GW
There was a David Croft comedy which was to star Wendy Richard. I think the pilot was done in 2008 but a full series never came about.
BR
Wasn't it a non-broadcast pilot? In which case it's no surprise it didn't look amazing. Plus this was 2005-ish, before X Factor really started pushing the whole uber-glossy look of these type of shows. (I think the clips you saw were on The Talent Show Story, a great series from Shiver that's being repeated at the moment)
Isn't there a second series of Shane (Frank Skinner's sitcom) in the can, that never got broadcast?
The main reason is got pulled was the host Paul O'grady jumped ship to Ch4.
There is also STV drama made in 2006 which has never been seen in England, but was broadcast in Scotland in 2009 instead of sharp.
Made in TLS Studio 2. It was never designed to be broadcast. It went on for ages. Two 'forces' were in play here. Simon Cowell wanted to see if the format would work, and TLS pulled out all the stops to try an get any subsequent broadcast series made at TLS by pursuading Cowell that it was more than capable. 'Pop Stars' or what ever it was - the first series with Nigel Lithgoe, was made in TLS ST1 before it all decamped to Fountain at Wembley under another guise and TLS wanted Cowell's production company to come back.
As you say POG got fed up with ITV and left (probably a decision he regrets to this day after the runaway success of BGT) and it all gets produced at Fountain.
I doubt he's that bothered - he's reportedly turned down the opportunity on more than one occassion to join the show as a judge since.
Although it is a slightly different situation, Britain's Got Talent was originally pulled before going back on air a couple of years later. A clip of the pilot was shown on some programme a while back, with Fern Britton as the female judge and it was terrible, looked like something from the mid 80s. It instantly became a huge show, so it does make you wonder what other potential huge shows the TV market has missed out on.
Wasn't it a non-broadcast pilot? In which case it's no surprise it didn't look amazing. Plus this was 2005-ish, before X Factor really started pushing the whole uber-glossy look of these type of shows. (I think the clips you saw were on The Talent Show Story, a great series from Shiver that's being repeated at the moment)
Isn't there a second series of Shane (Frank Skinner's sitcom) in the can, that never got broadcast?
The main reason is got pulled was the host Paul O'grady jumped ship to Ch4.
There is also STV drama made in 2006 which has never been seen in England, but was broadcast in Scotland in 2009 instead of sharp.
Made in TLS Studio 2. It was never designed to be broadcast. It went on for ages. Two 'forces' were in play here. Simon Cowell wanted to see if the format would work, and TLS pulled out all the stops to try an get any subsequent broadcast series made at TLS by pursuading Cowell that it was more than capable. 'Pop Stars' or what ever it was - the first series with Nigel Lithgoe, was made in TLS ST1 before it all decamped to Fountain at Wembley under another guise and TLS wanted Cowell's production company to come back.
As you say POG got fed up with ITV and left (probably a decision he regrets to this day after the runaway success of BGT) and it all gets produced at Fountain.
I doubt he's that bothered - he's reportedly turned down the opportunity on more than one occassion to join the show as a judge since.
VM
http://www.people.co.uk/celebs-tv/celebrity-interview/2010/09/05/paul-o-grady-i-gave-up-chance-to-host-britain-s-got-talent-102039-22537682/
As you say POG got fed up with ITV and left
(probably a decision he regrets to this day after the runaway success of BGT)
Paul O'Grady posted:
I don’t regret what I did. Not in the slightest. Good luck to them.
It’s a great show with all those eccentrics. But I would not go on it if I was starting off today.
I would not touch it with a barge pole. You have to have a sob story. And I haven’t got skeletons in my closet, I’ve got cemeteries!
It’s a great show with all those eccentrics. But I would not go on it if I was starting off today.
I would not touch it with a barge pole. You have to have a sob story. And I haven’t got skeletons in my closet, I’ve got cemeteries!
http://www.people.co.uk/celebs-tv/celebrity-interview/2010/09/05/paul-o-grady-i-gave-up-chance-to-host-britain-s-got-talent-102039-22537682/
DA
You know you have been on TV Forum too long when old threads come around again. Here is the thread when we last discussed this in 2009...
http://www.tvforum.co.uk/tvhome/tv-shows-recorded-broadcast-30102/
http://www.tvforum.co.uk/tvhome/tv-shows-recorded-broadcast-30102/
VM
That thread was discussing pretty much the exact same programmes we've discussed here as well!
