Dead Set On E4

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Like the premise of this, could be ok I think even if it's a take on 28 days & weeks............

Dead Set: E4’s first ever horror series launching October 2008


1 x 60 minute launch show, 4 x 30 minutes

E4’s first ever horror series launching October 2008

Dead Set is a new five-part zombie horror series set in a fictional Big Brother house and is written by acclaimed writer Charlie Brooker.
The drama is set in a Britain where the dead are returning to life and attacking the living. The people they kill get up and kill - and it’s spreading like wildfire. Curiously, there are a few people left in Britain who aren’t worried about any of this - that’s because they’re the remaining contestants in Big Brother. Cocooned in the safety of the Big Brother house, they’re blissfully unaware of the horrific events unfolding outside. Until an eviction night when all hell breaks loose...
Dead Set stars Jaime Winstone (Donkey Punch, Goldplated) as the production runner working on a fictional series of Big Brother. Jaime’s character Kelly finds herself trying to fend off the walking dead alongside the remaining housemates, her Big Brother producer boss Patrick (Andy Nyman, Severance) and her boyfriend Riq (Riz Ahmed, Britz).
Over the ensuing days, in a cruel reflection of the game show they thought they were entering, the contestants fall victim, one by one, to the hungry masses outside. Staying alive requires teamwork - which is tricky when you’re a group specifically selected by TV producers to wind each other up.

Dead Set is written by Charlie Brooker, who is well known for his columns in The Guardian and his BBC4 series Charlie Brooker’s Screen Wipe. Charlie co-wrote the Channel 4 comedy series Nathan Barley with Chris Morris and was the creator of the hugely successful TV Go Home website.
Charlie comments: "Just as a shopping mall was the ideal setting for the original Dawn of the Dead back in 1978, so the Big Brother house seemed fitting for a TV zombie epic set in the 21st century. Dead Set isn’t an out-and-out comedy, but an unashamedly populist horror-thriller with blackly comic undertones. Think 24 with zombies. And housemates. And gore."

The cast playing housemates include Chizzy Akudolu (The Vagina Monologues), Warren Brown (Shameless, Hollyoaks, Life on Mars), Beth Cordingly (The Bill, Secret Diary of a Call Girl), Adam Deacon (Kidulthood, Adulthood), Kevin Eldon (Spaced, Brass Eye, Green Wing), Raj Ghatak (Bombay Dreams) and Kathleen McDermott (Wedding Belles).

Dead Set also features a range of cameo appearances including Davina McCall and several former Big Brother housemates.

Dead Set (1 x 60 min, 4 x 30 min) is produced by Zeppotron, an Endemol company.


http://www.e4.com/deadset/index2.html

Trailers
http://www.e4.com/deadset/videos.html
 
I had seen the ads, it might be good so I will be watching. I have no idea how good Charlie Brooker is though, never having seen Screen Wipe or read his column, to anyone that has, are they any good?
 
Even if you just watch his 'tour of the big brother house' videos on the e4 website for Dead Set you can get a feeling of the type of personality he is. The guy is pure genius!
 
So is this meant to be a serious show or a comedy? Ive heard its a cross between 28 days later and shaun of the dead, which I really hope it isn't. Hoping its not trying to be funny as 1 or 2 things in the trailer that are said just don't suit the look of it.
 
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