Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Three boss talks about new drama and your comments
Here on the blog we like to give you the chance to watch our fresh new drama and comedy programmes exclusively before they're shown on the telly. Not only that, but we regularly ask you to tell us your thoughts on which ones you like and what you think works. As so many of you have taken the time to share your opinions, I thought it would be good to follow up and find out which new drama series has been commissioned and what actually happens to all your comments. So I went straight to the top, to Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Three Controller Danny Cohen, and I began by asking him why he's so keen to put the pilots online and to ask for people's reactions...
At Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Three, we want to have a close relationship and be in dialogue with our viewers. So we want to take opportunities with comedy and drama to find out what people think about pilots. That doesn't always mean that the audience will decide what we do and which ones will go forward, but it does mean we're interested and we care about what you think. We have to balance hearing what you think with all the other issues that go into making a decision about whether or not to make a series.
So does that mean that you do read the comments people leave about programmes on the blog?
I do genuinely. I read what's on the blog and I read what people say about us on and . And it's good to hear the comments good and bad; they're equally useful because of course not everyone is going to like what you do. And the other thing that I think is worth saying, is that we want to make our website the place where you can find exclusive content. So as well as asking the audience what they think, we want to offer people the opportunity to see things first on our website. And we try to do that with quite a lot of our comedy and drama pilots.
Lets talk about the drama pilots that we premiered on the blog in May; can you say which series we can expect to see on Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Three?
So, in this particular case, we put four drama pilots online and on TV and got fantastic feedback. We really enjoyed that dialogue with the audience. But we were also waiting on one more which, when it turned up, we were really excited about but didn't feel it was quite ready to put out online or on TV. The potential of the pilot was so strong that we knew this was the one that should go to series. We would have loved to have shown it to you but we just felt that if we put it out as it is in it's current form, we wouldn't do Touch - which is what the show is called - a good service. So, we are going with Touch and when we show it next year, I really hope you agree.
Can you tell us a bit more about Touch?
It's a zombie thriller about a teenager who discovers there are zombies walking around on earth and only he can save the world. It's being made by the Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú's in-house drama team and it will be out in the second half of next year. The screenwriter is Jack Thorne who is the co-writer of the This is England TV series and he's also worked on Skins and Shameless. He's an amazing bloke and he's got the most extraordinary imagination, absolutely incredible and he's still only in his twenties. He's a really amazing guy.
So there you have it. Next year, look out for new drama series Touch and keep your comments coming on the blog as lots of us here at Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Three HQ do read them.
You can currently watch DOA on the blog, the latest new comedy available online before being shown on TV. It stars Kris Marshall (My Family, those phone ads) and Karen Taylor as ambulance workers on a night shift faced with a crazy mix of alligators, goth vomit and sex toys! But not all at the same time.
Danny Cohen is the Controller of Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Three and has recently been appointed as the new Controller of Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú One.
At Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Three, we want to have a close relationship and be in dialogue with our viewers. So we want to take opportunities with comedy and drama to find out what people think about pilots. That doesn't always mean that the audience will decide what we do and which ones will go forward, but it does mean we're interested and we care about what you think. We have to balance hearing what you think with all the other issues that go into making a decision about whether or not to make a series.
Stanley Park - one of the drama pilots shown on the blog
I do genuinely. I read what's on the blog and I read what people say about us on and . And it's good to hear the comments good and bad; they're equally useful because of course not everyone is going to like what you do. And the other thing that I think is worth saying, is that we want to make our website the place where you can find exclusive content. So as well as asking the audience what they think, we want to offer people the opportunity to see things first on our website. And we try to do that with quite a lot of our comedy and drama pilots.
Lets talk about the drama pilots that we premiered on the blog in May; can you say which series we can expect to see on Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Three?
So, in this particular case, we put four drama pilots online and on TV and got fantastic feedback. We really enjoyed that dialogue with the audience. But we were also waiting on one more which, when it turned up, we were really excited about but didn't feel it was quite ready to put out online or on TV. The potential of the pilot was so strong that we knew this was the one that should go to series. We would have loved to have shown it to you but we just felt that if we put it out as it is in it's current form, we wouldn't do Touch - which is what the show is called - a good service. So, we are going with Touch and when we show it next year, I really hope you agree.
Drama pilot Dappers
It's a zombie thriller about a teenager who discovers there are zombies walking around on earth and only he can save the world. It's being made by the Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú's in-house drama team and it will be out in the second half of next year. The screenwriter is Jack Thorne who is the co-writer of the This is England TV series and he's also worked on Skins and Shameless. He's an amazing bloke and he's got the most extraordinary imagination, absolutely incredible and he's still only in his twenties. He's a really amazing guy.
So there you have it. Next year, look out for new drama series Touch and keep your comments coming on the blog as lots of us here at Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Three HQ do read them.
You can currently watch DOA on the blog, the latest new comedy available online before being shown on TV. It stars Kris Marshall (My Family, those phone ads) and Karen Taylor as ambulance workers on a night shift faced with a crazy mix of alligators, goth vomit and sex toys! But not all at the same time.
Danny Cohen is the Controller of Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Three and has recently been appointed as the new Controller of Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú One.
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