News has come in that appears that the Channel 4 Archive did not receive all episodes of The Big Breakfast from Planet 24/Carlton. The BFI Archive hold some and a list is being compiled.
ITV archives have been checked and they have no holdings at all.
In typical archive fashion one would have to search every single tx date separately, the system can't generate a list of what does survive.
However at the moment the interest is if anyone here may have off-air recordings of 28th August 1998 and 3rd September 1998 for an ITV project?? Should any other episodes be confirmed as missing, information will be given here..
So it would be the Wednesday before the Bank Holiday and the Thursday afterwards - I'd hazard a guess that defeinately the first and probably the second would have been fronted by guest presenters, with Johnny and Denise returning on Monday 7th.
I would bet it's more about the guests than the show as to why they're after footage.
I just had a wander down to Lock Keepers Cottages after visiting a relative who lives near by. You can hardly see the house as you walk across the bridge as the rather large fences that were put there after the fire are totally covered in masses of ivy.
The house appears to be lifeless, you can see through the main gates still but there isn't much worth taking a picture of now.
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I wonder why there's a different fax number being used in this clip..? (At 0:33.)
Probably something as simple as the fax wasn't working at the studios, or it was easier to transfer the data received from that fax to the OB.
I would hazard a guess the number was the fax at Planet's central London office. They gave the Central London telephone number when Diana died and they based themselves outside Buckingham Palace.
This article is written by Sir Bob Geldof around the time the show ended in 2002, he talks quite a bit about the pilot and how they hired and re-painted a house in Forest Hill:
Really interesting read - would be intrigued to see what the rival Central pilot was like.
All descriptions suggest it was very Pebble Mill at One.
As you probably know, the co-presenter who dropped out of The BB at the last minute was Emma Forbes. The production assistant who stepped in was Danielle Lux who later went on to commission RI:SE.
So much of that article seems just as relevent today IMO as it was 22 years ago, with 16-34 year olds not being catered for at breakfast and surely an opportunity there to make some serious money if they have the right product.
So much of that article seems just as relevent today IMO as it was 22 years ago, with 16-34 year olds not being catered for at breakfast and surely an opportunity there to make some serious money if they have the right product.
That's just nostalgia talking I'm afraid.
Two things that weren't available to just about every 16 - 34 year old 20 years ago:
