IS
Saturday Roadshow has mostly been erased from history. Overshadowed by its more well known successor and its notorious predecessor
SP
Agreed, House Party was really Roadshow without needing a new set and contrived scenario every week.
IS
I remember not knowing that there was a new programme starting and thinking the house was just another Roadshow location
Agreed, House Party was really Roadshow without needing a new set and contrived scenario every week.
I remember not knowing that there was a new programme starting and thinking the house was just another Roadshow location
BU
Curiously the Gotcha Oscars managed to run in 3 series of Saturday Roadshow and 2 series of House Party before the Academy raised any concerns, they weren't exactly quick off the mark.
Although not strictly accurate as the Gotchas originated on the Saturday Roadshow, not the House Party.
Curiously the Gotcha Oscars managed to run in 3 series of Saturday Roadshow and 2 series of House Party before the Academy raised any concerns, they weren't exactly quick off the mark.
IS
Curiously the Gotcha Oscars managed to run in 3 series of Saturday Roadshow and 2 series of House Party before the Academy raised any concerns, they weren't exactly quick off the mark.
Well in those pre-Internet days how would they know what a prop looks like on an fairly popular entertainment programme in a country 3000 miles away? Things were generally a lot less strict about intellectual property back then.
These days someone in Hollywood would be sent a YouTube link and instruct lawyers the day after it's first show on air.
Curiously the Gotcha Oscars managed to run in 3 series of Saturday Roadshow and 2 series of House Party before the Academy raised any concerns, they weren't exactly quick off the mark.
Well in those pre-Internet days how would they know what a prop looks like on an fairly popular entertainment programme in a country 3000 miles away? Things were generally a lot less strict about intellectual property back then.
These days someone in Hollywood would be sent a YouTube link and instruct lawyers the day after it's first show on air.
SW
I've said this before but I've got a Radio Times from early 1991 where they're soliciting participants for the next series of the Saturday Roadshow, and I wonder how far along the line they got before they decided to relaunch it. I remember the launch of the House Party being quite a big thing, if only because there was a big interview with Noel in the Radio Times, and I barely remember them ever really covering the Saturday Roadshow in the Radio Times. I remember reading more about it in Fast Forward, and it always felt a bit of a kids' show.
I remember not knowing that there was a new programme starting and thinking the house was just another Roadshow location
I've said this before but I've got a Radio Times from early 1991 where they're soliciting participants for the next series of the Saturday Roadshow, and I wonder how far along the line they got before they decided to relaunch it. I remember the launch of the House Party being quite a big thing, if only because there was a big interview with Noel in the Radio Times, and I barely remember them ever really covering the Saturday Roadshow in the Radio Times. I remember reading more about it in Fast Forward, and it always felt a bit of a kids' show.
:-(
A former member
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I say yes...
Television has officially run out of ideas as Noel Edmonds' House Party is tipped to return to screens after almost twenty years.
The show was a hit for the BBC back in the 1990s where ratings peaked at 15million viewers after the show launched in 1991.
The show - set in the fictional village of Crinkly Bottom - introduced the world to Mr Blobby but was axed in 1999 when viewership dropped to 8 million.
And despite absolutely no one mourning it’s absence, it would seem show host Noel, 69, is convinced that the way forward for weekend entertainment is to go backwards as he is drumming up plans to pitch a relaunch of the show.
"Noel is involved in planning a pitch," a TV source told The Sun.
"He's open to the show being modernised, but the basic format worked - what’ why it’s so fondly remembered," the source continued.
Noel, of course, will be looking for work after his Channel 4 game show Deal Or No Deal was axed in 2016.
Following the disastrous relaunch of The Generation Game, it might be ill advised for the BBC to walk back down memory lane for another long-dead format relaunch.
The Generation Game - which originally ran on and off from 1971 to 2002 - was slammed by critics and viewers alike when it was revived this month.
The show - which was tipped for four episodes but only aired two - lost 2 million viewers after it returned to screens on April 1st.
I say yes...
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Television has officially run out of ideas as Noel Edmonds' House Party is tipped to return to screens after almost twenty years.
The show was a hit for the BBC back in the 1990s where ratings peaked at 15million viewers after the show launched in 1991.
The show - set in the fictional village of Crinkly Bottom - introduced the world to Mr Blobby but was axed in 1999 when viewership dropped to 8 million.
And despite absolutely no one mourning it’s absence, it would seem show host Noel, 69, is convinced that the way forward for weekend entertainment is to go backwards as he is drumming up plans to pitch a relaunch of the show.
"Noel is involved in planning a pitch," a TV source told The Sun.
"He's open to the show being modernised, but the basic format worked - what’ why it’s so fondly remembered," the source continued.
Noel, of course, will be looking for work after his Channel 4 game show Deal Or No Deal was axed in 2016.
Following the disastrous relaunch of The Generation Game, it might be ill advised for the BBC to walk back down memory lane for another long-dead format relaunch.
The Generation Game - which originally ran on and off from 1971 to 2002 - was slammed by critics and viewers alike when it was revived this month.
The show - which was tipped for four episodes but only aired two - lost 2 million viewers after it returned to screens on April 1st.
JC
That's a shame for Ant & Dec. 'Takeaway' could've done with a few new ideas.
That's a shame for Ant & Dec. 'Takeaway' could've done with a few new ideas.