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End of SM:TV to Ministry of Mayhem to MoM (July 2003)

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NW
nwtv2003
james2001 posted:
I leant to dot at when I was about 10 as my Mum had a tendancy to take our videos and record on them (and if they had a sticker with "do not touch" on it, she'd peel it off and pretend the tape had gone missing), and even then she had the tendancy to put sellotape over the hole. She probabally still would, but I decided to keep all the videos I want to keep (plus some I don't) in my room. Heck, very recently my sister nearly taped over a video with a 1985 BBC1 closedown on, saying after the film on the vid (Back to The Future BTW), all that was on it was "a thing that said BBC1"- and I'd snapped the tab off about 5 years earlier.

Though I'm considering taping over some of my tapes- I don't need hours of Test Card footage- only snippets, old football matches when I went off football ages ago, Eps of South Park (that grew old really fast)and loads of other misc rubbish I taped over the years. Most of my videos do consist of music videos, some home video footage & the last three SM:TVs, which are what I do want to keep, but the rest is of little interest to me now- especially the 2 hours or so worth of the Channel 5 test transmissions I taped- what was I thinking? A couple of minutes oft he test signal & one copy of the promo would have been ample.


To be honest I seem to have tons of tapes with South Park on them from the early days which I never seem to watch like you, the only reason why I keep them is that there are some good adverts on some, well mainly being McDonalds adverts, the one with the January Sale with Ted Rogers and p*ss take on the Indian food. To be honest call me sad but I wish I had taped some of the test stuff from Channel 5, but I still have the first 30 minutes, the 2nd ever Five News Update and Hospital and countless episodes of 100% and Whittle. I have the Ant and Dec's last SM:tv which is fantastic and I will never tape over, same with 35 Minutes of TV-am from 1992, well mainly Wacaday and a closedown and for some reason about 90 minutes of ITV Schools from 1992, mainly consisting of the end of a Central Science or maths programme from 1988, Time For Maths, The English Programme, Readabout and the first ten minutes of a Stop Look Listen about Lego which was cool, but then the tape runs out.

Though what this has to do with CiTV is beyond me, though I still have the first ever episode of Sooty and Co taped from CiTV on video somewhere.
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fanoftv
Indeed they were, and Ben went on to produce SM:tv until SM:tv Gold. I'm not sure if he took over in March, but he was definately producer 2 months before gold.

Perhaps they should use the twins on MoM like they used Austalian two, someone and Jay, the two girls on the later end of the Steve & Emma period. They worked in what was supposedly the make up room and talked to all of the guests before they went onto the show.
They could have the men of mayhem causing chaos around the country. They do need to use the extras more though. The only ones they really used were Ray and the German Scientist. Even the twins were used more than the men of mayhem.

Back at CiTV. Swag was here with a backdrop of a country lane and a flying sheep called barbera. Andy kept looking at the camera when supposedly talking to swag, i.e. autocue. if only he could adlib it wouldn't be as bad. And they set up this thing to find your pen before the phone numbers given. Though regular viewers should know the number it's been the same for the past 2/3 years.
SE
Square Eyes Founding member
fanoftv posted:

They could have the men of mayhem causing chaos around the country. They do need to use the extras more though. The only ones they really used were Ray and the German Scientist. Even the twins were used more than the men of mayhem.

Well maybe they will in future programmes, but honestly, so much has been said about MoM here after just one single edition. They can't do all the things you want them to in the space of one show, the programme will undoubtedly evolve, however, give it chance. You can't really judge on Saturday it was used to get familiar with the presenters, the format, the new look, the games etc. It can't be everything you want straight away. Rolling Eyes
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fanoftv
Square Eyes posted:
fanoftv posted:

They could have the men of mayhem causing chaos around the country. They do need to use the extras more though. The only ones they really used were Ray and the German Scientist. Even the twins were used more than the men of mayhem.

