What happened to Night Time TV?

Ah, Television with Attitude.

Featuring Hotel Babylon - a show not all that different from fellow Planet 24 production The Word, but never really getting off the ground thanks to a racist Heineken executive.

There are still a fair few clips of it on YouTube, though - here's Dani chatting to Green Day:



And here's a clip with Patsy Kensit and, um, the Human League:

That was a shocking story, the Heineken sponsorship exec faxing Planet 24 to complain of "too high a proportion of negroes" in the studio audience, too many men drinking wine when they should be drinking more manly drinks such as whisky and - of course - lager.

Of course, Planet 24 were horrified, told them where to go and the fax leaked pretty quickly.

Sounds more like 1940s USA than 1990s Britain with that sort of language.

Exactly… I wonder how old that executive was. Absolutely bonkers to think they still thought that language and attitude was acceptable!

My grandmother's 95 and still points out every time she sees a "coloured" person on TV, or did before she lost her eyesight anyway (not a word as offensive at least, but still massively inappropriate in the 21st century)... some people seem to be stuck in that mindset from that era.

My grandmother in law said in hospital that one of her nurses was coloured but she was “alright, you know?”

Christ.

For those of us that make it to 95, I'm sure by then we'll have equally unacceptable/old fashioned/eccentric views that we are still clinging on to from today (and seem perfectly reasonable at present).

Exactly. We'll be getting roasted in years to come for assuming someone's gender.

95 year old relatives are one thing, being a Heineken executive in charge of sponsoring youth TV is another…

It literally is the sort of comments you heard sponsors saying to American TV producers back in the 40s- Ed Sullivan had it about the acts he featured when he first started his show.

I believe he was Amsterdam based, which is even more surprising I guess considering their liberal reputation.

To be fair to Heineken, senior execs were appalled and apologised profusely.

There was also Becks which pulled its sponsorship halfway through series one of Queer As Folk.

In regards to the SuperCasino/Jackpot 247 situation:
I believe SuperCasino's last broadcast on C5 is early morning Jan 1st so set that to record that but Jackpot 247 is still going through