Peter Serafinowicz. Yes, him again. The voice of Darth Maul. The evil Duane Benzie. Someone who's provided quite a few hits to my weblog, which is odd because I don't talk about him that much. :)

What about him, that's the question. On the "best TV moments" thing I was watching it mentioned a show I really really wish I'd seen. And it was written by Peter Serafinowicz. (Ah, now you see the connection.) The other writer was Robert Popper. They were the writers, producers and performers. Amazing.

The show was called Look Around You. Peter's in a picture at the bottom of the page - he's the one on the right in the "sounds and visuals" picture. That is what Darth Maul's voice looks like. (Cool, huh?)

The show was a spoof late 70's science programme. In one episode they used a computer to make a song. They had to give it a title ("Little Mouse") and it wrote them a song. This doesn't sound interesting, but this was in the days before widespread computers. This was an ancient computer. It was funny. Honestly, it was really funny. I'm not being convincing. I know, I'll paste in some of the stuff from the webchat they did.

Visitor_anton: Who originally came up with the idea of the programme?

Robert: We got the idea from a tramp we met in Chichester....

Visitor_Tobes: How did you pitch the idea for the show to the BBC?

Peter: We'd made this short film, like a 20 minute one, about calcium and we wanted to do a half hour show. We decided to condense it into the 10 minutes it's in now.

Robert: We took it to the BBC, but we were both dressed as wasps for the meeting. And that swung it really!

Strawman_special: What is the chemical symbol of cheese?

Peter: Big E little d. Atomic number 74.

Mister_Lee: How did you achieve the authentic 70s look to the show?

Peter: We made a time machine about a year ago, and filmed all of it in 1979. We were quite a bit younger then, so it took us quite a while because we kept messing around. We were schoolboys, essentially.

Visitor_cakeboy: If a kilogram weighs 1000g and a kilojoule is 1000 joules, does a kilo whale really have a 1000 teeth?

Robert: No a killer whale has 1000 legs.

Chortle chortle. :D

posted by Fiery Fred @ 10:03 PM