Far Out

The 2014 The Clever and the Other One reboot *Far Out* consists of three 25-minute episodes.

The season premiered on February 28, 2014 and ended its initial run on May 18, 2014. Throughout the next few years, several attempts to continue it failed - the events transpiring between the second and third episodes were eventually explained in the August 2017 television special Officer Giant: Prolonged Pursuit.

## Plot overview

The adventures of young adults Jay and Miles, both "far out" from your standard crowd in their own unique ways.

## Production

The final The Clever and the Other One episode, Double-Date, was broadcast on July 13, 2012. Shortly afterwards, C and Hanmore began scripting the following episode, *The Power Cut*, which was to chronicle Jay and Miles' attempts to entertain themselves when a power cut strikes. C was to reprise his role as Officer Giant and Hanmore would have made a cameo appearance as a mean old lady. Filming commenced in late July 2012; during filming, C and Hanmore had an argument, resulting in the former refusing to partake in the production of any more episodes. The series was ultimately cancelled soon afterwards.

From then until *Far Out*'s release, C and Hanmore discussed the possibility of reviving the show in the form of a more traditional situation comedy. Hanmore stated in 2013: "Yeah, that's definitely on the cards. Me and Jay want to make it more grounded-in-reality, you know...less dream-like." The decision was made to increase each episode's running time from 15 minutes to 25 in order to make each episode's plot more developed. Filming on the pilot episode, *Too Far Out*, took place over the course of a single day in February 2014, and two more episodes followed in May.

In June 2014, C's father had an accident while BMXing and for this reason C was unable to attend filmings for subsequent episodes for several months. It was not until April 2015 that a fourth episode - *Miles Darko* - began filming with a new high-definition camera. Its plot concerned Miles witnessing a giant bunny rabbit who informs him that the Playstation 3 will be discontinued in 28 days (an obvious paraody of the 2001 film *Donnie Darko*). In a very similar vein to what occured during filming of *The Power Cut* three years earlier, C declared that filming was too dull and withdrew from the project, prompting Hanmore to cancel the series as a whole. C later explained: "We're getting too old...I'm sorry, it just isn't working anymore."

Following this, Hanmore realised that events occuring between *Miles Runs Away* and *College and Drugs* were largely unknown, prompting a series of questions, the most obvious being how Miles managed to escape C.M.G.'s clutches whilst in Germany. In mid-2016, Hanmore began to write a script for a spin-off that would answer those questions entitled *The Zak Giant Chronicles*. However, he was displeased with his original script, and the project was put on hold until the following year.

## Main Characters

* Jay
* Miles
* Officer Zak Giant

## Other Characters

* C.M.G.
* Bartender
* Paul Skinback

## Episodes

* Too Far Out (February 28, 2014)
* Miles Runs Away (May 16, 2014)
* College and Drugs (May 30, 2014)
* *Miles Darko* (unfinished)