Nathan Barley comes to TV

Are we going to see a second series of Nathan Barley?
"Yeah, I'd never write it off completely. We worked out a whole set of stuff to happen. A slightly different setting and a few years later. We were going to jettison the [media industry backdrop]. Basically [Nathan's] money had run out and he'd have to move in with his brother, who you have never seen. The same characters, but different setting was the idea. We did workshops with the cast and we haven't said we're not going to do it. Dead Set got in the way and Chris's Jihadi comedy got in the way. I dare say we'll meet up and do something else."

probably not watching tonight

Are we going to see a second series of Celebrity Love Island?
"Yeah, I'd never write it off completely. We worked out a whole set of stuff to happen. A slightly different setting and a few years later. We were going to jettison the [island of fucking backdrop]. Basically [Paul Dannan's] money had run out and he'd have to move in with his brother, who you have never seen. The same characters, but different setting was the idea. We did workshops with the cast and we haven't said we're not going to do it. Orange Playlists: With Jayne Middlemiss got in the way and Bianca's father's alcoholism got in the way. I dare say we'll meet up and do something else."

what is tonight?

dead set

it was pretty decent i thought.

yeah pretty good!

and i actually exclaimed out loud "NO WAI" when Pippa was called as the person to be evicted lol

also

"WHAT ARE YOU FOR"

Haha, yes, I was sort of rooting for Pippa! Quite liked it, even though there was too much "look! I understand cliched Big Brother behaviour" and not enough zomblies for the most part.

Er, zombies. Though zomblies is a good word too.

zombles

it was the first episode so you don't want that many

haha i like zomblies

Wouldn't a media-savvy Channel 4 lackey at least have seen Shaun of the Dead? My least favourite thing about zomblie films is how no-one ever knows what they are, like they are always the first ones ever.

no worse than multiple alien 'first contact' scenarios tho is it

That's also my least favourite thing about alien films as well, as it happens (see Dr Who threads passim)

c'mon it would be rubbish if the zombies/aliens turned up and people immediately knew what to do

Knowing what something is doesn't automatically mean that you have the knowledge/wherewithal/tools at your disposal to deal with them and any weird mutation they might have from the other zombies you've seen on the telly.

i'm gonna treat it as 'happening at the same time and in the same reality as Shaun Of The Dead' until it becomes clear this can't be the case

c'mon, would you know what to do if you saw an alien or zombie?

ffs

Aye, that's my point. It's the whole "i don't know, it's like they're dead, but they're walking about and chasing and killing people" thing without just going "for fuck's sake it's fucking ZOMBIES!"

I wouldn't know what to do if a lion turned up in my living room, but I wouldn't be going "it's like a big hairy cat thing and it's snarling at me!"

yes but who would have the guts to call a zombie a zombie, re Shaun OT Dead:

"Don't say that!"
"What?"
"The Z word"
"Why?
"It's ridiculous"

> Wouldn't a media-savvy Channel 4 lackey at least have seen Shaun of the Dead?

one of them obviously knows what zombies are because he quoted the 'they're coming to get you barbara' line (which was from original Night Of and parodied in Shaun)

Yeah that was a bit predictable.

Saw the whole of this last week at a preview screening. Thought it started OK, but got a lot better towards the end with reasonable characterisation and a non cop-out chilling ending. Would have been even better with a slightly larger budget though.

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.