This Week in Lumps
#24 [30/10 - 05/11]
· The Mighty Boosh, one of the most loved (and quoted) surreal-comedy TV sh
ows of the last few years returns next week for it’s third series much to the delight of fans everywhere, or if the pair had got their way: the 4th series, leaving future gererations to wonder what happened to the 3rd. The duo of Vince Noir and Howard Moon (Noel Fielding & Julian Barratt) have not been seen in Boosh form since series 2 ended back in the summer of 2005, excluding the vast live tour of course. However, back in May, Fielding revealed that filming of the new series started that summer, and was looking for a release before Xmas. According to the official website, it will be set in Naboo’s Secondhand Shop, where Vince and Howard both work. They have enlisted the help of Richard Ayoade (The IT Crowd, Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace) as script editor.
Like many other successful British comedies such as The Mitchell and Webb Sound / Look, Dead Ringers and Little Britain, The Mighty Boosh made the transition from radio to television in 2004, when an eight part television series – also called The Mighty Boosh – was commissioned by the BBC. The two series have gone on to be huge successes, and has made household names of the stars.
Filming for the 3rd series was completed on the 1st September after seven weeks. Gary Numan is scheduled to make a cameo appearance in the first episode. Also making cameos are The Horrors, Rev and Snell from the band Towers of London, members of the DJ group Team Disgusting (which Noel Fielding has been named ‘King’ of) and some members of the band Dead Dog in Black Bag. Inside jokes galore, then.
The 3rd series, with episode titles such as ‘Journey to the Centre of a Punk‘ and ‘The Strange Tale of the Crack Fox‘, is due to air on the 15th November on BBC3, the 6 episodes will run right up until Xmas, so expect a boxset of the series (as well as all three together) soon.
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· Britain’s most watched news channel, BBC News 24 celebrates it’s 10th Birthday this week, just a few weeks after the 10th birthday of BBC News Online. On November 9th 1997, the channel was launched, replacing the international news channel that few will remember titled ‘BBC World’ which had been running for roughly two years prior to the launch of BBC News 24. It was part of the Beeb’s initial foray into digital domestic television channels, becoming the first real competitor to Sky News, which had been on its own since 1989. It was to be the beginning of a new digital age for the beeb, with BBC3 and BBC4 joining, as well as other efforts.
The growth in popularity of the channel and the company saw it receive the ‘2006 RTS News Channel of the Year’ award., where the judges remarked that this was the year that the channel had “really come into its own.”
So what sort of stories would have been broken on the channel? Well, here’s a yearly breakdown of some you should remember, and the origial BBC News article:
Searching on YouTube for BBC News 24 will bring up most of these announcements, and you can also find one or two bloopers from back in the early years, such as when Guy Goma turned up, was mistaken for someone important, and subsequently interviewed, and forgetting who you’re sitting next to. Others include: upskirt perving, the WTC confusion (not a conspiracy I may add), the Glasgow terrorist bomb attempt and the Virginia Tech shootings.
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That was the week in lumps, a week in which: Dogs don’t kill people, dogs with guns do, something about farting fish just doesnt seem right, Google started looking to dominate the mobile phone software market, George Clooney got touched up, Lord help us, Boyzone are coming back, Radiohead signed to a major label, Friends Reunited became free, and the UK’s iPhone is just days away, is it worth the hype?
Apologies for a shorter week this week; It’s my birthday today, and my usual preparation time for this weeks entry has been shortened, as you can expect. Next week will be back to our usual (if not higher) standards. I shall depart with the sound of fireworks filling the air, and bonfires roaring out of control with news that Ozzy Osbourne has admitted he’s insulted by the police using his name to lure wanted criminals out of hiding. Or maybe he’s more annoyed by the fact that only 30 out of the 500 invited actually turned up?
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