Here's some clips from this new BBC3 sketch show which starts towards the end of the month... http://www.comedy.co.uk/guide/tv/the_wrong_door/videos/

The computer animation must have cost a bomb, and is very impressive in places - but overall I wonder whether a lot of the humour is going to have been pushed aside by the technical trickery. Guess we'll have to wait and see.
 

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Mark
British Comedy Guide Editor
 

I heard a bit about this when I was doing this TVYP thing at Edinburgh.
According to the woman I spoke to, it doesn't cost very much at all. You can see why it wouldn't, you can do that kind of post production stuff wuth one guy and a laptop these days.

I liked the sketch, especially the way it pulled it's punchlines by going for the mundane reactions.
 

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One day I'll update this website... Oh wait, I just did.
 

The new website can do video!

Hmmm, I think the effects were there to compensate for the lack of jokes - those were the best sketches!? I can't believe Matt Berry didn't even make it funny.
 

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I saw the date one.

I would be thoroughly embarassed to have written that, and would expect a severe drubbing if I put it on critique.

Oh well plan B mutant baboon army to take over the world.
 

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Also known as "The Brainus"
The ASDA of satire.
I'm the Johnny Morris of an invisible zoo of nonsense.
 

Just saw a trailer clip for this on BBC3. A restuarant "Death By Chocolate" gag which I would disown my 9 year old daughters for writing.
 

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"One of the kindest things you can say about Jim Davidson as a fellow comic is he's not a performer who is troubled by the possibility of duality of meaning." Stewart Lee

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I can't wait to see this, BSGer Phill Barron is on the writing team for this so lets all give it a watch.
 

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Quote: ContainsNuts @ August 15 2008, 9:08 PM BST

I can't wait to see this, BSGer Phill Barron is on the writing team for this so lets all give it a watch.

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I hope the trailer is not representative of the whole. I'm dying to see a sketch show I really like. And congrats to Phil
 

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"One of the kindest things you can say about Jim Davidson as a fellow comic is he's not a performer who is troubled by the possibility of duality of meaning." Stewart Lee

Me On That Facebook Thing That Used To Be Fashionable So I Hear
 

The guy who plays the waiter in that death by chocolate sketch is great.

Can't remember his name though.
 

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Aaron
BCG Editor
Half man, half Internet, half TV.

 

I can wait to see it!

I don't hold Phill responsible if it is awful though. Well done on getting another TV credit.
 

Quote: Winterlight @ August 15 2008, 11:00 PM BST

I don't hold Phill responsible if it is awful though.

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Oh, I do.
 

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Quote: ContainsNuts @ August 15 2008, 11:05 PM BST

Oh, I do.

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Me too. I take full responsibility for all the good bits.
 

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The Wrong Door starts tonight then (10:30pm).

I've now watched the first episode and to be fair to the show, the trailers haven't done it justice. It's not boring like they made it look, it's actually a highly inventive show which held my attention through-out. Whether it's actually funny though is another matter - I was entertained by all the clever ideas and CGI, but I didn't laugh much (I found the 'annoying thing' cute, is that wrong?).

They've clearly spent an absolute packet on the project. Not only is there all that movie-standard CGI in the show, but check out the official website - I think it's the most detailed and high-budget official site for a British comedy that I've ever seen: http://www.bbc.co.uk/wrongdoor/

And congratulations Phill - I've discovered which sketches were yours and, I have to say, getting to write for those actors (well, two of them) is fantastic. I'm a particularly big fan of A.M. (Have you said which sketches are yours yet? I'm not sure if I needed to be cryptic here or not!).
 

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Mark
British Comedy Guide Editor
 

Is this the one with the dinosaur sketch?
 

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Everything should have a bobble on it
 

Cool website.
 

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Putters Lite.
 

Quote: Mark @ August 28 2008, 12:49 AM BST

I'm a particularly big fan of A.M.

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Ooooh, would he be off T.T.O.I.? If so, me too.

Hee. Being (probably) needlessly cryptic is fun.
 

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