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The TV Room

It’s good to see the site getting updated regularly now. They’ve also uploaded the first 6 minutes of the first Channel Four Daily from 1989:

https://rewind.thetvroom.com/25400/programmes/the-channel-four-daily-opening-titles-and-presentation-first-edition-3rd-april-1989/
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It’s similar to what LWT did, notably in this clip when they closed down in April 1989, the difference here is that it’s a 4 minute clip right before the end of transmission rather than another programme.

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ITV production/presentation slides

In later years this happened a lot more, eg Yorkshire recording some Countdowns at Tyne Tees, some Masterminds were made at Yorkshire because of asbestos work at Granada.


This also effected a number of episodes of the Dave Spikey era of Bullseye, which was due to be recorded at Granada, were in fact recorded at Yorkshire.

To an extent with Countdown, you could argue that the same principle has applied since 2009. The production office remains at Yorkshire but was filmed at Granada until 2013, before switching to MediaCity.
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We’re sorry we can’t bring you the next programme...

Si-Co and Inspector Sands gave kudos
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Happy Birthday Mr Bean

And we just had a random scene that was shown in 25p. This ‘remaster’ sure is great! (No I’m not talking about the stuff shot on film that’s on now)

Speaking of which, it looks like they haven’t actually remastered the film footage. Might not exist any more of course.


Which is a wasted opportunity to add some kind of longevity by making it in HD. Certainly all of the outdoor scenes in the Thames era episodes (after the first two) were shot on film. Two episodes, in Room 426 and Mind the Baby are also shot entirely on film, which would all look good in HD, but the look would be inconsistent in comparison to the rest of the series.
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Happy Birthday Mr Bean

The thing is, the first film if you were to watch it on its own, it is quite enjoyable and good in its own right, but it’s not true to the series. It’s a shame they chose to cut out a lot of scenes such as Mr Bean driving through Harrods. They explained on the VHS release which had the cut scenes at the end that it was almost 20 minutes into the film before he went to America, which became about 10 minutes after editing. Worth nothing that Mel Smith directed this film.

EDIT: Said feature extra available here:



The second film whilst not as laugh out loud funny, is a bit more gentler, truer to the character and series.

I’m quite looking forward to the documentary tomorrow, Rowan Atkinson doesn’t do many interviews, so I’m interested what he, Curtis and Driscoll have to say.
Last edited by nwtv2003 on 9 January 2021 9:41am
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Granada Reports

Gamal’s first bulletin is on Monday.
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A teachers guide on how to record and manage your Video tapes for School:

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Granada Reports

Gamal has now been confirmed as the new presenter:



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Happy Birthday Mr Bean

I’m not sure what arrangement Tiger TV/Aspect had with Thames, but Mr Bean was only made for Thames up to the end of 1992. After this time it was a Tiger production, usually for Central. I don’t believe it was a Tiger Production for Thames, and then a Central Presentation, at least for the post 1993 episodes. Certainly the loss of the franchise didn’t end Thames’ association with Mr Bean, as it continued to be released through Thames Video and VCI up until the end of 1990’s, probably when Thames Video ended as a brand, as well as its association with VCI.

It’s probably not much of a coincidence that Mr Bean has been added to BritBox in the last couple of weeks. Unfortunately BritBox has the cropped episodes usually shown on ITV4. Amazon Prime Video has the 4:3 versions, which appear to be the DVD edits.
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At least you probably got to watch TV-am for one last time on 405 lines, assuming the switch off did occur at 9:25am.
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TVS South East continuity from their first week of transmission. Note that Brian Nissen is enthusiastically promoting the servic as TVS South East, and the new start time for Crossroads. Also worth noting the early opt to Watch This Space meaning you get about a second of TVS South continuity, with a different announcer. How long did the split continuity late for?