When there’s no more room in hell, the dead will…invade reality TV?
But its a populist show.
The model was a horror version of24.
And then they all die.
So quite quickly we set up the hunk guy as a fucking idiot.
I think people in the media who recognise my name will be expecting a certain thing.
Primarily we wanted this to be nasty a horror thriller.
The original scripts were very straight; there were no jokes in them at all.
And we wanted to differentiate it from things likeShaun of the Dead.
The other episodes are a lot shorter than this one [the hour-long opening episode].
The first episode is an hour…well, 42 minutes minus the commercial breaks.
Its also been ruthlessly structured around commercial breaks.
So, hopefully it builds to a climax every eleven minutes or something.
The other episodes were 22 minutes long, which is really quite short.
Hopefully theres enough variety to keep you going.
The first three episodes are really quite straight; heres the problem youve got to deal with it.
By episodes four and five hopefully everyones into the show enough for them to realise that weve duped them.
And he also had a lot of say in how the story was shaped.
I though Who the fuck is this guy?
Right, Ill show him, Ill rewrite it then.
Which character do you empathise with most in Deadset?Im totally on Patricks side.
Can I write a zombie24?
Can I do it?
Hopefully weve pulled that off.
In no way was I thinking that Im going to tell it how it is.
Bad shock TV is where theres no point to it.
Or you could write a drama about a man who does that and it might be good.
Dead Setwill be broadcast on E4 every night between 27th-31st October.