Well maybe they will in future programmes, but honestly, so much has been said about MoM here after just one single edition. They can't do all the things you want them to in the space of one show, the programme will undoubtedly evolve, however, give it chance. You can't really judge on Saturday it was used to get familiar with the presenters, the format, the new look, the games etc. It can't be everything you want straight away. Rolling Eyes


Maybe not but it's got to move quick. The way the itv execs are over ratings nowadays. even though through the 90's their saturday morning shows were rubbish they are still going to compare MoM against the good days of SM:tv. It could have easily been a better show than it was, though I liked it anyway! There are shows that worked on their first public outing, The Big Breakfast (from launch in 1992); it worked (relaunches in 96 and 2001 didn't!), Stars In Their Eyes, it worked. Who wants to be a millionnaire? it worked. Many shows worked, and hopefully MoM will and pick up the rating to at least 3/4 of SM:tv in it's Ant, Dec & Cat heyday.
TE
teenage-monkey
I like some of you're ideas fanoftv, but the animal one and making noises.. sounds so CBEEBIES and would put me right off watching it. Even though the "cow" joke is funny.

I'm suspecting MoM to do as bad as FBi.
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fanoftv
teenage-monkey posted:
I like some of you're ideas fanoftv, but the animal one and making noises.. sounds so CBEEBIES and would put me right off watching it. Even though the "cow" joke is funny.

I'm suspecting MoM to do as bad as FBi.


I don't know. It's better to have them dressed up and better than them saying "good morning!" And it fits in with the joke, and the two games i created.

I had another one, where everyone comes in as jungle animals.
#Na -na, na - na, na - na, na - oooohh, Na -na, na - na, na - na, na - oooohh, Na -na, na - na, na - na, na - oooohh... Michael (as elephant) trumps out of his trunk, #Na -na, na - na, na - na, na - oooohh... Holly (as lioness) roars (sexily!), #Na -na, na - na, na - na, na - oooohh... and Stephen, well the camera would stay on Stephen with no noise with him then explaining by 'What? I'm a Giraffe!' #Dogs are barking, Neighbours howling, we can't hear a thing; it's the Ministry, Ministry, the Ministry May-hem#

It's not much, but it'd mad, crazy and look totally ridiculous. Perhaps it should be a bit CBeebies, look at the success of Anty & Decy!
PS
Psythor
I hope Ministry of Mayhem does do well, because I bought a domain to try and get some hits off the back of it, and if it were fantastic, setup a website about it. (www.ministryofmayhem.co.uk).

Incidentally, another site I work on, (www.cannedham.co.uk) has a statistics feature which tells me what search referrals people have been getting to the site from. There are quite a few referalls from something to the effect of "Ministry of Mayhem rubbish". That said, the word "rubbish" may be from our numourous updates expressing our dislike of Linda Barker.
JA
james2001 Founding member
nwtv2003 posted:

To be honest I seem to have tons of tapes with South Park on them from the early days which I never seem to watch like you, the only reason why I keep them is that there are some good adverts on some, well mainly being McDonalds adverts, the one with the January Sale with Ted Rogers and p*ss take on the Indian food


To be honest, old averts aren't of massive interest to me. I might be entertained by them when watchignt hem back, but I'm not hugely interested in keeping them
WH
Whataday Founding member
When did CITV continuity go widescreen?
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fanoftv
Whataday posted:
When did CITV continuity go widescreen?


Back in September. Where've you been whataday? Though it is a kids programme!
JA
james2001 Founding member
It was October wasn't it? I beleive either the second or third week. It was the same day we started getting the ITV breakflash in the Central region, presumably an equipment upgrade.
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fanoftv
james2001 posted:
It was October wasn't it? I beleive either the second or third week. It was the same day we started getting the ITV breakflash in the Central region, presumably an equipment upgrade.


Was it october. I can't remember. t was most probably mentioned in here somewhere, but that go to page bit doesn't seem to work!

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