Mr Bean and The Trouble with Mr Bean getting an airing on ITV itself next Sunday night from 6.55pm, ahead of birthday documentary Happy Birthday Mr Bean at 8pm. Still crossing my fingers it's a top secret revival episode.
Must be the first time in years they've aired on ITV itself, although of course have been frequently repeated on ITV3 and ITV4 in recent years. Mr Bean is probably one of my earliest memories of primetime ITV programming TBH - and in my opinion probably their greatest comedy success.
To be honest if they're not going to air the original 4:3 version they might as well not bother.
I'm sure there's a generation of TV viewers who think TV "in the old days" (before widescreen) consisted of poorly framed wideshots and having the top of actors heads chopped off, acting in a fog.
Forces TV have been showing the good old sitcoms in the right aspect ratio which is great, hopefully itv do the same with Mr Bean and credit it to Tiger Aspect and Thames Television.
I'm sure there's a generation of TV viewers who think TV "in the old days" (before widescreen) consisted of poorly framed wideshots and having the top of actors heads chopped off, acting in a fog.
Forces TV have been showing the good old sitcoms in the right aspect ratio which is great, hopefully itv do the same with Mr Bean and credit it to Tiger Aspect and Thames Television.
I have Mr Bean on DVD, in 4:3 but the end of part stings are cut and they replaced the original Tiger Television endcaps with more modern Tiger Aspect ones.
The strange thing was in the mid-00s when ITV1 repeated some editions and they had a late 90s "Carlton production" endcap on them... even though Carlton never had anything to do with the show (and weren't even on air when those episodes were originally broadcast).
The strange thing was in the mid-00s when ITV1 repeated some editions and they had a late 90s "Carlton production" endcap on them... even though Carlton never had anything to do with the show (and weren't even on air when those episodes were originally broadcast).
Is that not something to do with Central/Carlton having the deal with Thames in order to get into on the network?
The strange thing was in the mid-00s when ITV1 repeated some editions and they had a late 90s "Carlton production" endcap on them... even though Carlton never had anything to do with the show (and weren't even on air when those episodes were originally broadcast).
Is that not something to do with Central/Carlton having the deal with Thames in order to get into on the network?
I suspect so. When franchises were lost, other ITV companies 'presented' the shows to the network. I suspect Mr Bean had a repeat run when Carlton were broadcasting.
The strange thing was in the mid-00s when ITV1 repeated some editions and they had a late 90s "Carlton production" endcap on them... even though Carlton never had anything to do with the show (and weren't even on air when those episodes were originally broadcast).
Mr Bean was presented initially to the network by Thames and was later presented by Central. Which would explain the Carlton end-cap above if there was a networked repeat run at some point (which there probably would have been). IIRC this was back in the days when Indies could only get their programmes on air through an ITV company "presenting" it, which was just code for playing it out. I'm sure this changed to an extent but I think it was long after 1993.
