Post by Lynette on Sept 25, 2008 9:40:30 GMT 1
Just seen an ad on CH4 for Peter Kay's new series. It's "coming soon", so probably within the next few weeks.
Here's some info ~
Details revealed of Peter Kay’s new C4 show ‘Britain’s got the Pop Factor’ .
Bolton comic Peter Kay has started work on his new TV series Britain’s got the Pop Factor, which is scheduled to be screened later this year on Channel 4.
The show – a parody of popular reality TV fayre such as the X Factor and Britain’s Got Talent – is being written and directed by Kay, with filming pencilled in to commence over the summer.
Playing on the success of the skits that appeared during the end titles of his Phoenix Nights series, and mixing that with the public’s seemingly voracious appetite for TV talent shows, Kay will use the new programme to parade an array of seemingly bizarre singers and second-rate club acts.
Tabloids that appeared over the weekend have intimated that these are set to include an all-black boy band of dwarfs called Men Two Boyz, a transsexual singer called Geraldine King (real name Gerry, played by Kay himself) and someone that sings Barcelona, by Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballe, dressed as Mercury on one side and Caballe on the other.
Another act is a singer called Our Wayne, who is apparently voted off the show as he doesn’t have a sob story to tug on the viewer’s heartstrings.
The shock of this gives his gran a heart attack, and as a result he is invited back on.
No further details have been given about a broadcast date as yet.
The show will be the comic’s first new series since 2004’s Max and Paddy Road to Nowhere.
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I shall watch with interest, but my own personal feeling is that he will never produce anything approaching the genius of Phoenix Nights.
Here's some info ~
Details revealed of Peter Kay’s new C4 show ‘Britain’s got the Pop Factor’ .
Bolton comic Peter Kay has started work on his new TV series Britain’s got the Pop Factor, which is scheduled to be screened later this year on Channel 4.
The show – a parody of popular reality TV fayre such as the X Factor and Britain’s Got Talent – is being written and directed by Kay, with filming pencilled in to commence over the summer.
Playing on the success of the skits that appeared during the end titles of his Phoenix Nights series, and mixing that with the public’s seemingly voracious appetite for TV talent shows, Kay will use the new programme to parade an array of seemingly bizarre singers and second-rate club acts.
Tabloids that appeared over the weekend have intimated that these are set to include an all-black boy band of dwarfs called Men Two Boyz, a transsexual singer called Geraldine King (real name Gerry, played by Kay himself) and someone that sings Barcelona, by Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballe, dressed as Mercury on one side and Caballe on the other.
Another act is a singer called Our Wayne, who is apparently voted off the show as he doesn’t have a sob story to tug on the viewer’s heartstrings.
The shock of this gives his gran a heart attack, and as a result he is invited back on.
No further details have been given about a broadcast date as yet.
The show will be the comic’s first new series since 2004’s Max and Paddy Road to Nowhere.
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I shall watch with interest, but my own personal feeling is that he will never produce anything approaching the genius of Phoenix Nights.
yep, you beat me to it!
