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  • Actors: Robert Popper, Josie D'Arby, Olivia Colman, Peter Serafinowicz, Harry Enfield
  • Directors: Tim Kirkby
  • Format: PAL
  • Language English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: 2 Entertain Video
  • DVD Release Date: 16 Jan 2006
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000CCE228
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 4,853 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Taking inspiration from the golden era of late Seventies and early Eighties television, Look Around You looks at the very latest developments in science and technology in one of the most consistently funny parodies you're ever likely to see.

This brilliantly original second series has the same well-observed hilarious brand of humour as the first BAFTA nominated series and is presented by the very talented Jack Morgan (Robert Popper), Peter Packard (Peter Serafinowicz), Pam Bachelor (Olivia Colman) and Pealy Maghti (Josie D'Arby). In a blaze of 1980's big hair, sideburns, ra-ra skirts and jumpsuits, this series also features cameos from some of the UK's finest comedy performers including Harry Enfield, Matt Lucas, Simon Pegg and Sarah Alexander.

Each episode the team considers the future of music, health, sport, music, food and computers - much as they did in the original 'Tomorrow's World' series. Each week they are joined by guests, inventors and science specialists, looking at different inventions and testing out the latest technology.

The series culminates in a live final of the 'Look Around You Invention Of The Year Award' presented by HRH Sir Prince Charles. But with an excited live studio audience, a nervous group of contestants and one rather difficult and unpredictable guest, can the Look Around You team manage to keep everything going alright on the night?

Special Features
- Programme-maker's commentary - Pages from Ceefax - Play-at-home quiz pages - New Birds of Britain Film - Scary Picture - Test Card

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Surreal, funny and sublime, 12 Jan 2006
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This is one of the most entertaning things you can watch - just sit back and slip into the parallel universe of 'look around you'.
It is simply pure fun and enjoyment from beginning to end and is full of huge laughs and intelligent yet highly surreal comedy. Co-written and produced by the man who brought you "The Timewaster Letters" (Robert Popper), Series 2 is the follow-up to the spoof educational programmes of the first series which appeared as ten-minute shorts on BBC2 with an array of bizarre experiments.
This incarnation takes the format of a studio-based show with a team of presenters along the veins of 'Tommorow's World' or 'Blue Peter', set in the 70's. We take a look at the future of such things as music, food, health and computers, each episode packed full of strange characters and bizarre situations.
Take another look at this DVD and if you haven't already seen it, buy it. This is one of the funniest, pleasing (and relaxing) comedies you'll ever watch.
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20 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Look at science differently......., 28 Nov 2005
I stumbled across this show when it was shown earlier this year, and I tell you, I am mightily glad I did.

From the electro-pop synth-ed theme music, to the presenters' cheesy linking to each other, each of the first five episodes is set around a different theme, leading up to the "live" grand final (with a special appearance by Sir Prince Charles).

It's like the early eighties BBC TV show Tomorrow's World gone a bit sideways, as the presenters Jack Morgan, Peter Packard, Pam Bachelor and Pealy Maghti introduce us to the wierd and wonderful world of science.

Bottom line of this is personally, I don't care if there aren't any extras on the DVD (Although I hope there are) you should buy this DVD just for the pure comedy value, as it will have you screaming and howling with laughter!

Thanks Amazon - Thamazon!

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15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Very Funny, 13 Nov 2006
By A. Griffiths "Adrian" (London) - See all my reviews
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I could end this review now by simply saying "If you like laughing, buy this DVD". But I need to say a bit more than that, because I think this show has been passed over by too many people, and it's ended up underrated and in the same "cult enthusiasts only" realm as Garth Marenghi's Dark Place.

Now that's a fantastic show too, and the two programmes have a lot in common. Not least of which in that they were shown without any major publicity and to limited audiences only. The other similarity is that they are both spoof shows. "Look Around You" is a spoof of Tomorrow's World, set in the 1970's, and it presents a kind of bizarre parallel universe in which the presenters look forward to inventions and new technology that they predict will change the way we live in the future.

