Zie Ze Vliegen

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Zie Ze Vliegen
Genre Comedy mockumentary
Created byOriginal British version:
Matt Lucas
David Walliams
Dutch version:
Carlo Boszhard
Herald Adolfs
Starring Carlo Boszhard
Irene Moors
Chantal Janzen
Gordon Heuckeroth
Narrated byVivian Boelen
Composer David Arnold
Country of origin Netherlands
Original languageDutch
No. of series1
No. of episodes6 (+1 special)
Production
Running time32 minutes
Original release
Network RTL 4
Release20 August (2011-08-20) 
1 October 2011 (2011-10-01)
Related
Come Fly with Me (2010 TV series)
Little Britain
Airport
Luton Airport
Airline

Zie Ze Vliegen is a Dutch mockumentary television comedy series, based entirely on British mockumentary Come Fly With Me - with the script and characters almost exactly the same. The series stars Carlo Boszhard, Irene Moors, Chantal Janzen and Gordon Heuckeroth. The series was narrated by Vivian Boelen. [1] A spoof of airport documentaries, the series follows the activity at a fictional airport (stated as one of the busiest in Benelux and three fictional airlines: GoedkoopAir (a low-cost airline), FlyLimburg (GoedkoopAir's low-cost competitor) and KNL (a major international Dutch airline). Boszhard and Moors portray many of the focal airline and airport staff, as well as some passengers, whose comments and experiences are featured in one or more of the series episodes in the style of a "fly-on-the-wall documentary". The show first aired on 20 August 2011 on RTL 4.

Contents

The series was made available in DVD format on December 1, 2011.

Production

The script is an almost exact copy of the programme it is based on, written by David Walliams and Matt Lucas. The series was filmed on location at Rotterdam The Hague Airport in the summer of 2011. [2]

Airlines

Main characters

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References

  1. "Vivian Boelen terug bij RTL als voice-over Zie Ze Vliegen". 16 August 2011.
  2. "Carlo en Irene maken Nederlandse Little Britain". 21 May 2011.
  3. "Come Fly With Me: fasten your seatbelts" The Daily Telegraph, 20 December 2010 Walliams cocks a blatant snook at easyJet founder Stelios Haji-Ioannou through his flamboyantly asinine, money-raking turn as low-budget airline boss Omar Baba of FlyLo