Attention Scum
| Attention Scum | |
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| Format | Sketch comedy |
| Created by | Simon Munnery Stewart Lee |
| Starring | Simon Munnery Kevin Eldon Johnny Vegas Catherine Tate Roger Mann Richard Thomas |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| No. of episodes | 6 |
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| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | BBC Two |
| Original run | February, 2001 – March, 2001 |
Attention Scum! was a short lived television comedy series directed by Stewart Lee. It starred Simon Munnery as his League Against Tedium character and contained acerbic stand-up routines atop of a transit van and sketches including mainstays such as "24 Hour News" (performed by Johnny Vegas), operatic intermissions by Kombat opera and a two characters engaged in a duel over their hats.
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[edit] Broadcast
Originally shown in February on BBC 2 at 11:45pm on Sundays, the program was not repeated on the BBC and only played on the now-defunct network UK Play. In 2001, it was nominated for a Golden Rose of Montreux although the BBC had already declined to fund a second season[1].
There has not been an official DVD release.
[edit] History
The origin of the series lies in a 1994 cabaret act, Cluub Zarathustra, co-founded by Munnery and Lee, and performed at the Edinburgh Festival. Cluub Zarathustra was nominated for a Perrier Award in 1999. A never transmitted (or commissioned) TV pilot of Cluub Zarathustra for Channel 4 was filmed in 1996.
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Attention Scum at BBC Online Comedy Guide
- Attention Scum at the Internet Movie Database
- Guardian review and interview
- League Against Tedium - semi-official site
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