Keep an eye out for a tall guy in silly outfits. Trigger Happy TV is coming back after 12 years.
Channel 4 has decided to bring back Dom Joly's prank show, unless of course Joly's announcement is a prank itself.
Speaking to BBC Radio London's Robert Elms, Joly promised a more "cinematic" version of the original series, which ran from 2000 to 2003 including an American spinoff on Comedy Central.
"I'm bringing Trigger Happy back. I just went to Channel 4 yesterday. I'm doing it in a very different way.
"I'm doing it in kind of 'modules' because I really want to make some cinematic-style ones. I want some really big hits.
"So it's not coming back as the original show, it's coming back as a Trigger Happy stunt show, so I'm quite excited about that."
Joly said he found fame "really terrifying" in the early 2000s, explaining: "I didn't want that level.
Channel 4 has decided to bring back Dom Joly's prank show, unless of course Joly's announcement is a prank itself.
Speaking to BBC Radio London's Robert Elms, Joly promised a more "cinematic" version of the original series, which ran from 2000 to 2003 including an American spinoff on Comedy Central.
"I'm bringing Trigger Happy back. I just went to Channel 4 yesterday. I'm doing it in a very different way.
"I'm doing it in kind of 'modules' because I really want to make some cinematic-style ones. I want some really big hits.
"So it's not coming back as the original show, it's coming back as a Trigger Happy stunt show, so I'm quite excited about that."
Joly said he found fame "really terrifying" in the early 2000s, explaining: "I didn't want that level.
- 5/21/2015
- Digital Spy
Asif Kapadia on shooting his London Olympics film, and Sylvia Syms on a neglected 50s classic
As if by magic
My favourite of the official Olympics films is by Asif Kapadia. His The Odyssey examines London from the skies against a backdrop of Olympian expectation and politics, like these two were fighting it out to be the prevailing winds over the city. A panoply of voices give their Olympics memories and London thoughts, but just as in his award-winning doc Senna we don't see their faces: they could be media personalities (Richard Williams, Robert Elms, Lord Coe) or boys or elderly ladies interviewed on the street.
The film includes social comment on the closure of council leisure facilities and the shock of the 7/7 bombings. I hear now that Asif is developing his themes into a feature film. "Even though we shot in a very short time, there was still a...
As if by magic
My favourite of the official Olympics films is by Asif Kapadia. His The Odyssey examines London from the skies against a backdrop of Olympian expectation and politics, like these two were fighting it out to be the prevailing winds over the city. A panoply of voices give their Olympics memories and London thoughts, but just as in his award-winning doc Senna we don't see their faces: they could be media personalities (Richard Williams, Robert Elms, Lord Coe) or boys or elderly ladies interviewed on the street.
The film includes social comment on the closure of council leisure facilities and the shock of the 7/7 bombings. I hear now that Asif is developing his themes into a feature film. "Even though we shot in a very short time, there was still a...
- 7/21/2012
- by Jason Solomons
- The Guardian - Film News
Asif Kapadia, director of Senna, tells Sarfraz Manzoor how he spent four days in a chopper making a 'democratic' film about London and the Olympics
I meet Asif Kapadia in a bar on the 15th floor of a hotel in central London. The location offers panoramic views of the city below, making it an unintentionally appropriate place to discuss the director's latest film. The Odyssey, a rare joint commission by Film4 and BBC Films, is Kapadia's contribution to the London 2012 festival. (The director of the acclaimed 2010 documentary Senna is one of five film-makers, with Mike Leigh, Lynne Ramsay and StreetDance directing duo Max and Dania, to receive Olympic commissions.) Like the others', Kapadia's film is short, at just under 30 minutes, but ambitious in scope, charting the seven years since London won the bid. Since that day in July 2005, London has been bombed, bruised by the financial crisis and burned in last summer's riots.
I meet Asif Kapadia in a bar on the 15th floor of a hotel in central London. The location offers panoramic views of the city below, making it an unintentionally appropriate place to discuss the director's latest film. The Odyssey, a rare joint commission by Film4 and BBC Films, is Kapadia's contribution to the London 2012 festival. (The director of the acclaimed 2010 documentary Senna is one of five film-makers, with Mike Leigh, Lynne Ramsay and StreetDance directing duo Max and Dania, to receive Olympic commissions.) Like the others', Kapadia's film is short, at just under 30 minutes, but ambitious in scope, charting the seven years since London won the bid. Since that day in July 2005, London has been bombed, bruised by the financial crisis and burned in last summer's riots.
- 6/24/2012
- by Sarfraz Manzoor
- The Guardian - Film News
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