BBC still tops for comedy

BANGKOK The BBC says it will air a six-part series that will lift the lid off Bangkok’s gateway airport Suvarnabhumi Airport.
Based on the pre-launch trailer, the popular website Bangkok Coconuts called the series a mix of grins and grimaces as staff struggle to handle traveller issues, immigration officers ask for smiles, and a man wearing lipstick professes his love for tourists in an exaggerated but hilarious slices of life at Suvarnabhumi Airport.
On Thursday, BBC Three will air “Bangkok Airport,” a six-part series that was set in the airport and features the colourful personalities and melodramas that unfold within, but are rarely captured on video.
The fact that BBC could spin out a six-part series filmed entirely on airport premises, during martial law, suggests the series has official approval. Or the entire series could be a clever PR job similar to the video “ I Hate Thailand” that turned out to be a Tourism Authority of Thailand production to say just the opposite.
inside no 6Bangkok Coconuts after watching the promo said: “We lost it when the man in the vest bitterly claims. You will never see me in Thailand ever again. Come on. He knows he loves it here.”
The six episodes will run for 60 minutes each suggesting that BBC film crews must have been camped out on-site for weeks to get suitable footage.
“It’s difficult how its producers managed to craft six compelling hours of television set in the airport,” said Bangkok Coconuts.
Good point and we might add a query about the compelling driving force and reasons that convinced the BBC programmers, that Suvarnanbumi Airport really deserved such a big chunk of air time.
It is not a top-ranked world airport of the likes of Changi or Heathrow, but it is probably a good deal more fun to film than the polished sanitised Changi environment.
In the end it could turn out to be a big favour for Thailand, creating more publicity at no cost, or at least we are supposed to think so unless the entire venture is a cleverly contrived “advertorial” with a pinch of black humour, to keep us guessing.

sourced:ttrweekly.com