The Wrong Door

Just watched it. I really thought it was good.

Quote: Griff @ August 29 2008, 6:44 PM BST

Normally NR Writers Meetings are just a social event, where the NR team give us the latest news (for example, when it looked like there was going to be a NR spinoff in New York) and the director of the next run explains what kind of thing they're looking for. Then they give us writers some free booze as a thankyou and some comp tickets to the show. I've been to about five meetings now, met loads of people as a result (including the esteemed Sooty), and always thoroughly enjoyed myself.

This weekend however they want some work out of us. I think they are going to give us some topics they want covered and say "OK guys - sit down and WRITE." The idea being that we form into partnerships and help each other out with sketches.

Apart from those of us who have scrapped on BSG, who will be forced on stage with nothing but sharpened quills and pieces of foolscap to duel to the death. A sort of Write Club.

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Ah, I see.
Free booze sounds good.

And the comp tickets.... would LOVE to see people (not) laughing at my creations.

I'll hopefully come to future meetings.

Then, after the show, I'll do my usual thing when I visit London... i.e. go out, get pissed, go clubbing, wake up in strange bed.
 

Quote: Mikey J @ August 30 2008, 5:39 PM BST

wake up in strange bed.

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One with clean sheets?!
 

Quote: Winterlight @ August 30 2008, 6:24 PM BST

One with clean sheets?!

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I guess they wouldn't be. And they'd be quitre ruffled.

Trouble is, I'd get so zonked with booze that I wouldn't be able to recall how I got there or what happened.






OOPS. I guess we've hijacked this thread. Sorry!

What was it about now? Oh, yes.. that Wrong Door nonsense.
 

Yes, shut up about your flipping beds!

Back to Wrong Door hence forth...
 

Just watched it, I concur with the general concensus. A few nice ideas but not funny. What was with the dancing girl? Er, jokes please!
 

I think the payoff for the dancing girl was easy to miss - she dances into a warehouse and gets trapped in a cage where, along with thousands of others, she's forced to dance to generate electricity which is then used to make more dancemats.
 

I got it. It took a looooooong time to get there though! Seems a very short sketch on paper, stretched out by the producer.

Dan
 

Yeah I saw the ending it just didn't strike me as funny. Sketch shows are probably the hardest to get right though in fairness. By there very nature they're, er, sketchy.
 

To be honest I only lasted about ten minutes with this. I am not usually a quitter (I watched every episode of Lab Rats), but ten minutes of sketches that did not raise even the flicker of a smile seemed like an eternity.

The Dinosaur sketch took a premise and then did precisely nothing with it.

Quote: Timbo @ September 2 2008, 12:06 PM BST

To be honest I only lasted about ten minutes with this. I am not usually a quitter (I watched every episode of Lab Rats).

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That's probably the most polite damning of a comedy I have ever read.
 

Quote: Timbo @ September 2 2008, 12:06 PM BST

To be honest I only lasted about ten minutes with this.

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May I commend you on your rational approach? I assume you didn't like it, so you turned it off and did something more useful with your time?
 

I think it's a bit unfair to comment on something fairly if you've not sat all the way through it. Sketch shows in particular, because there MAY be a little nugget of gold that if you turn off, you'll miss. Even watching Tittybangbang or Little Miss Jocelyn, I stayed to the bitter end. (The masochist streak in me?)
 

Totally agree. IMO, you can say that "this genre/style/tone isn't for me", but you can't make a full, fair comment on a programme unless you've seen the whole thing, and indeed the whole series if talking as a whole.
 

I'm with Timbo myself.

If a show (any show) can't hook me in those first ten minutes why would I bother sticking around? As I writer I'm told to to wow in ten pages and I hold my peers to the same standard.