@linux750 No, Fast Forward (and later to become Full Frontal) were merely comedy skits designed to make spoofs of other, more serious television shows, commercials, current affairs shows, celebrities etc
Remember when we thought that beyond the year 2000 was so distant and it was all going to be like living in a Sci Fi movie? Now we have pandemics, anti vaxxers, moronic political leaders, and QAnon. Wish I could go back to the 80s now and tell them to enjoy what they have because it isn't going to get any better.
I mean, we are living in a Sci Fi movie. who in the 80's could imagine idiots and/or racist spreading lies can globally broadcast their nonsenses that we can watch on little supercomputers while taking a dump?
@@meowal1192 I think that's the point that I was making. However, we still don't have hoverboards, commercially available jetpacks, and commuting to the moon and Mars for work.
The funniest part is that they didn't even have to parody the title sequence and theme song! They just used the original because it's already completely over the top!
mmm no, it was a flashier reboot of an earlier Aussie version of Tomorrow's World. Australia made "Towards 2000", then this became the hugely successful commercial version "Beyond 2000" (worthy of a parody sketch, you know you've cracked the big time) and got exported and repackaged for US Discovery network. It had a couple of soft relaunches, changing networks then changing name as we got too close to the year 2000, "Beyond Tomorrow", making it past the turn of the millennium before being cancelled (and the internet, then TH-cam, being a far better place to follow their topics). And by then it was a lower budget affair. I think Tomorrow's World ended up around the same time in 2003 yet closer to what they were aiming for, because you needed a non-commercial broadcaster to keep it alive after the "high tech" craze left the mainstream - it's never been as high as it was in the late 1980s, when Japanese tech was the main flavour and Japan was living in the future. Tomorrow's World survives as a brand where "Beyond" never did (except as Beyond Productions who were behind things you may have heard of, like Mythbusters, continuing to get hits with Discovery channel). Like I say, tech media is all in TH-cam now, where it fits better and can survive on that funding indefinitely. BBC keeps Tomorrow's World as a brand that keeps a foot in the online space too, very much in the spirit of the old show being something they felt "needed" to be made.
![Beyond 2000 [incomplete] (15th March 1988)](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/3HbrI3refig/mqdefault.jpg)
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"I'm standing here wearing a white coat and shouting at you, but more of that later in the programme.'
And now for something, completely different.
unironically rad show for a rad time.
That was the real shows intro. I believed that was gonna happen as a kid. All we have now is traffic jams and high petrol prices :(
Don't worry. 12 years later life changed!
@@dreed100 yeah traffic jams are worse and fuel prices are through the roof. Although flying cars and hover boards are still decades away
Cars aren't the future - there's ya problem
@linux750 No, Fast Forward (and later to become Full Frontal) were merely comedy skits designed to make spoofs of other, more serious television shows, commercials, current affairs shows, celebrities etc
I like Marg Downey's take on Carmel Travers
I like Marg Downey's send-up of Carmel Travers
Remember when we thought that beyond the year 2000 was so distant and it was all going to be like living in a Sci Fi movie? Now we have pandemics, anti vaxxers, moronic political leaders, and QAnon. Wish I could go back to the 80s now and tell them to enjoy what they have because it isn't going to get any better.
I mean, we are living in a Sci Fi movie. who in the 80's could imagine idiots and/or racist spreading lies can globally broadcast their nonsenses that we can watch on little supercomputers while taking a dump?
@@meowal1192 I think that's the point that I was making. However, we still don't have hoverboards, commercially available jetpacks, and commuting to the moon and Mars for work.
Peter Moon - legend.
bring back fast foward
Fast Forward Takes on Beyond 2000
The funniest part is that they didn't even have to parody the title sequence and theme song! They just used the original because it's already completely over the top!
I like Fast Forward
And there I was thinking those jelly-like things were egg sacks for cuttlefish or something like that...
They are sea snail eggs. Well the ones around me are (Victoria).
@@billythekid2281 Thank you! Just checked and CSIRO agrees with you. Been wanting to know this for a long time. :)
@MrVsbt1 bring back beyond 2000 (too) :D
They could have said that people would make money selling farts in jars and we would have scoffed...
Well guys, another 10 years past and we still not using robots to take care of our kids )))))
possibly beyond 2034
I like how they made fun of how over the top the real show wanted to be
@ruantengyi Probably Carmel Travers, she's the only one I remember from that show with red hair.
Here she is portrayed by Marg Downey. You can see her naturally brown hair in her thick eyebrows, underneath her red wig.
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funny stuff. loved the show growing up (um yeah, see my vids). "a new look at gravel" LMAO.
Beverly crusher?
lol
@cesariojpn No, I just think that people weren't so pathetic and freaking-out looking for a bad meaning in everything.
Blonde Haired Caucasian Kids in intro....show about the future.....was there a bloody white supremacist on the staff?
@MitchoK1989
Bollywood hasn't produced anything worth looking. Goodness Gracious Me from the BBC.....meh.
so what, this show is like the british educational comedy "Look Around You"?
mmm no, it was a flashier reboot of an earlier Aussie version of Tomorrow's World. Australia made "Towards 2000", then this became the hugely successful commercial version "Beyond 2000" (worthy of a parody sketch, you know you've cracked the big time) and got exported and repackaged for US Discovery network. It had a couple of soft relaunches, changing networks then changing name as we got too close to the year 2000, "Beyond Tomorrow", making it past the turn of the millennium before being cancelled (and the internet, then TH-cam, being a far better place to follow their topics). And by then it was a lower budget affair. I think Tomorrow's World ended up around the same time in 2003 yet closer to what they were aiming for, because you needed a non-commercial broadcaster to keep it alive after the "high tech" craze left the mainstream - it's never been as high as it was in the late 1980s, when Japanese tech was the main flavour and Japan was living in the future. Tomorrow's World survives as a brand where "Beyond" never did (except as Beyond Productions who were behind things you may have heard of, like Mythbusters, continuing to get hits with Discovery channel). Like I say, tech media is all in TH-cam now, where it fits better and can survive on that funding indefinitely. BBC keeps Tomorrow's World as a brand that keeps a foot in the online space too, very much in the spirit of the old show being something they felt "needed" to be made.