MM
Over the last few days over on the Clean Feed Twitter account, we've been posting recreations of the clocks used by NI and Scotland on BBC Two during the 86 - 91 era. The tweets prompted this contribution - the real mccoy from Wales:
Thanks for digging out this tape Andy. So, there was a BBC Two Wales clock after all! And another odd colour scheme. Could I possibly push my luck and request a video posting of that junction when you get a chance Andy - even a video recording on your phone? https://t.co/OhZBxwc3Gl
— Clean Feed @ The TV Room (@cleanfeed_ttvr) September 10, 2020
TI
This article was posted on Reddit today.
https://www.bettingdoctor.co.uk/blog/how-eastenders-helped-one-lucky-punter-win-194000/
“A 40-year-old night-shift worker from Newport in South Wales walked into his local betting shop on December 30th 1989 and staked £30 on an accumulator, which banked on a series of happenings before the turn of the millennium."
“The punter’s prayers were with Cliff Richard (4-1) being knighted, U2 (3-1) remaining a pop group, Eastenders (5-1) still being around as a BBC soap opera, and both Neighbours (5-1) and Home Away (8-1) remaining on our British television screens."
“Remarkably, all his prayers were answered, and two days into the new millennium he walked back into the shop and asked for his winnings, which amounted to £194,400."
“Nobody had passed on the bet to head office, but after a couple of days it was confirmed as a bona fide transaction, and the punter was duly paid out, his 6,479-1 accumulator still being the largest novelty killing in the history of bookmaking."
If the Channel 5 poaches Home and Away deal happened a year earlier, he would have lost.
As the show was off air for 12 months and it needed to still be on British screens around the 1st January 2000.
https://www.bettingdoctor.co.uk/blog/how-eastenders-helped-one-lucky-punter-win-194000/
Quote:
“A 40-year-old night-shift worker from Newport in South Wales walked into his local betting shop on December 30th 1989 and staked £30 on an accumulator, which banked on a series of happenings before the turn of the millennium."
“The punter’s prayers were with Cliff Richard (4-1) being knighted, U2 (3-1) remaining a pop group, Eastenders (5-1) still being around as a BBC soap opera, and both Neighbours (5-1) and Home Away (8-1) remaining on our British television screens."
“Remarkably, all his prayers were answered, and two days into the new millennium he walked back into the shop and asked for his winnings, which amounted to £194,400."
“Nobody had passed on the bet to head office, but after a couple of days it was confirmed as a bona fide transaction, and the punter was duly paid out, his 6,479-1 accumulator still being the largest novelty killing in the history of bookmaking."
If the Channel 5 poaches Home and Away deal happened a year earlier, he would have lost.
As the show was off air for 12 months and it needed to still be on British screens around the 1st January 2000.
SP
This has kept popping up on my timeline today...
TV ain’t what it used to be.
Thank goodness.
Good morning pic.twitter.com/4w4FvoFHkg
— Matt Lucas HQ (@RealMattLucas) September 26, 2020
TV ain’t what it used to be.
Thank goodness.
SP
I think you've done well if you've managed to get through the whole thing once.
Am I the only person who finds they can only watch this once and never again?
I think you've done well if you've managed to get through the whole thing once.
SO
Some of us remember this from the time....and it seemed almost as weird back then (1998/9 I assume,
as it charted in 1997....so right at the end of Barrymore’s ITV career).
But there is a more jaw-dropping performance... Barrymore doing Everybody (Backstreet’s Back). If anyone ever tracks that down- and I’ve never seen it on the internet despite searching for 20 years- it will go absolutely viral.
as it charted in 1997....so right at the end of Barrymore’s ITV career).
But there is a more jaw-dropping performance... Barrymore doing Everybody (Backstreet’s Back). If anyone ever tracks that down- and I’ve never seen it on the internet despite searching for 20 years- it will go absolutely viral.
ST
For those of you that are brave enough, there's also a recording of Barrymore singing the closing theme to
The Family Ness
(which he recorded as a B-side for one of his hits) on YouTube.
Yes, The Family Ness.
Yes, The Family Ness.
LL
Without sounding pedantic, his career went on for a couple more years after that. As for the Backstreet Boys moment, there's a snippet here at 4:54 and 7:34. I still can't really tell if he's larking about or he wanted this to be taken at face value, but it's still an odd sight.
Some of us remember this from the time....and it seemed almost as weird back then (1998/9 I assume,
as it charted in 1997....so right at the end of Barrymore’s ITV career).
But there is a more jaw-dropping performance... Barrymore doing Everybody (Backstreet’s Back). If anyone ever tracks that down- and I’ve never seen it on the internet despite searching for 20 years- it will go absolutely viral.
as it charted in 1997....so right at the end of Barrymore’s ITV career).
But there is a more jaw-dropping performance... Barrymore doing Everybody (Backstreet’s Back). If anyone ever tracks that down- and I’ve never seen it on the internet despite searching for 20 years- it will go absolutely viral.
Without sounding pedantic, his career went on for a couple more years after that. As for the Backstreet Boys moment, there's a snippet here at 4:54 and 7:34. I still can't really tell if he's larking about or he wanted this to be taken at face value, but it's still an odd sight.