TV To Go pilot (Bill Bailey, Sean Lock, Martin Freeman, 2000)

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10 ай бұрын

Sketch show pilot about the annoyances of modern life, first broadcast Tuesday 4th July 2000 at 10:50pm on BBC One.
Writers include Bill Bailey, Sean Lock, David Mitchell, Robert Webb and Tony Roche.

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@saldunn2292 10 ай бұрын

Damn shame this was never made into a series, very enjoyable, brilliant cast.

@dont.hang.around 10 ай бұрын

It was! Bill Bailey, Sean Lock and Martin Freeman didn't return, but Mackenzie Crook joined the cast. I saw some of it on original broadcast and remember almost nothing except that I think Hugh Dennis played a 'House Husband' who enjoyed arranging flowers in a 4-4-3 formation.

@BinaryJoe 10 ай бұрын

@@dont.hang.around Yeah, IMDB says it ran for 2 series or years...whichever comes first in the UK. 😄

@tynebar 10 ай бұрын

It's terrible.

@EubulusKane3259 10 ай бұрын

Fascinating to see documentary footage of Sean and Bill’s holidays…

@covrtdesign5279 10 ай бұрын

Man, Hugh was a beast with acting. Really like his character in this. Could you imagine being the exec's who said no to this and then seeing who comedic legends that so many of these actors and actresses turned into.

@waitingforanalibi2224 10 ай бұрын

Love My Family. Sums mine up to a tea and he is deffo me!

@waitingforanalibi2224 10 ай бұрын

Im soooo sorry, I meant outnumbered.🤣. Though tbh, both ring true!

@mirolubos 10 ай бұрын

sean lock and bill are like ultimate uncles. always wrong but always right.

@paulrumney2983 10 ай бұрын

What a cast thanks for posting.

@royksk 10 ай бұрын

It’s downright bloody criminal that this wasn’t taken up by whomever. A brilliant show in the offing 🤪

@BinaryJoe 10 ай бұрын

This show is great. How a show with such an all-star cast slipped past me, I don't know.I Seeing Pauline is great, Hugh is actually funny, and the Bill and Sean bits are perfection. Good stuff.

@yzolakitchi 10 ай бұрын

Likewise. Never heard of it, can't believe this wasn't on my radar. Loved Absolutely, Smack The Pony and Naked Video, but this one is a whole new deal. Agree about Bill and Sean - comedy perfection. 😍

@SineN0mine3 10 ай бұрын

8:55 Mrs Doyle finally gets someone else to bring the tea

@DavidXNewton 10 ай бұрын

I remember seeing this when it aired! I’ve always remembered the sketch with the daughter separating the parents when they came to stay, because my wife and I were going through that with my parents :) Thanks for uploading it, I had no idea what it was called

@tolfan4438 10 ай бұрын

I am watching this show for the first time. Never heard of it before now. WOW this is a good show

@suzieb8366 10 ай бұрын

This could have been awesome! Thanks for uploading this pilot, great fun to watch. Bloopers from it would have been brilliant...the cast are top notch.

@xShibboleth 9 ай бұрын

Hard to believe that pilot was made eleven years after Martin Freeman starred in Driving Miss Daisy. Incredible versatility.

@justinbelshe 9 ай бұрын

The mind reels...

@Pagliacci_Rex 9 ай бұрын

This would be funny if they actually had the same name or were pronounced the same.

@Dave_Crewe 10 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for this! I remember seeing this broadcast. The Bill Bailey/Sean Lock holiday bartender scene stayed with me, but I could never find it again. For some reason I thought it was called 'The Sketch Show'. Which is on reflection probably why I couldn't find it.

@vjc2270 10 ай бұрын

OMG - the i-Mac! I was desperate for one of those. 😂 A coloured computer - with a round mouse! Truly it was a miracle of our times. ❤😂😂😂

@bennylush 10 ай бұрын

Reminds me of Big train, snack the pony the 90s early 00s had some great sketch shows

@RamblerMan68 10 ай бұрын

Im American that lived in the UK for a few years and I can say this is a "Dream Team" of a cast...so sad that it didnt catch on, its brilliant!

