I just thinkthat the humour doesn't translate very well. I find the TV Go Home website pretty funny, but watching it on telly was an ordeal and a half. I only watched the first 2.
TV is made for the lowest common denominator most of the time, it's passive. Hence the popularity of Eastenders, Millionaire etc. Whereas good internet humour is very hard to find, and usually only seen by people who are determined to seek it out. So when they try to port it over to TV, they have to dumb it down. This loses everything that made it funny in the first place.
Re-reading that, I'm not sure if that makes any sense. Ahhh. To early in the morning.
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Thu 24 Jan 2002, 7:10,
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TV is made for the lowest common denominator most of the time, it's passive. Hence the popularity of Eastenders, Millionaire etc. Whereas good internet humour is very hard to find, and usually only seen by people who are determined to seek it out. So when they try to port it over to TV, they have to dumb it down. This loses everything that made it funny in the first place.
Re-reading that, I'm not sure if that makes any sense. Ahhh. To early in the morning.
TV is not its own masterNo swearing, nothing in potentially bad taste etc. Look at the furore over the Blue Jam Special - which was mild as a korma. On the net, you're free to experiment. Besides, TV's controlled by unfunny wankers who don't give a crap about the programming as long as they get their precious ad revenue.
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Cedarsave,
Thu 24 Jan 2002, 7:31,
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