Regional programmes on Central

i did work experience on a regional gameshow called Hit the Town. It was a weird mashup of what's on guide and a gameshow. The crew spent the week filming rehearsals of shows opening at some theatre or other, bands singing a song they'll do at Wolverhampton Civic Hall, that sort of thing. Those films would then be shown as part of the gameshow, made at Lenton Lane with a studio audience and presenter Rory McGrath (then more or less completely unknown). The studio set seemed to be based on spaghetti junction, with the two teams of two sitting in a blue car and a red car at the end of the slip roads centre stage. They had to answer questions based on the films we'd just seen. "And you can catch The Gold Miners at the Wolverhampton Civic Hall on Tuesday evening, and weren't they marvellous"

My job for the week was to persuade people to come and be in the audience, write some questions and phone up winners who'd called the 0898 quiz line number. It was brilliant

It was definitely on Thursdays at some point in the 90s as I distinctly remember it before Emmerdale. This is when we had Home and Away at 18:00 and CN at 18.25. Emmerdale generally started at 18:59. The lunchtime showings of both, though, were generally 4+ mins late. Zip me up.

Yorkshire's version of Jobfinder also had presented bits top and tailing the job listings, presented by John Hammond of what's in the box fame.

It lasted an unusually long time, I think it was still going after national ITV1 began and when all other regional programmes had been dropped.

They also had Community Service Announcements which carried on one way or another until the end of the regions.

There was also Crimestoppers which I presume Central also had?