Chute! (series)
Chute! was a short-lived children's television comedy clip show broadcast on CBBC, which lasted for a single series of thirteen episodes in 2007.
The series starred comedian Ross Lee as a version of himself, who has become trapped in the BBC Television Centre's rubbish tip (down the titular chute), a room littered with approximately 83,000 discarded video cassettes. Lee typically spends each episode sharing several of the countless tapes - usually consisting of such things as humorously-edited clips of shows from the BBC and other broadcasters, or videos from video sharing sites such as YouTube - with whoever comes to visit him (specifically, the viewer - the episodes are shown through their perspective in first-person), with the title sequence positing that the guest is a child who fell down the chute whilst participating in a tour of the BBC studio. The tip is also home to an unidentified green monster which, at the end of the episode, drags away and seemingly eats the viewer.
Another reoccurring aspect of the series was that Ross would also be joined by a guest star of some variety, such as characters from other CBBC shows. The ninth episode of the series, broadcast on 22 November, is notable in that regard, and to this wiki, for featuring the guest appearances of Daniel Anthony and Tommy Knight, both in character as Clyde Langer and Luke Smith from The Sarah Jane Adventures.
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In episode 1, a collection of BBC bloopers included a clip of a man talking about Doctor Who on a park bench, as an individual dressed as a Sea Devil walked up and fell over behind him. Part of the clip was later played again in an episode 4 montage titled "Strictly Come Falling Over".
One reoccurring segment of each episode was an image montage set to a different pop song, with the images shown bearing a loose relation to the lyrics being sung.
Episode 1's montage was set to a section of the Spice Girls song "Who Do You Think You Are", where each instance of the word "who" in the selection is accompanied by a Doctor Who-related image, primarily photos of each of the Doctors, as well as one photo of the TARDIS.
The montage in episode 2 is set to a section of the Mika song "Grace Kelly", in which the first instance of the lyric "why don't you like me" is accompanied by a screenshot from Time and the Rani of a Tetrap talking to the Rani as she seemingly looks forward (the impression seemingly being that the Tetrap is asking the Rani why she doesn't like them).
Episode 8's montage is set to the Athlete song "You Got the Style". The lyric "it seems that you have to be careful who you look at" is accompanied by a publicity shot from Day of the Daleks of the Third Doctor fighting against the Ogrons.
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Bill Oddie, Lizo Mzimba, Dominic Wood, Ian McNeice, and Danny John-Jules guest starred as themselves in episodes 2, 5, 7, 8, and 12, respectively.
Among the reoccurring videos featured are re-voiced clips from the 1954 film On the Waterfront, the newly-recorded dialogue being written by Russell T Davies.
