A Saturday Morning Thread

How did the managed to stay on air, and even when it was taken out in Jan 06 and was brought back a few months later due to requests of viewers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EGHbcDc4Wg

What a brilliant game Ram Ray was.
MoM was starting to become a very good programme in it's own right imo. What a shame that budget cuts affected it.

From the clips posted we can see that Jack Osborne at least co hosted twice.

Saturday show down was becoming pretty good aswell and every week it improved. If ITV had kept open one of its in-house children's production unit, then maybe the series would had lasted a couple of more years but alas, " as part of ITV's then on-going process of restructuring ITV Productions" The money saved was used for a crap cooking show.

Well said. There was also TSW's region-only The Saturday Show, which was the first, and they renamed that to Freeze Frame once Central came up with their networked effort that used the name. Different shows, entirely.

For a great example of TV formats with the same name, consider 'The Tube'...

Am I referring to the famous live pop music magazine show that Tyne Tees made for Channel Four in the early 80s?
Am I referring to Carlton's series about life on the London Underground?
Am I referring to the BBC Two documentary series about how the London Underground is coping with a massive growth in usage?

So, no, Channel 5's Saturday Show doesn't belong here. It's not aimed at kids, it's just more bland 'Saturday Kitchen' style guff from a broadcaster that trawls through the skips of other channels for ideas.

I think Saturday Showdown still came from studio 2 at Maidstone didn't it?

Sorry for posting in the wrong thread, it was Saturday Morning I was bleary eyed I think I was responding to a post. Forgive me. However, that said...

Good Morning Britain.
Am I referring to a breakfast news magazine programme?
Am I referring to a breakfast news magazine programme?

They don't have anything to do with each other in terms of who produces the output, but from an audience perspective as well as sharing a name they share a format, timeslot and channel.



The current incarnation of a previous version.
Honestly, some people

mom really were pushing it


Here is Ram ray on during Saturday showdown, I sure there was only 4 doors now.

Taking the thread back to the 80s, here's a bit of No 73 from 1986



Doesn't that cricket bat cake look yummy!

This is the ONLY time I have seen Su pollard becoming silent

Go to 17mins.

This has to be the funniest clip of Number 73 I've seen- a band performing a song about cannabis! Surely someone working on the show must have known what the song was about!

To be fair, a significant number of songs by artists aimed at pre teens/teens are about having sex, so it's nothing new.

There's a clip floating around where some X Factor contestant was on Dick and Dom singing a cover of Rocking All Over the World. He was clearly heard replacing the word Rockin with an expletive and when the gallery realised what he was singing he was quickly stopped from singing any more.

EDIT: Here is the clip not sure what the hells up with the resolution.