Two series, in fact, which are distictly different. The first series is about 8 or 9 episodes (I forget) of about 15 minutes in length, with a double-length pilot, "Calcium." (Beware Helvetica!)
The second series is radically different, but at least as funny. It's most like that Aussie show "Beyond 2000," though considerably lower in budget, featuring mainly a limbo set and scheduled in an alternate-reality version of some BBC channel, and is 30 minutes long. They are, in short, technology-themed magazine shows-- much less 3-2-1 Contact than the first series.
The unnamed scientist in the first season's demonstrations, as well as "Jack" (featured in the linked episode and a couple others), and furthermore the student who is turning in his notebook all appear on the second season, as well as several others. (The student I mention was also in "Shawn of the Dead"-- did you see him? He's Simon Pegg's roommate.)
The second season also features some amazing "Inventions of the Week" which are competing for some prize I forget, to be presented by Prince Charles! It's very exciting!
one of those omnibus patch panels. I didn't even realize there was a commercial synth that had one.
I would just like to reiterate that,
unless the music is stopped now, the human race, mumbling, snapping its fingers, and twitching its hips, will sink back into an amoebic state where it will take a coagulation of hundreds of teenagers to make up a single unit of vital force, which, once formed, will only live on sedatives, consume itself on the terraces of football stadia, and die.
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Date: 2007-10-02 02:19 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-02 02:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-02 03:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-05 04:17 am (UTC)The second series is radically different, but at least as funny. It's most like that Aussie show "Beyond 2000," though considerably lower in budget, featuring mainly a limbo set and scheduled in an alternate-reality version of some BBC channel, and is 30 minutes long. They are, in short, technology-themed magazine shows-- much less 3-2-1 Contact than the first series.
The unnamed scientist in the first season's demonstrations, as well as "Jack" (featured in the linked episode and a couple others), and furthermore the student who is turning in his notebook all appear on the second season, as well as several others. (The student I mention was also in "Shawn of the Dead"-- did you see him? He's Simon Pegg's roommate.)
The second season also features some amazing "Inventions of the Week" which are competing for some prize I forget, to be presented by Prince Charles! It's very exciting!
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Date: 2007-10-02 12:03 pm (UTC)I always wanted
Date: 2007-10-03 10:21 pm (UTC)I would just like to reiterate that,
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Date: 2007-10-04 12:31 pm (UTC)