Saturday Live Again

It could do. This brings on a question of scheduling.

There are 52 weeks in the year, split that into 4 and you get 13, the amount of eps that series that I always remember most programmes being commissioned for, which would make scheduling a lot easier as one lot of programmes would end and a new season begin without programmes overlapping, but they don't seem to do this anymore and end up with so much overlap of seasons that I never know whats on when and how.

I can understand that ITV have football, live specials, royal varities, I'm A Celeb, etc. but surely they could have some simple layout thought up. Even if they end up commissioning drama series in 6 and then 7 series, or two 6's to Christmas, it's very random to me. The US seem to have it right, well not quite, but most of the time, and we just don't.

But yes, going back to the original point, if Parky WOULD have been back from Easter/March/April then surely it could take his place, it's better than finding an alternative chat show.

The Human Slinky was a most amusing act...Not a comedy performance per se but it was funny in places.

Most of the other performances, while very good, I had seen before - two of which coincidentally were in BBC4 shows that also featured Marcus Brigstocke...

It would be Ideal for Summer when generally ITV struggle. Although with both Ch4 and BBC3 launching identical shows early in 2008 can they really wait that long? If it performed well last night though they would be mad not to give it a full run.

Same here. It was close to but didn't just capture the old hard edge of the original C4 shows - it seemed too 'soft' - even Ben Elton.

(The BBC4 http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/features/music-hall-2007.shtml )

The ratings have been posted on DS and they were quite poor

Only 2.7m tuned in and it was beaten by The Omid Djalili Show which got 3.9m

Considering it got an inhertiance of around 8m, it seems most people were not interested

I'm not surprised it bombed, it was painfully unfunny in parts.

Agh! I really wanted to see this but I've taped an hour and a half of my Sky box being switched off!

Well it certainly lived up to the spirit of the Channel 4 original as only around 3 million watched it.

Well back from me time away down South and I watched this last night with a few people and we all agreed how crap this was. Was it worth Jimmy Carr making a trip over just for a few minutes material. Unfortunately for me, it was the same jokes that have been recycled recently when he's been plugging his DVD and the same few jokes which feature in the first 5 minutes of that DVD.

I agree about Jimmy Carr plugging away his jokes, but not everyone will have heard them.
It just shows how different people can be as I found most acts hilarious, enjoyed the music and thought that it was fantastically produced and not crap in the slightest.

It was just unfortunate for me that I've seen his DVD so was hoping for at least one new joke but every thing he goes to plug his wares, its the same jokes they take out but as you say, there will be some people that haven't heard it, just sods law for me!

The show was produced very well, No fault in that. I loved the fades in the Bon Jovi bit but for me, it was almost like I was in a coma for 90 minutes, I just didn't really find anything of it funny. The only time I moved was when that guy pulled that maggot out of his eye.

Here's an interesting statistic that somebody put up on the Digital Spy forum:

The original Saturday Night Live on Saturday 7th February 1987 got 1.3m viewers on Channel 4. It rans from 22.02 to 23.19.

On BBC1 at the same time Cagney & Lacey got 10.4m and on ITV Aspel & Co got 7.3m .