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Wilkz07
10-30-2008, 08:07 AM
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Dead Set

Anyone heard or seen this yet? Its a series running for 5 days (oct 27 - 31st) on bbc channel 4.

Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhGLM49k8ck&feature=related) (sorry embed not available)


Dead Set (http://www.e4.com/deadset/) is a British five-part horror thriller created by British writer Charlie Brooker. The series is set in the Big Brother house, and was first aired on E4 on 27 October 2008. The five episodes, scheduled to run until 31 October 2008, chronicle a zombie outbreak that strands housemates and production staff inside the Big Brother house. Although the house is one of the only places left where people can shelter from the zombie attack, the infection soon seeps in.

Each episode is broken down into 4 parts (assuming that is where commercials go), it took a little bit to setup episode 1 but by the end it was goretastic. Fan of zombies? This is a series to check out.
nixpayn
10-30-2008, 08:09 AM
I like Zombies!!
GigaFuzz
10-30-2008, 09:08 AM
Nothing to do with the BBC. It's being shown on E4, one of Channel 4's channels.
</nitpick> :p

I might check it out, but even the prospect of zombies might not be enough to get me to watch anything Big Brother related.
Squidbot
10-30-2008, 10:35 AM
It's....ok. Not really very good, mildly entertaining. BBC Channel 4, heh.

Ooh, by the way, if you can get it in Americaland, check out No Heroics. (http://www.itv.com/Entertainment/comedy/NoHeroics/default.html)
Hotcod
10-30-2008, 07:00 PM
:( so my post about it get ignored but you all come floaking to Wilkz07's... well that's just fine...

anyway this has been amamzing so far i've been really really enjoying it. It's all just so well done that it's much better than i was lead to expect from it

I might check it out, but even the prospect of zombies might not be enough to get me to watch anything Big Brother related.

dude... it's by Charlie Brooker... you need no other reason to watch it. Unless you dislike him in which case you probably shouldn't.
GigaFuzz
10-30-2008, 08:02 PM
:( so my post about it get ignored but you all come floaking to Wilkz07's... well that's just fine...

anyway this has been amamzing so far i've been really really enjoying it. It's all just so well done that it's much better than i was lead to expect from it



dude... it's by Charlie Brooker... you need no other reason to watch it. Unless you dislike him in which case you probably shouldn't.

While I know who he is, I'm not familiar enough with his work for that to be a reason. :(
Hotcod
10-30-2008, 08:27 PM
Well then, off to youtube for you young man

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=charlie+brooker+screenwipe&search_type=&aq=f

Watching screenwipe is well worth it in it's self (new series on bbc4 soon!) but once you, being a man of good taste i'm sure, see more of his stuff then you will have a reason for wanting to watch dead set out side of the fact that it's just damn good zombie film goodness
GigaFuzz
10-30-2008, 08:45 PM
Ah yes, of course. Knew I'd be feeling silly before too long.
Bingley Joe
11-18-2008, 12:09 AM
I just watched it.

What a strangely intoxicating mix of stupid and amazing that was ;)
Squidbot
11-18-2008, 06:30 AM
While I know who he is, I'm not familiar enough with his work for that to be a reason. :(

Let this be the reason:
Brooker wrote for PC Zone magazine in the mid-1990s. Aside from games reviews, his output included the comic strip Cybertwats and a column entitled "Sick Notes", where Brooker would insult anyone who wrote in to the magazine and offered a £50 prize to the "best" letter.

In February 1998, one of Brooker's one-shot cartoons caused the magazine to be pulled from the shelves of many British newsagents. The cartoon was entitled "Helmut Werstler's Cruelty Zoo" and professed to be an advert for a theme park created by a Teutonic psychologist for children to take out their violent impulses on animals rather than humans. It was accompanied by photoshopped pictures of children smashing the skulls of monkeys with hammers, jumping on a badger with a pitchfork, and chainsawing an orangutan, among other things. The original joke was supposed to be at the expense of the Tomb Raider games, known at the time for the sheer number of animals that could be killed. The original title, "Lara Croft's Cruelty Zoo", was changed for copyright reasons and so the cartoon's original intended object of humour was not realised.