The first recording today starts with the end of The Restaurant.
There’s a trail for a new series of Spooks which got me quite excited.
And a trail for The Peter Serafinowicz Show.
Then, the first episode of The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle.
Jennifer Saunders plays Vivienne Vyle, host of a Jeremy Kyle style tabloid confrontation show.
They’ve got the unfortunate hair of participants right.
The man gets so angry at being told he’s not the father of his son that he starts attacking Vivienne, and then a security guard falls off stage on top of her.
Her husband is played by Conleth Hill off of Game of Thrones.
Miranda Richardson plays her director, Helena.
Jason Watkins plays Jonathan Fowler, a psychologist at the hospital.
Vivienne’s staircase looks terrifying. She and Jared are arguing about Oprah. She says “Anyway, I haven’t got that kind of ego” as she walks up past the huge picture of her face.
Fern Britton stands in for Vivienne while she’s recovering.
Vivienne is back, but Helena has hired the psychologist from the hospital to help vet the people on the show.
A young runner, Abigail, was fired by Helena after Vivienne’s incident, but she comes in to return a letter from the sperm bank holding her dead husband’s sperm. Vivienne had given it to her to look after before the incident on the show and might have been very sensitive if the newspapers got hold of it. So Vivienne reverses her firing.
The show resumes with its usual restrained and tasteful subject matter.
Vivienne and Jared visit her sperm. It’s a deeply moving moment until she stouches it and her fingers freeze on to it.
Media Centre Description: Dark sitcom about a daytime talk show. Ratings for the Vivienne Vyle Show soar when a guest punches Vivienne, so the producer is inspired to feature increasingly extreme guests and subject matter.
Recorded from BBC TWO on Thursday 4th October 2007 20:58
BBC Genome: BBC TWO Thursday 4th October 2007 21:00
The next recording follows straight on, with a trail for The Tudors.
Then, the first episode of The Peter Serafinowicz Show.
There’s an ad for Elvene One-hair Shampoo. The shampoo for men with only one hair.
Holmes and Watson getting over friendly.
Entertainment News, and the Oscar statuette has been redesigned, complete with an erect penis, by a controversial artist. I do like his fan-baiting t-shirt.
His Alan Alda impression is really good.
Sarah Alexander (also Mrs Serafinowicz) plays Madonna.
He does Ralph Feinnes as Rigsby from Rising Damp.
The Clone House big brother is a little dull, but cleverly done.
The first of many Brian Butterfield adverts.
Michael Caine gives an acting masterclass.
He plays a clip of a movie he did with Bob Hoskins, played by Paul Putner.
Derek Bum demonstrates the Kitchen Gun.
Uh oh. In a sketch about getting married, he misgenders a transwoman. He’d better be careful he’s not cancelled. Weird that that’s the second trans character in subsequent shows. It’s the present leaking into the past again.
I spoke too soon. In the sketch with Michael-6 the robot talk show host, the secret that a woman has to tell her boyfriend of six months is that she’s got a penis.
“Elephants and Trains magazine”
“but let me just say that these are extremely low quality items that do cost far less than that to produce. I mean, we’re talking pennies, really, aren’t we?” “Yes, we are.” “That’s the Diamonelle Earrings 448202. Absolutely rank.”
His Chris Tarrant impression is uncanny, in “Heads or Tails”. Didn’t that become an actual Ant & Dec show?
Pirate Chat.
Media Centre Description: Fast-paced sketch show in which Peter Serafinowicz and friends send up the best and worst of today’s television. This programme introduces the UK’s most incompetent lawyer, plus Michael Caine teaches a group of students how to act, Chris Tarrant hosts the exciting new game show Heads or Tails, and a robot talk-show host tries to solve human problems.
Recorded from BBC TWO on Thursday 4th October 2007 21:30
BBC Genome: BBC TWO Thursday 4th October 2007 21:30
The next recording is another episode of That Mitchell and Webb Look. I’ve looked at this one on its previous showing.
Media Centre Description: Comedy sketch show starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb. The world’s earliest forensic detectives believe that they may be up against the perfect crime. Sir Digby ends up in prison, and the snooker commentators discuss depression and reveal the special secret snooker words to Lady In Red in a grand musical finale.
Recorded from BBC TWO on Thursday 4th October 2007 22:00
BBC Genome: BBC TWO Thursday 4th October 2007 22:00
The final recording is episode three of Porterhouse Blue. I’ve written a little bit about this. Features a guest appearance by Griff Rhys Jones as a chat show host.
Zipser, the supposed intellectual, decides the best way to get rid of hundreds of condoms is to fill them with gas (from his fire) and put them up the chimney. Not sure this would really work, given that natural gas is heavier than air.
He does, however, finally get Mrs Biggs in bed.
Sadly, the gas filled condoms in the chimney explode, and the hall is wrecked, and they’re both killed.
Media Centre Description: An award-winning dramatisation of Tom Sharpe’s satire centred on a naive undergraduate’s experiences at a college hidebound by tradition. Zipser emerges from a drunken stupor with four gross of contraceptives. Skullion’s attempts to clear up the problem are revealing.
Recorded from More 4 on Thursday 4th October 2007 23:33
After this, the recording stops with the start of Without a Trace.
Here’s the ad breaks in Porterhouse Blue.
Adverts:
- Cillit Bang
- SCS
- Closer
- Kate Walsh – Tim’s House
- Tefal Hot Water Dispenser
- Currys
- Cerco
- trail: Friends
- trail: Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip
- PC World
- Colgate
- Onken
- Dettol
- Macmillan Cancer Support
- Co-op
- Nationwide Sun Awnings – John Stalker
- IBM
- Seat Leon
- Get Set for Digital
- Innocent Smoothies
- Comet
- Marks & Spencer
- Duke Special – Songs from the Deep Forest
- Mr Brooks in cinemas
- Hellmann’s
- Mazda 2
- Air Wick
- Marks & Spencer
- British Heart Foundation
- And When Did You Last See Your Father? in cinemas
- Chemical Brothers – We Are The Night
- Stressless
- Samsung
- trail: Dispatches: China’s Stolen Children
