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Comedian Sean Lock has died aged 58. - DeMarkay - 29-08-2021
One thing I don’t get about the show is the cutscenes with random people?
Comedian Sean Lock has died aged 58. - Cassia Tuna - 29-08-2021
Worth noting that the original series was initially broadcast on the now defunct BBC Choice, which is probably why it didn't receive much attention first time around.
Comedian Sean Lock has died aged 58. - James2001 - 29-08-2021
Considering when it was shown, I'm assuming it was one of those shows which was commissioned for BBC Three, but then got thrown out on Choice when the change to Three got delayed.
Comedian Sean Lock has died aged 58. - wonkey_monkey - 29-08-2021
DeMarkay post_id=36689 time= user_id=1013 Wrote:One thing I don’t get about the show is the cutscenes with random people?
The original concept in the radio series (originally Sean Lock's 15 Minutes of Misery) was that Sean was spying on his neighbours with bugs. They dropped that for the 30 minute radio series and TV show, but kept the little sketches of tower block life.
Comedian Sean Lock has died aged 58. - Steve Williams - 01-09-2021
nwtv2003 post_id=36633 time= user_id=1028 Wrote:This is the first time I’ve ever seen 15 Storeys High and I’ve managed to get to the end of the first series, it’s very funny. But there’s something very noticeable with Episode 6 is that it has a laughter track and where as the rest of the episodes from the first series don’t. Was this the case first time round or on DVD?
You'll note this has been changed now and episode 6 is now available without laughter. Long story, involving some incorrect labelling in the archive, but it's all sorted now.
Comedian Sean Lock has died aged 58. - nwtv2003 - 01-09-2021
Steve Williams post_id=37229 time= user_id=1326 Wrote:nwtv2003 post_id=36633 time= user_id=1028 Wrote:This is the first time I’ve ever seen 15 Storeys High and I’ve managed to get to the end of the first series, it’s very funny. But there’s something very noticeable with Episode 6 is that it has a laughter track and where as the rest of the episodes from the first series don’t. Was this the case first time round or on DVD?
You'll note this has been changed now and episode 6 is now available without laughter. Long story, involving some incorrect labelling in the archive, but it's all sorted now.
Thanks for sorting that out Steve, by all means I didn’t ruin my enjoyment of the episode itself, it just seemed unusual to the rest. I will certainly go back and have a look at Episode 6 again.
Comedian Sean Lock has died aged 58. - James2001 - 01-09-2021
In my opinion it was actually quite interesting to have that version up there.
Comedian Sean Lock has died aged 58. - Cassia Tuna - 01-09-2021
So does this mean that there's a version of the series with the laughter track? Why not have the option for both?
Comedian Sean Lock has died aged 58. - James2001 - 01-09-2021
Maybe it's only that one episode, if it was a pilot? I'm sure someone can enlighten us.
Comedian Sean Lock has died aged 58. - Steve Williams - 01-09-2021
nwtv2003 post_id=37240 time= user_id=1028 Wrote:Thanks for sorting that out Steve, by all means I didn’t ruin my enjoyment of the episode itself, it just seemed unusual to the rest. I will certainly go back and have a look at Episode 6 again.
Thank you, but I played the most minor role in the whole thing, and all the thanks should go to several people across iPlayer who both got the whole series made available - in absolutely record time - and then got the episode changed pretty sharpish (on a Bank Holiday weekend!) after it came to people's attention.
I quite liked the tweet someone sent where they said they quite liked it with the laughter as it felt like a parallel universe where it was on primetime BBC1. As has been suggested on this page, it does indeed seem to be the case that episode 6 was the original pilot, re-edited for the series by which point it was presumably decided not to have audience laughter on it.
Comedian Sean Lock has died aged 58. - Spencer - 01-09-2021
James2001 post_id=36653 time= user_id=956 Wrote:I might be wrong, but I'm sure I remember reading that the third series of The League of Gentleman was screened to an audience for a laugh track, but it was decided not to use it.
I don’t think that’s true I’m afraid. A friend who worked at YTV in Leeds where it was recorded tried to get audience tickets for me for the third series, but couldn’t get them as there was no audience.
Thinking about it, would it not be impossible to remove the audience noise completely, assuming they’re in the same studio? The sound would surely still be audible in the background on the other mics. Plus in a comedy, there’d be times the actors pause for a laugh, which would look odd if you couldn’t hear the laugh.
I presume in the case of the 15 Storeys High episode in question the audience track was recorded separately if they could remove it.
Comedian Sean Lock has died aged 58. - Brekkie - 01-09-2021
M*A*S*H famously was produced with and without a laugh track. Producers wanted it without and internationally it generally aired without but US channel execs wouldn't take the risk of it airing that way, so early series aired with a laughter track.
Not so much now but I imagine previously for some new comedies execs wanted to see them with and without to see what worked best.
Comedian Sean Lock has died aged 58. - IanJRedman - 01-09-2021
Obviously it's not a reliable source, but Wikipedia says the show was not filmed with a live audience. This might just be somebody's assumption, though, as there's no laugh track on the finished show.
Comedian Sean Lock has died aged 58. - James2001 - 01-09-2021
Spencer post_id=37401 time= user_id=891 Wrote:I don’t think that’s true I’m afraid. A friend who worked at YTV in Leeds where it was recorded tried to get audience tickets for me for the third series, but couldn’t get them as there was no audience.
To be fair, I did say I'd heard it might have been screened for an audience- not made in front of one.
Comedian Sean Lock has died aged 58. - wonkey_monkey - 01-09-2021
It's a shame the picture quality on 15 Storeys High is a bit poor. I suppose the low-quality look might be considered part of its aesthetic, but it was in that awkward pre-HD, post-film period and only got the most basic of "film-look" conversions, which means a lot of this (from the DVD):
![[Image: cZnSzVf.png]](https://i.imgur.com/cZnSzVf.png)
Although it can actually be corrected pretty well because one of the fields is clean (the other is a blurred and shifted copy) and can be interpolated with something more advanced:
![[Image: 83MNiiL.png]](https://i.imgur.com/83MNiiL.png)
The iPlayer version exacerbates this a bit, being a downscale from 576 lines to 540 lines, which blends the fields even further.