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Jam is a British comedy television series created by Chris Morris. It was based on the earlier BBC Radio 1 show, Blue Jam, and consisted of a series of unsettling sketches unfolding over an ambient soundtrack. Many of the sketches re-used the original radio soundtracks with the actors lip-synching their lines, an unusual technique which added to the programme's unsettling atmosphere.
The cast included Amelia Bullmore, David Cann, Julia Davis, Kevin Eldon and Mark Heap. It was written by Chris Morris and Peter Baynham, with Jane Bussman, David Quantick, Graham Linehan, Arthur Mathews and the cast.
The series consisted of six half-hour episodes, and, unusually for a TV show on a commercial channel, had no advert break in the middle. The closing credits were also missing, replaced by a brief link to a website [1] (http://www.channel4.com/entertainment/tv/microsites/J/jam/credits_ns6.html).
Jaaaaam was a late-night remix of Jam. Its audiovisual distortions of the original series introduced the musical remix concept to British television.
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