Toyboize (band)
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Toyboize | |
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Origin | England |
Genre(s) | Pop |
Years active | 1988 – 1989; reformed 2008 |
Label(s) | RML |
Associated acts | Reece Phillips |
Website | [1] |
Toyboize is the name of fictional child pop band who had a 1988 hit "I like U girl".
Toyboize is also the title of a pilot internet show documenting the Toyboize 2008 comeback. The series is produced by the television company talkbackTHAMES, a division of FremantleMedia (part of the RTL Group)
The pilot series is a sequence of episodes and diary clips released over a 6 week period in May-June 2008.
The title music "I Like U Girl" was co-written and recorded by Ricky Gervais. The series also features actors from The Office including Stirling Gallacher and Ewen Macintosh.
Primarily hosted on a YouTube channel, the series has also been made an official content provider by the editorial panel at DailyMotion [1]
[edit] Press and Blogs
The project's launch was initially reported in UK TV industry trade publication Broadcast[2] and also on Chortle a UK based comedy news site [3]