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Look Around You - Series 1
A spoof comedy series that makes fun of the old Open University educational science programmes from the late 70s onwards. Features 8 x 10 minute shows. Each episode takes a particular subject (such as ghosts, water and sulphur) and through a series of unusual experiments sets out to reveal unexpected facts and phenomenon!
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Look Around You - Series 2
Series Two of Look Around You takes an in-depth look at Music, Health, Sport, Food and Computers, with HRH Sir Prince Charles presenting the award for 'Invention of the Year' in the Live Final. The series parodies each subject and stars Sarah Alexander (Coupling, Smack The Pony) and Peter Serafinawicz (Hardware).
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BBC WORLDWIDE PUBLISHING Look Around You - Series 2
Release Date: 2006-01-16, Rating Suitable for 15 years and over,
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BBC WORLDWIDE PUBLISHING Look Around You [2002]
<I>Look Around You</I> is a spoof science programme that hilariously recreates both the drab, depressing air of 1970s educational television and a bygone world of tedious school science lessons. Each of the 10-minute episodes--or Modules--takes the form of a number of surreal and pointless experiments based on a chosen theme ranging from Water and Sulphur to Ghosts and Brains. <p> <I>Look Around You</I>'s humour lies not only in an absurd take on education and the impenetrable jargon of science, but also in evoking a sense of nostalgia in the viewer. In this respect the series is helped immeasurably by faultless production and attention to detail. Narrated in austere, Queen's English, using precise scientific terminology, this is a world of scratched film inserts, dubious periodic tables, cheap, synthesised music, giant hairstyles, bulky, teak-finished technology and a proliferation of DYMO labels. Each show is even prefaced by a few seconds of the Television for Schools & Colleges countdown clock. The tutorial format of the series is not without its problems though--it is essentially a single, plotless joke stretched to eight episodes, and there are no characters to speak of, save glimpses of the deadpan and much-maligned lab-technician (cowriter Peter Serafanowicz). Despite these shortcomings <I>Look Around You</I> is still a refreshingly different comedy, which is so well put together that you can almost smell the Bunsen burners while you watch. <p> <B>On the DVD:</B> <I>Look Around You</I> on disc comes with a sizeable and appropriately bizarre selection of extras. The superb animated menus are designed to mimic the arcane, pastel-coloured diagrams found in any well-thumbed science textbook, and even feature the background noise of what is presumably a white-coated technician shuffling around the lab. The Additional Features include the double-length Calcium episode, a full-length music video of the song created in the Music module (the surprisingly catchy Little Mouse by Jack Morgan, BSc), a selection of spoof pages from Ceefax and the Test Card. The different sound modes allow you to watch with or without the narration, subtitles or an entertaining commentary from the programme makers. --<I>Paul Philpott</I>
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LOOK AROUND YOU
author: DRAMA; publisher: BBC
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Evans Brothers - Books for Children The Toys We Play with (Look Around You S.)
Pages: 32, Paperback, Evans Brothers - Books for Children
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Look Around You - Series 2
A second series of the Spoof comedy science series reminiscent of education for schools, 'Tomorrow's World' and 'Open University' programming of the 70s and 80s. Includes discussions on Music, Health, Sport, Food And Computers, with HRH Sir Prince Charles presenting the award for 'Invention Of The Year' in the Live Final.
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