On Thursday night, before our Sky Plus box crashed, I watched most of the 1970s Office, a new Sky One show.
Assigned that seventies’ favourite, The Space Hopper, they will work towards their ad campaign pitch. For two weeks, our hand-picked advertising luvvies will be forced to live and work without any of the trappings of the 21st century – luxuries that most of them probably don’t even realise they take for granted. They will have just ten days to complete the pitch before presenting their ideas to a panel of the good and the great in the ad industry.
It was quite a good show, and some of the ad ideas were better than I expected! I’m looking forward to seeing how the campaigns evolve into a real pitch to present in two weeks. I really recommend the show to anyone who’s in the UK to catch it!
Edited on 22/11/04: Just for all the people who are doing Google searches and landing on my site when looking for what has happened to the show, please visit the 1970s Office mini-site, click on Chat and check the forums. People are posting updates on when it’s on! I’m still trying to get to the bottom of the story to know why it got changed from Prime Time to middle of the night! Email Sky One to complain if you liked the show too at contact@skyone.com — I’ll change the email address if I get a more direct/precise one.
For the time being, this is what I found schedule-wise (I hope you have Sky Plus!!)
Keep a close eye on Sky One Mix as well, as they’ve played a few eps. If anyone knows why the show was slated and shoved to the middle of the night, let me know!
Edited on 23/11/04: I got an email from Sky One:
Thanks for your email. Unfortunately, the show has been moved to the late night schedules and the last two shows will now be shown on Saturday 20th November at 4am and Saturday 27th November at 2:40am.
All the best,
http://www.skyone.co.uk
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