Tag: United Kingdom of Zoo

We open with a shot of a very boring, street two-up two-down terraced houses. Small paved front yards provide off street parking for a couple of small cars each. And then, walking up the street toward us – the chunky figure of our favourite Cockney wideboy, Dennis, and beside him the sleek, narrow figure of […] read

We’re on a dull council estate. Wide streets and rows of 1970s-built housing. It probably looked great on paper, but in reality it looks windswept and depressing. We pan around to face a larger building, no taller, but much wider – a small community hall/library. This week’s host appears, walking around from behind the hall […] read

An establishing shot of a residential street in Bristol, just around the corner from a primary school. Kids are being walked into school by mothers, older kids being dropped off at the curb. We can tell from the nervousness of the children, and the occasion tear being wiped from a mother’s face, that it’s the […] read

We open with more of our smooth drone footage – this time flying over Slough town center – a hive of British commuter-belt activity. Flying over a huge Tesco superstore, more cars and shoppers… Over the train station, hundreds of passengers boarding a rush hour train into London… Then dropping all the way down toward […] read

This week’s show begins with a shot from inside a car as we head down a quiet suburban residential street, slowing down to turn into a private tree-lined side-street, driving through gates designed to keep the ‘wrong kind of people out’… Then we’re outside a very classy house, very exclusive. Not the biggest garden or […] read

We cut to an establishing shot of an old suburban street. On one side of the road, parkland with plenty of green trees, infront of us a roundabout, and to our left a windowless wall, decorated with a large mural depicting cartoon horses running free. We round the corner and come face to face with […] read

We pan around a gritty, pebble strewn road, taking in a commercial storage facility on one side of us, an electrical sub-station infront of us, and then coming to rest on a large building supply business. It’s one of those ‘trade only’ places that the regular DIY guy wouldn’t even know exists. And then the […] read

We fade in on a desolate, baron coastline… Wind and rain whips over rocks and tufts of grass, above a deserted beach… Rain spatters against the camera lens and wind whistles over our microphones. There is no-one for as far as the eye can see. We pan away from the beach and look inland at […] read

We fade in on a row of near identical white two story, semi-detached homes – each with its 5-foot-high private hedgerow fencing, and its satellite dish, each with solar panels on its faded black tiled roof… Then a row of ugly two-story block buildings – large shopfront windows downstairs, smaller square windows of the upstairs […] read

We fade in on the exterior of what appears to be a wide, apartment complex. Two levels, very pretty, limited parking. Then we’re inside, noting the number of old people sitting in armchairs or being pushed around in wheelchairs. We move to an indoor swimming pool – steam rising into the air suggesting that this […] read