No BOOSH 4th season, but they're planning their own MUPPET show
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Fielding and his comedy partner, Julian Barratt, had previously expressed doubt that they would do a fourth series, but so far as I know this is the first time they've made it clear there absolutely won't be a fourth season.
The STV Entertainment site quotes Fielding: "We love all that stuff and the back projection but we've decided to do a film instead of a new series (...) We'll do a film instead, and an album, then maybe a live thing just to keep it fresh. We've taken it as far as we could in terms of being on BBC Three and going out and touring. We need to mix it up."
But Fielding went on to say that the Boosh are planning a return to TV, just not as Vince Noir and Howard Moon, the characters they've been playing in various formats for over a decade.
"We were thinking of a different kind of show. We like The Muppet Show. We were thinking about characters putting on a show and having guests. We've always wanted to do this Muppets thing and it's never gone away - sort of a live version with music and cabaret and an audience."
I can see the humor of the Boosh boys working in a format like that, and the uneven third season of The Mighty Boosh did suggest that they needed to mix things up somehow. But I always thought the Boosh were at their best when they went on adventures and met weird and ridiculous but still genuinely creepy monsters. A backstage show sounds like it could get a little samey. (And isn't there some way the show could at least be hosted by Howard and Vince? There's your season four, right there!)
But hey, whatever the Boosh do from here, I'll be there. No matter whether they're playing Vince and Howard or not, they'll still be the Boosh. As a wise man once sang, it's what's inside that counts...
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2 comments:
Wrong, Noel did not at any point say there'll be no Boosh S4 in the future. These quotes from the link are from a much longer interview from a recent issue of the NME and have been taken out of context. I also doubt Noel's throwaway comments about the puppet show were meant to be taken seriously as a statement of intent. I suggest people read the full interview in the 2 December issue of NME before jumping to conclusions.
The original article didn't say the quotes were from NME, and unfortunately I don't have access to the article at present. I'm willing to believe the quotes were taken out of context, but by themselves they seem pretty unambiguous... Especially when you factor in Fielding's previous comments elsewhere. And the Muppet thing was pretty clearly sincere, although I doubt he meant literally an all-puppet show. I think he just meant a show about all the wacky backstage stuff at a theater. (Season one of the Boosh sort of flirted with that idea, with all of their intros and outros in front of the red curtain.)
If anybody wants to transcribe the relevant portions of the NME article, I'll be glad to read them. I hope there IS a 4th season.
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