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What I especially like about broadcasting on the internet as opposed to television is not having to write a treatment in order to get a commission and then having to sit around for six months only to have it turned down. Showing on this site cuts out the middle man, so the internet is a great outlet in that respect.While it’s early days for a comedy channel on the Net – no-one knows if it’ll work – it wasn’t hard deciding to get involved. I met another comedian running stuff on the site in the street and said, d’ya fancy doing stuff? Billy and Dave was the first thing that sprung to mind as easy to transfer to that medium.Technology is advancing and it will probably be better in a few years time, and that’s what I find exciting because it feels quite pioneering The digital filming looks very sexy now. The cameras are lovely bits of equipment – light, transportable and state-of-the-art You can really see the difference in quality. For the first series of Stella, we filmed with a Hi 8 camera and we wanted it to look raw and rough, but now that we use digital, it’s got that element but much higher production values. However, I don’t think it’s as cheap, because the digital cameras are expensive.I’m not a big techno man, yet, and I’m actually a bit fearful It’s crazy, I know there’s no real myth to it.

So I’m doing stuff on the internet partly to force me to confront something I know that I can’t avoid.In the future, who knows? At the moment, the Billy and Dave show is just an internet animal, but we could easily broaden it out, and it would definitely work on television. The appeal of the internet is that it enables me to initiate work. Of course, making money would be nice, but it’s not my primary concern right now, strangely enough.. Only a few months ago a quick course in HTML and a cocky attitude could get you a great job at an Internet start up.

You’d get an inflated salary and maybe even a pile of share options to keep you happy. For the best Web talent, the rents were paid in hot areas of London like Notting Hill or Clerkenwell. Dot s were going for gold and wouldn’t let a minor issue like an overinflated salary stop them from getting the best programming or designing talent. Only a few months ago a quick course in HTML and a cocky attitude could get you a great job at an Internet start up. You’d get an inflated salary and maybe even a pile of share options to keep you happy. For the best Web talent, the rents were paid in hot areas of London like Notting Hill or Clerkenwell.