The commissioning editor should be ashamed of themself...how on earth could you watch this in an edit room and say..wow, this will be a hit..its hilarious..
forget about that..shouldn't have even got passed the script stage
Oh god stop whinging. Give them a chance or watch something else.
Kaiserbee, don't think you've met our good friend Digital Spy forums. Oh they're fantastic, people can use them to pass comment on television shows and everfink. They're magic.
The material was a bit patchy, but considering it's the first episode of a sketch show, it was a lot stronger than I expected, and the main performances carried it through.
(And, as always, remember that anybody saying that it was objectively unfunny or 'not comedy' can be ignored as embarrassingly solipsistic.)
The problem is they get the licence fee money regardless, they don't have to make good programmes to sell subscriptions (like U.S. cable channels) or attract advertisers like commercial channels so they can just churn out any rubbish if the right number of boxes have been ticked.
The problem is they get the licence fee money regardless, they don't have to make good programmes to sell subscriptions (like U.S. cable channels) or attract advertisers like commercial channels so they can just churn out any rubbish if the right number of boxes have been ticked.
Tell you what, why not just copy and paste that for
every
single
post
you make on here?
It'd save you a lot of time and you could maybe take up a hobby.
This is what I was on on about in another thread with the BBC's political correctness taking precedence over producing good TV programmes.
They will have said; "there aren't enough female comedians on TV so we'll commission this", sod the fact that's it's miserably unfunny.
Do you have bring your rabid right wing politics into every thread? White men often make bad programmes as well you know. Did you see the Royal Bodyguard?
The problem is they get the licence fee money regardless, they don't have to make good programmes to sell subscriptions (like U.S. cable channels) or attract advertisers like commercial channels so they can just churn out any rubbish if the right number of boxes have been ticked.
Like the endless stream of quality programming produced by ITV?
As a Scot what bothers me is that limp crap like this gets an easy ride as a networked BBC2 show when the likes of Limmy and Burnistoun struggle to get national airing.
The material was a bit patchy, but considering it's the first episode of a sketch show, it was a lot stronger than I expected, and the main performances carried it through.
(And, as always, remember that anybody saying that it was objectively unfunny or 'not comedy' can be ignored as embarrassingly solipsistic.)
Or that the people who liked it are embarrassingly easily pleased maybe?
Well I'm not ashamed to say that I kinda liked it. I expected not to and some of the sketches didn't quite work but I'm willing to give them a chance. I'll watch it next week.
Do you have bring your rabid right wing politics into every thread? White men often make bad programmes as well you know. Did you see the Royal Bodyguard?
Cause and effect.
Any how have I mentioned this in every thread? I only mentioned it previously on the thread which I started in broadcasting.
Don't worry I won't be commenting on this programme anymore as I won't be watching it.
Myleene Klass made me laugh, Wills and Kate was mildly amusing and the Heffner bunny girls was also slightly amusing. I agree there were some sketches which felt a bit try hard and I don't think they are the new French and Saunders, Catherine Tate, Smack the Pony etc.
Made me giggle a few times - and there's plenty of comedy shows that have never managed that. Overall, the material was frequently pretty limp, but I did like the performers so I hope to see more of them in one way or another.
Certainly - you believe than somebody who finds something funny when you do not must therefore be 'embarrassingly easily pleased'.
You have misunderstood the subjective nature of comedy and assumed that only you can judge a universal constant of humour.
I could produce a list of comedy shows I don't like, but am aware that they are comedy I don't like, as distinct from 'bad comedy' or 'not comedy'.
Do you really think I would of posted that if you hadn't kicked off the use of embarrassingly? Do you actually think I believe that? Really?
Yes, I understand the subjective nature of comedy thank you, no lesson required, but you seem to have made the mistake of assuming that people who post opinions on the internet assume their own view is the only one with validity.
I would have thought you would have grasped by now that when people post "<Insert show here> isn't funny" they do actually mean it's not funny to them and shouldn't be misconstrued as "as the self appointed arbiter of all things comedy I hereby proclaim this non-comedy!". You do understand that? Right?