@ThomasCorfield 10 ай бұрын

I've never seen Mrs Doyle in anything else before. And I love the way Sean just plays himself as though he doesn't really give a shit.

@stephennicolay1940 10 ай бұрын

Ah go on, go on, go on, go on, go on

@ThomasCorfield 10 ай бұрын

😂"Will you not have a cup anyway?"@@stephennicolay1940

@sexymuthafunka8240 10 ай бұрын

Then Shameless Series 7 Episode 7 will blow your mind. Mrs Doyle fully nude being bounced about on the end of David Threlfall 😂

@chrishughes3405 10 ай бұрын

Lucky git not having had to watch eastenders because you would've seen her there. Ah go on.

@jamesedmonds7519 10 ай бұрын

She was in Shameless.

@JK_Clark 10 ай бұрын

Funny, smart, and performed brilliantly. Loved it.

@TheRealHambone 10 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing this

@angelafoxmusic7265 10 ай бұрын

Marvellous! Thankyou!

@kimhewer1479 10 ай бұрын

Love Sean and Bill at the bar 😅

@thomasraabjerg8619 18 күн бұрын

The Sketch Show vibe off of this… Great skits ☺️

@xaraxania 10 ай бұрын

i love all of these actors, especially Martin and Bill

@That_Revenant_Guy 10 ай бұрын

This should've been bigger. Nothing wrong with this.

@gillymccyber1927 10 ай бұрын

Agreed, great gags

@BenjaminGoose 10 ай бұрын

"Nothing wrong with this." isn't really a good argument to keep a show on when there are many competing shows vying for broadcasting.

@bradleybarnett9545 10 ай бұрын

@@BenjaminGooseDon't understand understatement much¿

@kickedinthecalfbyacow7549 10 ай бұрын

All the energy of a rat, trapped in a can. Imagine that!

@idaslapter5987 9 ай бұрын

wow! so great. thanks for posting. who knew this existed?!?

@NoxiousRob 10 ай бұрын

So this series was not commissioned and instead we get guff like Mrs Brown's Boys.

@curiositypiqued6573 7 ай бұрын

Mrs brown is basically the tv version of comfort food....ppl love it just like sugar/junk food that they know they shouldn't but its a guilt of pleasure...and perhaps it reminds them of their own feisty nanas lol Besides this ain't that funny either

@datgrrl5698 Ай бұрын

There was a pilot, and two series each consisting of six episodes...

@Highland_Moo 8 күн бұрын

Mrs Brown’s Boys makes my bum itch. It’s awful.

@Konpeitoh 10 ай бұрын

They all look so young Sean looks like he's been dipped in lotion and Bill hasn't had crack yet

@westgoten 8 ай бұрын

Brilliant! Good to see that Mrs Doyle made it off Craggy Island as well. 24:29 Go on! :D

@MrTimdriver 10 ай бұрын

Excellent.

@imaner76 10 ай бұрын

Comedy never dies. Just the comedians.

@pawelkaras7231 10 ай бұрын

But they live on a little bit longer every time they make us laugh. Sean Lock is immortal and I'll be laughing at his jokes until the day I die.

@imaner76 10 ай бұрын

@@pawelkaras7231 100%

@troubledspirit3328 9 ай бұрын

I couldnt do this at the time because id been scarred by The Young Ones but I now appreciate this as audio/visual evolution, or devolution. Funny as heck though

@radar1974 9 ай бұрын

I really assume Bill and Sean’s segments were mainly ad-libbed because they were close friends in real life. RIP Sean and I really enjoyed this, thanks for posting

@DogOfKrondor 10 ай бұрын

Love the fridge magnet sketch, the cat flying towards the fridge shouldn't be that funny but 🤣🤣🤣 This would have been a great show.

