Black books

[Tefal]

Just finished watching all these again, they're all on the 4od free section now too

Anyone know any more programs like this, that are ideally on 4od iplayer etc.

 

[Alan!]

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[Van Hellseek]

Watch spaced, black books and red dwarf.

The end.

 

[Tefal]

spaced on 4od? got all red dwarf on dvd

 

[Van Hellseek]

spaced on 4od?

You said ideally

And I have no idea what 4od is anyway.

 

[Alan!]

Spaced is on 4OD. Look again.

 

[Munkeh]

I love Black Books. The first series wasn't great or wasn't as good as the second anyways.

 

[Feef]

I'd echo Spaced, showed it to my girlfriend once and she sat watching every episode of it over the course of 2 days

Black Books is absolutely legendary, often quoted in my flat. Living in a flat which has 2 guys and a girl, we did try to work out who would be who . I love Dylan Moran, I love Bill Bailey, and Tamsin Grieg....well, I've not really seen her anywhere else (I know, Green Wing etc, just never got round to it). But she works in BB.

 

[iamdjdz]

Was watching this an hour ago, with the gf. I love the episode in the first series with Manny after watching Sweeney... Apparantly my gf thinks Dylan Moran aka Bernard, is fit... Weird.
Don't know any shows on 4od though that are like that.

 

[A.N.Other]

I love Black Books. Seriously funny.

 

[2Thumbs]

Black Books is full of win!

Look Bernard, Bernard look. Bernard, look Bernard. I'm a prostitute robot from the futuuuure!

Best episode too IMO.

 

[Phate]

"What's this?"
"It's soup!"
"It should be in a tower, everything must be served in towers!!!"

....

/presents soup
"what the hell is this?"
/throws against wall

brilliant!

 

[Van Hellseek]

The only bad thing about black books/red dwarf is the irritating 'laughter track', which spaced proved was not at all necessary.

 

[iSam]

Wish 4OD worked on the Mac.

I loved Black Books, haven't seen it in a while though. Bill Bailey is genius.

 

[Aod]

The only bad thing about black books/red dwarf is the irritating 'laughter track', which spaced proved was not at all necessary.

red dwarf was entirely filmed infront of a live audience. the laughter is not an added track

 

[Van Hellseek]

red dwarf was entirely filmed infront of a live audience. the laughter is not an added track

Given, it wasn't always 'canned laughter', but for many scenes it was added. Very blatantly too. Particularly the scenes where they clearly didn't have an audience.

 

[Anewbe4u]

I've seen Black Booked filmed live so that was in front of a live studio audience too.

 

[Van Hellseek]

I've seen Black Booked filmed live so that was in front of a live studio audience too.

Same thing applies though. They just record the audience laughing, and the editors sample the laughter and then apply it to any scene they see fit - not necessarily the same scene which the audience was actually laughing at.

I prefer the Spaced way of doing things; E.g. relying on a scene being actually funny, thus not requiring any prompt for home viewers to "Ok, laugh now!".


Edit: Not that BB wasn't funny, I just don't think it needed the laughter track.

 

[Aod]

Given, it wasn't always 'canned laughter', but for many scenes it was added. Very blatantly too. Particularly the scenes where they clearly didn't have an audience.

is that so? in that case i've been had!


Btw, who likey my new sig?

 

[Van Hellseek]

is that so? in that case i've been had!

Well, scenes where they were outside (ep: 'backwards', for example) or any of the CG-based scenes obviously couldn't have a live audience. So the only way they can add the laughter track is to use samples of pre-recorded laughter. Being laughter which was stolen from other scenes which were genuinly recorded in front of an audience.

Although, they even do the same thing for scenes which -were- recorded in front of an audience. They don't necessarily use the laughter from the scene. They use whichever sample they think suits the scene best. Pretty much the standard in any comedy with a laughter track.


Edit: Yes, I do like the sig