Look Around You turns 10

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Robert Popper and Peter Serafinowicz's wonderful mock-educational-film-parody BBC2 show "Look Around You" celebrated its 10th anniversary this week. Robert writes,

We had a fantastic night at the BFI in London, which showed all 8 eps back to back. The amazing Jonathan Ross hosted the evening, and our brill director, Tim Kirkby, joined us for a fun Q and A. It was a really touching, lovely event full of our old crew members and Look Around You aprreciators. Thanks all for coming. It meant a lot to us.
Anyway, Peter and I made a new short especially for the evening. So, here it is for everyone else. Hope you like our ‘Intermission Film’…

Congratulations, Robert and Peter! I raise a glass of sulphagne to toast your achievement. And below, an interview for Boing Boing with Peter and Robert on the occasion of "Look Around You" DVD release.

Thants.

Boing Boing editor/partner and tech culture journalist Xeni Jardin hosts and produces Boing Boing's in-flight TV channel on Virgin America airlines (#10 on the dial), and writes about living with breast cancer. Diagnosed in 2011. @xeni on Twitter. email: xeni@boingboing.net.

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Melinda9

Are these the guys who did Markets of Britain? I love that one.
- jerwin
  
  yes
http://www.facebook.com/postelwait Cameron Postelwait

retro just got retro!
Phoc Yu

Thanks, Xeni…. Theni.
http://londonfilmgeek.com londonfilmgeek

Thanks BoingBoing, Thoing-oing.
http://www.matthewpetty.com/ Matthew Petty

I loved Look Around You, they got the vibe of those 70′s UK educational films exactly, including the music. In fact, if you like the music, you could do worse than listen to The Advisory Circle’s album As The Crow Flies, as reviewed here (with clips): http://bothbarson.wordpress.com/2011/08/02/the-advisory-circle-as-the-crow-flies/
Other releases on Ghost Box as well. Lovely stuff!
Lobster

Ten years, yet we still don’t know what birds are.
- Alpacaman
  
  We just don’t know.
http://www.nathanhornby.com/ Nathan Hornby

Wonderful show, but there’s nothing ‘amazing’ about Jonathan Ross.
MooseDesign

I hadn’t heard of this before! Brilliant… thanks!
RichardHenderson

I will *never* forget the first time I saw an episode of Look Around You… I felt like I did when I saw Fight Club at the cinema the first time.

“What the fuck did I just watch?”
- Alpacaman
  
  A biology teacher of mine played it during one class, we thought we were in for the most boring educational video ever, until about two minutes in when it clicked.
ryuchi

Xeni, here is a song for you i think you’ll like it!: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JWAmF-Z4r4&feature=player_embedded
don’t ever say you’re not taken care of musically!