"Top Buzzer" (2004) TV series 2004-????

User Rating:

5.9/10   

Director:

Barnaby Southcombe

Writers:

Ed Allen (writer)
Johnny Vaughan (writer)

Seasons:

1

Release Date:

December 2004 (UK)

Genre:

Adventure | Comedy

Tagline:

The world's first dope opera

Cast

Katrine De Candole

...

Muriel (2 episodes)

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Filming Locations:

UK

Company:

World's End Productions

Excellent

Very good comedy series; along with The Mighty Boosh, this is the best British comedy around at the moment - where's the second series?

The characters are very funny and the script is pretty sharp. I suspect that this will turn up on terrestrial in the middle of the night in a couple of years time, by which time all the cast will be off doing other things and won't be able to make a second series - shame.

Why did the BBC refuse to show it? Well, it is a strange one, because at the same that Top Buzzer was showing on MTV, the BBC were showing a programme called Ideal, which was also based around dealing drugs, although that was completely unfunny and, in my opinion, a miserable load of old rubbish, that relied upon the viewer finding the sight of pathetic human wreck Johnny Vegas trying to string a sentence together funny and entertaining.

No, I've never found that funny either.

So forget the BBC, and the fact that MTV are seemingly not going to commission a second series, catch this on DVD, it's completely ace!

10/10