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Braben wrote and appeared in various radio comedy shows for the BBC, including the well-remembered Show With Ten Legs.
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Braben also made Wise a would-be writer ; their BBC shows in the 1970s would always climax with an extended sketch, introduced by Wise as " a play what I wrote.
Morecambe pointed out that Braben wrote him as " tougher, less gormless, harder towards Ern.
Some confusion has emerged over Braben's role in the show, as the similarly named Edwin Braden performed on the show while Braben ( more fully named Edwin C Braben ) wrote for it.
Braben subsequently wrote and starred in The Show with Ten Legs, broadcast in January 1978, performing jokes and sketches alongside Bill Pertwee, Alison Steadman, and Eli Woods.
From 1982 to 1984 Braben joined Eli Woods and Alison Steadman for 13 episodes of the BBC radio series The Show with No Name, all of which he also wrote.
Elite 4 will be the third sequel to 1984's Elite, a game that Braben and his former associate, Ian Bell, wrote for the BBC Micro computer, and which was ported to most other platforms of the day.
Braben and various
The front room of the flat and also the bedroom were used frequently throughout the show episodes, although Braben would also transplant the duo into various external situations, such as a health-food shop or a bank.
Aerial views of the various locations visited by Auntie Mabel were shot by Jeremy Braben.
Braben and comedy
With Braben as chief writer, Morecambe and Wise became the most successful comedy duo the country had ever seen.
* Eddie Braben, comedy writer and performer.
Eddie Braben ( born 31 October 1930 ) is a comedy writer and performer who has provided material for such figures as David Frost and Ronnie Corbett, and who is most famous for having written for Ken Dodd and Morecambe and Wise.
Braben and shows
Eddie Braben, however, opted to remain at the BBC ( signing an exclusive contract with the corporation shortly thereafter ); Barry Cryer and John Junkin were brought in to contribute to the early Thames shows ( Braben eventually made the switch when his BBC contract expired ).
They had a series of shows that spanned over twenty years, during which time they developed and honed their act, most notably after moving to the BBC in 1968, where they were to be teamed with their long-term writer Eddie Braben.
Another concept of the shows during the ' Braben era ' was Ernie's utterly confident presentation of amateurishly inept plays.
Their leading scriptwriter, Eddie Braben, did not initially move to ITV with them, and with Eric Morecambe's failing health, the shows never repeated the audiences they once had.
Braben and for
Originally Morecambe and Wise objected to sharing a bed ( which would become one of their most popular and fondly remembered character traits ), but Braben countered that if it was good enough for Laurel and Hardy it was surely good enough for Morecambe and Wise.
Writers: Hills and Green for one series and thereafter Eddie Braben ).
football manager, whose house overlooked Bellefield ; Carla Lane the scriptwriter lived close by, as did Eddie Braben, the scriptwriter for Morecambe and Wise, Bessie Braddock the famous Liverpool Exchange Division MP.
Dodd's style was good training for Braben because his relentless delivery averaged around seven jokes a minute.
Bill Cotton, then in charge of Light Entertainment at the BBC, was looking for a writer and asked Braben if he would like to try.
Braben found writing for Morecambe and Wise stressful, particularly with pressure to produce the high-profile Christmas Specials, each of which took months to rehearse and film.
David John Braben ( born 1964, Basford, Nottingham ) is a British computer programmer, best known for co-writing Elite, a hugely popular and influential space trading computer game, in the early 1980s, and for his work as a trustee for the Raspberry Pi Foundation who in 2012 launched a low-cost computer for education.
Another seminal game written by Braben was Zarch for the Acorn Archimedes ( later released on some other platforms as Virus ), which was one of the first true " solid " 3D games.
Braben originally programmed the game for the Amiga in 68000 assembly language.
Braben received royalties for 350, 000 copies.
Braben revealed that Elite 4 began and ceased development as an MMORPG in 2000, abandoned due to the immaturity of technology for online play.
During an interview with Computer and Video Games in September 2007, Braben revealed that Frontier Developments is currently working on new technologies required to deliver the game, and has been for two years.
At the Gamecity International Interactive Entertainment Festival 2007 event in Nottingham UK, it was revealed that Braben and Frontier Developments are aiming to have Elite 4 released for the current generation of gaming consoles and PC.
Braben and BBC
In 1978 Morecambe and Wise were lured back to ITV-but Braben did not go with them because he was still under contract with the BBC.
In an interview with the BBC to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the original game, Braben confirmed that the game was still in development, saying, " We'd be mad not to go back to the world of Elite and I'm very excited about it ," and adding that it would be released only " when its ready.
Braben and including
Also at the event, Braben, during an interview about courses teaching game development in the UK, revealed that Frontier Developments is recruiting staff to work on their current projects, including Elite 4.
Braben and Show
The following year saw a second series, also written by and starring Braben, which aired under the revised title ' The New Improved Show with Ten Legs ', broadcast in January 1979.
" Braben repeated this claim in a Game Theory Show podcast in August 2007.
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John Ammonds, the show's producer, replaced Hills and Green with Eddie Braben, who had just parted from Ken Dodd.
The humour had always been largely derived from their on-stage relationship, but whereas Hills and Green had cast Morecambe as the comic and Wise as the straight man, Braben inverted the relationship ; as theatre critic Kenneth Tynan noted, Braben made Wise's character a comic who was not funny, while Morecambe became a straight man who was funny.
Braben made them less hostile to one another, even depicting them as sharing a bed.
When Eddie Braben took over as their chief writer, he enriched Wise's persona by making him pompous and naive.
In the later and most successful part of their career, which spanned the 1970s, they were joined behind the scenes by Eddie Braben, a script writer who generated almost all their material ( Morecambe and Wise were also sometimes credited as supplying " additional material ") and defined what is now thought of as typical Morecambe and Wise humour.
When Eddie Braben took over as writer, he made the relationship considerably deeper and more complex.
The critic Kenneth Tynan noted that, with Braben as writer, Morecambe and Wise had a unique dynamic — Ernie was a comedian who wasn ’ t funny, while Eric was a straight man who was funny.
Braben later said that a large amount of the duo's humour was based on irreverence.
Braben would comment that people judged the quality of their Christmas experience on the quality of the Morecambe and Wise Christmas Special.
It was written and developed by David Braben and Ian Bell, who had met while they were both undergraduates at Jesus College, Cambridge.
According to Braben and Bell, Elite was inspired by a range of sources.
Braben also cites the works of Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Arthur C. Clarke, Robert L. Forward, Isaac Asimov and Orson Scott Card as influences.
Braben had started writing a game called Fighter, but had not yet completed it.
The two projects were sufficiently similar that Braben and Bell compared notes, and after seeing Star Raiders on the Atari 800 they decided to collaborate to produce what eventually became Elite.
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