It's hard to explain what is so funny about the show in writing, but on watching, I found it to be hilarious almost all the way through. Firstly, you can lose yourself in the show's supposedly "current" world where every high street has a much loved "casserole" chain restaurant, and people get robot John McEnroes for Christmas. Then you add to this the inventions featured on the show that the presenters predict will be changing all our lives for the better, such as the vegetable orchestra and the Memory Helmet. Throughout the show, further laughs come thick and fast from various interludes, like information on what programmes are coming up next, or the hilarious "Data Bank" that offers totally barking mini quiz questions.

The programme could have easily failed, however, without the talents of the performers who front the main show. The two original creators of the first series now appear on screen along with two new female presenters, and there are numerous cameos in each show, all of which are uniformly deadpan and convincing, the combined effect of which (with the four main presenters) is pure gold. Throughout the six episodes there isn't a single moment where any of the cast let the mask drop even for a second. Robert Popper and Peter Serafinowicz seem born to play the parts of the two male presenters and I challenge you to disbelieve the sincerity of Olivia Coleman (from The Office and numerous other mock-real life comedies) as she presents the moving and tragic story of "Cobbles", the disease which turns the sufferer into a pile of stones. Fourth team member Josie D'Arby does equally well, with an especially good line in fawning enthusiasm, be it over some truly dire computer games ("Diarrhea Dan") or in trying out a new sport called "Gonnis" (don't ask).

This show is so full of good ideas, i found it hard to understand why some reviewers have said the idea was being stretched too thinly. Each half hour show seemed to fly by for me, and I was laughing all the way. This second series is probably far more accesible to the casual TV viewer than the original show, which lampooned Programmes for Schools with a bit of Open University thrown in. I can't imagine there ever being a third series of this, although if there is, I'll be ready and waiting. But my advice is to buy both DVDs and treasure them.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Why did they change the format?
The first series was so much richer in it's parody of science films we watched in school... now some of the writers have come out from behind the camera to host the show (did egos... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Peter Davis

4.0 out of 5 stars Different, but still good
If you're looking for a re-hash of series 1 then you'll be sorely disappointed, but if you find the overall concept appealing (spoof of popular/educational science programmes)... Read more
Published 5 months ago by Ginger

2.0 out of 5 stars Misfiring on All Cylinders
Alas, while the first series delivered a standard of comedy that endured throughout every episode, the second series - delivered as a lampoon of "Tomorrow's World" fails on far... Read more
Published 8 months ago by P. Baldowski

4.0 out of 5 stars a change of idea from series one.........
Series two of look around you went in a different direction from series one in that they scrapped the idea of 10 minute science for schools clips and decided to make half hour... Read more
Published 12 months ago by stevek35

2.0 out of 5 stars A let down .
After buying the excellent Series one of Look Around You , I purchased Series two , expecting the same quota of laughs . I found this a disappointment . Read more
Published 18 months ago by Egbert Souse

5.0 out of 5 stars Hello
Unfortunately I suffer from Cobbles so I find typing difficult, but let me assure you this is a most excellent program.

Goodbye.
Published on 10 Mar 2007 by Matt

5.0 out of 5 stars Thanks, Popper and Serafinowicz. Thankopper. Thankinowicz.
The first Look Around You series was already a triumph, but series 2, by reinventing the concept goes even further. Read more
Published on 11 Aug 2006 by Max Bialystock Jr.

5.0 out of 5 stars Spoof tv at it's best
Look Around You is only marginally more ridiculous than all those old science and technology programmes shown in the late 70's but it's still pant-wettingly funny... Read more
Published on 19 Mar 2006 by Bianca White

5.0 out of 5 stars Expect Different. Do NOT However, Accept Disappointment
Look Around You Series I was spoofing the Open University programmes of the 80s, this spoofs tomorrows world. Read more
Published on 19 Mar 2006

2.0 out of 5 stars Look around you - series 2
The first season of ‘Look around you’ was inspired and superb. The second season is also inspired, but sadly, not superb. Or excellent. Read more
Published on 19 Mar 2006

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