Comments on: Biffovision: kids’ television gone a bit mental

By: Jonathan Deamer

Jonathan Deamer — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 16:10:24 +0000

Thanks for the comments folks – seems like there are plenty of different views on Biffovision.

TVsecret’iser: I loved Digitiser too! I know what you mean about the wordiness though; it didn’t bother me, but I can see how it would strain some people’s attention span.

Jemima: Alive and kicking!

Aiden: Cheers for the link.

Amos: It’s very British humour, which may explain why it didn’t appeal to you. We’re a crazy bunch…

Dan: Yep, from my old blog…

By: Dan

Dan — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 11:32:46 +0000

You know Jemima as well? Bloody hell!

By: amos

amos — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 05:08:30 +0000

yeah, i got your comment over at mostbloggers ,,, and you’re right – maybe we should begin a sp@m book of verse or something? maybe not… i certainly remember bloody awful poetry … glad to see ur writing again. my comment on this post is that i am experiencing a small twinge in my gut … as i know that bbc leftovers soon become long running sit coms on US tv … concerning this one … i dread the day. though we did have pee wee’s playhouse which might count towards countering the attempt for yet another US rip off of UK tv – naaah, it’ll happen.

i do the myblog.com thing … i don’t get points or nothing for suggesting you come along for the ride … it’s been decently cool to use: http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/members/amos/ so, consider this an invite.

peac4d.
amos dettonville

By: Aiden

Aiden — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 03:42:00 +0000

Hey, it’s good to see you back! I’ll put this link up on my site.

Love this article.

By: jemima

jemima — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 21:13:11 +0000

Sounds excellent. I’m all for sustained weirdness.

Good to know you’re still alive, btw.

By: tvsecret'iser

tvsecret'iser — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 11:52:20 +0000

Thanks for the comments – each to their own… it was just that I so loved Digitiser, as did most of the people I work with – we all met working on tv shows about video games, and I used to be a games programmer. Anyway, I was really looking forward to Biffovision. And I just didn’t enjoy it.

I think it was very wordy, in a way tv isn’t, so the parody/spoof element just didn’t work. I stand by what I said about the cast – they weren’t the best. I see what you mean when you say it wasn’t a spoof as such but any show that takes the Saturday morning kids magazine format as a basis at least has an element of spoofism. If it went somewhere else with it, great, but I don’t think it did.

Pilots are damn hard to get right – I’ve made quite a few… oddly the ones that went down the best with viewers/focus groups/friends etc. were the least popular with the broadcasters who commissioned them. But I simply can’t really imagine a series coming off this one. And I think the way it seemed to sneak on air says to me the Beeb aren’t that bothered.

As I said, I pitched a similar idea, although mine was more like Larry Sanders, Drop the Dead Donkey or Studio 60 in that it went behind the scenes a bit as well – more backstory/sitcom/plot to sustain a series.