Homepage News Reviews - Acts - Shows - Screen - Radio - Books - Clubs Interviews Awards 2006 Edinburgh 2005 - Reviews - Blog - Previews Features Archive Awards 2005 Edinburgh 2004: - Previews - Shows - Diary Guestbook Forum © Emporium Of Mirth 2004 Editor: Lauren Murphy Reporters: Fiona Wilkie Natalie Joanne	Emporium of Mirth 15 Storeys High “London, South, a tower block you’re thinking urban decay.. but no, they’ve done it up really nice.” This was the tagline for 15 Storeys High, a charmingly bizarre radio series developed from 15 Minutes of Misery, the equally bizarre but not quite as charming radio series that preceded it. Since them, the BBC saw fit to develop a TV series which they hyped up as far as they could and then promptly began ignoring it despite its high ratings and award nominations. Luckily, they did see fit to bring it back for a second run this year. The TV series is, a lot of the time, adaptations of the radio episodes, and this is a good thing. The radio series was rich with ideas packed choc full of potential but were not realistically achievable in that medium. It is a testament to this that even in its second outing, 15 Storeys High the TV series still has a debt to the radio. What Sean Lock has done for the TV version is brilliant, he’s taken the best elements of each radio episode and developed them into something that has an identity all of its own. The show is beautifully shot, and sometimes uses radio elements, with some events occurring off camera and we essentially are left with a still image. What we also get are some brilliantly thought out visual gags, such as old ladies racing to the telephone and the man phoning about a delivery and getting more than he bargained for. It seems Sean Lock has some sort of Midas touch, as some of the gags that really shouldn’t have transferred from radio somehow end up funnier on screen. Who knew the Plough episode would transfer so brilliantly? Sean Lock apparently. Reviewed by Lauren RSS  Printable version	Visit our Siamese Twin Sister Site!