Monkey Tennis 2.0

By Nick on 20 Feb 08

Categories: bbc, funny

With our recent acceptance onto the BBC's approved suppliers list, and applying for the Innovation Labs, we've been thinking about the king of pitching to the BBC, Alan Partridge. But what if he had to go beyond TV ideas, and provide a “360” Web 2.0 concepts for some of his programme ideas...

Around The World With Alan Partridge In A Bullnose On The Left

Alan circumnavigates the globe, only driving through countries where they drive on the left in a lovely old Bullnose Morris.

Microsoft™ Live Map showing Alan's progress
Photos posted to Flickr from Alan's Iphone, geotagged and mashed onto Microsoft™ Live Map
Facebook "Bullnose Lefties" group established to allow the people of the left-handed countries of the world to contribute their advice, reviews and comments about Alan's journey, and make friends with other fans.

(Note - not using Google for map mashups - that hippy open source stuff is saa-aaa-ad)

Ladyshapes with Alan Partridge

Look at the changing shape of ladies through the ages, from fat, chubby ladies of the Renaissance, to hard-faced Cromwellian sourpusses, right up to twentieth-century well-toned women like Sharon Davies and Jet from Gladiators.

Great opportunity for "User Generated Content" - lady viewers send in photos and videos taken on cameraphones of their own shapes.
Viewers can tag their uploads, remix and vote on their favourite ladyshape, and download the images as postcards or wallpaper.

(Note: will need some careful moderation to stop the "exhibitionist" elements getting in, and ensuring no ladies over (or under) a certain age are allowed.)

Monkey Tennis

Create your own "mini-monkey tennis player" in Second Life. Construct your character by choosing fur colour, sweatband colour, bottom size/redness, etc. and take part in an interactive multiplayer game of tennis.
Catch the bananas thrown by the crowd for powerups. Possible voiceover by Sue Barker?
Video highlights of matches to be available to watch on YouTube, for embedding on MySpace pages - let's go viral!
You'll also be able to download your cartoon monkey character onto your mobile phone, where he will live (as long as you text him enough virtual bananas) and use his "forehand grunt/screech" as your ringtone. You'll be able to play "virtual" tennis matches against other nearby Monkey Tennis players via bluetooth.
API so developers can integrate their monkeys into their own website
Opportunity for a "flash-mob", with lots of young trendies gathering at Wimbledon in monkey outfits?

(Note - could we get some kind of Cadbury gorilla-based tie-in for this? Lots of free Dairy Milks?)

Comments

Ian
Posts: 1

Inner-city Sumo
Reply #1 on : Thu February 21, 2008, 11:04:03

Fat guys from the estate sit on their couches playing Wii-sports wrestling. There is a web-cam so viewers (mainly gathered from the Facebook group, obviously) can watch them live. Then people can text in Big Brother style and vote them off the show. There will be a wiki for people to discuss the fat guys and share videos of highlights from the wrestling via YouTube.

Also; Hopefully sexual tension between the fat guys and some rounded corners... somewhere.