| In trailing the station's
new drama offering, BBC Scotland executives played down comparisons between the new show
and boalk inducing ratings hit the Monarch of the Glen. "Apart from the Highland
setting, a cast composed of the finest ham, and skirly chanter doodling, the new drama is
completely different. Ish.." a spokesfoley told the JT. The 6-part drama, "Bare-Faced", charts the
adventures of a crack team of international TV producers who persuade a bunch of grinning
hayseeds to invest squillions on a TV show centered on a fictitious mountain rescue team
based somewhere freezing, north of Perth. As the gap-toothed simpletons happily sign
enormous cheques to pay for chopper based tracking shots, we see the wily producers at
work, judiciously editing an ex-rental copy of Cliff Hanger starring Sly Stallone and that
bloke off Third Rock.
The consters persuade the executives to ignore the
real work of mountain rescue teams, i.e. lifting bewildered Mancunian hill walkers out of
hilltop blizzards, in August. Instead the main characters spend all their time agonising
over their love lives while staring meaningfully out over an idyllic lochside view to a
skirly chanter backing track…
Meanwhile back in the real world, TV pundits look
fondly back to BBC Scotland's last international blockbuster
"Invasion Earth" featured a cosmopolitan
cast willing to work for food, mugging unconvincingly against blue screens before the FX
whizzkids worked their magic - producing an awesomely terrifying pile of lime green jelly.
Just like the things your Mum made you eat when you visited your Grannie. |
