It was one of the better End of the Show shows which can become a bit samey when they're music or dance based. All very Generation Game.
Surprised Singalong Live made it to another series. The OB game (though literally outside the studio) was better than the last couple of efforts even if overly simple. On the whole though I thought it was a much better episode this week - prefer "Get out of My Ear" to "Undercover" and The Disgrace was one of the best spoofs they've done.
I agree Brekkie about the OB game (it was from Media City in Salford rather than in London though) and the show featured a lot of dressing up.
I feel that the show is missing Win the Ads as a phone in competition - it was generally silly but filled a few minutes and paced up the programme.
Agree about the phone in comp - it's just one of those things that add to a live show and they generally did something different every week, even if it was always essentially the same game.
Another thing that I enjoyed in the early series was where they surprised a selection of people that had chosen to go out on a Saturday night and had them rush off to try and find thousands of pounds.
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A former member
Can anyone else remember the 1st epsoide of takeway, where it was just to find someone to win the ads....
"Win the Ads" was the show's initial selling point, and it's where the show gets its name from, coming from the idea that you can "take away" the prizes from the ads. Even the initial trailers for the show revolved around the idea of people winning the products from the commercial break. It never advertised itself as an all-round entertainment show. It's safe to say that the game show concept has definitely taken a back seat in favour of variety items in the same vein of Noel's House Party, and it's all the better for it. It's just a shame that a show that's so traditional and, in-turn, so entertaining can't seem to match the ratings of the dull talent shows that swamp the schedules nowadays. I hope it doesn't give the suits the impression that people don't want shows like SNT anymore.
Who remembers in the first season 'Banged up with Beadle'. It got its own spin off show on ITV2 and it was just members of the public locked in a fort somewhere with Jeremy Beadle. Slightly odd but memorable.
"Win the Ads" was the show's initial selling point, and it's where the show gets its name from, coming from the idea that you can "take away" the prizes from the ads. Even the initial trailers for the show revolved around the idea of people winning the products from the commercial break. It never advertised itself as an all-round entertainment show. It's safe to say that the game show concept has definitely taken a back seat in favour of variety items in the same vein of Noel's House Party, and it's all the better for it. It's just a shame that a show that's so traditional and, in-turn, so entertaining can't seem to match the ratings of the dull talent shows that swamp the schedules nowadays. I hope it doesn't give the suits the impression that people don't want shows like SNT anymore.
It's not too far off though - certainly the only non-reality entertainment show on ITV capable of 6m+ and narrowing the gap on the reality shows, though that's more down to them falling than SNT rising.
Who remembers in the first season 'Banged up with Beadle'. It got its own spin off show on ITV2 and it was just members of the public locked in a fort somewhere with Jeremy Beadle. Slightly odd but memorable.
That was definitely S1. Wasn't there also the Jim Didn't Fix It bit where people who'd written into Jim'll Fix It got to do things that hadn't been selected? (obviously that will never be making a return...).
Who remembers in the first season 'Banged up with Beadle'. It got its own spin off show on ITV2 and it was just members of the public locked in a fort somewhere with Jeremy Beadle. Slightly odd but memorable.
That was definitely S1. Wasn't there also the Jim Didn't Fix It bit where people who'd written into Jim'll Fix It got to do things that hadn't been selected? (obviously that will never be making a return...).
That's exactly what it was. Wiki says it ran for the first three series.
Anyway it wasn't totally unique to Saturday Night Takeaway, as the idea was later used on the UK Gold revival, Jim'll Fix It Strikes Again in 2007 and the 2011 one-off Christmas Special. I'm sure the concept has popped up in other programmes as well.
Who remembers in the first season 'Banged up with Beadle'. It got its own spin off show on ITV2 and it was just members of the public locked in a fort somewhere with Jeremy Beadle. Slightly odd but memorable.
That was definitely S1. Wasn't there also the Jim Didn't Fix It bit where people who'd written into Jim'll Fix It got to do things that hadn't been selected? (obviously that will never be making a return...).
That's exactly what it was. Wiki says it ran for the first three series.
Anyway it wasn't totally unique to Saturday Night Takeaway, as the idea was later used on the UK Gold revival, Jim'll Fix It Strikes Again in 2007 and the 2011 one-off Christmas Special. I'm sure the concept has popped up in other programmes as well.
Nothing is unique to Saturday Night Takeaway. There isn't an original idea in there. Everything is nicked from somewhere else.
