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 Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2012 4:30 pm Post subject: BBC's new sketch show – with 'real people' |
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Doing away with comedians altogether
| Quote: | BBC Three is piloting a new ‘reality’ sketch show – doing away with comedians all together.
Boom Town will feature ‘real-life characters’ cast from all over the country with their own ‘catchphrases, eccentricities and larger than life personalities’, none of which will be scripted.
It will be set in one fictional town, with all the geographically diverse characters appearing to live there – thanks to cunning establishing shots and fake road signs.
The half-hour pilot follows the success of such ‘scripted reality’ shows as The Only Way Is Essex and Jersey Shore.
The BBC’s executive entertainment editor, Karl Warner, said: ‘Boom Town will be the first sketch show to make stars out of real people.
‘Some of the characters we've already met are laugh-out-loud funny and would sit well in any scripted comedy.
‘BBC Three is always keen to try trying new things and this feels like an original proposition which we're looking forward to making with [production company] Knickerbockerglory.’
Executive producer Jonathan Stadlen added: ‘Using real people to create a documentary sketch show is a unique challenge from a genre point of view, but we are all really excited about working on such a radical departure in terms of form.
‘Boom Town sets out to play on the conventions of the comedy sketch show - and I really hope we can pull it off… to create a very different, and hopefully very funny, new genre of TV.’
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Aaron Twitchen
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| Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2012 5:00 pm Post subject: |
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I went for a very early casting of this. They specifically approached me because I was an actor and comedian. When they told me it was 'sitcom-ality' I politely declined.
Dont be surprised if you recognise faces from the circuit on there. I highly doubt they are all 'real people' |
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mike taylor
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| Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2012 8:34 pm Post subject: |
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| Aaron Twitchen wrote: | I went for a very early casting of this. They specifically approached me because I was an actor and comedian. When they told me it was 'sitcom-ality' I politely declined.
Dont be surprised if you recognise faces from the circuit on there. I highly doubt they are all 'real people' |
Don't take me wrong but do you think they're hoping to get the cast for less than they'd normally pay and virtually get away from paying scriptwriters. I rarely watch telly these days, mostly because of reality shit taking over, I've heard it's generally done because it's cheaper than real comedy, real drama and real documentaries.
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Aaron Twitchen
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| Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2012 8:49 pm Post subject: |
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Quite possibly - they didn't tell me it was reality until I got to the audition, they just said they were looking for actors.
I think it is less about being cheap and more about following trends..... Drama-reality is doing well (essex etc), lets try comedy-reality. The saving money is just a bonus that makes it easier to get aired. |
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