This was obviously not about Charley
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Quote: David Chapman @ February 22, 2008, 9:47 PMThis was obviously not about Charley
You calling me cold?
Arse hooooooooooole!
I am warm & wet I am.
Just watched all three in a row. Absolutely superb -- commission this properly and again, BBC!
Tom Hollander's 'Leon' is one of the best characters in recent years -- awesome!
Dan
Episode 'two' was much better than the pilot episode episode, Dan. The writing's still not that strong. The use of the 'piss on you if you were on fire...' line worried me - why not think of something else - it's not hard to write invective.
Anyway, see my earlier post to see why this is good - it's not really the writing.
Regarding commissioning, I think the reason there were only three was down to the writer, not the BBC. He just couldn't do any more. The new scripts had 'workshopped' written all over them. Someone other than the writer has clearly said; "leon's a shit, matt and elisabeth are lovely, wouldn't it be funny if he was forced to live with them.'
Saw the first episode when it was originally on and thought it was Ok, Missed this short run apart from half of the last one, and I now wish Id tuned in for them all as I thought it was great; and that agent character is really good. Why three episodes though? On consecutive nights?? Whatever their reasons, that does seem a bit odd, like that 'Outnumbered', I think it was called, why show them all in such a short space of time? It has very little chance to permiate into the general publics minds and affections if its been and gone in less than a week!
I think they're trying out a new broadcast format/pattern. I'd certainly be interested in seeing it a bit more.
The BBC say scheduling them back-to-back is a trial to see whether a show can 'gain and keep momentum'. I think this also is from a marketing point-of-view: when people are talking about it at work they can say "it's on tonight as well", rather than "see it next week" (by which time their recommendation might have been forgotten).
I'm not sure I'm convinced by it. Outnumbered was certainly a hit - with audiences growing over the week - but whether that was down to the scheduling or just because it was a good show I don't know.
It's finally happened. I've found something to replace Green Wing. I saw the original pilot on BBC4 and thought it had great promise. Then made the effort to watch the second and third episodes.
Perhaps I don't get out much, but it was laugh out loud stuff all the way through for me. Pity it was only 3 episodes.
And no, there won't be a convention..... Everyone's quite safe...
I missed the first part so didn't worry about the other 2. Looks like I missed something good.
iPlayer, David. 
Quote: David Chapman @ February 21, 2008, 10:51 PMI only caught snatches
You are disgusting!
Your like an older Tom Jones you are.
I saw the last fifteen or so minutes of it the other night, and now wish I'd bothered with it sooner! 
As Aaron said, it's all on iplayer to stream and/or download for 7 days after broadcast.
Also on Virgin Media's On-demand for free if you have it (channel 119, red button, Catch-up TV, BBC, BBC One and pick the day).
I agree to some extent with 'Taxis about the 'workshopped' feel, but thought it proved that this could work well. Freezing is certainly better sitcom than many other recent attempts.
Re: the watching things in 'blocks', rather than weekly. Since I got Sky+ and now my pvr/iplayer, my viewing habits have changed to watching things three episodes/six episodes at a time, 'saving up' a series and watching it all at once or in a short space of time. I find it works better for me that way.
Dan
Quote: swerytd @ February 23, 2008, 8:53 PMAs Aaron said, it's all on iplayer to stream and/or download for 7 days after broadcast.
Also on Virgin Media's On-demand for free if you have it (channel 119, red button, Catch-up TV, BBC, BBC One and pick the day).
I agree to some extent with 'Taxis about the 'workshopped' feel, but thought it proved that this could work well. Freezing is certainly better sitcom than many other recent attempts.
Re: the watching things in 'blocks', rather than weekly. Since I got Sky+ and now my pvr/iplayer, my viewing habits have changed to watching things three episodes/six episodes at a time, 'saving up' a series and watching it all at once or in a short space of time. I find it works better for me that way.
Dan
Probably on my f**king Homechoice/Tiscali replay service if it was f**king working.
Hi all.
I was wondering how Freezing would go down here (so to speak). I was impressed with the cast list and the production value. But I was hard-pushed to find it particularly funny. I found it more a comedy drama than a straight forward comedy.
I agree with Mr Taxi, the writing wasn't great. Still! That's good news for us budding writers surely. There's hope for us all yet.