31 Questions episode #6 has been put out to pasture on YouTube, where it shall remain until the end of time or until the YouTube supercomputer collapses in on itself under the pressure of excessive cat videos.
In other news, we’ve now been approved by WestTV Perth, TVS Sydney, 31 Digital Brisbane AND 44 Adelaide to be re-broadcast on their local stations!
So if YouTube’s not your thing and you live in one of those metropolitan areas, stay tuned for your chance to watch 31 Questions from the comfort of your armchair, just like us fancy folks in Melbourne & Geelong.
Kind regards,
David M. Green
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Last Saturday I drove up to scenic Warranwood in Melbourne’s outer east to join my good friend Dean Watson in front of his humungous TV to watch episode #5 of 31 Questions.
His TV is literally like 8 of my TVs. My TV is very small.
I also met his goat.
In the world of legitimate TV game shows, last week SBS announced that “Letters and Numbers” will not be returning. Instead it will be replaced by the British version of the show: “Countdown”.
This is a shame. But at the same time, it did make our parody segment “Letters and Letters” considerably more topical. Complete blind luck, considering we taped the episode back in April. That question about The Wiggles didn’t date quite as well, however.
And spoiler alert, congratulations to Naomi, this week’s glorious champion! You can read her first hand account of her time on 31 Questions on her blog. Fascinating stuff, which I had no idea of at the time we taped the show.
I’m very pleased with how 31 Questions has been received so far. Thank you for all the kind tweets and Facebook page comments. The response has literally been nothing but positive.
By the way, I don’t believe I’ve shared the link to our fabulous review from Australian Tumbleweeds: “Australia’s most opinionated blog about comedy”. I don’t know who that guy is, but he’s an exceptionally harsh critic. Basically, if it doesn’t have Shaun Micallef or Tony Martin in it, he hates it. So to have such a positive review is quite the honour.
He actually reviewed our pilot episode, which in my opinion is probably the worst one. And to be honest, I reckon episode #5 is the second worst. But I can now say every episode from now on is a good one.
In other news, I’m managing to white-ant my into other RMITV shows:
Next stop, a little bit o’ good ole fashioned PR.
Kind regards,
David M. Green
You know, if you remove the “e” and “l” from “Public relations”, you’re left with “Pubic rations”.
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
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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!
