Nathan Barley comes to TV

Still think Brooker's overrated

I mean, even at best he's just Bootleg Biffo, but he's making major E4 shows will Biffo is still writing for kids' TV shows that nobody watches

Does he ever write Screen Burn anymore or is he now concentrating on bigging up his own projects and writing travel features in the midst of global recession?

I don't really mind Brooker. He can be pretty funny and Screen Wipe was good. But that travel piece at the weekend was the most boring pointless thing I've read in a while. And I'm including posts like this on ILX.

despite slagging it off elsewhere, i'm taping dead set. i bet i never watch it, though. nobody here is making a convincing case for it being anything other than a mediocre diversion -- and trust me, i've got way too many of those going on right now.

Would have been even better with a slightly larger budget though.

I was surprised at how relatively expensive it looked as it is

i can't wait for ep5 of dead set (which i'm in, heh). haven't seen any of it yet though...

also love that they didn't bother with credits, just gave a URL. if Brooker's over-rated it's more because there's just so many far worse people out there doing well too.

altho maybe it did undermine a bit the 'credits are useful as an interlude between programmes that allow you to pause for thought without some numpty chattering away about what's coming next as if it wasn't easy enough for you to find this out anyway' argument he made quite well on SW

brooker? a contrarian? well i never.

i always assumed credits existed as much to doff a cap to the people who worked to create a show as to inform the viewer who these people were. as such, i'd mourn their passing if they disappeared altogether: it's like not having the autor's name on a book sleeve.

no it's closer to the book listing all the people who actually helped in the production process of the book at the end

I too was a bit perturbed by their lack of zombie knowledge, but I think that they probably wanted a contrast with most of the recent zombie projects, which almost all seem to have a good grasp of zombie history and use that for 'sly' meta-textual referencing. Which seems a bit of a strange thing to get away from when your whole schtick is OMG Zombies & Big Brother! Together at last!

I did enjoy it, tho.

no it's closer to the book listing all the people who actually helped in the production process of the book at the end

An acknowledgements page, then?

I thought it was alright, nowt special, rather too much of it got taken up with Jaime Winstone making sobbing noises. Going to the credits site (features authentic scrolling-slightly-too-quickly-to-read effect, though I did see former Gladiators winner Eunice Huthart listed in the stunt performers), I came to realise that I had no idea what any of the characters were called.

An acknowledgements page, then?

more like a list of every single person at the publishing company who ever had anything to do with it, right down to the dude who made the editor's PA his cup of tea in the morning.

ep5 of dead set (which i'm in, heh).

okay where?

> also love that they didn't bother with credits, just gave a URL

jamcredits.com (now abandoned) got there first, you Clarkson faced Guff-Prating Berkskull.

copy here: http://www.channel4.com/entertainment/tv/microsites/J/jam/credits_ns6.html

...
KEVIN ELDON
...

the sign with Eldon's face, arrow and GOLLUM tag

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v134/tracerhand/TheyreEnglish-1.jpg

Kevin Eldon is playing the character I would actually be in the BB house

the scene with the girl pounding bits out of the zombies skull with the fire extinguisher was amazing

I thought they were going to play out the whole paranoia of the contestants disbelief that it wasn't just a stunt for a bit longer, perhaps they'll refer to it again.

ep5 of dead set (which i'm in, heh).

okay where?

― Ant Attack |=| (Ste), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 13:13

well...

haven't seen any of it yet though...

― CharlieNo4, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 12:05

so i don't know. but i'm what's known as a "background zombie"... so i might get a quarter of a second's bloodied screen time.

i'm what's known as a "background zombie"

new user name for you there.

(or me, if you don't snap it up first.)

Or a useful phrase for an ILX Lurker?

splendid idea!

ach, it was only on for half hour tonight totally wasn't expecting that.

still enjoying it.

watched last night's, and about 10 minutes of tonight. that'll be it for me. it's so fucking dull. beyond the basic premise -- big brother! zombies! -- there's absolutely nothing there, is there? the characters are ciphers, the action is predictable, the outcome interests me not a jot.

(and i appreciate what chewshabadoo says upthread about the characterisation improving, but i can't be arsed waiting around for that to happen!)

the installments are too short. would have been cool 90 minutes than two 60 minutes.

looks quite good for the budget. Obviously going off that whole current-horror movie thing with the fast cutting, the handheld, the shutter speeds etc..., but it's fine. Hardly groundbreaking or terribly inventive so far, but still a really enjoyable zombie horror by my standards. Glad the satire hasn't really got in the way of anything.

lol at Pippa telling that producer guy he was using up the oxygen

"it's not a fucking submarine"

Dead Set thread here:
Dead Set - E4 Big Brother Zombie thing!

is this out of print on DVD? anyone know where i can order it, preferably cheaply, and have it shipped to the US? (it's ridiculously expensive on amazon.co.uk.)

if you know how to use torrents then you can get it on http://thebox.bz/ - i think they have open sign up just now but if you need or want an invite then give me a shout.

It *is* out of print, aggravatingly (my copy was scratched when I lent it to someone). It went from being stacked in every HMV for 5 pounds to being tough to find in a matter of weeks, seemingly. The first 2 Charlie Brooker books are similarly tough to track down!

Sold my copy of Brookers' TV Go Home book for £40 on eBay, to none other than... actor Michael Fenton Stevens

£40?! That makes it the most valuable book I own!

the DVD is awesome. comes with that booklet and so many extras on the DVD itself. torrents don't really compare to the whole package.

true true, my friend ran off te manchester wit mine. bitch.

keep it foolish yea

oh great, downloaded this as a torrent and none of the files work AWESOME thanks internet go die.

Pssst-
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=Kfairy&view=videos

Not amazing quality, but perfectly watchable.

thanks, yeah, i know (that's where i saw them the first time). problem is my wife wants to watch it, and for reasons i can't go into here (or fathom) she hates watching video on the computer.

saw this just before christmas in hmv and bought it thinking it was out of print. amazon has cheaper copies so i guess they've repressed it, or whatever you do with dvds. bum.

still a great dvd to own.

hell, I don't think I have a region-free player hooked up now, I might have to copy this over to my pc

i'm not a preacher man

keep it chopped out, yeah?

Toby, you rim-licker. How's it fucking collapsing?