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A former member
This was filmed in Glasgow, and the old set was TO big compared to Maidstone, STV never liked it anyways.. hence why hey lets change it around and kill it off!
Last edited by A former member on 1 February 2018 12:13am
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Si-Co
Michael Grade and Lord Sutherland interviewed on Channel 4 News regarding Thames Television’s poaching of Dallas in 1985.

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Mike W
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5yK5-E5yno
Not exactly gold but interesting.

An information film on Clearcast and where they sit with Ofcom and ASA.

They refer to 'Good Morning Britain' as a separate broadcaster to ITV plc, which is nice as the fact the C3 Breakfast Time contract is held by ITV Breakfast Ltd. (previously known as GMTV Ltd.) - something not highlighted much these days.
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peterrocket Founding member
Gladiators on a budget Nickelodeon style looks like this, their Guts/Global Guts show:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjOdH008d14


And then the 2000s remake...

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dmch82
Gladiators on a budget Nickelodeon style looks like this, their Guts/Global Guts show:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjOdH008d14


There seemed to be quite a few Gladiators type shows around in the early-mid 90s. I remember this one being shown on Sky 1. Think it was on Saturday or Sunday afternoons. Knights and Warriors...

Last edited by dmch82 on 3 February 2018 2:36am
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Larry the Loafer
There was also Ice Warriors, which was apparently just Gladiators on ice. YouTube only brings up a trailer for it, which puts to rest my theory that I simply dreamt it, but alas no footage from any episodes has appeared AFAIK.
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james-2001
I'm suprised there's no footage, Challenge have repeated it in the past.
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JAS84
I see the problem. Searching for it yields Doctor Who, Gladiators, Ninja Warrior, ice hockey, and that Knights and Warriors show mentioned a few posts ago. The name is too generic!
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Steve Williams
There was also Ice Warriors, which was apparently just Gladiators on ice.


That's exactly what it was. It's quite fascinating in a way because it was talked up for a long, long time as ITV's big new entertainment show - I've got the Edinburgh TV Festival book from 1997 where Marcus Plantin is interviewed and says it's going to be a big show, and that was six months before it was on air. And the story was that some ITV exec was shown the set, said "this looks like a million dollars!" and was told it actually cost more than that.

Anyway, after all that, it was just Gladiators On Ice, except with a complete lack of humour so it was all totally po-faced. And instead of one-to-one combat like on Gladiators, it was a team game (they might have been real ice hockey teams or something) but once they'd all been padded up you didn't know who the hell any of them were, so nobody cared whether they won or lost. And obviously, the main flaw is that you just can't do very much on ice except for skating around it really fast.

Anyway, it was a huge flop and got dumped to a late afternoon slot within weeks. I remember at the time they said there might be a second series, but if there was, it would be reformatted as a kids' show and shown on Children's ITV because only kids appeared to have liked it. But there wasn't.

One thing I'd also like to see is when the Ice Master appeared on Light Lunch alongside Lee and Herring, and Richard Herring said how disappointed he was that he'd gone to the toilet next to him and he expelled normal urine and not a cascade of ice.
DE88 and Larry the Loafer gave kudos
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james-2001
That reminds me of the flop that was Celebrity Wrestling... which ITV somehow thought could content with the first series of Nu Who. Then got relegated to the old Sunday Worship slot after a few weeks.
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Rex
That reminds me of the flop that was Celebrity Wrestling... which ITV somehow thought could content with the first series of Nu Who. Then got relegated to the old Sunday Worship slot after a few weeks.

Never watched that flop of a show, but ITV gave massive promotion to it, even giving it some special presentation and idents in the process.

Didn't work out at all.
Last edited by Rex on 4 February 2018 11:03pm
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A former member
I'm sure there thread about this.

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