Views jump 11x the channel's usual pace

Finlay Christie takes his archive-documentary parody into urban life

His second old-BBC sketch leads the recent uploads as daily channel views climb to more than ten times their usual pace.

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Why this story? The whole channel is running at 2,940,495 views a day, 11 times a normal day (278,241).

Finlay Christie's recent comedy targets have something in common: they take themselves rather seriously. After his sober-person VICE parody came perfume advertising's empty slogans, followed by another installment of his old-BBC documentary series.

That latest sketch, "old bbc documentaries about urban life", has reached roughly 725,000 views since its October release. It is the most watched of those recent uploads, arriving as the channel adds nearly three million views in a day, far beyond its usual pace. That is a channel-wide jump, not a total belonging to the BBC parody alone.

Christie describes the upload as the second part of his archive-documentary series and credits James Mileham with shooting and co-directing it. His own explanation for returning to the format is uncomplicated: "I love making these."

The neighboring upload, "meaningless slogans in perfume adverts", features fellow comedian David Thomas. Together, the two titles extend a recognizable strand of Christie's sketches: making comedy out of familiar screen conventions. His older "David Mitchell on every panel show" belongs to that same shelf, with the panel-show persona rather than the documentary format supplying the target.

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