A parody of educational programs. Just don't believe anything in the show is true.A parody of educational programs. Just don't believe anything in the show is true.A parody of educational programs. Just don't believe anything in the show is true.
- Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award
- 2 wins & 3 nominations total
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- TriviaIn the "Pages From Ceefax" extra, the "News in Morse" says: "Government finally caved in from pressure from local residents associations and clamped down on market traders who set up their stalls before six a.m. The traders, known as "vebs" (very early birds) will have to comply with local authority regulations, or face a mandatory jail sentence of twelve years, ten of which must be spent in confinement, the remaining two strapped to a brass wheel."
- ConnectionsFeatured in The BAFTA TV Awards 2003 (2003)
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Tomorrow comes today.
I've written reviews for each season of "Look Around You", as they are very different.
I did watch bits of Peter Serafinowicz and Robert Popper's cult series when it first aired but having seen it mentioned as being on the iPlayer, I decided to give it a proper go. Whilst I think it had its moments, this first season wasn't quite as funny as I was hoping it would be.
A series of ten-minute episodes, affectionately mocking the educational television shows produced for schools in the 1980's. Each episode is themed on a particular subject and contains "facts" about that subject and a series of experiments around it. The episode encourages students to make notes on certain sections and to hand in their workbooks at the end.
This second season is a spoof of "Tomorrow's World" a science and technology show that aired in the UK in the 1970s and 80s. Hosted by Peter Packard (Peter Serafinowicz), Jack Morgan (Robert Popper), Pealy Maghti (Josie D'Arby) and Pam Bachelor (Olivia Colman), the show introduces modern marvels of the technical age, whilst working towards the live finale, and the Invention of the year competition.
So, there's lots about the episode that I did like. It's very authentic to the period it's aping - so much so I wonder exactly how much is stock footage from the time and how much is new. Serefinowicz and Popper appear in the episode as the scientists undertaking the experiments and various disasters befall them, depending on what the experiment is about. Those and the occasionally nonsense fact put forward can be funny - but what I was hoping for was more playing with the form as the series ran on. It doesn't unfortunately, and the standard elements of each episode remain the same throughout.
The shift to half hour shows, and to spoofing a slightly more recognisable format was, for me, a good one. It's all slightly more traditional in its comedy, with character work and running gags, though still with a surreal twist that is right up my alley. I felt that this season was much funnier overall than the first. Aside from the four principal presenters, each episode has guest stars and those are a litany of comedy royalty. Kevin Eldon, Mark Heap, Benedict Wong, Matt Lucas, Sarah Alexander, Paul Putner, Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost all appear. The parody extends a bit beyond the show, with spoof idents and trailers.
I'd have certainly watch another season of the show in this format, although this was all she wrote for the show and I hope that it finds a wider audience with it's new home on the IPlayer.
I did watch bits of Peter Serafinowicz and Robert Popper's cult series when it first aired but having seen it mentioned as being on the iPlayer, I decided to give it a proper go. Whilst I think it had its moments, this first season wasn't quite as funny as I was hoping it would be.
A series of ten-minute episodes, affectionately mocking the educational television shows produced for schools in the 1980's. Each episode is themed on a particular subject and contains "facts" about that subject and a series of experiments around it. The episode encourages students to make notes on certain sections and to hand in their workbooks at the end.
This second season is a spoof of "Tomorrow's World" a science and technology show that aired in the UK in the 1970s and 80s. Hosted by Peter Packard (Peter Serafinowicz), Jack Morgan (Robert Popper), Pealy Maghti (Josie D'Arby) and Pam Bachelor (Olivia Colman), the show introduces modern marvels of the technical age, whilst working towards the live finale, and the Invention of the year competition.
So, there's lots about the episode that I did like. It's very authentic to the period it's aping - so much so I wonder exactly how much is stock footage from the time and how much is new. Serefinowicz and Popper appear in the episode as the scientists undertaking the experiments and various disasters befall them, depending on what the experiment is about. Those and the occasionally nonsense fact put forward can be funny - but what I was hoping for was more playing with the form as the series ran on. It doesn't unfortunately, and the standard elements of each episode remain the same throughout.
The shift to half hour shows, and to spoofing a slightly more recognisable format was, for me, a good one. It's all slightly more traditional in its comedy, with character work and running gags, though still with a surreal twist that is right up my alley. I felt that this season was much funnier overall than the first. Aside from the four principal presenters, each episode has guest stars and those are a litany of comedy royalty. Kevin Eldon, Mark Heap, Benedict Wong, Matt Lucas, Sarah Alexander, Paul Putner, Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost all appear. The parody extends a bit beyond the show, with spoof idents and trailers.
I'd have certainly watch another season of the show in this format, although this was all she wrote for the show and I hope that it finds a wider audience with it's new home on the IPlayer.
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