I've been watching the Britcom "The IT Crowd," the indirect progenitor of "The Big Bang Theory," which is airing here on IFC as part of their Tuesday night Automat block of short-form programming. Creatively, it's hit-or-miss, but the two nerds are funny enough and for my money Katherine Parkinson is much hawter than Kaley Cuoco. What is unusual for the show for these days, UK or even in the States beyond CBS, is that it's shot as a multi-cam live audience show on tape (with the tape unprocessed to look like film). There are the location scenes (not just establishing shots) that have always been de rigeur for UK multi-cam sitcoms, but there isn't the audience applause at the break and the end titles that I also tend to associate with older Britcoms. Since I almost always leave the captioning on, I'm also seeing something on the shows that I normally don't see on captioning for sitcoms:
[audience laughter] Generally, while talk shows, game shows, talent reality comps and even "SNL" acknowledge on the captions the fact that there's a studio audience laughing and applauding (even when on some game shows it's canned), generally sitcoms don't, which makes this rather curious. I'm assuming that the captions are being done in-house at Rainbow, because there are some howlers reminiscent of the crappy job they did on the "Mad Men" Season 1 captions (Lionsgate took control of the captions for Season 2). I'm curious why the captioners decided in this case to acknowledge a laugh track (in the broad, non-canned sense, although sometimes it does sound sweetened) when in every other case I know of sitcom captioners don't. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ TV or Not TV .... Smart (TV) People on Ice! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
