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BBC Comedy Show to Debut Online
Phil John writes "According to BBC News, the second series of "The Mighty Boosh" will be available to stream from the 19th of July, A full week before starting its run on BBC 3. Quoth the Article: 'It is one of a number of pilots that BBC Television will be undertaking over the next few months, exploiting the opportunities that new technologies offer to look at how programmes might be delivered beyond the traditional linear broadcast.'"
...like with the Beethoven symphonies. Just streaming sucks. And what would really rock is an RSS feed for the shows.
I'm not the biggest fan of the BBC and how they spend public funds, but the way they have leeway to experiment with programming is awesome.
Is it me or is BBC simply the, how can I put this, 'coolest' media corperation on the planet? They already have a massive online presence, they do have podcasts and the list goes on .. and I am not british.
Anyway, I'm thinking about going to watch BBC Food now.
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"The Mighty Boosh, eh?" Odd that they'd base a new show around the current American President.
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
The first season was really innovative and genuinely funny, a good example (along with Brass Eye, Spaced, Peep Show, Nathan Barley etc) of the best wave of British comedy since the Monty Python/Fawlty Towers era.
The Mighty Boosh is a fantastic show. I think you should all watch it and revel in its comical genious!
This just in. Reports are comming in that the BBC has just went completely bankrupt after letting people download a TV show for free.
Kind of a step down from ol' Ludwig van...
It seems that the BBC is more and more in the press recently, pushing innovation in tech and approaches to broadcasting, I for one as a brit paying my bit for the bbc am very glad to see my money being used in a way that I would like to see it being put to use. Certainly the bbc are not the first to offer their shows over the web (i'm thinking in particular of Battlestar galactica in particular as an example of this new phenomenon) but it's excellent to see them embracing it. Also even more importantly The mighty boosh has to be one of the most humourous pieces of comedy I have seen in recent years, well worth tuning in. More info on the boosh here: http://www.themightyboosh.com/
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The Mighty Bush... Sounds like horror to me. Oh, wait a minute, maybe it is British humor. Will the Ronald Reagan and Tip O'Neil muppets be making an appearance?
Hmm BBC 3 is hardly comedy central. I hope they don't think because it worked for Dr Who it will work for anything. Dr Who worked because it was actually good, so everyone told their friends to watch it. If this comedy is as crap as everything else on BBC 3 then surely everyone will just tell their friends not to watch it. I hope I'm wrong though.
So those of you that don't know, the BBC are getting ready for the second trial of it's p2p programme download service - http://www.bbc.co.uk/imp/ Places on the trial still up for grabs!
i do hope it will play in mplayer on xine, i dont really see the point in them locking down the format when we have already paid for the program as the bloody annoying "adverts" keep telling us it is a damn funny show and though i recon they are probably just trying to increase its profile it does signal a new direction in brodcasting
This just helps cement my positive opinions of the BBC...I'm not usually very patriotic, but the BBC makes me want to start running around singing Rule Britannia at the top of my voice and hitting Welshmen with Union Jacks.
By summer it was all gone...now shesmovedon. --
Personally I thought this show worked better on the radio, where I didn't get distracted by extremely low budget. Are British people just used to this sort of production value? No, I'm not being a troll -- I do think it's a very innovative series, but the TV version just didn't hold my interest. It seems like a lot more shows that come from the UK have much lower production values than we're used to seeing in the US. Anyone have any insights as to why there's such a difference?
Sounds like this makes perfect sense after success of the Dr. Who 'Leak'.
"Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest." - Denis Diderot
Good start but how about some classics:
- Faulty Towers
- Mind Your Language
- Black Adder
and others.
And of course Monty Python. I doubt that'll happen anytime soon one can hope.
'the mighty bush' (aka our USA president)
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Apple has shown that a company and the artists can make some dough at this.
The net can serve as a distribution channel, with DRM and the Beeb, or any one else for that matter, can make some dough from this DIRECTLY without having to rely on the availability of some commercial channel who might be willing (for some dough) to carry their shows.
Actually, look for for production companies to test market their shows directly to the internet to figure out if there is any demand.
