An Audience With Paul Daniels

I had this email today from Lost In TV:

AN AUDIENCE WITH PAUL DANIELS (TUESDAY 30th JANUARY 7.30pm) Ages 12+

Recorded at the Kenton Theatre in Henley.

FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY
Featuring a special 'Celebrity Guest' and this is a family show with ages 12+ welcome.

This very special show will be filmed as part of a documentary to be shown on Channel 4.

....and that's magic! You'll like it, but not a lot. And so on...

Thats magic? Thats bizarre.. should be on ITV1 - live. Well Mr Daniels is still a fantastic magician IMO.

Isn't he doing Celebrity Wife Swap with Vanessa Feltz. I bet it's being filmed for that and Vanessa is being sawn in half!

I just hope it doesn't go wrong!

Paul who?

Anyone remember Every Second Counts (or to give its professional title... 'Every Second Counts As To How Long Paul's Wig Will Stay On His Head' )?

What a glitzy underrated gameshow that was. Stick that on FTN..

I agree Repeat!

it was last on BBC1 10 years during the lunchtime slot!

I think you're on about Wipeout. Every Second Counts aired on Saturday evenings,

NO Every second count WAS repeated on weekday lunchtime - 12.30pm during the 96 or 97 Summer holidays, just after Michael plean travel programmes: 80's day or pole to pole:

... and last aired in 1993 according to the BBC Programme Catalogue (Infax).

By the way, aren't these "An Audience With" programmes usually filmed at LWT's studios on the South Bank? The ones I have on DVD with Ken Dodd are... rather amusingly he refers to it as the "actors Job Centre"! - Is that theatre stil there?

yes 1993 is when the last Episode was broadcast, but the show WAS Repeated: during the summer holidays 10 years ago!

You are right actually, it was repeated daily just before the 1 o'clock news in the summer of 1999. I remember as I was round my Nan's when it was on (not relevant but...ya'know..).

Wipeout originally returned with Bob Monkhouse as a daily show in about 1997 until Summer 2003 (when Bob was unable to continue) but took breaks for holidays (which explains why Every Second Counts was shown). Ironically Paul Daniels hosted the first Wipeout series on Friday evenings in 1994/95.

Soon after....Paul left the BBC until Louis Theroux interviewed him and Debbie in 2002 thus realising he'd gone all snappy and reality TV driven. What a sad story of entertainment downfall right there.