Have I Got a Cracker For You... Dream home could virtually be a reality
Forget Changing Rooms... BBC2 will screen a revolutionary new home improvement show based on virtual reality, so nothing actually changes for the first half of the programme.
Watch This Space sees different couples profiled each week, with the partners holding opposing views of how best to redesign their properties. Architects Laura Clark and Robert Jamison will produce two conflicting briefs using VR technology, and the homeowners will be able to “step into” the redesigned properties.
Through the use of photo-real visual effects, entire structures will be transformed and the couples then have to decide which plans to take on and build themselves.
Host Angela Scanlon, above, said: “Watch This Space will ingeniously use virtual reality so couples can try out new designs without lifting a rusty hammer or spending a single penny.” CHANNEL 4 is trying out a topical panel show being dubbed Have I Got News For You for the modern age.
It has commissioned News Crack, a 30-minute “anarchic, clip-based topical comedy pilot” with a view to a series.
The show aims to “put a subversive twist on the week’s events”.
Creators Guy Davidson and Dan Clarke are writers and producers of comic news footage mash-ups and sketches whose web videos have had 250 million hits.
Guy says: “We’ve been in our basement making mashes for so long Dan has lost the ability to Jack’s in bother with both Dani and Ellie speak.” But their show has a way to go to challenge the BBC’S Have I Got News For You, 55 series old and approaching a 500th episode. C4’s Syeda Irtizaali says: “This felt like a very fresh, anarchic, modern take on satirising news with some brilliant new digital talent.”
Karl Warner of production firm Electric Ray says: “It’ll take genuinely disturbed minds to make the world look weirder than it already is.” Wonder if Paul Merton and Ian Hislop, above left, have begun quaking in their boots yet...
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