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Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway 2015

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amosc100
I bet the actually running time is about the same as the old 60 minutes, just more commercials!
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A former member
Old show was done 45mins.

Current content takes up 1h 4m - 15mins of adverts.
JB
JasonB
'Singalong Live' is done via Skype as there's a massive Skype logo in one corner of the screen tonight.
IS
Inspector Sands
Ant v Dec is modern day Don't Try This At Home meets You Bet!, and others no doubt.
Putting cameras in people's houses had already been done on the NTV segment of House Party.
Heck, even Little Ant & Dec is probably based on House Party's Gotcha segment, done cheaper.
As for Win The Ads - major boost up on Grab a Grand me thinks.
The Supercomputer idea also probably has its roots in Game For A Laugh.

Um, anything else?

Yep, It's borrowed a lot from Don't Forget Your Toothbrush.


The idea of surprising someone in the audience and embarrassing them on stage with a load of personal stuff they'e dug up is something Toothbrush did a lot better. Also I saw a bit of tonight's show and they did something very similar to Chris Evan's segway of looking into alternate cameras accompanied by a drumbeat, (Evans used to do it to the sting from Captain Scarlet).


EDIT: the game they played with Mark Austin was a round on That Puppet Game show last year
Last edited by Inspector Sands on 7 March 2015 9:19pm - 2 times in total
VM
VMPhil
'Singalong Live' is done via Skype as there's a massive Skype logo in one corner of the screen tonight.

Wasn't entirely successful, was it.
GM
Gary McEwan
Did they have the London News desk in for tonight's Ant vs Dec or was it from somewhere else? I recall the London desk is a lot lower than the one they used tonight.
HB
HarryB
The desk was a mock up one that had been created specially for tonight. Its dimensions are easily obvious to see that it isn't equal to the other ITV News desks
BA
bilky asko
Ant v Dec is modern day Don't Try This At Home meets You Bet!, and others no doubt.
Putting cameras in people's houses had already been done on the NTV segment of House Party.
Heck, even Little Ant & Dec is probably based on House Party's Gotcha segment, done cheaper.
As for Win The Ads - major boost up on Grab a Grand me thinks.
The Supercomputer idea also probably has its roots in Game For A Laugh.

Um, anything else?

Yep, It's borrowed a lot from Don't Forget Your Toothbrush.

The idea of surprising someone in the audience and embarrassing them on stage with a load of personal stuff they'e dug up is something Toothbrush did a lot better. Also I saw a bit of tonight's show and they did something very similar to Chris Evan's segway of looking into alternate cameras accompanied by a drumbeat, (Evans used to do it to the sting from Captain Scarlet).


I've just given it a watch on YouTube - definitely a product of its time. I couldn't stand it for very long.
IS
Inspector Sands
I've just given it a watch on YouTube - definitely a product of its time. I couldn't stand it for very long.

Yep, it hasn't aged that well, though the big shiny floor shows don't tend to (I suspect that Takeaway be viewed very similarly in 20 years time). It was a great show though.
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fanoftv
Whether it steals ideas or not does not matter to me as long as I find this show entertaining - that is its main purpose after all. I'd much rather have Takeaway over some of the other weekend entertainment shows.
BR
Brekkie
They've made no secret about how House Party especially has influenced them, and that's probably why it works so well because it's influenced many of their viewers too.
JB
JasonB
It's turning out to be "Anthony Cotton's Saturday Night Takeaway" so far....

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