Spendingtons: SE21
Where would we be without spin offs? And I mean things like Torchwood and Frasier, not Joey or Baywatch Nights. To tell us more about our new discount supermarket sitcom Spendingtons, here's writer and star Lloyd Woolf...
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The internet is great. Especially the videos. A video of a kitten falling off a skateboard into a cement mixer? Yes please. Someone's dubbed over Star Wars with the dialogue from an old episode of Rising Damp? Forward me the link, please mate. But the most exciting thing I've seen online in ages is EastEnders: E20.
For the uninitiated, it's a sexified, youthful, online only EastEnders spin-off. A sort of cross between Skins, The Scooby Gang and, well, EastEnders. With a character called Zsa Zsa in it. And it's brilliant. The most addictive thing I've seen in ages. I defy anyone to watch an episode without immediately watching the next ten. It's written by frighteningly precocious young Londoners, and has a pretty authentic whiff of teenage angst and humour to it - like the wisetalking gangsta type who insists on being called "Fatboy" even though his name is Arthur.
But the most mind blowing thing about it is that it's an EastEnders spin-off. Which mad genius came up with doing an EastEnders spin-off? And why hasn't it done before? The Ö÷²¥´óÐã should be making spin-offs of all its shows. Suddenly a whole world of insane possibility seems to open up. Casualty: The Med-school Years.Ìý New Tricks 2099: Still At It.
Why stop there? Couldn't you make a spin-off of a spin-off?
All of a sudden, my goal in life seemed clear.
I set to work. Weeks passed in a blur. I made phone calls. I wrote scripts. I begged. I pleaded. And then suddenly, it was happening. Really happening. We were going to make Spendingtons - and we were even going to have real EastEnders legends in it - (aka Kat "Yes I Aaaaam!" Slater) and (aka Barry "Pushed Down A Mountain" Evans).
The internet offers so much possibility for spin-offs and the like because it's a brilliant amplifier for people's enthusiasm. For example, if it wasn't for overexcited types on the internet, you'd never have seen Snakes On A Plane. And I certainly wouldn't want to live in a world where I couldn't listen to a Texan Geek/Genius narrating over a Harry Potter film.
I hope you like the results. Remember, it's all thanks to the Ö÷²¥´óÐã and the internet's extraordinary capacity for making spin-off after spin-off after spin-off after spin-off...
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The internet is great. Especially the videos. A video of a kitten falling off a skateboard into a cement mixer? Yes please. Someone's dubbed over Star Wars with the dialogue from an old episode of Rising Damp? Forward me the link, please mate. But the most exciting thing I've seen online in ages is EastEnders: E20. For the uninitiated, it's a sexified, youthful, online only EastEnders spin-off. A sort of cross between Skins, The Scooby Gang and, well, EastEnders. With a character called Zsa Zsa in it. And it's brilliant. The most addictive thing I've seen in ages. I defy anyone to watch an episode without immediately watching the next ten. It's written by frighteningly precocious young Londoners, and has a pretty authentic whiff of teenage angst and humour to it - like the wisetalking gangsta type who insists on being called "Fatboy" even though his name is Arthur.
But the most mind blowing thing about it is that it's an EastEnders spin-off. Which mad genius came up with doing an EastEnders spin-off? And why hasn't it done before? The Ö÷²¥´óÐã should be making spin-offs of all its shows. Suddenly a whole world of insane possibility seems to open up. Casualty: The Med-school Years.Ìý New Tricks 2099: Still At It. Why stop there? Couldn't you make a spin-off of a spin-off?
All of a sudden, my goal in life seemed clear.
I set to work. Weeks passed in a blur. I made phone calls. I wrote scripts. I begged. I pleaded. And then suddenly, it was happening. Really happening. We were going to make Spendingtons - and we were even going to have real EastEnders legends in it - (aka Kat "Yes I Aaaaam!" Slater) and (aka Barry "Pushed Down A Mountain" Evans). The internet offers so much possibility for spin-offs and the like because it's a brilliant amplifier for people's enthusiasm. For example, if it wasn't for overexcited types on the internet, you'd never have seen Snakes On A Plane. And I certainly wouldn't want to live in a world where I couldn't listen to a Texan Geek/Genius narrating over a Harry Potter film.
I hope you like the results. Remember, it's all thanks to the Ö÷²¥´óÐã and the internet's extraordinary capacity for making spin-off after spin-off after spin-off after spin-off...
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