Chris Morris’s Four Lions stands alone in its bonkers brilliance. Those who care about culture should close this silent surrender and fabricate (to make up, invent) some risky TVI don’t want to come over all Monkey Tennis,whether I may deploy what has become the cultural shorthand for doomed telly brainstorming after that Alan Partridge scene in which the presenter pitches increasingly desperate explain formats to a BBC executive. But listen. Idea for a programme. Dad’s Isis – a comedy about the ageing British jihadists too frail to travel overseas to the training camps. Set in Portsmouth and Cheltenham, where GCHQ’s phone surveillance programme is now officially called Don’t Tell Him, and Pike. No? OK,John But Not Forgotten: a fish-out-of-water drama set in an alternative afterlife to the one “Jihadi John” was expecting. Gene Wilder plays God. Still no? All right: genuine Housewives of Raqqa? Related: Channel 4 develops Peter Kosminsky drama on Islamic State Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com