So I just watched it on BBC3, and I don't get who the target audience is.
The production, the visuals, the pace all seem similar to something you'd see at 4pm when the kids are home from school.
It's like Lazytown with the occasional swear word. A primetime 9pm slot suggests its for adults, but it seems too childish for that. The slot and language used also suggests that its not 'family viewing', as that tends to be on at about 7-8.
So who is it for?
BBC3 hipsters
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It's either aimed at toddlers or stoners; I haven't quite decided which yet.
shareI could only manage 30 mins of this, until I finally managed to pick my jaw up off the floor and turn it over. Didn't laugh once - it looks like it wants to be a 'cult show', but 'cult shows' don't have to try so hard. I am mystified as to why this pilot was even made, apart from the few 'names' that are behind it...
shareYeah, the most fun I had was spotting the various Glasgow locations.
shareLazytown with swearing, best description of this rubbish I've heard so far.
That made me laugh more than the show did.
I really wanted to like this show, but it just let me down. Convoluted, unfunny and just weird for the sake of being weird. Waste of everyones time.
Same here, as soon as I saw the first few minutes of it, it reminded me of Lazytown lol...
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I answer your question with a question:-
Who was Simpsons, Family Guy, Monkey Dust, American Dad, South Park, Fritz the Cat, Slacker cats and Rainbow (see youtube for the one skin, two skin incident)intended for?
Sod it, I'll answer the question myself.
Not Children. Just cos it looks like a childrens programme doesn't mean it is a childrens programme. Never judge a book by it's cover and other such quotes.
For me it had the right mix of Tank Girl, Gorillaz, Green Hornet, Batman and....monarch bashing!
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The shows you list all have different audiences, defined by content and their time slot.
For example, Simpsons is considered a 'family' show so its usually on before about 8pm. It does not contain langage that may offend.
Monkey Dust/Fritz the Cat is very dark/coarse humour intended for adults and would only be on post-watershed.
As for Rainbow, I've seen the one on youtube, but its an irrelevant argument as it was never actually broadcast on network television. Rainbow was always on in the daytime, intended for children.
If you read my original post, I wasn't only talking about the visuals - the production and the pace of the show are very much in line with a children's detective style show. Although as you brought up the visuals, lets address them. Blatant Lazytown rip off. Girl with a bright coloured hard fringe lego haircut, people made of plastic, very colourful.
Everything about the show seemed extremely childish, apart from the odd rude joke/swear word.
My ten year old brother likes it and I am sixteen and also like it. So I'd say it's for pre-teens and actual teens.
It's defintley on the wrong channel though. I think it would find a larger audeince through [adult_swim].
I watched it, it was entertaining to a small degree but I think it would have been so much better as an animated production, the costumes for the bad guys just looked pathetic. As an animation it could at least get away with the whole "surreal" Day of the Tentacle style humour which I think it was trying far to hard to emulate.
shareDay of the Tentacle!!!
I preferred Psychonauts... but still.
It's for people who don't suck.
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