@thinkfloyd2594 10 ай бұрын

You should put Hugh Dennis' name up there!

@deanatkins9576 10 ай бұрын

And the go on go on go on Irish bird

@kickedinthecalfbyacow7549 10 ай бұрын

Up where?

@kimhewer1479 10 ай бұрын

And Debra Stevenson Pauline mclynn x

@Lighting_Desk 10 ай бұрын

Thats was pretty good that was. Especially being made so long agi!

@herbieshine1312 10 ай бұрын

I'd need the 11tog! There were some jokes in this but a little thin in places. I never saw this and had no knowledge of the series! Thanks for uploading

@samoharachilds 10 ай бұрын

Good work

@TheBatmansbrother 10 ай бұрын

Wow, what a cast and David Mitchell and Robert Webb were writers on it.

@ducomaritiem7160 10 ай бұрын

Soo bloody good this, had a good laugh here. Shame the picture quality was so low.

@John-Dennehy 10 ай бұрын

As a former resident of Reigate, the church scene is very accurate 😂

@andybyron1 10 ай бұрын

Hilarious. I love Sean and Bill. The Bartender is brilliant. MORE Daddy MORE🤣🤣🤣

@bobob4477 9 ай бұрын

This is like, the dream team.

@connorhalliday6542 10 ай бұрын

How the fuck did this not get aired for a series

@datgrrl5698 Ай бұрын

...it did...twice...

@jerbear7952 10 ай бұрын

Hugh is criminally under utilized

@robertcreighton4635 10 ай бұрын

Never heard of this before. I enjoyed it I'll hunt down more episides

@robertcreighton4635 10 ай бұрын

@@seancomrie4714 I see thanks 😊

@margaretgaskin4928 10 ай бұрын

Those Apple Macs!

@simonwilton3546 10 ай бұрын

The actor Kevin Eldon not featured here, otherwise superb.

@daniellamcgee4251 10 ай бұрын

Weird how so many people assume that because this is a pilot the series wasn't picked up. 🤔

@stuartedworthy5111 10 ай бұрын

Not really, because those people know that if it had been picked up, they would have heard of it and watched it over the past 23 years.

@daniellamcgee4251 10 ай бұрын

@@stuartedworthy5111 But it was picked up - for 2 series. Just a bit of a change with some cast members.

@DaddyMorphosis 10 ай бұрын

What a find! Thanks for uploading. Pauline McLynn!

@andrewgrant6516 10 ай бұрын

Martin Freeman makes great movies, but it's a loss to sketch shows that he's moved on. He was great in this.

@jedfra9172 10 ай бұрын

He is a fantastic actor and that shows even in comedy sketches.

@blackcorp0001 10 ай бұрын

Just watched the Fargo Netflix series , Martin Freeman is very good

@DaleHodgkins0n 8 ай бұрын

@@blackcorp0001. I can't find Fargo on Netflix.... which country has it, if you don't mind me asking? I saw one episode somewhere and thought it was brilliant - love to see the rest. 😊

@davidweir3641 10 ай бұрын

Wow, top drawer writers and performers, yet didn't get green lit. Sean and Bill in a different class to rest. By far the funniest parts, but no actual punch lines

@callumodey4532 10 ай бұрын

when bill bailey almost had hair

@joanne4758 10 ай бұрын

Goodness I love Brit humour. What a lineup.

@QIKUGAMES-QIKU 10 ай бұрын

Are there any more of these episodes 🤔??? ❤

@BriansBrain 10 ай бұрын

13:39 appears to be the same place Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant filmed 'The Office'.

