Posts by Robyn Gallagher
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looked more like they were obliged to be where they were
bouncers? promo grrls?
No, not staff, punters. Unless the bars in question hire tens of bouncers.
What I mean is they didn't look like they were at the bar for a fun night/morning, but because they somehow had to be there; a compulsion, an addiction.
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A few years ago, I was on my way to work. It was 6.45 on a Tuesday morning. As I was waiting at a pedestrian crossing, a drunk guy came staggering up to me and reckoned we'd been previously partying at Sky City. He was on his way to the Albion to continue the partying and insisted I join him. I told him I was on my way to work, and he seemed surprised that I'd choose that over getting pissed with him.
Sometimes I'd work on Sundays, usually starting at 10am. There were two bars I'd pass on my way to work that always seemed to still be going on a Sunday morning. People standing around, wired on you-know-what, but no one actually looked like they were having a good time or wanted to be but. Like me, it looked more like they were obliged to be where they were.
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I'd feel really awful wearing a low-cut top on Monday so that the crackpot thoughts of an Iranian cleric so insignificant that he isn't even named in Emma's post could be shown to be false.
I know that Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi is talking out his arse. I don't need to wear a low-cut top to prove this.
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Charlie Brooker had a very informative report once on the various techniques used by Big Brother et al to create atmosphere and deliver a narrative. He showed how you could make the exact same scene covey a completely different story depending on how it was edited.
Here's the clip in question:
He also mentions that advances in digital editing in the 1990s are really what allowed the boom in reality shows to happen. For the first time hours and hours of footage could be condensed into a highlights package in time for the next day's broadcast.
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My memory is that Ihug was involved and doing the streams.
Arrgh! Yes, I think that was the one. I will see if I can eke out more from some old 'Hug dudes.
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Oh, speaking of crappy local reality shows, does anyone remember one from about 1998 that was an online attempt at a Real World type show?
I watched the opening "episode" online, which I remember taking ages to download. Louise Wallace was the host, and she showed the contestants around the house.
They rented a posh house in St Mary's Bay, kitted it out with CCTV cameras in every room and filled it with attractive young people who'd never lived in such a fancy house before.
All the footage was available to view online... for a price.
I remember two things about it:
1. The guy running it was annoyed that the girls in the house were showering with bikinis on and not being hot naked laydeez.
2. The URLs for the webcams weren't protected. A guy worked out what they were and posted the URLs so anyone could watch the cams for free. The guy running it got angry and claimed the site had been "hacked".
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Can comebody please explain how "Popstars" ... was the earlier form of "Pop Idol"
Popstars introduced and popularized the idea of a reality series following the shaping of pop performers. There have always been talent shows on the telly, but Popstars was the first to mix the talent quest with the idea of manufactured pop.
Pop Idol mixed the traditional TV talent show with the new world of reality TV and the flexibility that digital video editing and text voting allows.
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Treasure Island first. Two seasons of it, I think
Yeah, two seasons of Treasure Island. The second one included Clark Gayford before he was famous.
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WTF? Dude, no. Flatmates was an obvious local attempt at MTV's 1992 groundbreaking The Real World reality series - a bunch of attractive young people living in a house (not a studio), followed by cameras and with the freedom to leave the house.
Big Brother was definitely inspired by The Real World but it was conceived before Flatmates went to air.
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And he plundered his own successful film Two Cars One Night. Shot for shot he reprised it in parts.
"Boy" originally started as a feature-length version of "Two Cars, One Night", so that's where the similarities come from. But as the script was developed, the film became its own thing, necessitating a different title.