Taking The Flak - BBC2 Comedy Drama - British Comedy Guide (original) (raw)
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Stars
Martin Jarvis, Doon Mackichan, Bruce Mackinnon, Joanna Brookes, Damian O'Hare, Lydiah Gitachu, Lucy Chalkley, Harry Lloyd and Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
Writers
Directors
Jon Rolph and Adam Miller
Producers
Tira Shubart, Jon Rolph and Jon Plowman
Company
An acerbic, authentic and caustic comedy drama that covers the entire progress of a small African war, as seen through the eyes of a team of journalists sending back the nightly reports for the BBC News at Ten.
Taking the Flak shows how journalists in war zones live in a state of perpetual danger not just from bombs but from disease, dysentery, bedbugs, bugged beds, their colleagues, their competitors and their loved ones, who are out of sight and out of mind. If they can't get themselves embedded with the army, they'll get embedded with each other.
The team includes the smooth, veteran correspondent; the harassed, but infinitely resourceful, producer; and the green and gauche rookie stringer. They're all dropped into a hotel and forced to choose between a room on 'the shooting side' and 'the mortar side'.
Football-mad boy soldiers, corrupt car dealers, intestinal discomfort, unexploded landmines, old flames, impromptu hostage situations, YouTube viral videos and colossal egos all combust under the African sun. There is a story to be told in Karibu - but who will get to tell it?
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Also known as
- The Calais Rules (Working title)
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Website links
- Behind The Scenes Photos
A series of behind-the-scenes pictures on the photo sharing website. - BBC Comedy Blog
All the entries for the show on the BBC Comedy blog, including the "Red button" features. - IMDb
- Wikipedia
Broadcast details
First broadcast
Wednesday 8th July 2009 at 9pm on BBC Two
All previous repeats