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# We have a chance of getting a TV show....
I was talking to a TV production company today who asked if we could put together a load of stuff that might be suitable for a TV show. Preferably vaguely topical (though that's not absolutely necessary), animations, gags, video, whatever. They want a load of stuff by mid next week, on the basis that we're a bunch of creative nutters with ideas, and they could then worry themselves about whether it could be turned into a viable format for a series. If anyone wants to have a crack, email me at [email protected] or just do some shit and whack it up here. Anyone in? This is very much up in the air, but there's a possibility we may be able to make it work if the ideas are good enough. Woo!
(I helped save b3ta! crab_bloke), Tue 5 Mar 2002, 6:32, archived)
# big woo indeed
look out TV land the b3tans are coming. Tell em to look at the Daily Reckless and look out for Fat Boab stuff up here and in your postbox soon old chap. Sterling work, pincer person.
(I helped save b3ta! Fat Boab of dailyreckless.com fame, Tue 5 Mar 2002, 6:42, archived)
# Animatiooooooonnnnn!
Would be cool to do some b3ta style animation 4 tv free from the resrictions of the animated git. Flash output onto video looks very cool. watch this space. well not this space, a space a little higher up the board.
(I helped save b3ta! big daft dave, Tue 5 Mar 2002, 6:49, archived)
# Good stuff
Let's get some quality shit together. It's about ideas at this stage- in their words production values would have to be "shifted up a gear" for broadcast, but it's def the content that counts. See southpark, jackass etc- "underground" feel is good. Woo. infact, woo x 2.
(I helped save b3ta! crab_bloke), Tue 5 Mar 2002, 6:58, archived)
# what we need
is dancing girls... in white bikinis and polar bear heads andthen a lead guy in full posh suit with tails and a penguin for a head - not a penguin head but a whole penguin instead of a head -they can do one of them old fashion dance routines set to hardcore thrash w3rd!!
(scabby dog, Tue 5 Mar 2002, 7:03, archived)
# sounds like a good idea
gorilla film making.

if i have some free time i'll see if i can get somthing done.
(I helped save b3ta! Thor_sonofodin has done things, terrible things on, Tue 5 Mar 2002, 6:44, archived)
# Crab Bloke on Telly ...
Will we be seeing Cliff and Diana on the telly, then?
(Jools, Tue 5 Mar 2002, 6:45, archived)
# And
Deity Gangbang!
(I helped save b3ta! vulga is a foul mouthed cunt, Tue 5 Mar 2002, 6:50, archived)
# that could fucking rule
if i had any ability i'd help but i don't, so best of luck.
(I helped save b3ta! mikeisbrill, Tue 5 Mar 2002, 6:53, archived)
# Could we call it "WOO TV"?
...in an "incomprehensible-to-most-of-the-world" pun on the U2 title?

Total class if it happens. You have inspired me to hit the Photoshop hard as soon as my big deadline for this week is over...
(I helped save b3ta! chaotic_illuminator proud spacehopperist, Tue 5 Mar 2002, 7:01, archived)
# I am up for it, have dabbled in video/TV in me time
I must urge extreme caution, TV types = v-bad, look what they have done to TVgoHome etc. They have advertising to sell to make money and a certain level of nutterness and they will back off or try to water it down.

No Watering Down!! should be the slogan at all time. Or we risk being another dotcomedy fronted by Gail fucking Porter
(I helped save b3ta! bazman, Tue 5 Mar 2002, 7:15, archived)
# unless
it is a mutant Gail Porter-Bear
(I helped save b3ta! bazman, Tue 5 Mar 2002, 7:27, archived)
# It needs to be legal
This is the only real problem- we can be as stupid as we like with what we come up with as long as no-one gets sued.
(I helped save b3ta! crab_bloke), Tue 5 Mar 2002, 7:36, archived)
# wooo
can there be celery involved, please!
(I helped save b3ta! bazman, Tue 5 Mar 2002, 7:37, archived)
# and
my Barbra Streisland robbing banks idea I should shelve then I suppose
(I helped save b3ta! bazman, Tue 5 Mar 2002, 7:42, archived)
# Off to the zoo then
to snap some polar bear pictures.
(I helped save b3ta! izb posting occasional messages since 2001, Tue 5 Mar 2002, 7:44, archived)
# dot comedy
ive been trying to remember the name of that show - how fucking bad was that programme!! aaaahhh!1 b3ta show should never ever be like that cack - b3ta seems like it should be more on the lines of an updated version of terry gilliam madness etc
(scabby dog, Tue 5 Mar 2002, 7:57, archived)
# Exactly
it's been done badly a few times- this is our chance to redress the balance. "guerilla creativity" is the name of the game.
(I helped save b3ta! crab_bloke), Tue 5 Mar 2002, 7:59, archived)
# Marvellous
I'll get me thinking cap on and see what i can come up with... Possibly a picture of me with a cap on that says "thinking" on it... Maybe that's only good enough for dotcomedy?
(I helped save b3ta! vulga is a foul mouthed cunt, Tue 5 Mar 2002, 8:02, archived)
# I met the producer of that show.
He said that the pilot wasn't crap, and that it was ruined by C4s commissioning editors.
(I helped save b3ta! rob, Tue 5 Mar 2002, 8:01, archived)
# exactly my point
they are spider babys the lot of them, we should set traps
(I helped save b3ta! bazman, Tue 5 Mar 2002, 8:11, archived)
# How long a show?
I was just thinking that a short show would be better than a long one. Unnovations, for example, is pretty awful and unfunny on the TV, because it's dragged out far too long.
The perfect show (IMO) would just be a rolling gallery of b3ta images, with the theme tune to the Take Hart gallery in the background. And that's all. That way you'd still pick up on running themes in the pictures, which is half the joke.
I'm not sure that animations would work as well on the TV, since animation isn't all that difficult on TV anyway. There are notable exceptions though, such as the Davros/Stephen Hawking one (and yesterday's rickets sisters animation).
(I helped save b3ta! KQ, Tue 5 Mar 2002, 10:13, archived)