I was a willing participant until barrowboy was brought on.
Then it became clear the type of audience they were after.
I'm not that audience. Good luck to them.
I thought I was rather good and will watch the next episode.
The best all girl troupe since French and Saunders.
I liked the original eyebrow sketch, and the Darling sketches.
On the downside they did borrow from French and Saunders in places. (Period Drama spoof/Rivaly between the girls and Barrowman) and also Eric and Ernie (The musical fInale with a guest star and a song wot I wrote)
There has been some dreafull 'all girl' comedy recently which gives ammo to the usual misoghonists on the forums. But remember the Young Ones and Fawlty Towers both had female writing partners.
These two could be quite good if they had worked long enough in the comedy circuit to 'hone' their craft. It seemed to me that they have been given a chance and they are just not ready for it. The BBC never learn.
The trouble is, IMO, comedians think because they have appeared at the Fringe and gone reasonably well to a drunken self interested market they are good enough to appeal to a wider audience and these two just aren't.
Alison Graham in the Radio Times didn't seem to enamoured either, she said so in a very roundabout way.
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Awful, just awful.
forget about that..shouldn't have even got passed the script stage
Kaiserbee, don't think you've met our good friend Digital Spy forums. Oh they're fantastic, people can use them to pass comment on television shows and everfink. They're magic.
The material was a bit patchy, but considering it's the first episode of a sketch show, it was a lot stronger than I expected, and the main performances carried it through.
(And, as always, remember that anybody saying that it was objectively unfunny or 'not comedy' can be ignored as embarrassingly solipsistic.)
Tell you what, why not just copy and paste that for
every
single
post
you make on here?
It'd save you a lot of time and you could maybe take up a hobby.
Do you have bring your rabid right wing politics into every thread? White men often make bad programmes as well you know. Did you see the Royal Bodyguard?
Like the endless stream of quality programming produced by ITV?
Or that the people who liked it are embarrassingly easily pleased maybe?
Thank you for proving my point.
It's OK if you fancy the brunette one, she was kind of cute.
Cause and effect.
Any how have I mentioned this in every thread? I only mentioned it previously on the thread which I started in broadcasting.
Don't worry I won't be commenting on this programme anymore as I won't be watching it.
Go on then, explain to me why my expressing an opinion "can be ignored as embarrassingly solipsistic"?
Certainly - you believe than somebody who finds something funny when you do not must therefore be 'embarrassingly easily pleased'.
You have misunderstood the subjective nature of comedy and assumed that only you can judge a universal constant of humour.
I could produce a list of comedy shows I don't like, but am aware that they are comedy I don't like, as distinct from 'bad comedy' or 'not comedy'.
Yes, I understand the subjective nature of comedy thank you, no lesson required, but you seem to have made the mistake of assuming that people who post opinions on the internet assume their own view is the only one with validity.
I would have thought you would have grasped by now that when people post "<Insert show here> isn't funny" they do actually mean it's not funny to them and shouldn't be misconstrued as "as the self appointed arbiter of all things comedy I hereby proclaim this non-comedy!". You do understand that? Right?
Then it became clear the type of audience they were after.
I'm not that audience. Good luck to them.
The best all girl troupe since French and Saunders.
I liked the original eyebrow sketch, and the Darling sketches.
On the downside they did borrow from French and Saunders in places. (Period Drama spoof/Rivaly between the girls and Barrowman) and also Eric and Ernie (The musical fInale with a guest star and a song wot I wrote)
There has been some dreafull 'all girl' comedy recently which gives ammo to the usual misoghonists on the forums. But remember the Young Ones and Fawlty Towers both had female writing partners.
The trouble is, IMO, comedians think because they have appeared at the Fringe and gone reasonably well to a drunken self interested market they are good enough to appeal to a wider audience and these two just aren't.
Alison Graham in the Radio Times didn't seem to enamoured either, she said so in a very roundabout way.