Attachments was a British TV show shown between 2000-2002 that looked at the life and drama at a fictional Internet startup (seethru.co.uk - which was developed alongside the show). It was incredibly well written and acted, and darkly humorous (with nude skateboarding developers, one of their investors dying of a drug overdose in the toilet, and David Walliams in a pre-Little Britain 'gay Web designer' role). Despite this, I can only find a few crusty VHS cassettes of the series (no DVD?), it's never repeated on TV, and there are hardly any references on-line to it. I'm hoping that posting this will lead to someone turning up and giving a bit of information :)
I'd compel whoever has the rights on the show to release it on YouTube or something, because it's still extremely relevant, and I think the US market would totally love it. Despite being six years old, a lot of what was covered in the show is relevant to Web 2.0 startups today.
Get yerself over to uknova.com, signup (if they'll let you - they might be closed to new signups) and search/ask nicely on the forums, that normally works. You might be out of luck if it's legally available as they avoid stuff that's "legit".
Posted by: The other Pete Cooper at November 27, 2006 08:21 PMI'm pretty certain that this is the show I've been trying to remember the name of for ages. It'd be great to see it again.
Posted by: Chris Roos at November 28, 2006 08:21 AMIt was a great show...
The writers came to the startup I was at at the time to talk to us and get a feel for the startup environment and such.
My contribution was that the main geeky guy needed better t-shirts. I'm proud to say main geeky guy was later seen wearing t-shirts from whatever online store I recommended to them.
Posted by: Jamie Wilson at November 28, 2006 04:50 PMI've sent an e-mail to the production company to see if there's any information and who owns the rights. Perhaps I could organize a petition for a DVD release ;-)
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