Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy

(Nigel Coan, 2012)

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From the childlike imagination of Noel Fielding, comes the mixture of live action and animation that is, Luxury Comedy. The sets are created from what looks like the contents of a child's craft set; reflective card, glitter, felt tip pens, crayon, sparkly fabrics, sequins, feathers, etc. It's an extravagant mixture of exaggerated textures and surfaces, for example, creases are painted onto fabrics. It is psychedelic and over the top and props are created from the most normal of objects, making them very abnormal in the process. Beards created from pencil crayons, facial features made from plastic cups. Make up and face paint are used in an exaggerated manner too. The whole feel of the programme is colourful and bizarre, a neon, geometric world.

The Jonathan Ross Show

(Various Directors, 2012)

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The studio for Jonathan Ross' show is by no means innovative, it works as a simple concept that has been used time and time again amongst similar programmes, the world over. It provides the basic presentation, performance and guest area, with space for an audience too. The guest area typically including the most simple of props, simply a desk for the presenter and your average 3-piece leather suite for the guests.

The set is outlined with curves, accentuated by the orange, strip-lighting that illuminates the multi-levels of rostra. The set wall is almost an “S” shape, housing each individual studio area in it's two-directional curve. The wall houses light panels that are illuminated in spots, with what resemble traffic-sign lights, again in orange. In yet another unoriginal part of the set, behind the desk area is a London night-time cityscape! This said, I like the set, it serves it's purpose!

Fresh Meat (S1EO2)

(Various Directors, 2011)

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Fresh Meat is the telling of six first-year university students who missed out on places in halls and so find themselves living together in a student house. The living space that they all share is very typically “student house” and I hate to use such a phrase! However, the furniture is mismatched and somewhat worn, sofas with throws and cushion strewn over them. Various sets of different coloured fairy lights hang around the room, which merges with the kitchen. The kitchen is a you would expect, with mismatched crockery and glasses stacked around the surfaces. Empty drink bottles are also dotted around. Space invaders stickers decorate the otherwise plain, dated kitchen cupboards.

The IT Crowd (S4EO2) “The Final Countdown”

(Graham Lineham, 2010)

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One of my favourite TV sets is the basement office of The IT crowd. It's fantastically “nerdy” and cluttered with an assortment of items. The walls are covered with graphic posters and cult imagery and every display surface is crammed with books, CD's, board games, memorabilia and models. Cupboards and other smooth surfaces are decorated with an array of stickers. Pieces of computer components are dotted around the set. The furniture is dated and mismatched, only adding to the cluttered and dis-organised feel of the whole IT department.