Daniel Peacock’s TV career started out brilliantly, with appearances on The Young Ones and as part of The Comic Strip Presents comedy cadre. Later, he branched out into writing and directing and seemed to specialize in high-energy, ultra-low budget shows for teenagers. The most successful of these was Cavegirl, broadcast here on Children’s BBC in the early 2000s. It was a show clearly designed to appeal to anxious teenagers, dealing rather directly with “adolescent issues”, and refracting those things middle aged folk would assume youngsters care and worry so much about through a live-action Flintstones-y aesthetic. I know people who were honest to goodness fans, but I couldn’t have seen more than five minutes of it myself.
Now, according to The Hollywood Reporter (who mistakenly date the original as coming from the 80s), Peacock’s long gestating Cagevirl movie is moving forward again and is at last...
Now, according to The Hollywood Reporter (who mistakenly date the original as coming from the 80s), Peacock’s long gestating Cagevirl movie is moving forward again and is at last...
- 2/9/2009
- by Brendon Connelly
- Slash Film
"Gossip Girl" co-star Taylor Momsen and "Greek" co-star Jacob Zachar are in talks to join the cast of the comedy "Cavegirl." Backed by the U.K. Film Council, the $6 million "Cavegirl" is based on the TV series "Cavegirl," which The Hollywood Reporter somewhat bizarrely refers to as a "1980s BBC series," even though it premiered in 2002. Danny Peacock, who created the British original, will direct the big screen "Cavegirl," which examines the life of a teenage cavegirl as a meditation on life for contemporary teens. The "Flintstones"-style comedy was full of post-modern touches and anachronisms and the trade paper...
- 2/9/2009
- by HitFix Staff
- Hitfix
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