Hey there Mitchell and Webb fans.

We’re trying to work out what to do for the DVD extras on the soon to be filmed third series of That Mitchell and Webb Look and would like your input. After all, you’re the ones who’ll be buying the thing. So, can you help us out?

Email your ideas for things you’d like to see on the DVD to mitchellandwebbextras@googlemail.com

Do you have anything you’d like us to ask them? Email any questions (try and limit your emails to maybe five at a time however excited you may be) to mitchellandwebbquestions@googlemail.com, and we’ll put the best ones to them when we come to interview them for the DVD.

Thanks in advance for getting involved!

Best wishes,

Your DVD extra-making minions,

James Bachman and Toby Davies x

New cover: Rebecca. Good.

I am very much loving the new cover for the long-lost-long-awaited DVD for series 2 of The Mitchell and Webb Look. Not just because David is a lady, honest.

Old cover: Helivets. Not so good.

Also:
2 discs!

Over 1 and a half hours of bonus features…!

including never-before-seen sketches ,

out-takes,

& interviews.

(which certainly helps soften the long wait)

From DVD Times:
Fremantle Home Entertainment have announced the UK Region 2 DVD release of That Mitchell and Webb Look Series 2 on 20th October 2008 priced at £19.99 RRP. The second series of this sketch show starring comedians David Mitchell and Robert Webb.All six episodes are included along with a “wangernumbing” amount of extras. These include interviews with David Mitchell, Robert Webb and producer Gareth Edwards, a comprehensive behind the scenes look at the making of the series, outtakes/unused sketches and more.

This almost makes up for the loss of The Peter Serafinowicz Show DVD.

“We were all part of a writing team experiment at the BBC. We liked them a lot and we had a show which we wanted to write for them. The four of us wrote episodes for the BBC with Gareth Edwards. It was a really good show – a bit like Peep Show, in the sense that two guys shared a flat, and they were a bit like Mark and Jez. There was also a Super Hans figure! It was a helpful process to develop a show like that – we got a sense of Robert and David’s voices, and spend a lot of time collaborating with them. They’ve really got their DNA into Peep Show, because we’ve got similar comic sensibilities…”

Not Jesse Armstrong Not Sam Bain

Jason Arnopp’s Bloggery Pokery blog has a very nice interview with Sam & Jesse that you might like to read.

For those of you who don’t have Facebook and are not aware of the Mitchell & Webb Fans thing, here’s a photograph from Sunday night as taken by a man named Thom…

Imagine laughter, fidgeting, noisy sweet wrappers, more laughter, plastic pint glasses going boink and some clapping and it’s like you were there.

Can you guess where I’ve been?

Yes, that’s right. Mitchell & Webb Time at The Bloody Drill Hall, that’s what!

Honorable mentions to James Bachman for making it possible for me to say “I’m on the guest list” to the gay man with the clipboard who always looks rather stressed; to the woman who was dressed as a cat in the front row (why did nobody bring her a saucer of milk in the interval?) and all of the people who decided to go for a wee one at a time during the first half. Other mentions must go to Producer Extraordinaire Gareth Edwards for doing his “fire exits” routine which of course culminated in the “high visibility black t-shirts” punchline, and fellow fan Sonia who we often bump into at these things and is thankfully not one of those ones who spend the show looking like the voices in their head are commanding them to lunge at David or Rob. No mention must go to the woman sat next to me who never clapped. Not once. Boo hiss boo!

!!!SPOILERISH ALERT!!!

As it was a Try Out Night thing where the best material for the forthcoming series has already been given the green light we got to see sketches of varying qualities. I didn’t take the Special Notebook this time so here are some things from memory, split into categories:

Good:
Drunk hoteliers.
Ted & Peter: The Snooker Years.
Two hermits forced to live together.
Quiz: “Metil” or “Normel”?
Channel 4 TV Chef teaches bad chef how to cook, badly.
Abraham & Isaac.
Food snobs.

OK:
Christopher Hitchens Kids TV.
Mister Darcey Disco Dancer.
Dying Man’s last wish.
Writing to Jimmy Saville.
Lazy Writers: Prostitute drama TV series.

Bad:
Lovely Lady Who Is Sometimes A Shit.
2 Stuarts car pooling.
Post-Event TV.

Or, in picture collage:

So there you have it. It was bloody hot in there so we scarpered at the end without schmoozing. Hello famouses, thanks for a great evening.

Would I Lie To You? was actually worth watching this week (hurrah!) because Olivia Colman was on David’s team. As was Peter Serafinowicz who also deserves a mention for being bloody funny too. Pity about the rest of the series… and don’t get me started on how the BBC treated the Serafinowicz Show DVD…

Here’s a YouTube thing:

That’s part one, links to other parts are lurking around that one. You know how it works. It’s on the BBC iPlayer thing too.

Robert is featured in the gay magazine for gays about gay things (aka Attitude) this month. Lucky for you I am one of them so I am allowed to purchase it. My scanner is crap but it’s better than an episode of The Kevin Bishop Show so here it is…

He’s always very friendly, isn’t he? How nice.

PS: Averagely-amusing BBC1 comedy panel show thing Would I Lie To You will be interesting this week (on Friday) … it has Olivia Colman on it (as well as the usual David Mitchell). And Peter Serafinowicz. Talking of him, where IS that DVD?