http://watchification.com Sun, 31 May 2009 21:50:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://watchification.com/2008/05/02/85/ http://watchification.com/2008/05/02/85/#comments Fri, 02 May 2008 22:55:59 +0000 Steve Bowbrick http://watchification.com/?p=85 I’m just going to say it: Basil Brush is brilliant. Funny, fast-paced, clever and cheeky. The canned laughter is weirdly appropriate, the funny sound and video effects make the thing seem really contemporary, and the super-ironic scripts respect the parents watching. Basil, a very small fox as I’m sure you’ll remember, has been integrated into his otherwise entirely human community rather well (I mean nobody ever says “hold on. Isn’t that a very small fox?” or “how did the fox pay for that cappuccino?”). An excellent example of a kids’ serial keeping up with the times beautifully.

]]> http://watchification.com/2008/05/02/85/feed/ 0 http://watchification.com/2008/04/23/carrie-and-davids-popshop/ http://watchification.com/2008/04/23/carrie-and-davids-popshop/#comments Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:32:52 +0000 Steve Bowbrick http://watchification.com/?p=77 I like this a lot. I think Carrie and David are telling us they take kids’ media seriously. They’ve made the scary transition from primetime to daytime to playtime and the result is clever and life-enhancing: a show encouraging little kids to sing and dance and make music. Of course, I could be wrong. The Fame Academy wash-out could have wrecked their careers, Carrie could have an eating disorder (she’s pretty skinny) and they could have secretly divorced when it all went pear-shaped. Children’s TV could be a final desperate bid for fame—smiles to mask the crippling sadness and all that. I doubt it, though. I think this is the real thing: non-patronising children’s TV with a sense of fun. Lovely.

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