Would love to be able to see those pilots in full... in fact I'd love to be able to see the first SM:TV and CD:UK again.
Did you not see the first show on Youtube a few years back? It was like they say - there was nothing to SMTV apart from cartoons and Wonkey Donkey. And CDUK was lots of left field non pop acts yet they had a guy called Dr Pop in the studio analysing the saturday chart. There was also an OB in a Manchester record store...god knows why. I bet Cat didn't think she'd still be hosting the show six years later.
Just because it might seem like "nothing" to some people doesn't mean some of us wouldn't be interested to see it again. I did watch it at the time, but it's over 22 years ago now.
Will see what I can do with uploading, I've got the first 10 episodes of the series and they were very lucky they even got commissioned for the year with what they were producing on screen. In one of the episodes Ric Blaxill cameos and gets pied in the face which seemed a bit odd as most of the viewers wouldn't have cared about who he was!
The reason I watched it was because I liked Cow & Chicken and The Angry Beavers as much because of SM:TV itself I admit. I probably wouldn't have watched that first episode if they weren't showing cartoons I was interested in.
Didn't help the first episode was one that had been shortened because of Formula 1 of course.
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Just because it might seem like "nothing" to some people doesn't mean some of us wouldn't be interested to see it again. I did watch it at the time, but it's over 22 years ago now.
Of course. I was interested myself. Not sure what happened with them on youtube they were up for a few years.
Just because it might seem like "nothing" to some people doesn't mean some of us wouldn't be interested to see it again. I did watch it at the time, but it's over 22 years ago now.
Of course. I was interested myself. Not sure what happened with them on youtube they were up for a few years.
The copyright police often find things eventually even if you think something's safe...
One thing I do remember from the first CD:UK is that had a competition question about what was Michael Jackson's previous number one (as it was on his 40th birthday), of which all the answers were wrong. The correct one being "Blood on the Dancefloor", which wasn't an option.
Funnily enough 5 years later the first All New Top Of The Pops had something similar with Robbie Williams.
One thing I do remember from the first CD:UK is that had a competition question about what was Michael Jackson's previous number one (as it was on his 40th birthday), of which all the answers were wrong. The correct one being "Blood on the Dancefloor", which wasn't an option.
Funnily enough 5 years later the first All New Top Of The Pops had something similar with Robbie Williams.
That would cause a Twitter meltdown these days.
On the CITV rollercoaster ident at the beginning of SMTV, I wonder if there's any chance of them using it for tomorrow's nostalgiafest. Weirdly in the Ant and Dec days the CITV ident and sponsorship bumpers for Ambrosia, Tizer etc were played out from the studio. It was only around 2003 for some reason these started to be played from ITV transmission.
This was how sponsorship worked across the whole channel. It was changed to make the bumpers more flexible - agencies only had to deliver to transmission rather than multiple productions, and if you wanted to change them, drop them or change sponsor it could be done much more quickly than previously where a full re-edit would be required for a prerecorded programme. The only exceptions are āsponsor fundedā programmes - Supermarket Sweep is a current example. Champions League coverage is probably the most famous one in recent years.
This was how sponsorship worked across the whole channel. It was changed to make the bumpers more flexible - agencies only had to deliver to transmission rather than multiple productions, and if you wanted to change them, drop them or change sponsor it could be done much more quickly than previously where a full re-edit would be required for a prerecorded programme. The only exceptions are āsponsor fundedā programmes - Supermarket Sweep is a current example. Champions League coverage is probably the most famous one in recent years.
