Nathan Barley comes to TV

BUT the trailers look good and thinking on it, there's no really new paradigm that's emerged to displace the barleys in "new media" circles, so it can't be that dated.

sleaze nation is still going, right? i love the dnb soundtrack on the trailer, it's exactly right.

also i have a lot invested in barley. my first ever paid piece of writing was on tvgohome, three years back. i got to use 'cunt', 'fuck', and 'pissant' in my maiden piece! woo!

xpost -- watts, say nothing!

i can't remember how i came across tvgohome but i was 18 years old and not living in london -- but anyway, my line was nathan barley helps 'explain' things that normals do know about, in advertising, magazine design, fashion, ect. after all comabat trousers, scooters, trucker caps all ended up quite high street.

i've never been a part of the media-wanker circus but have had first-hand experience of barleys -- it isn't that small a world, perhaps.

I hate to be a hata, but HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=15150907&method=full&siteid=89488&headline=the-man-who-drinks-petrol-name_page.html

sleaze closed last year after a relaunch. i remember reading tvgohome with relish back during my shockingly short stint editing the music section there. there were some great people at the mag, but plenty of nathan barleys too. it didn't seem like satire, more reportage. so i will enjoy the series, i reckon.

also i have a lot invested in barley. my first ever paid piece of writing was on tvgohome, three years back. i got to use 'cunt', 'fuck', and 'pissant' in my maiden piece! woo!

i snuck the word 'pisspoor' into the times, early on in my career. my dad thought it was poor journalism to use the word!

he has a point here but i'll reserve judgement 'til i've seen tonight's episode which i'm really looking forward to!

can't wait for torrents.

1) Who'll turn up in the series first: Kevin Eldon or Mark Heap?
2) Which episode and how long into it will this be?

Winner gets something or other.

he has been involved in just about everything the past 6 years.

tvgohome was intensely vitriolic, but i al ways felt it was the bitter anger of just some old guys who werent really in touch anymore, but just took it out on a bunch of idiots. the "cunt" bits of tvgh were the least funny anyway.

"it became difficult to distinguish between genuine creatives and opportunistic charlatans."

oh yeah real creatives theres a ton of them about, many of them with the surname Boorman, eh neil?

"Why the real players in youth culture are never drafted in to help is a mystery"

hahahaha WTF you mean, like, kids? oh no, you mean NB and a bunch of failures from sleaze. theyre the real players in youth culture.

that article is pathetic

from the stills gallery: is this kevin eldon?

http://www.trashbat.co.ck/images/barley/gallery/programme_stills/still_5.jpg

if it is, then my bet's on him.

-- Markelby

Hata.

I haven't seen even a trailer for the show, but I imagine this idea of casting to be the truth.

I think the Daily Mail thing was suggesting that a young Rik Mayall (bear in mind this is the Daily Mail and they aren't quite au fait with the current times) could be the stereotypical obnoxious arsehole, and that Dylan Moran has the cynical world-weariness to play Dan Ashcroft.

Anyway, I am not defending the daily mail, but, as you were...

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?

well fucking weapon