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(September 2018)

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FO
FanOfTV99
DE88 posted:
On the other hand, Family Affairs remained a five-nights-a-week soap right up until its demise at the end of 2005.

I doubt many remember the Good Afternoon strand, which featured the cheap-as-chips word game Cryptogram. Remarkably, there are two full editions on YouTube - although both were uploaded by contestants.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWQPHptqlLo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMMtpEQI0Cg


Am I watching a game show or a sketch of a gameshow?
DE
DE88
FanOfTV99 posted:
DE88 posted:
On the other hand, Family Affairs remained a five-nights-a-week soap right up until its demise at the end of 2005.

I doubt many remember the Good Afternoon strand, which featured the cheap-as-chips word game Cryptogram. Remarkably, there are two full editions on YouTube - although both were uploaded by contestants.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWQPHptqlLo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMMtpEQI0Cg


Am I watching a game show or a sketch of a gameshow?


That's not Numberwang. Wink
FO
FanOfTV99
DE88 posted:
FanOfTV99 posted:
DE88 posted:
On the other hand, Family Affairs remained a five-nights-a-week soap right up until its demise at the end of 2005.

I doubt many remember the Good Afternoon strand, which featured the cheap-as-chips word game Cryptogram. Remarkably, there are two full editions on YouTube - although both were uploaded by contestants.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWQPHptqlLo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMMtpEQI0Cg


Am I watching a game show or a sketch of a gameshow?


That's not Numberwang. Wink


I thought it was Remain Indoors.
IS
Inspector Sands
Tony Yeboah posted:
A Jack Docherty interview where he talks about his chat show was uploaded this week, funnily enough http://www.comedianscomedian.com/260-jack-docherty/


Thanks for that, those Stuart Goldsmith interviews are always very good.

It's a shame that his reputation has been tarnished by the chat show, looking at his biog on Wikipedia his body of work is quite impressive until then. Mr Don and Mr George deserves a repeat somewhere.


I think I've mentioned this before but I saw one of the pilots for C5s late night chat show - they put it out to commission and had several production companies make pilots. It was nothing special from what I remember, just a fairly bog standard chat show. What they got something a lot more irreverent, at least that was the intention. I assume the clips in the C5 launch promo with Frank Carson were from their pilot.

It was an Absolutely production wasn't it?
Last edited by Inspector Sands on 13 September 2018 6:49am
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A former member
Crumbs its him from Scot Squad? he rather good on that, yet crap on the talk show. Also isn't there a thread about how Channel 5 come about?
SW
Steve Williams
Inspector Sands posted:
It was an Absolutely production wasn't it?


Yes, I think Morwenna Banks was the Series Producer or something, It was a co-production with United TV (who owned Meridian and Anglia) and when So Graham Norton started, it was originally made by United TV.

Armstrong and Miller were regulars on The Jack Docherty Show for the first few weeks, they appeared in a series of sketches about Channel 5 retuners (one of the last rather illustrating how inspiration had run dry as it involved them injecting heroin and lasted about ten seconds). And Mitchell and Webb were on the writing team. Everyone did well out of The Jack Docherty Show apart from Jack Docherty.
MA
Markymark
Steve Williams posted:
Inspector Sands posted:
It was an Absolutely production wasn't it?


Yes, I think Morwenna Banks was the Series Producer or something, It was a co-production with United TV (who owned Meridian and Anglia) and when So Graham Norton started, it was originally made by United TV.


From the same stable, was HTV Wales series, Barry Welsh

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Welsh_is_Coming

(Repeated later apparently on Paramount)
DJ
DJGM
Whataday posted:

I always felt the pre-launch promos were influenced by those of L!VE TV
which had launched two years previously.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrAw-MS0NT4

Even the look of the open plan office has 5 News vibes about it.


Not only that, but "Morning L!VE" seemed to be heavily influenced by a certain other bright, brash and rather large breakfast TV show of the time. One that was broadcast live from a row of converted cottages in east London for nearly ten years as I seem to recall . . .
WH
Whataday Founding member
DJGM posted:
Whataday posted:

I always felt the pre-launch promos were influenced by those of L!VE TV
which had launched two years previously.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrAw-MS0NT4

Even the look of the open plan office has 5 News vibes about it.


Not only that, but "Morning L!VE" seemed to be heavily influenced by a certain other bright, brash and rather large breakfast TV show of the time. One that was broadcast live from a row of converted cottages in east London for nearly ten years as I seem to recall . . .


I'm sure Janet Street-Porter would have a few things to say about that! Let's not forget what inspired The Big Breakfast in the first place.

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