Having enjoyed breakout fame on Taskmaster and Last One Laughing, the subversive Australian comic has been handed the reins of his own, very strange sitcom. Get ready for feet animations and a character called Super-Breast \u2026<\/p>\n
The premise of Make That Movie, Australian comedian Sam Campbell\u2019s deeply strange new Channel 4 series, is not easy to describe. A show-within-a-show, it stars its creator as an alternative Sam Campbell: rather than his real-life idiosyncratic standup self, he\u2019s a pompous director whose well of inspiration has run dry. So he invites the public to share their (invariably bonkers) ideas for movies, which he\u00a0and his dysfunctional crew then develop into real feature films. This all occurs within the framework of a shonky reality programme; each episode concludes with the film\u2019s premiere. Think Changing Rooms, but instead of Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen and Handy Andy renovating somebody\u2019s living room, it\u2019s Campbell and co bringing to life a man called Mick\u2019s fantasy about a couple who can\u2019t be snakes at the same time, yet one of them is always a snake.<\/p>\n
In other words, the actual Campbell is the one who has been given carte blanche to turn his own invariably bonkers ideas into reality. He claims the production company behind the show were very hands-off \u2013 partly because they were so busy working on an animated Ricky Gervais series about cats \u201cso we sort of got left to our own devices\u201d. It helped that Channel 4\u2019s head of comedy, Charlie Perkins \u2013 a longtime champion and collaborator of\u00a0Campbell\u2019s \u2013 was also \u201cvery trusting. I\u00a0don\u2019t know if she really got [the concept] when we were first talking about it. When we\u2019d made it, I think she understood it a tiny bit more.\u201d<\/p>\n
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