What's happened to the kids holidays?

FU

fusionlad Founding member 21 July 2003 10:22pm

fanoftv posted:

God! How do topics go off topic like this? Its amazing!

I think it's quite amusing to watch topics go off topic sometimes. In reality, it's just like a chat down your local... you go from topic to topic without even thinking.

KA

Katherine Founding member 21 July 2003 10:31pm

One summer, can we have an all-retro schedule of old childrens' television programmes? Repeating all the old Double Dare episodes would be a good start, along with Why Don't You?, Take Two, We Are The Champions and Clockwise with Darren Day....

FU

fusionlad Founding member 21 July 2003 10:33pm

Ah yes... Take Two... with Phillip Schofield. Used to love that. A kids version of Points of View wasn't it?

MA

marksi 21 July 2003 10:36pm

Fascinating fact...

On the subject of Why Don't You..? - when very young, one of the current BBC NI Announcers/Directors made an appearance making sausage whirls.

KA

Katherine Founding member 21 July 2003 10:37pm

fusionlad posted:

Ah yes... Take Two... with Phillip Schofield. Used to love that. A kids version of Points of View wasn't it?

Aye - Phillip was swoon-inducingly good (he was my first crush!), wonder what the original presenter, Josephine Buchan is doing these days?

FU

fusionlad Founding member 21 July 2003 11:08pm

Who was the guy that presented Beat the Teacher?

AC

Andrew Chatterton 21 July 2003 11:17pm

Bruno Brookes, who now runs his own radio school.

SE

Square Eyes Founding member 21 July 2003 11:33pm

In the Tommy Boyd era of CITV, Central provided a summer morning childrens service to ITV, presented from the roof or garden I think. It was presented by Glenn Kinsey and he had guests from CITV shows on with him, Treguard was definatley one of them. I think they had programmes like Garfield, Ox Tales and James Bond Jnr, etc.

Speaking of Tommy Boyd, I think he was perhaps the most mature kids tv presenters at nearly 40 years old back in 1991, the fascination at the moment is for young people who weren't long kids themselves. I would certainly appreciate Tommy's delivery more than some of the braindead youths of today.

FU

fusionlad Founding member 21 July 2003 11:38pm

Andrew Chatterton posted:

Bruno Brookes, who now runs his own radio school.

Are you sure? Wasn't it someone called Paul?

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A former member 21 July 2003 11:45pm

What HAPPEND to Tommy Boyd?

SE

Square Eyes Founding member 21 July 2003 11:48pm

Jasper Singh posted:

What HAPPEND to Tommy Boyd?

Don't know, the last I heard he was sacked from talkSPORT. But the man is a legend, he should be on our screens.

NW

nwtv2003 21 July 2003 11:49pm

He went to Talk Sport radio, but he got sacked last year after apparently playing an inappropriate song when the news of the death of the Queen Mother was announced. But apparently he has appeared on Five late at night being on Five's coverage of the NFL or MLB, can't remember which one though.

(July 2003)