'The Fast Show', 'Not the Nine O’clock News', 'Little Britain': they all had to start somewhere. For several York-based filmmakers shooting a pilot of the sketch show 'Best Served Chilled' York is the birthplace for a brand new comedy collaboration. Jonathon Deamer, Arron Dennis and Keith Nickson all writers, producers, directors and actors in the show have been involved from the start all of three years ago. | "Ideally we’d like a TV channel or production company to like it enough and take it on board" | | Keith Nickson |
"It’s been hard doing it with next to no budget and very limited resources," says Arron, "but we’re doing this to prove what people can achieve with no budget." The size of the shoot gradually built in the latter weeks of pre-production incorporating crew members from around the area, including York College Media Make-Up students Emily Thornton, Hannah Ingleby and Robin Anson. Taking a great deal of inspiration from cult 90s BBC sketch show 'Big Train' 'Best Served Chilled' aims to be a refreshing change to today's familiar sketch shows as John explains: "I think sketch shows at the moment are going in slightly a different direction like the very abstract The Mighty Boosh, which a lot of people find great, but we’re going back to a more traditional formula. "There’s a lot of observational humour where we put a strange slant on a regular situation." Principle photography is almost finished but this is by no mean the end for 'Best Served Chilled', it is merely the beginning. Everyone involved is working for nothing other than the hope that the pilot might just get picked up. "Ideally we’d like a TV channel or production company to like it enough and take it on board," says Keith. A screening of the pilot will take place in York sometime in October this year. Keep your eyes peeled! Duncan Laing | 