@mohammedomar4652 10 ай бұрын

brillliant

@GioMarron 10 ай бұрын

What an incredible writing team and cast Did this ever make it to air? I don’t remember it and would have loved this. Oftentimes there’s a show that looked incredible but, for a variety of reasons, didn’t sit here in Scotland - more often than not as a Scottish show was being shown. Something like Gary: Tank Commander or Chewin The Fat from this era

@breakingbells 10 ай бұрын

Hi, it did make it as I remember it being on, however the casting changed, with Mackenzie Crook now in. Bill Bailey, Martin Freeman, Sean Lock etc left after the pilot so the quality dipped quite a lot. I think it deserved its only series

@steveeverett7844 10 ай бұрын

Where can i find additional episodes? There were 2 seasons

@bobob4477 9 ай бұрын

Oh god I worked in insurance for years I understood that whole conversation and would actually get into it. Not sure about Bill having it insured at his parent's place..

@ricardoroberto7054 9 ай бұрын

Go on, go on, go on

@nyemartin5737 10 ай бұрын

Sean Lock and Bill Bailey in Spain 😂

@countingdrums4967 9 ай бұрын

Never seen this before 🤩 You've missed Pauline McLynn from the title credits! 🤦🏻‍♀️ Especially as she's in most of the clips.

@RupertDavison 8 ай бұрын

Anyone have episodes of the rest of the series of TV To Go? Can't find them anywhere!

@JoelGalilee 10 ай бұрын

Was the intro by Bill Wurtz?

@warkatwargaming2358 10 ай бұрын

Bill Bailey hasn't aged in 23 years?

@MatthewXLY 10 ай бұрын

He's always looked like a hobbit.

@ajorngjdonaydbr 10 ай бұрын

@@MatthewXLYhe prefers to be a troll living under a bridge

@Nymaz 10 ай бұрын

When Bill Bailey turned Bill Bailey on his Bill Baileyday, he stopped Bill Baileying and stayed Bill Bailey from them on.

@QIKUGAMES-QIKU 10 ай бұрын

Orcs trolls and Hobbits age much slower than Humans ❤😂

@QIKUGAMES-QIKU 10 ай бұрын

@@NymazYour frikkin Bill Bailying me 😮

@FryJones 10 ай бұрын

I like the south Asian kid playing a Central American resort bartender

@simonwilton3546 10 ай бұрын

@fryJones-didnt he appear in “Flowers” more recently?

@famouschappi 10 ай бұрын

Emigration!

@FryJones 9 ай бұрын

@@simonwilton3546 haha not sure if that's him or not but that show was so great. Fuckin Julian Barrett. Legend

@AstonishingSodApe 5 ай бұрын

Do you have the remaining episodes?

@Red-Balloon-Girl 9 ай бұрын

That is better than most of the stuff on now!! When you think about the utter poo that’s been made into series 😩

@willhunt6897 10 ай бұрын

Too hit and miss to have been fully commissioned but still some decent ideas in there. Incredible cast!!

@MARTMART-vm4lc 9 ай бұрын

Does anyone know who did the theme tune? 🤔

@davidblackwell614 10 ай бұрын

Ahead of its time

@victoriawalley8483 10 ай бұрын

🤩

@Pagliacci_Rex 9 ай бұрын

There was another failed skit show called Bruiser that had Martin Freeman, David Mitchell, Robert Webb, Olivia Coleman, Matthew Holness, and Charlotte Hudson. All alumni and members of the Cambridge Footlights. Seems like group sketch shows are a hard sell in the UK since Python set such a high bar.

@milosterwheeler2520 10 ай бұрын

Too bad this wasn't recorded in front of a live audience and given a dozen episodes to find its rhythm. It might have matured into something special.

@victoryoneable 10 ай бұрын

The laugh track ruins it for me.

@TequilaToothpick 10 ай бұрын

@@victoryoneableWhat's wrong with the audience laughter?

@victoryoneable 10 ай бұрын

@@TequilaToothpick I think it's the way it's edited. It seems a bit too loud, sudden and unnatural for me, I find it distracting instead of reinforcing the humour.

@PhilipKerry 10 ай бұрын

The housekeeper from Father Ted when she was young .....

@airwave6610 9 ай бұрын

Did Bill Wurtz make the opening titles?

@stephenrichards3567 9 ай бұрын

This is wonderful, shame no more!

