Why It Is Important To Be Nice...
It's not often you'll find gumph about a new TV show here, much less a new TV show which will appear on a channel which is not a ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ channel, but this is kind of a special case, AND comes with a free gift, just like you get with breakfast cereal. What's not to love?
So, the show is Dubplate Drama, Channel 4's grime-riddled interacti-soap, which started its second series recently, and contains three things which are pretty exciting to ChartBlog readers (assuming ChartBlog readers are interested in urban dramas in the first place, obv).
One is that you can still vote at the end of each episode on how you would like the story to progress, and you can see the show on TV, the web AND your mobile phone. This is INTERACTIVE, and INTERACTIVE is THE FUTURE for all creative endeavours as we know them.
The second is that the show features Radio 1's very own Tim Westwood. There's not a big enough word in the world to describe that special feeling Westwood creates in people. Adoration? Puny. Annoyance? Half-hearted. Crazy mad love? Neeearly... He's one of those people you can't really have a mild reaction to, or he'll BANG in your FACE, or something.
Personally I think he's ace. Not just an ambassador for hip hop, but a uniquely British eccentric, as much of a national treasure as Stephen Fry or Morrissey. Well, nearly as much...
And the third is that the show really CARES. After all the rows about TV misleading and conning the people who watch it, how great is that a phone-vote TV show has been working alongside the and Childline when developing story ideas AND creates a soundtrack album - 'Dubplate Drama – The Mix Tape Volume 1' - to showcase some of the UK's freshest (are we still allowed to use that word to mean 'good'?) UK grime and dubstep talent. 
And this is where your free gift comes in. We've been given the song 'Fireworkz' to give away to anyone who would like it. Hell, we've been given the song 'Fireworkz' to give away to anyone who definitely WON'T like it. But there's only one way to find out which group you belong to, and that's to follow this link...
'Fireworks' is performed by quite a lot of people, including Hypa & Marcie, Kele Le Roc, Tiny Tempa, Bruza, Wretch, & Sorcher. So as a showcase of fresh talent it's very effective, wouldn't you say?
There, now I DEMAND a ChartBlog mention on Channel 4 News, or this whole 'sharing the love' thing is going die before it even fully draws breath...
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