Synopsis
An animated interstitial segment for a BBC pilot based on a 1970s animation company in Soho, London
Production Details
Client
Feelgood Fiction/BBC
Ed Talfan/Squint Films
Production Company
Music
Library
Talent
Sheridan Smith (voice)
Warning - rather rude.
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Written by ANDREW MACKINTOSH & JULIUS NICHOLSON and produced by Feelgood Fiction, this was an animated element for a live action comedy set around the antics of a 1970s animation studio in London.
This was used in the read-through, part of the commissioning process with BBC3 and constituted a dream sequence halfway through the episode.
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The actors in the read through were superb including a pre-Dr Who Matt Smith, Sheridan Smith and Christopher Biggins of all people!
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I simply cannot understand the commissioning process though.
It was a really innovative, very funny, very well acted show with some great characters and a brilliantly unique concept and setting. Needless to say it didn't get commissioned.
Typically the main point of criticism was that it needed to be updated and more contemporary.
So a show set around the 70s advertising world wont work will it?
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Of course not.
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Don't be silly.
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Here is the animatic if it is of interest.
Masters of the Tooniverse
BBC Comedy pitch