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not much happening as such. Poking various ficbits but haven't even written owt in the crappy cliche original fic verses. England are crap and deserved to go out. When your goalie is the only one that's consistently playing well.... (okay, Milner was pretty decent too) But at least we're not France. Though can anyone tell me what's with this really disturbing trend I've seen on several other teams (fortunately not England) of jumping for the ball with your arms in the air? Can we say imminent handball?

village fete was fun, boiling, though distinct lack of morris dancers or the viking re-enactors that replaced them last years. :pout: Tug of war was hysterical to watch, mind you. Messed around in the drumming session, got the facepainting girl to do ivy up my arm to see how I'd like it for possible tattoo. Me and mum went on a canoe trip round the island in the river. v. pretty. and oooo, we saw an otter! squee!

Sunday, jogged, and this time no-one made a comment about me ending up in the river, it was that hot. Mind you, there were two girls who'd camped overnight and emerged from their tent in bikinis to throw themselves in the river first thing.

Decided to finally start mainlining Leverage after getting yelled at to watch it by several mates. it is fun and involves much squee.

In other news, I has a spare ticket to see Daniel Boys in Wolfboy on tuesday at Trafalgar Studios, £18 but will take offers as morbid_sparks can't make it. Any takers?

piloting tv

This is interesting. After the whole BBC3 airing pilots from various writers thing a couple of years ago, which let the audience vote as well as letting them tweak it - which gave birth to Being Human (we do not speak about Phoo Action which got pulled before airing), it appears that such a thing has proved successful enough that they're extending it. Paul Cornell's Pulse had its pilot air a few weeks ago, and was available for quite a while on iplayer. Tonight they're airing another pilot, a rom-com/drama called Reunited.

This is a major departure from usual tv commissioning in the UK. Nearly all series get commissioned in one go, no pilot. I know some comedy stuff has a showcase for industry (it's how Black Books got its start), but otherwise, nup. And the public would never get to see these. Probably helps that TV companies don't commit as much money as US tv if a series gets commissioned - most non-soap series are 6 eps max, 8 if it's big, 13 *only* if it's the coveted BBC1 Saturday early evening slot which means Dr Who and Merlin. A series never gets pulled mid-run since that would require major re-scheduling, it's always filmed ages in advance, and it's only the 13 ep ones that would still be filming when the first episodes of a series air.

So, yeah. Wondering if this is going to become a new way of commissioning shows in the UK.