I don't know if this has been brought up before but That Mitchell And Webb Look
Series 2 is on early next year, here is a taste of what is to come and the link:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2007/12_december/19/mitchell_webb.shtml
 

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I think episode 6 will be funny.
 

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Nice to see it back.....loved the first series. Wow, there's a lot of decent comedy on soon........Fonejacker Xmas special, Not Going Out xmas special, new series of Mitchell & Webb, Harry Hill's Xmas TV Burp, Friday Night Project xmas special.
 

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I'm excited... the new series of That Mitchell and Webb look starts tomorrow. The show took some flak last year because it apparently did not live up to the hype, but in hindsight I think it was actually one of the best sketch shows we've seen for years. Little gems like the green clarinet, the skulls on caps, the bananna dance and the two sherlocks - setups other lesser sketch shows would have repeated ad infinitum till they became boring (Catherine Tate anyone?). But with Mitchell and Webb these sketches remain brilliant one-offs.

In fact apparently only three of the setups from series one will be appearing in this new series (Numberwang, Sir Digby, The Lazy Writers) - and that's only because those characters are being taken to new places (I hear The Numberwang Code is particularly good!)

To get you warmed up, here's a clip of their new footy sketch...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MusyO7J2inM

And some photos from the new series






 

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Mark
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I am excited too!

I don't love every single sketch, but there are so many that hardly matters.
Some of their sketches are just pure genius.

I love them!
 

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I echo zooo.

Also, why the fuck is this in the sitcoms forum? Moving!
 

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Aaron
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(Half man, half Internet, half TV.)
(Loyal follower of The Magical Aura of Laura.)

 

I'll give the new series another go but I don't hold out great hope. I'm a huge fan of these on radio (though series 3 did dip) but I just don't think it's carried over. I believe they're keeping Numberwang which is a disaster IMO. It has got no legs.

They had two detectives on the radio (which I presume could be the ones pictured). They only used them sporadically but they were good fun.
 

Yes David, read Mark's post above (re Numberwang).
 

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Aaron
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Can't wait for the 2nd series. Some of their sketches are the nearest thing we've had to a Big Train type of series (not that suprising as they wrote for Big Train). I hope, as they intend to, that they go on for many years, especially as I'd like to write for them when I grow up.
 

Really looking forward to this, M and W do good, clever, silly sketches and dont hammer them into the ground by repeating them week after week. In some ways they are more suited to radio, but the tv version is still great, and I think this second series might see a step up from series 1.
 

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This thread is surprisingly quiet given that the new run of this started last night.
 

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Go on then! Say something funny! Go on!
 

I missed it too. Hellooooooooo Mr. Download.
 

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Aaron
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I fear then gentlemen that you haven't really missed an awful lot. One or two nice moments but an awful lot of guff IMO.
 

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Abysmal. Absolutely abysmal. You can't believe the difference between radio and TV. There is so much padding in the show it's untrue.

I read in an interview that they wanted footage of a Sky Sports football game so they could do a voiceover previewing the action (something they did on radio). But the cost of the action would have taken up the full budget of the series so instead Mitchell walked round an empty Loftus Road (QPR's ground) and they had some extras with football shirts on. If they couldn't do what they wanted they should have scrapped the sketch altogether.

Complete and utter waste of half an hour. And to think I recommended them to people saying they were funny.
 

It certainly wasn't perfect, but I found it enjoyable and thought there were quite a few very funny sketches. The seveneties innuendo sketch, the innappropiate reconstruction, the boy with an arse for a face and the final job interview sketch were all excellent. Yes, there were a few bum notes, but it was still head and shoulders above most recent sketch shows.