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"Trevor McDonald....but funny" Sunday 10pm ITV1 (June 2007)

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PT
Put The Telly On
Square Eyes posted:
nok32uk posted:
Yeah, they need to do something about the Tonight programme - give Sir Trev some cutting interviews to do or something.


Big Trev does the interviews when warranted, like when he interviewed that female soldier held captive by the Iranians. There have been other occasions.

Other than that, why should he ? It's the most popular current affairs programme on TV, I assume that viewers are tuning in for reasons other than Trev topping and tailing the programme.


Oh yeah, absolutely, it just seems he doesn't have much input now thats all.
LO
lovin_it
Personally, I miss 'Undercover Customs'. That was Sir Trev's best work.
:-(
A former member
Is this a one off?
KI
kitt22
Oh No! Why do ITV do it to themselves!
:-(
A former member
It has got it mommets!
JE
Jenny Founding member
That was OK actually. Blimey, that's a bit of a shock.
CO
Connews
Yeah, it was OK. The clips from YouTube were a let down though.
CL
CL2K
I thought it was very poor - only time I laughed was at Clive Anderson's line, "If you were gay in Belfast you'd have to be a good sprinter".
BI
birdie100
I couldn't agree more. The" humour" all seemed in really poor taste, and as you say, didn't seem at all funny. I was very surprised too as to how short the show was - obviously a sign that they simply didn't have material enough to fill a full half hour. HIGNFY always feels far too short... yet, whilst this didn't last long (15mins?) it felt it was really dragging on.
DV
dvboy
That was rubbish.
Clearly not enough material to fill half an hour, I think somneone on the production team said "let's find some mildly amusing clips of American news slip-ups that have been on YouTube for over a year."

Marcus Brigstocke has made a mistake being associated with this programme, though it pretty much suits the other "panelists".
OV
Orry Verducci
I thought it was quite funny (down to personal taste I suppose), however, it just doesn't match the standard of Have I Got News For You.
JC
JCB
It was pretty awful but I did chuckle a few times. Calling Bernard Manning a "fat white *******" was one.

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