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Yeah, they did things for Children in Need and so on from there. It was always a rubbish idea, though, most obviously because it was an actual working bar, so the acoustics were terrible and whenever they did anything in it they had to pass microphones around. It was if they'd forgotten it was supposed to be on television. And nothing ever happened in it, it was just watching people you don't know drinking.
Of course, it was based on something similar they'd done in Elstree where they took an unused studio and made it into a backstage area, where the guests would be sitting around. Which was slightly more tolerable in that in actually worked on TV.
Imagine TFI Friday's bar must have been an influence too. Wasn't it an old staff rest area (red assembly?) rather than a fitted out studio? I remember going in and it seemed a really awkward shape for television.
Yeah, they did things for Children in Need and so on from there. It was always a rubbish idea, though, most obviously because it was an actual working bar, so the acoustics were terrible and whenever they did anything in it they had to pass microphones around. It was if they'd forgotten it was supposed to be on television. And nothing ever happened in it, it was just watching people you don't know drinking.
Of course, it was based on something similar they'd done in Elstree where they took an unused studio and made it into a backstage area, where the guests would be sitting around. Which was slightly more tolerable in that in actually worked on TV.
Imagine TFI Friday's bar must have been an influence too. Wasn't it an old staff rest area (red assembly?) rather than a fitted out studio? I remember going in and it seemed a really awkward shape for television.
