E20 an online drama

After we came up with the consept of the drama being set around a socail network site and having finished the shooting and editing process.  Then we heard that the BBC was advertising a new teen drama which is an online web drama called E20 which is a spinoff of the popular british soap Eastenders. Unlike the Eastenders episodes that are 30 mins the online episodes are 15 mins as the series is online. This is further proof that teenagers are watching television less and less and this could become the norm for watching dramas and other forms of television online.

here is a link to the e20 website.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/eastenders/e20/

This is a review of the new online drama

E20


There’s been the usual post-festive lull in proceedings down EastEnders way. Except, of course, for the now annual merry-go-round of the Mitchells cluttering up Walford Nick, grassing on each other, screeching about family, calling Richie The Imaginarium Lawyer, all whilst DI Marsden gazes calmly into middle distance and contemplates the satisfying noise that would result from balling Peggy up and using her to skittle through the rest of the clan. But regular Enders viewers may have noticed a slight disturbance this week. A group of new characters have materialised – as if by magic – in the Square. Dressed in garishly alien clothing, spouting some kind of inscrutable language and inexplicably hiding under beds – this can only mean one thing: The Yoof have arrived! Having been thrown directly into the ocean of the main soap for a week now, some Yoof-types have doggy-paddled into the rockpool of the new EastEnders online spin-off, E20. Presumably an attempt by Auntie Beeb to capture some of the prime Skins market from sexy, hipster Channel 4, E20 features four main characters for the kids to identify with. There’s blank-faced hunky-boybot Leon, God-fearing but possible bun-carrying Mercy, Zsa Zsa, who’s constructed purely from eyeliner and emo ennui, and an irritating zany one who talks a lot, who may or may not be called Fatboy. All the hallmarks of supposed great youth-oriented drama are present. The whole thing starts with a shakey-cam chase featuring someone angrily demanding money for no reason. There’s constant background indie music. There’s mild sex, swearing and violence (very mild, mind, none of this commercial pottymouthing on the Reithian BBC). There’s even a remix of the EastEnders theme tune which, for many, will recall traumatic memories of that terrible summer when Oxide And Neutrino ruled the airwaves and the country was driven mad by being repeatedly beseeched to stop getting shot. So far, so demographically-suitable. But, you’ll no doubt be horrified to hear, there’re two major problems.
One: it’s claimed this is written by a group of specially trained 17-22-year-olds, but there’re horrible, grimy, grown-up fingerprints all over it. In the first episodes, there are references to Ren and Stimpy, the film Gladiator, and Eiffel 65! Eiffel 65?! When was the last time they bothered popular culture? Ten years ago, that’s when! And it seems quite unlikely that E20’s target audience pressed their foetal eyes against Mummy’s belly-button and chuckled up some amniotic fluid in response to crazed early-‘90s chihuahuas. It’s just embarrassing, like a 50-year-old Anglican vicar courting the teenage vote by referring to God as “The Big Dawg in the sky”.
Two: there’s no need for it. EastEnders is a fusty old ballbag of a soap, which is fine and dandy, but it is, gaudy costume jewellery and old man boozer fetishists aside, sorely lacking in sex appeal. When your actual young people have got a sackful of Klaxons and hot lesbian action over on the depraved and shiny Hollyoaks, there is nothing in E20 to make them watch.
As for the rest of us pensioners, the limited appeal of a ten-minute online Enders blipvert where the acting grand-dame is Lucy Beale is sure to wear off faster than the fiery zing of a freshly-sucked Fisherman’s Friend. Draw the blanket over your knees and stick with the telly version.

this is a link to the website where the review came from
http://watchwithmothers.net/2010/01/11/e20/