Blake's Junction 7

[altariel]

Drawn to my attention by the wondrous glitterboy1:

Blake's Junction 7

"An unofficial short comedy film about the sci-fi gang stopping off at a motorway service station. Starring Mark Heap, Johnny Vegas, Martin Freeman, MacKenzie Crook, Raquel Cassidy, Justin Edwardes and Susan Earle, with new recordings from the original voice of the super-super computer, Peter Tuddenham."

Comments

[spacefall.livejournal.com]

My arse has now officially been laughed off. :)

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I'm in a state of bliss. This has made my week.

[glitterboy1.livejournal.com]

More info: Channelcom have a new site, too (go straight to http://www.pitchfilm.com/pitch.html , and then click on 'Projects') It promises a trailer soon! The blurb there (mostly the same as you've just quoted) describes the film as "15 minutes of mundane sci-fi joy"

Coo!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

This is just... stunning.

[kendokamel.livejournal.com]

Haha!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Good, isn't it? :-D

[matildabj.livejournal.com]

Oh please, somebody, tape this for me if it appears on TV between now and July! This rocks my world.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Isn't it fantastic? Apparently it'll be at film festivals - *hopefully* it'll get a TV showing. Ideally, they'd cut a deal and get it on one of the DVD sets, but I can't see B7E being anything other than arses about that.

[glitterboy1.livejournal.com]

*hopefully* it'll get a TV showing

Supposedly it will - a couple of the sites I found were saying 'BBC sometime this year'.

Hmm, that reminds me: I must go and order myself some B7...

[altariel.livejournal.com]

*hopefully* it'll get a TV showing

Supposedly it will - a couple of the sites I found were saying 'BBC sometime this year'.

Yippee!

[hafren.livejournal.com]

Please, somebody, explain! I've followed all the links now, seen all the pictures, and I still feel like Margo in The Good Life, watching everyone else get hysterical and not being able to see the joke. What's making people laugh so much? I admit, my sense of humour is awfully selective and limited; I can sit through the Royles, Ab Fab and the League of Gentlemen and not raise a titter. But I'm not usually quite this out of touch!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I can sit through the Royles and Ab Fab and not raise a laugh too, although The League of Gentlemen cracks me up.

Hm, not sure how to explain it. If the sight of Johnny Vegas dressed up in a near-perfect copy of Blake's costume and standing in the bogs at Newport Pagnell doesn't do it for you, then... I'm not quite sure how to explain it.

Part of the charm is seeing these particular people dressed up as the characters. And the attention to detail on the costumes is also very funny. Did you ever watch Spaced? It's a similar vein of humour, I think.

[hafren.livejournal.com]

Part of the charm is seeing these particular people dressed up as the characters.

That might be the problem! I don't seem to have heard of most of them, except Vegas who is another humour-free zone for me.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Martin Freeman and Mackenzie Crook are from 'The Office', and Mark Heap has been in things like 'Spaced' and 'Big Train'.

[communicator.livejournal.com]

Martin Freeman as Vila? That's frickin' inspired.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Isn't it? Never mind Johnny Vegas as Blake.

[fifitrix.livejournal.com]

Now I had assumed that since Martin is holding Orac he was playing Avon. But I don't remember an Avon outfit like that and it does look more Vila-ish.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I suppose Vila does do a lot of the carrying.

BJ7 screening

[(Anonymous)]

++ transmission... ++

BLAKE'S JUNCTION 7 is screening at the ugc shaftesbury avenue
on saturday october 9th, at midday, as part of the "comedy shorts"
program in this year's annual raindance film festival.
information: http://www.raindance.co.uk (follow links to "festival")
box office: 0871 200 2000

It's also screening at the annual cult TV festival in weston-super-mare, later that self same evening.

on-line Edinburgh TV interview available here:
http://scotlandtoday.scottishtv.colo.ednet.co.uk/content/default.asp?page=s1_2_2&newsid=4924&newsType=n1_2

++ over and out ++