in development so that they target a demographic or whatever.