That Mitchell and Webb Look

That Mitchell and Webb Look
Format	Comedy sketch show
Starring	David Mitchell Robert Webb Olivia Colman Paterson Joseph
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Language(s)	English
No. of episodes	12
Production
Executive producer(s)	Kenton Allen, Jon Plowman
Running time	30 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	BBC Two BBC HD (2008)
Original run	September 14, 2006 – present
External links
Official website
IMDb profile
TV.com summary

That Mitchell and Webb Look is a BAFTA award winning British television sketch show starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb, that has currently run for two six-part series. The first episode originally aired 14 September 2006 on BBC Two.^[1] A second series was commissioned later that same year.^[2] The second series, consisting of six episodes, aired on BBC Two from 21 February 2008 to 27 March 2008 and was simulcast on BBC HD.^[3] Many of its characters and sketches are first featured in the duo's radio show That Mitchell and Webb Sound.

It is directed by David Kerr, who also directed Mitchell and Webb's previous television sketch show The Mitchell and Webb Situation. As well as Mitchell and Webb themselves, the writers include Jesse Armstrong, James Bachman, Sam Bain, Mark Evans, Toby Davies, Chris Pell, Jonathan Dryden Taylor, Joel Morris, Jason Hazeley and John Finnemore. It is produced by Gareth Edwards. Other cast members include Olivia Colman, James Bachman, Mark Evans, Abigail Burdess, Gus Brown, and Paterson Joseph.

Contents 1 Recurring sketches 1.1 Ted and Peter 1.2 Numberwang 1.3 The Party Planners 1.4 Big Talk 1.5 The Surprising Adventures of Sir Digby Chicken Caesar 1.6 The British Broadcasting Network 1.7 Barry Crisp 1.8 The Honeymoon's Over 1.9 The Helivets 1.10 The Lazy Film Writers 1.11 Colin and Ray 1.12 Car Boot 2 Production 3 Reception 4 DVD release 5 Worldwide broadcast 6 Notes 7 External links

Recurring sketches

Ted and Peter

This is a parody of television snooker commentary. Ted and Peter (Mitchell and Webb respectively) are a pair of jaded ex-players, who are generally more interested in getting drunk than actually commenting on the match. Their commentary comprises mainly revelations of bad habits, infidelities or crimes committed by players, mixed with mildly homoerotic praise of the players' style and looks. The sketch usually begins with Ted saying "Oh, and that's a bad miss" with the exception of one episode where Ted says "Oh, and that's a...cracking pot!"

Numberwang

Numberwang is a parody of game shows, featuring Webb as the host. Paterson Joseph and Olivia Colman play the contestants, who are respectively named Simon and Julie. The sketch features the two contestants guessing numbers at random, in various gameplay formats, until the host declares "That's Numberwang!". One skit featured a version done entirely in German and entitled "Nümberwang" (with a host played by Mitchell), while another featured a spinoff entitled "Wordwang", which featured the contestants guessing random words in a similar fashion.

Midway through the skits, the board on which the contestants sit is rotated, revealing a non sequitur scene (such as a Nativity scene or two men playing Russian Roulette) before returning to the contestants. In Series 2, Episode 2, a fictional ad was run for a board game based on the sketch.^[4] Another episode featured a trailer for a fictional movie called The Numberwang Code (a parody of The Da Vinci Code).^[5]

The Party Planners

This segment features people who whilst preparing a party guest list, reveal that one of their guests will bring along a famous literary or historical figure such as James Bond and Scooby-Doo.

Big Talk

This is hosted by Raymond Terrific (Webb), who shouts at his panel of "boffins", demanding they solve the world's problems. The experts try to solve these in a calm-headed way, while Raymond yells at them to get results faster. Raymond also (extremely unwillingly) chaired a spin-off called Small Talk, in which a panel of mindless celebrities discussed 'matters of no consequence', such as, "What is your favourite flavour of crisp?" although he visibly detested it.

The Surprising Adventures of Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

This features Webb and his sidekick Ginger (Mitchell), who believe that they are a pair of detectives in the style of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson when in fact they are drunken tramps. They are so poor that they have to hum their own theme tune (Devil's Gallop), which is usually sung as the intrepid duo are escaping from a crime scene. This purposely recall the classic radio programme Dick Barton - Special Agent, where Barton and his sidekick solve crimes. They believe that plots are constantly being hatched against them by their "nemesis" described as "some bastard who is presumably responsible". Henchmen of their nemesis turn up in the shape of the police or whoever they happen to stumble in front of. Sir Digby first appeared on radio in the show's precursor, "That Mitchell and Webb Sound" but was known then as Sir Digby Caesar-Salad.

