{"id":596,"date":"2012-03-30T14:32:44","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T18:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nd.edu\/yankswatchingtelly\/?p=596"},"modified":"2012-03-30T14:32:44","modified_gmt":"2012-03-30T18:32:44","slug":"how-strange-would-the-mighty-boosh-be-on-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/yankswatchingtelly\/?p=596","title":{"rendered":"How Strange would The Mighty Boosh be on radio?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Although wacky and certainly \u201cout-there\u201d, I enjoyed The Mighty Boosh<\/em> and found it to be entertaining. It was definitely something that you would describe as being best watched while on drugs, but it still found its moments to be not too bizarre and thus a fun watch. But perhaps what interested me most about the show is how it was adapted from radio, much like many other programs in the UK. I tried to think of a recent television series in the last fifty years that was adapted from radio and had a hard time coming up with anything after I Love Lucy<\/em>, which was adapted for television in 1951 (so more like sixty years).<\/p>\n

This certainly speaks to the differences between television cultures, and I guess entertainment cultures in general, in the US and UK. There\u2019s an entire Wikipedia page<\/a> dedicated to BBC Radio programs that have been adapted to television. And perhaps even more interestingly, there are also BBC television series that have been adapted for radio, something I am almost certain would never happen in the US.\u00a0 A particular program that I was surprised to see on the list for being adapted from radio was Whose Line Is It Anyways?<\/em> which of course was also a successful television series in the US. The British series came before the American one, thus I guess you could say this was an example of an American television series adapted from radio during the past twenty-five years.<\/p>\n

However, I think the most interesting part about this is how Americans have moved away from radio as a source for narrative entertainment from various genres and instead see it as a source for news and talk radio, which is often political. Meanwhile, the British have maintained a capacity for enjoying narratives on radio, which allows for a show like The Mighty Boosh<\/em> to find different routes onto television. Nevertheless, I can\u2019t fathom how bizarre The Mighty Boosh <\/em>might sound on radio. How could half of the things we saw during the episode we watched possibly be communicated clearly through radio? It would be fun to hear an adaptation and see if it came across as even more radical and surreal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Although wacky and certainly \u201cout-there\u201d, I enjoyed The Mighty Boosh and found it to be entertaining. It was definitely something that you would describe as being best watched while on drugs, but it still found its moments to be not … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":559,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/yankswatchingtelly\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/yankswatchingtelly\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/yankswatchingtelly\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/yankswatchingtelly\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/559"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/yankswatchingtelly\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/yankswatchingtelly\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":597,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/yankswatchingtelly\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions\/597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/yankswatchingtelly\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/yankswatchingtelly\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/yankswatchingtelly\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}