While David is off being all clever and political in Channel 4′s new 10 O’Clock Live for the forseeable future at least several people may have wondered what Rob is up to when not recording sarcastic voice overs for things on BBC Three. Well… Lost In TV has the details.
SPACE with Robert WEBB
The Comedy Chat / Panel Show about Life on Earth
Robert Webb hosts SPACE, Channel 4’s exciting new comedy entertainment show. Each week on his ship “Captain” Robert is joined by 3 celebrities as they attempt to define and discover the very best of our planet from the last few thousand years.
In a series of studio based rounds, the nation’s best loved personalities will nominate their most precious possessions, guilty pleasures, best loved landmarks or even all time favourite humans that they believe encapsulate earth as we know it. It is up to Robert and his crew plus the studio audience to decide which of these items will make it onto the ship.
Nominations for the British Comedy Awards have been announced and this time around That Mitchell & Webb Look is not in the sketch show category. There is, however, an odd nomination for David in the Best Male Comic category despite him not being a comic.
I forgot to mention that Rob was presenting Never Mind The Buzzcocks this week, mostly because it’s usually not a very good programme. Here is a picture to make up for that:
He turns up on Celebrity (aaarrgggh) Mastermind tomorrow night so there’s time to remember that one. There’s a nice video of an extended chat from that here. No embedding, boo hiss boo!
The Guardian / Observer have published their Questions For David Mitchell thing today and it’s rather good. It’s all here on this link but here are some previews:
You’ve been pretty successful – are you surprised you haven’t been taken down by the naysayers? Ben Horton, south London
Now there’s the internet, everyone has been shot down in flames. I’m not too proud to self-Google every so often, and I don’t always like what I read. I read in the Mail that Peter Hitchens had referred to me as a “so-called comedian”. That particularly annoyed me, because it doesn’t work. He can disagree with whether I’m funny. But I just am a comedian! You might as well say “so-called dentist”.
What kind of process do you and Robert Webb use when you are writing a sketch for your television show? Do you have a method or is it just comedic chaos? Stephen Clarke, Nanjing
The ideas come out of group meetings with other writers, or pub sessions. You never sit down at a computer unless you know what sketch you’re going to write, because that’s when the blank page is terrifying. That’s the extent of the method.
Well blimey and all that as Peep Show series 8 and 9 are apparently go! Well not going yet but planned. From Digital Spy:
Channel 4 has confirmed that it has recommissioned Peep Show for two more series. A report yesterday first claimed that an eighth and ninth series of David Mitchell and Robert Webb’s comedy had been ordered despite poor ratings for current episodes. A Channel 4 spokesperson told Broadcast that it was too early to confirm any additional details.
Also in Peep Show news: the episode scheduled for a week’s time aka Christmas Eve will be part of a theme night which included a new documentary (yay!) and a load of old repeats (well people love the show).
Random photos from series 2 that I may not have used before:
It’s Peep Show press season (unsurprisingly) and The Guardian had a nice piece this weekend.
It’s a Q&A type thing involving Armstrong, Bain, Mitchell & Webb and includes the following things:
“He’d definitely have voted for Labour in ’97. But, had he been able to vote, he would have voted Tory in ’87 and ’83. He’s a reed in the wind, so it might have been Lib Dem. And now he feels guilty.”
“You gave him a brilliant moment last series where it occurred to him for the first time that he might be in the 99% of deluded idiots who are not going to make it rather than the 1% of brilliant people who are.”
Episode 1 of series 7 in on that 4OD thing but as we are old fashioned and think a catch-up service should be for exactly that sort of thing and not premieres we’re not talking about it. Apart from this bit and the link to a thing where someone else thinks the same.
They’ve done some fancy promo images for Peep Show 7:
I am sure no photoshop technical gubbins was used there.
On Friday after next (26th November) in the 10pm Channel 4 slot. Cunningly, the powers that be have scheduled the first of four episodes of Robert’s Web straight after it.
We already know that Peep Show 7 starts on 26th November but there is now a blurb on the channel 4 site which is also just below this line of text:
Coming soon to Channel 4, Peep Show returns for a seventh series. Starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb the series follows the increasingly complicated lives of aging flatmates and best buddies Mark and Jeremy.
Mark has become a father. Burdened with a new and frightening responsibility, he finds that he can’t get a decent job and is forced to continue to work as a waiter. Worried about his relationship with his baby, Ian; worried that he’ll spend the rest of his days as a waiter; worried about his commitment to Ian’s mother, Sophie; and worried that he’s losing love interest Dobby to his rival Gerrard, Mark experiences his ‘darkest hour’.
Jeremy, on the other hand, stumbles upon a new and exciting source of income, power and responsibility. Miraculously walking away from the wreckage of his affair with Elena, Jeremy also meets a new love interest. But just as his life is looking up, he discovers that his new situation comes with complex strings attached.
This six part series follows Mark and Jeremy from the birth of Mark’s baby to ‘little Ian’s’ christening. We also meet Mark’s parents for the first time as the boys attempt to celebrate a traditional family Christmas. And a disastrous New Year’s Eve party crawl culminates with Mark and Jeremy facing choices that could end their friendship – forever.
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