@Kinematographer 9 ай бұрын

its like the fast show..but slow..or Jam but just the jar, or Big train except its derailed.

@Magicalfluidprocess 9 ай бұрын

Why the laughter track

@frankbrodie5168 10 ай бұрын

The Hugh driving instructor bit about "straight across the roundabout.." took me back to a comical incident with my mum many years ago. I'm not a driving instructor. And my mum was an ex taxi driver in her 60's by then. But I was banned for a DUI for 12 months so she would drive me to a country pub once a week to keep me amused. I'd buy her a posh coffee + lunch etc. Well one week she was a bit peed off because I asked her to drive me to a country pub I knew in the outskirts of Barnsley. (Darfield fwiw.) She was bombing along driving angry, never a good idea. We approached a small junction with one of those pretend roundabouts that are just a circle of raised tarmac in the middle. Made to just slow the flow of traffic. (they didn't reckon on my mum in a bad mood..) She asked me which way to go at the roundabout. And I, foolishly as it transpired said "straight over the roundabout.." Well.. As the car sailed a foot into the air and we crashed back to earth on the other side of the roundabout I just looked at her, and she looked back and said that she genuinely hadn't meant to do that in any way. She had just switched her brain off due to being a bit peed off with me. Top fun actually. And definitely not the daftest thing either of us ever did whilst driving.

@andrewlamont3053 10 ай бұрын

the biggest drawback in my eyes is the laughtracking. I suppose it was the time, but tension & release FFS.

@TheBrandonGrose 10 ай бұрын

Especially when it’s louder than the actor’s dialogue. That first skit completely washed out the guy in the back

@simonhughes6942 10 ай бұрын

Bit fast show format 😘

@Boatperson 10 ай бұрын

Thoroughly enjoyed! What a waste!

@veganissimo8688 9 ай бұрын

Hugh not getting a mention in the title is a travesty.

@cabbageplays6710 10 ай бұрын

I would have watched that if it was made into a series, just another thing i wont get to see

@sullenpuffin 10 ай бұрын

Lol poor old you

@daniellamcgee4251 10 ай бұрын

It was, apparently. But no Bill, Sean or Martin. MacKenzie Crook instead.

@cabbageplays6710 10 ай бұрын

@@daniellamcgee4251 no wonder I didn't watch it then. Love Hugh Dennis as well. Seriously underated comedy actor.

@stevekoolie1977 9 ай бұрын

Television is. Over due for another sketch comedy

@ajivins1 10 ай бұрын

I vaguely remember this but Mina Anwar and MacKenzie Crook were in it with no Bill Bailey or Sean Lock.

@samuelgarrod8327 10 ай бұрын

Hahaaaaa. Seriously though I love the Hugh Dennis driving instructor bit.

@tdiron5277 10 ай бұрын

The English have a sense of humor that should not be ignored , they should be studied .

@jerbear7952 10 ай бұрын

They aren't being studied? What would you call all of the people who watch them.

@anthonyclark8564 9 ай бұрын

That's better than 95 percent of the rubbish comedythat's on TV now...and it didn't make it?? Madness.

@heeeeeresrossy 10 ай бұрын

Not great. But Debra Stephenson is at least always easy on the eye 😍

@warrenduff1611 10 ай бұрын

"I killed my own mother"

@tomasantl3164 10 ай бұрын

Briliant testament to british comedy and absurd jokes as began with Monty Pythons.

@ironjohn5107 10 ай бұрын

The Goons went there long before Python

@daniellamcgee4251 10 ай бұрын

@@ironjohn5107Thank you. 🫡 Have a gorilla.

@kickedinthecalfbyacow7549 10 ай бұрын

An American referencing Monty python, how rare

@jerbear7952 10 ай бұрын

Python had many great shoulders to stand on.

@callumodey4532 10 ай бұрын

nice...thankyou for posting...however I agree I dont think it's funny enough to have been made into a series despite the cast...maybe they needed frankie boyle and Dylan Moran in the script room