Friday, May 28th, 2010
Increase the PULSE rate…ings.
Watch the entire Pilot Online here now.
With BBC 3 offering a fresh round of drama pilots, it was probably a given I’d instantly be drawn to the horror one. But medical horror PULSE has a lot more going for it than my simple need to be a bit creeped out. Primarily, it’s written by the indomitable Paul Cornell, whose Doctor Who two-parter ‘Human Nature/The Family of Blood‘ raised the bar terrifically for what New-Who could do and who put a mammoth on the M25 in the first ten minutes of his Primeval episode - by far my favourite of the whole show. Says Cornell of PULSE:
We are the nation, after all, that’s really proud of its NHS, but at the same time looks at those stern official buildings and shivers a little.
PULSE is also produced by World Productions who, as well as This Life and No Angels, were behind grown-up vampire miniseries Ultraviolet - a show that now seems waaaaay ahead of its time considering the current vampiric glut and which resisted the temptation to slide down the tongue-in-cheek genre route.
But to convince the BBC Three to take PULSE to a full series, it needs to get watched - and this is where we can actually decide what’s on telly for once. Being Human survived the last round of commissioning due to internet buzz - but as well as joining PULSE’s facebook group, you can now watch the entire pilot online before its TV broadcast next week (Thursday 3rd June, 9pm BBC Three). As Paul Cornell tweeted himself, watching it and leaving a nice comment could make all the difference to whether it’s commissioned.
So vote with your feet. Get PULSE in your eyes! 
(I’ll be doing that today - review coming tomorrow)
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