Who needs some expensive theatre to play a movie for only three weeks when you can stream it on demand directly to the consumer. (I expect that this will really take off for TV shows since most PC monitor resolution exceed TV and you can even download HDTV with the appropriate codecs.)
Yeah! Somebody's finally 'getting it.'
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it's you that doesn't know what he is talking about. it's the RIAA/MPAA/Entertainment Industry's view that if they give entertainment away for free that they can't survive. This proves the opposite. the parent poster was trying to be funny.
Want proof? If you go abroad, take a look at CNN International. It uses British English as an attempt to present theirselves as a neutral news outlet, in a trend that began around the late '90s
The Mighty Boosh is a hilarious, quality TV series. It's slightly off the wall, but it's good to see comedy cover new ground rather than reinvent the old gags.
I'm also proud that the BBC is going to trial the streaming shows, they seem to have been heavily investing in multicast routing with the ISPs to enable delivery. More details about it here: http://support.bbc.co.uk/multicast/
If anything, you need to watch it to see just how good Vinces' hair is!
You forgot the bit about:
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ignore and even offend commercial companies freely, because they don't own you, the people do
The BBC's one of the few particularly good things about Britain. I'd personally be happier to stop wasting money on advertising and enforcing the license fee, and just have it funded from the government instead. The editorial position can be kept independed as it is now regardless.
But yes, don't insult our Beeb. If we didn't have that, we'd all be Minnesotans!
i think (read: imho) they're just picking up on the popularity of battlestar galactica with "the online community" before it aired on sci-fi channel at primetime. (i think it was sky-one before that).
cool way to get a bunch of geeks to check out something (boosh) they may not have bothered with otherwise.
my 0.02 euro.
The US had many very "rural" areas where the only outside connection (aside from satellite TV) was the telephone that sat atop a pole outside (green acres joke). Those areas didn't get much in the way of TV reception but could usually rely on their being a PBS signal that would usually be watchable. PBS was "free" of adverts and actually showed a great deal of BBC shows. Dr. Who, Keeping up appearances, Faulty Towers, Are you being served, and many other great shows were aired on PBS. The way PBS got their funding was to interrupt a popular show such as 'Are You Being Served' to beg for money. Just as Ms. Slocum was about to tell you about the fire brigade climbing a ladder to grab her pussy PBS would interrupt and beg for money in front of a crowd of inmates or homeless people who were forced to answer phones. You didn't watch the rest of the show until they met their goal and they would usually send you a complimentary "something" for sending them money. My Grandmother still has her prized PBS John Inman toilet seat. You may remember Homer Simpson's faux pledge to PBS where he had to leave the country to avoid the PBS collectors. The BBC is great and I would pay dearly to get their content on a regular basis.
When using the antenna on my little portable TV, PBS is the only channel that comes in clearly.
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Not attempting to defent the RIAA/MPAA, but they have to sell stuff to live, the BBC just taxes the British public, plus it'll most like use the BBC Broadband thingy, which I understand only aviable to tax payers.
So not really free then.
Wow, I should not post when knackered.
I wouldn't deny anybody the right to earn a living, but those guys would be more honest if they just stuck a shotgun in your face and demanded all your money. What happened to just being reasonable? Greed is what happens when you just see art as a product, and the product ceases to be art. All the BBC want is a contribution for their trouble, they're not trying to be a mega rich supercompany. Also don't forget the BBC is a UK based station at the end of the day, they have no remit to provide services for the rest of the world (although they do anyway.. ).
I was conned by an old man in a cloak. It turns out those *were* the droids I was looking for.
Yes, I think they are looking for new ways to fund after the current charter runs out. It's interesting that some BBC email now has a sig: www - world wide wonderland! As a Brit, I like what the BBC used to stand for, but currently its an alarming, expensive mixture of waste, arrogance and bias. Also, it's sprawling into areas that need to be independent such as grass roots activism (BBC Ican). All these are arguments for a smaller, more responsive BBC, back to basics.
On y va, qui mal y pense!
Wow. My fave comedy program. Pretty Obscure. On Slashdot. I'm amazed.
I have to say here though, however sexy Noel Fielding and her hair is, the Boosh was better on the radio. So much more surreal.