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
 
Taped it monday eve, got round to watching lastnight

Enjoyed it, much better than I expected, buildup was about right not too long drawn out, BB setup was believable with right mix of characters, lead woman spot on not annoying or girly girly reminds me of Ripley from Alien films lol, camera work spot on, plenty of gore, loved the use of the fire extinguisher and wheelchair zombie wtf lol :D

Loved the 28 films and other zombie films so this hits the right spot so far, roll on ep2
 
I'm worried about the people who think the ending was rushed, and yet have failed to question the beginning of the film. We dont even know where the zombies came from, what had happened, why nobody had called anyone attending BB to mention the fact that the country had been overrun with zombies. The ending was no more rushed than the rest of the show.

Personally i think it was the perfect length and was executed brilliantly. It came and it went, exactly what a mini-series is supposed to do. It doesnt matter if everyone dies, or why zombies are running around, or how well you know the characters. It was good fun, wonderfully gory and had nice in jokes. Patrick is actually a producer of the Derren Brown shows, possibly already mentioned in this thread somewhere, so i imagine people in the business found the whole thing highly amusing to watch him be a **** and get ripped apart.


Just my thoughts really. I'll probably buy the DVD.

Think the start was right, suppose we have to assume it originated from something similar to 28 days/weeks scenario, I'm glad they didnt waste any time covering this part of the backstory etc and just left it for you to assume its was like the 28 movies
 
Watched the feature with all 5 eps back to back tonight, excellent stuff, really enjoyed it, actually didn't mind the ending as it was less cliche, less predictable and more realistic and highlighted the pathetic situation all the more, for a tv made show it was def well done, well filmed and staged and some scenes more gruesome than those in theatrical zombie films

DVD on my xmas prezzie wishlist ;)
 
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