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  • How to attract an audience

    Hi, I’m TV’s David M. Green – Host of the hilariously rating low budget TV game show “31 Questions”, Saturday nights 10PM on Channel 31 Melbourne & Geelong.

    Are you a comedian, musician, ventriloquist or some other type of performer?

    Putting on a show?

    Need an audience?

    Then watch this video for a few helpful hints on how to promote your gig and boost your audience numbers…

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANMvQADAE8k&feature=plcp

    I can only assume you now feel better about yourself.

    Kind regards,
    David M. Green
    Waster of other people’s time.

  • 31 Questions Ep #03

    In case you haven’t seen the pattern here, there’s now a new episode of “31 Questions” (the TV game show all the cool kids are ignoring) every week!

    If you’re enjoying the show, it would really mean a lot to me if you could tell someone about it. If you think comedy on Australian television is fairly ordinary and you’d like to see more shows like this, all you have to do is post the video on your Facebook page or retweet @31Questions. We don’t have a huge PR department like the proper TV stations, so help me [Obi Wan Kenobi]. You’re our only hope.

    Episode #3 features the gag round “Knowing Me, Knowing You” (for Alan Partridge and ABBA fans alike), where contestants are tested on their knowledge of their own personal details.

    Do YOU know what colour shirt you’re wearing in your driver’s licence photo? Hey don’t cheat!

    And thanks to some fabulous directing, there’s a freeze frame gag there too, which considering the video is on YouTube and you can easily pause it, means that jokes that are barely in frame still work.

    There is however, a frustratingly tragic audio glitch right on the punchline of one of my favourite gags from the whole series. RIGHT ON THE MOST IMPORTANT WORD OF THE WHOLE JOKE… We didn’t discover it until it was already too late to shoot it as a pick-up shot.

    We tried everything but we just couldn’t fix it. Re-recording the audio made it even more obvious. So we left it in because we figured we could just blame Channel 31 and say it was a transmission problem, which of course it isn’t. Channel 31 are fantastic.

    And I only did that gag once on the show!

    Damn.

    Kind regards,
    David M. Green
    31 Questions: The TV game show where YOU get to be the…

  • 31 Questions Ep #02. Plus exclusive content ONLY available… on the Internet

    YEEEESSSSS! If you couldn’t be arsed watching it on Channel 31 Melbourne & Geelong on Saturday evening, here’s the much anticipated 2nd release of everyone’s favourite no-budget TV game show, 31 Questions!

    Not only is it available here in superior YouTube-form for you to watch whenever the hell you want, but due to an intolerant and poorly designed YouTube monetization set-up process, YouTube seems to have blocked us from monetizing the 31 Questions account.

    What does this mean for us? Even less chance we’ll recoup any of the costs associated with producing this television show.

    What does this mean for you? NO ANNOYING ADS!

    And as a special treat for you, the Internet user, here’s a couple of gags from Ep #2 we had to cut for time:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeR7AiUlFok

    Kind regards,
    David M. Green
    Tell your friends.

  • 31 Questions Ep #01

    Missed the debut episode of 31 Questions on Channel 31 Melbourne & Geelong last night? Now you can watch it again and again! And again and again and again!

    Kind regards,
    David M. Green
    And again.

  • What is this, a REAL TV show?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzhPX_5ggF4&feature=g-all-u

    A big thanks to the good folk over at Channel 31 Melbourne & Geelong who put that 31 Questions promo together for us!

    However, I feel I am obligated to point out that “it’s the quiz show like no other” might not actually be the best description, considering we parody segments from several other TV game shows and the gist of the format is lifted straight from “Sale of the Century” and really any game show that features a host asking questions…

    A more accurate line might be: “it’s the quiz show like most of the others”.

    But yes, we now have a promo airing on Channel 31 and all of a sudden OH MY GOD! I’M ON TV!

    A similar feeling must also be gyrating through the trousers of the good folk involved with RMITV’s NEW flagship show “Live on Bowen”, which also debuts this weekend on Channel 31. Friday evening 8.30PM to be precise.

    Thus called because RMIT University is… whatever the opposite of girt is… by Bowen Street in the north-east quadrant of the Melbourne CBD.

    Now, there’s surely a score of TV producers who, given the opportunity, may have been tempted to call the show “Live on Swanston” in order to more clearly communicate their unique brand of Melbourne-focused program content. But not these guys. Bowen Street is where it’s at. Literally.

    “Live on Bowen” replaces RMITV’s previous flagship late night comedy show “Studio A”. If you’re not familiar with why Studio A was cancelled, have a quick gander at this completely unbiased article from an impartial author: Channel 31’s Best Show Cancelled For Some Reason

    So, new cast and new writers! I for one think this is a great thing because there are very few opportunities to get hands-on experience in television comedy in this country.

    Speaking from my own experience, I joined RMITV shortly after I moved to Melbourne in February 2010. And one of the first things I did was put my hand up to audition to be a cast member and writer on Studio A.

    Wouldn’t you know it, I was unsuccessful. Which was fair enough. It’s a tough contest, and at that point my only TV experience was being an extra in “McLeod’s Daughters”. And that scene was deleted.

    But the cast and writers of Studio A remained unchanged for the next 2 years!

    For any inexperienced writer or performer who walked into the RMITV office in 2010 or 2011, the only way you could write for TV was to become a producer and pitch your own show. A task that’s considerably easier said than done (but which is infinitely more rewarding).

    Of course, a lot of writers can’t be arsed doing all that producing crap. I sure as hell wasn’t keen on it.

    So that’s why it’s great that “Live on Bowen” has come along and given some fresh faces an opportunity to see their gags performed on the small screen. It’s what RMITV and Channel 31 should be doing. And they are. So good on ’em.

    And may I wish the team at “Live on Bowen” all the best for their debut season.

    Now, “Live on Bowen” may have a bigger budget, a flash new set, a more professional cast and crew, big name celebrity guests and the honour of being RMITV’s “flagship” show… but do they have DMG-cam?

    I highly doubt it…

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gg5Oij6X6z8&feature=g-all-u

    Right! Back to 31 Questions.

    Episode #1 will air on TV this Saturday. Be warned though, it is the 2nd pilot episode, which we shot as a once-off back in June 2011.

    The set is slightly different (mainly less stolen than in later episodes) and instead of series co-hosts Anthony McCormack and Sophie Loughran, it’s Alasdair Tremblay-Birchall and Melanie Valentine on board.

    Now, there’s probably a score of TV producers who, given the opportunity, would probably not allow the pilot episode to be broadcast… But not us!

    We figured there’s enough laughs to justify salvation from the cutting room floor.

    So it’s going to air – production mistakes, continuity errors, awkward audience shots, Glenn Ridge cameo and all – on Channel 31 Melbourne & Geelong this Saturday June 9 at 10PM.

    If you’ve ever wanted to see just how many things can go wrong while making a pre-recorded TV game show, now’s your chance!

    So tune in.

    And don’t forget you can tweet along too: @31Questions #31Questions

    Kind regards,
    David M. Green
    davidmgreen.com – #1 biased source of David M. Green news