Hyde150
Saturday 14th April 2012 6:47am [Edited]
44 posts
Quote: Matthew Stott @ April 13 2012, 10:56 PM BST
I had a look at his tweets and he says Channel Four were very happy with the reaction and audience figures, so looks like it's in with a shot. It also mentioned he's working on a new pilot with some guy who works on Dexter, about an athiest who dies and discovers there is a Heaven
Viewing figures don't say much for a show like this do they. I tuned in for curiosity reasons as I imagined most did. And that new pilot sounds awful. I wish he'd drop the whole religion issue. It started to grate a few years back now it's just beyond a joke.
As for Derek my view of it was that it didn't quite work. Ok viewing, but there didn't seem any sort of target. Who was we meant to be laughing at? Pilko was ok, playing himself with a daft wig, but the majority of the show was spent trying to build up Derek as the most likeable person ever, which gave us nothing to actually laugh at. Shoehorn a bit of music straight from This is England and apparently you've got yourself a drama. It all seemed a bit forced, which was my main problem with LTS. This was nowhere near as bad as Life's Too Short. The music was less Curb and alot less like American influences going on. Also the sort of sitcom where the main character is a silly'un who sits on custard bowls and is bessie mates with a grim northerner wearing a daft wig...isn't that the exact thing Extras took the mick out of?
Overall not a bad watch considering how bad tele seems to be at the moment but my main problem was not enough laughs to be a comedy, not enough plot to be a drama.