The British Broadcasting Network

This features an old fashioned black and white broadcast, in which two characters constantly talk about the wonders of the new medium of television, and how it enables people to see them talking to each other.

Barry Crisp

This starrs Mitchell, who runs a range of attractions which are all unsafe, including charging £2 to jump off a cliff, or offering the chance to swim with a great white shark but with the shark inside the cage along with the diver. His middle class customer (Webb) assumes everything is "fine" because Barry has a sign, so it must be legitimate, and is seemingly oblivious to the obvious danger, always eventually agreeing to take part, much to Barry's surprise.

The Honeymoon's Over

In this sketch, Mitchell plays a rude, mean, condescending man who takes a variety of different jobs, in all of which he does his best to demean his customers (Webb and Colman) and make them feel uncomfortable and inferior. When Webb and Colman ask about the nice people they had seen in a previous visit Mitchell would always reply "She/He's gone, they're all gone, and we're back!" Jobs have included being a vicar, waiter and a clothes salesman.

The Helivets

This segment contains a pair of heroes clad in pink jumpsuits who claim they can rescue any Pet in Peril, however, whilst Robert Webb talks in an overly positive manner, David Mitchell repeats the line 'It's Dead'. A parody of TV shows following the Emergency Services. (introduced in series 2)^[6]

The Lazy Film Writers

This features parodies of film genres. The lazy film writers can never be bothered to think of something new for their next film or TV project, so they take the bits out one genre that everyone recognises, and make their own, rather rubbish film. For example, in series 2 episode 3, they endeavored to write an "underdog" sport film about cricket (despite knowing nothing about it) which was a parody of a number of similar British films such as Wimbledon and Brassed Off.

Colin and Ray

This features Webb and Mitchell (respectively) as co-workers in the same office, who have different jobs which tend to involve extraordinary plots. Colin works as a hostage negotiator, while Ray writes the plots to pornographic films.

Car Boot

This features a car boot seller (Webb) who, amongst the normal tat, has unique items, such as the Holy Grail and the Wardrobe from the Narnia books, at ridiculously low prices.

Production

The show follows on from the duo's earlier TV series The Mitchell and Webb Situation, and is an extension of their Radio 4 sketch show That Mitchell and Webb Sound. The show's producer Gareth Edwards commented that the show's pitch to the BBC "was the shortest pitch I've ever written", citing that the show "has worked on the radio, just like Little Britain worked on the radio and Dead Ringers worked on the radio, and they transferred successfully to TV, so why don't you [the BBC] transfer this one to TV as well?"^[1]

A pilot for the show was filmed on 27 January 2006 at BBC Television Centre,^[7] with a full series being later commissioned.^[8] Preview nights for the show were held at The Drill Hall in London on 11 January 2006 and 20 March 2006, and at Ginglik in Shepherd's Bush in London on 14 May 2006 and 21 May 2006. These took the form of a radio recording, with verbal prompting to the audience for any visual element that would be required. The series was shot on location in June 2006 and three audience recording sessions were held in Studio 4 at BBC Television Centre on 14 July 2006, 21 July 2006 and 28 July 2006.

A preview night for the second series was held on 18 May 2007 at The Drill Hall in London. This series was shot in high-definition^[9] on location during June/July 2007 and three studio recordings with an audience were held at TC8 in Television Centre on 3 August, 10 August and 17 August 2007.

Two preview nights for the upcoming third series were announced on 30 June 2008 on the BBC Tickets website; all tickets were booked in less than 24 hours. The first preview night took place on 13 July 2008 at The Drill Hall, with the second held there on 10 August 2008. No recording dates for the third series have yet been announced.

Following the series, the pair went on a tour of forty-four UK venues between October and December 2006, entitled The Two Faces of Mitchell and Webb, featuring many of the same sketches as That Mitchell and Webb Look.

Reception

The show was nominated for two British Comedy Awards in 2006, in the categories of "Britain's Best New TV Comedy" and the "Highland Spring People's Choice", it won neither of the awards.^[10] However, the show did go on to receive a BAFTA in 2007, in the category "Best comedy programme or series".^[11]

DVD release

The first series was released on DVD in the UK on 29 October 2007. Extras include Outtakes, Behind the Scenes footage and a Mitchell & Webb documentary.

The second series will be released on DVD in the UK on 20 October 2008.

Worldwide broadcast

Region	Channel
United Kingdom	BBC2 / BBC HD
Australia	ABC1
Canada	CBC Country Canada
Sweden	TV400
Denmark	DR2
United States	BBC America[12]

Notes

External links

• That Mitchell and Webb Look at bbc.co.uk
• That Mitchell and Webb Look at the Internet Movie Database
• That Mitchell and Webb Look at TV.com
• Numberwang at UKGameshows.com

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