I'd buy that for a dollar

[davywavy]

Highlights of the upcoming Autumn schedules from the BBC

Life on Mars: Following on from his multiple-award winning 'Life on Earth' documentaries (including 'Life in the freezer' and 'Life in Cold Blood'), david Attenborough travels to the red planet where he discovers a selection of miraculously delicate and gentle alien lifeforms, which Gene Hunt stamps on.

Terry and Dune: When Paul Atreides (Terry Scott) and Reverend Mother Mohiam (June Whitfield) move to a semi-detached house next door to Baron Vladimir Harkonnen (John Prescott), hilarity ensures! In tonight's episode Terry brings home a Sandworm from the office, only to have to hide behind the settee it when the Emperor (Richard Wilson) comes to dinner!

Timekickers: A spinoff from the popular 'Bonekickers' and 'Dr. Who' franchises, this new series sees the invention of a time machine at Wessex Univerity allow a group of intrepid archaeologists to traverse history, solving mysteries as they go.
'Timekickers' will display the same quality of writing and subtle political comment displayed by 'Bonekickers'.
Week 1) The team discover that the massacre of Armenians in Turkey in 1912 was actually carried out by the English
Week 2) The team travel to Ethopia in the 1980's and discover that the famine there was caused by the English.
Week 3) The team travel to Chaipas 92,000,000 years ago and discover that the extinction of the dinosaurs was actually caused by the English.
Week 4) The team travel to Aleppo in 1138 where they discover that the Earthquake which killed 230,000 people was actually caused by the English.
Week 5) The team travel to 1347, where they discover that the black death and deaths of 1/3 of the population of Europe was actually caused by the English.
Week 6) The team travel to Judea in 33ad where they discover that Judas Iscariot was actually English.

Comments

[ditzy-pole.livejournal.com]

And then the real Life on Mars production team sue for copywright...

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

To my despair, the Life on Mars people also wrote Bonekickers. Talk about one-hit-wonders.

[ditzy-pole.livejournal.com]

I thought LOM was rather good. The follow up to it (well same category, same team, same idea, different period) was Ashes to Ashes which I didn't think that much of.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Quite so. LOM was one of the best pieces of TV I've seen in years - Ashes to Ashes was mediocre at best. Good ending to the last episode, though.

[ditzy-pole.livejournal.com]

Truth be told I didn't get that far. I was too fed up by then to watch anymore.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

I wanted it to be good. I really did. I wanted Gene Hunt to suddenly go back to be hte comedy Alpha-male god he was in LOM. It just never happened. However, the last 20 minutes of the last episode were great. The preceding 40 minutes of the last episode were bloody terrible, though.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Would you have any good contact names for that sort of thing? I never post my actual good ideas ever since it became clear that the Radio 2 comedy team were nicking my jokes. I just store them for the day I get round to putting a pitch together.

Re: info on there

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Alas, not reallyu.
The thing which has stopped me sending my stuff for consideration is my reluctance to send stuff into a black hole; I'd really like a name because then at elast it'd be going to an actual person rather than a mailbox.

[zenicurean.livejournal.com]

Mark my words, simply by writing this down you will have turned it all into reality by tomorrow. Horrible, horrible reality.

[ash1977law.livejournal.com]

Glorious, glorious reality!

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Well, it'd be better than a lot of stuff which is on.

[gnommi.livejournal.com]

I'd actually be bothered to turn on the TV for Terry and Dune...
So far this year all I've watched on TV is WWE!
Watched a couple of Dr Who on iPlayer.

Dunno why I pay the license fee. Oh yeah, because the TV makes a good bedside table for my futon...

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

I think Terry and Dune would be far the most watchable, in it's surrealist hilarity.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

But why?

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

You can have it for your birthday.

Meanwhile back on the real Beeb....

[the-mendicant.livejournal.com]

...check out my comments here for a great Boris Johnson programme you may have just missed...

http://the-mendicant.livejournal.com/135683.html?view=1308419#t1308419

Re: Meanwhile back on the real Beeb....

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

I saw it at the She-David's. She insisted on watching it, despite being a rabid pinko who does not recognise the wonder of the Hypnoboris.

Re: Meanwhile back on the real Beeb....

[(Anonymous)]

I object to that, David. In the strongest possible terms!

Re: Meanwhile back on the real Beeb....

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Which bit? Or all of it? :)

[ddraiggwyrdd.livejournal.com]

I'd like to see a new slant on the docusoaps. How about "Who do you think you were?"
John Prescott is hypnotised and re-gressed to discover he was previously an errant Nun walled up in a Priory and starved to death.
Jade Goody is re-gressed into a former life as a midwife in 1100, burned at the stake for being too intelligent for the locals to cope with.
Delia Smith finds out she was formally hired as a kitchen servant by the Emperor Nero and died in the arena, kicked to death by two teams of Gladiators, for producing tasteless dishes.
The excuses could be endless.