BBC redeemed for another year
Armando Ianucci’s new show Time Trumpet starts tonight (BBC2, 10pm). If the clips available on the website are anything to go by it’s going to be this year’s reason to pay the licence fee.
Needless to say the Daily Heil isn’t amused, thus providing another reason to tune in.
(Via the Heil’s del.icio.us feed as found by Chris.)
Posted on August 3rd, 2006 at 4:47 pm
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It certainly looks funny, and has really got them upset
Very British though, supporting free speech and displaying an odd sense of humour which gets MPs all worked up, what could be more traditional?
I’m sure we’ll have people standing up to condemn it without having seen it.
I particularly dislike David Davies’s attempt to bring the 7th of July victims into it. Don’t people ever think that perhaps the victims are individual people capable of saying what they think and don’t need condescending politicians trying to tell us what they might think?
“To add authenticity to the clips - which appeared on the internet yesterday in what appeared to be a cynical attempt to drum up publicity …” Wow, well I look forward to condemnations of appearances on Richard and Judy, advertising, any involvement the paper has with Max Clifford. To the right of the article is a picture of Mrs Beckham and the strapline: ‘Is Posh’s short back and sides a cut too far?’ But the Daily Mail would never publish ‘a cynical attempt to drum up publicity’ would it?
Personally, I wouldn’t call ‘The Day Today’ subtle. But it’s the usual Mail fumbling for emotion first and facts second, so if making his older work look better to amnesiac readers by calling it ’subtle’ pleases the editor, that’s what they print.
I thought the Dale Winton exploding bit one of the funniest things ever.
BTW, the Mail comments are class. I never thought I’d see the day when Jim Davidson used ‘Nigel’ as an alias, but on the internet no one knows you’re a washed up comedian.
“This is a sickening reminder of the disgusting unthinking times we live in. I pay my £130 a year so the liberal tree-hugging anti-monarchists sitting in their ivory tower at the BBC can foist this garbage on the citizens of this fine nation? There are some things that CAN’T and SHOULDN’T BE SATIRIZED!
- Stell A. Thy, London”
Impossible to improve.
That’s got to be Ianucci himself, surely?
Just like ‘The Thick of It’, I stuck with ‘Time Trumpet’ for ten minutes or so before I got bored enough to turn over to BBC News’ ‘There’ll Be Tears In Lebanon’ show.
I dunno I thought I was a hip comedy dude, but this sort of stuff and - heretically - Chris Morris (most of his stuff) I find rather dull, tedious… predictable even.
It was much tamer than I expected it to be - perhaps I’m just jaded.
Still, the closing rendition of Ch-ch-ch-Changes courtesy of a splice of Blair and Cameron speeches made me smile.