To launch its new Sky Tennis channel, the broadcaster has done its own take on Fallon’s legendary 2005 “Balls” ad for Sony Bravia.
“New balls please” has all the same markers – the hills of San Francisco, the frog in the drainpipe, a dog, a trash can, stunning blue skies, José González singing Heartbeats. Shot by Sky in Cape Town.
Fallon’s original took three days, a 23-person camera crew in body armour, 250,000 balls and 12 cannons to realise director Nicolai Fugslig’s vision.
In the end, there was so much footage that the campaign debuted with a two-and-a-half minute version, which took up an entire ad break on Sky Sports 1.
Here’s Fallon’s epic.
This is a corrected version of an earlier story.
Hi there,
You might need to amend your article. This was done without any CG at all. Not a single ball.
40,000 tennis balls down a hill in South Africa.
For the love of journalism, a good old fashioned fact check wouldn’t go a miss next time.
Done Sam, apologies