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Sir Bruce Forsyth RIP

Entertainer dies at 89. Tribute on BBC ONE at 7pm 18 Aug 2017 (August 2017)

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Steve Williams
Larry the Loafer posted:
So how did he end up presenting another series of PYCR in 2002? It's said he was off our screens for some time before his spot on HIGNFY, but it seems like that was only a year after the 2002 series of PYCR started.


It had been on the shelf for ages.
SP
Steve in Pudsey
Classy from Challenge to clear the schedules like that.
WH
Whataday Founding member
Steve Williams posted:
Larry the Loafer posted:
So how did he end up presenting another series of PYCR in 2002? It's said he was off our screens for some time before his spot on HIGNFY, but it seems like that was only a year after the 2002 series of PYCR started.


It had been on the shelf for ages.


From that era when ITV held loads on the shelf. They did it with Bruce's Price Is Right too. It's incredibly disrespectful to everyone involved with the production. All to write it off.
IN
Interceptor
Steve in Pudsey posted:
Classy from Challenge to clear the schedules like that.

Agreed - I think it might have been prepared, as they have a special announcement from one of the regular voices. When Bob Holness died they had a special announcement from a different voice - possibly the Sky 1 regular?
WH
Whataday Founding member
Brucie's death has been very carefully orchestrated. The recent reports that he "MAY never perform again" were a part of that. Everyone who knew him closely knew he would never perform again. It was all about breaking it gently.

After all, it's fitting that such a consummate performer should get a dignified finally.
KE
kernow
When Miranda Met Bruce is being shown tonight on BBC One at 8:10pm.
DE88, London Lite and Whataday gave kudos
GE
thegeek Founding member
noggin posted:
Meteor2 posted:
Larry the Loafer posted:
As far as I could tell, everything the BBC have used looks like it's come straight from the archives, which I have to give them credit for.



I expect Bruce's work was near the top of the pile to be digitised, and so it's all instantly available to editors. Sadly the BBC's effort to digitise their entire archive was wound up (see the TV Studio history website). Everything else is on videotape with a bit of film -- with a limited lifespan.


Though all the D3 transfers, and the later 1" transfers, will have an uncompressed LTO data tape copy (component but decoded through the best-in-class Transform PAL decoder, which is reversible should a better PAL decode technique be developed) LTO is a commodity 'IT' tape standard - suitable for migration to future digital standards using automated robot tape-handlers.

I've that there's more material on D3 than serviceable head hours to play it back - so it can't be a case of 'digitise everything'; they're having to be selective.
DA
davidhorman
Whataday posted:
Brucie's death has been very carefully orchestrated.


I can't help thinking that sounds a bit more sinister than you meant it to...

I found the first episode of Slinger's Day on YouTube yesterday - Bruce's one and only foray into sitcom. It wasn't terrible - certainly not as ITV sitcoms go, anyway - but it was interesting to see Bruce doing some different, and doing it well, as always. It makes me wonder what would have happened if he'd followed in Matthew Kelly's footsteps with a few dramatic roles - I can just see him as a shady property developer on The Bill who's bumped off a rival.

As he showed with his Have I Got News For You hosting, the man just knew how to entertain, whatever he was doing, with an effortlessness and professionalism that you just don't see very often these days.
NJ
Neil Jones Founding member
It was mentioned he wanted to take the Fagin role in Oliver! until Ron Moody finally decided he was doing to do it. Unfortunately he had to settle for Star! and Bedknobs and Broomsticks instead - not terribly bad films in their own right but at least Forsyth could have said he tried. Shame that, I'm sure he'd have made a great Fagin.
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Andrew Founding member
Night Thoughts posted:






That sums it up really. Older viewers will remember him way back on Sunday Night at the London Palladium, younger viewers, or those without long memories will only know him from Strictly.

For me it was growing up in the 90s with him on the Generation Game on Saturday nights and then Bruce's Price is Right at 7pm in the week (I never watched PYCR regularly but have obviously seen many editions). He was at his best in those shows, shoving members of the public around, pretending to be offended at the questions that referred to him on PYCR, jumping up and down with people if they won the Showcase Showdown.

Sadly, and I always knew this was going to be the case, this era is being skipped over, I don't think I've seen any clips of PIR and even the GG clips tend to be the old 70s ones. I suppose that era neither shows how he reinvented himself in the 00s or how he's had so much longevity depicted from his work in the 60s/70s.
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AxG
I guess Adam Boulton wasn’t a fan of Brucey, judging from is tweets.
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A former member
Who forgot what he did between 1st run of Play your cards right and Gem game 90?



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