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The second of our two specially-produced features to mark Konkers’ impending 5th birthday.

It’s time to reveal all to you. After several months of flying backwards and forwards to Los Angeles for business lunches, I have finally reached a lucrative agreement with a major production company. Konkers is at last gearing up to join the vast catalogue of British programmes that have been soullessly adapted for the American market.

CLICK FLAG TO HEAR KONKERS USA

Featuring voices peculiarly similar to those of Al Boyagis, Richard Dadd, Jan Grimshaw and Gate Lambert

First broadcast on CSR FM 10th Nov 2011

God bless America

The first of two brand new sketches marking the 5th anniversary of Konkers.

It’s been too long since we last heard from Geoff Island. These days he’s a Konkerbury graduate, seeking employment in David Cameron’s Britain. Let’s find out how he’s getting on…

CLICK GEOFF TO HEAR THE SKETCH

Written by Richard Dadd
Edited by Dan Fryer

Geoff Island………..Richard Dadd
Mark Tressle……………Al Boyagis

First broadcast on CSR FM – 27th Oct 2011

Tomorrow night (Thursday 10th November) sees the current repeat run of Konkers reach its climax.

The series finale will kick off after the 6pm news bulletin, with a never-before-heard sketch, followed by episode 6 itself.

It has been a pleasure to be invited back onto the airwaves to mark the show’s 5th anniversary on CSR FM. Our thanks to current Head of Speech Daryl, and to everyone who has tuned in.

And don’t forget, tomorrow’s new sketch will soon be made available to hear on this blog, alongside the brand new Geoff Island sketch from earlier in the run.

www.csrfm.com

It’s been far too long since we last caught up with him. Ladies and gentlemen, I’m delighted to announce that Geoff Island is back! How is he coping in this post-University land of rioters, David Cameron and economic recession?

Thursday 6pm www.csrfm.com (repeated Sunday 11pm)

Our thanks again to Daryl Smith for being kind enough to ask for Konkers to return in this way for the show’s (nearly) fifth birthday.

This mini special will be followed by episode three, as the show continues its repeat run.

Konkers continues its fifth anniversary repeat run on Canterbury’s community station CSR FM tonight.

Episode 2 broadcasts at 6pm on 97.4fm (East Kent) or csrfm.com

There will be no special features accompanying episode 2, but following on from last week’s phone interview, there shall indeed be some brand new Konkers material broadcasting alongside episodes later on in the run. We’ll keep you updated…

In the mean time: the freshers of Konkerbury are settling in for their first week of lectures. But what are the mysterious goings-on in the sinister campus library? Will we ever hear from Peter Farthings again? And just how will Walter the Oxbridge reject cope with all these regional accents?

Thursdays at 6pm is the new home for Konkers on CSR FM!

The show’s return to the airwaves is even trumpeted as front page news on the CSR website. Thanks to Mr Daryl Smith, the current Head of Speech at the station. It’s a joy for the show to be back on air, especially as the station celebrates having its license extended until 2017.

In fact Daryl is so organised that he just conducted an impromptu phone interview with myself. I was a little rambly and unprepared, and it was weird to find the roles reversed, after all the phone interviews I conducted with celebrities for the Gulbenkian Podcast.

So, if you’re a brand new listener, and you’ve stumbled upon the world of Konkerbury University, then welcome!

It has been 5 years since the show went into production, deep underneath Canterbury Christ Church University. Indeed, it was the first CSR show to go into production, in advance of the station’s launch in January 2007. So it’s a mini celebration. 5 years of Konkers; nearly 5 years of CSR.

To mark this landmark, we’ll be giving CSR a sprinkling of BRAND NEW features to play out across the run. Starting with the above-mentioned phone interview, playing out immediately before episode one…

Half a decade after bringing you KONKERS, myself and Dan are still working together, and our latest creative project is a forthcoming 20-minute film entitled…

thelastbookshop.co.uk

The last few posts on this blog followed what happened when an advertising agency enlisted our help to make online advertisements for pork snacks.

The 3 videos posted below were compromised by various behind-the-scenes issues involving the client asking us to do things, and then censoring us when we did what they asked (e.g. they sent us to the offices of Zoo Magazine, as part of a challenge aimed at Zoo readers, which was promoted on the Zoo website . . . and then demanded we remove the depictions of bare skin that were included in the resultant video because it apparently wasn’t suitable for their intended audience . . . of Zoo magazine readers).

It was a rather stressful and creatively frustrating period of time.

Against our judgment, it has been decided to leave the final cliffhanger unresolved. Thus only the 3 episodes below were ever released by our wise employers. We in fact filmed a further 2 episodes (footage of which can be seen in episode 3′s NEXT TIME trailer) . . . but then those 2 episodes were botched together on the client’s orders into 1 episode . . . which they insisted on censoring/editing to pieces . . . and then inexplicably never released.

I mention all of this simply in case someone happens upon these videos and thinks we are to blame for the unresolved cliffhanger. We are not.

And now that we are free from the bizarre and contradictory demands of meat manufacturers, we have been able to focus our creative potential into something that is actually good. Something that we have been allowed to produce without anybody else trampling all over our ideas. It is a film called The Last Bookshop.

It has nothing to do with the world of Konkerbury (neither for that matter did The Wicked Pig Challenges) but both of those projects, and The Last Bookshop were produced by us chaps over at The Bakery and so you will no doubt hear more about it all very soon…

Here is the long overdue release of Sty TV’s third Wicked Pig film, produced by and starring myself and Dan Fryer.

We actually made this film several months ago, but the film has found itself subject to a vast amount of edits, some of which are evident, while others are more subtle. Either way, the end result is a film which, in my humble opinion, has been edited far too much. It is choppy and now feels rushed, and not as well-paced as it could have been. The earlier edits were better. But we have a client to satisfy, and this apparently is what they wanted.

The plot: Dan and Richard’s comedy double act is on the rocks; Richard is unhappy with the quality of the Wicked Pig films, and wants to do better stuff; Dan is the eternal optimist, and believes he can forge on with the latest challenge. Is this the end for Sty TV? . . .