You know you have been on TV Forum too long when old threads come around again. Here is the thread when we last discussed this in 2009...
http://www.tvforum.co.uk/tvhome/tv-shows-recorded-broadcast-30102/
http://www.tvforum.co.uk/tvhome/tv-shows-recorded-broadcast-30102/
That thread was discussing pretty much the exact same programmes we've discussed here as well!
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A former member
You know you have been on TV Forum too long when old threads come around again. Here is the thread when we last discussed this in 2009...
http://www.tvforum.co.uk/tvhome/tv-shows-recorded-broadcast-30102/
http://www.tvforum.co.uk/tvhome/tv-shows-recorded-broadcast-30102/
That thread was discussing pretty much the exact same programmes we've discussed here as well!
I forgot about all these Gems
* Brian Conley : Play your cards right.
* Heil Honey I'm Home! I believe couple more were recorded but never screened
* A whole series, of Michael Barrymore's My Kind of Music that was not shown on STV.
* Christmas edition of Saturday Night Takeaway
* But WAS was the name of "that Phillip Schofield Show"
DA
Was it the one where someone spent a week learning dances moves to surprise someone, kind of a like a flash mob? I quite liked that, but I seem to remember some episodes not airing at the time, they may have aired since.
EDIT: I was talking about It's Now or Never.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5220338.stm
EDIT: I was right, it was quite good...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwAcig9mv0I
Although perhaps making an hour(?) long show based around this 2 and half minute performance, however good it was, was just too much.
* But WAS was the name of "that Phillip Schofield Show"
Was it the one where someone spent a week learning dances moves to surprise someone, kind of a like a flash mob? I quite liked that, but I seem to remember some episodes not airing at the time, they may have aired since.
EDIT: I was talking about It's Now or Never.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5220338.stm
EDIT: I was right, it was quite good...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwAcig9mv0I
Although perhaps making an hour(?) long show based around this 2 and half minute performance, however good it was, was just too much.
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A former member
So maybe if there had 2 couples in a 30mins slot might have been better?
SE
Square Eyes
Founding member
It's Now or Never only had 2 episodes and they were both screened, albeit 6 months apart. Both were supposed to air over consecutive weekends in June 2006. ITV pulled the 2nd after the opener only got 1.7m.
The 2nd episode was however shown at Christmas time
later that year. Both were shown, so not exactly abandoned.
The 2nd episode was however shown at Christmas time
later that year. Both were shown, so not exactly abandoned.
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A former member
Something Very wrong with what Wiki page says, its claims BSKYB axed the show, YET it first broadcast was 5 weeks before the merger, and no other epsoide were broadcast by BSB.
Whats the real reason for it being pulled?
Whats the real reason for it being pulled?
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NJ
* Brian Conley : Play your cards right.
* Heil Honey I'm Home! I believe couple more were recorded but never screened
* A whole series, of Michael Barrymore's My Kind of Music that was not shown on STV.
* Christmas edition of Saturday Night Takeaway
* But WAS was the name of "that Phillip Schofield Show"
Wasn't Brian Conley's one episode stint on PCYR only meant to be an internal pilot only and therefore doesn't "count" as a show made but not aired?
As I stated in the linked thread, Barrymore's Kids Say The Funniest Things (3rd and final series) hasn't been aired since the Lubbock saga, although Barrymore, whatever one's opinion is on him and his personal circumstances, continues to be a regular staple on Challenge TV.
While Heil Honey might be considered a television disaster for documented reasons, exactly how many people would have seen it originally in 1990, and how much of its "hot potato" status is down to the media?
There was a reality show on Living TV (Family Forensics UK) that only had one episode aired. The remainder of the series was never aired: http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/news/a26521/co-stars-sex-crimes-get-middlemiss-show-axed.html though a refilmed version went out no problem.
Neil Jones
Founding member
* Brian Conley : Play your cards right.
* Heil Honey I'm Home! I believe couple more were recorded but never screened
* A whole series, of Michael Barrymore's My Kind of Music that was not shown on STV.
* Christmas edition of Saturday Night Takeaway
* But WAS was the name of "that Phillip Schofield Show"
Wasn't Brian Conley's one episode stint on PCYR only meant to be an internal pilot only and therefore doesn't "count" as a show made but not aired?
As I stated in the linked thread, Barrymore's Kids Say The Funniest Things (3rd and final series) hasn't been aired since the Lubbock saga, although Barrymore, whatever one's opinion is on him and his personal circumstances, continues to be a regular staple on Challenge TV.
While Heil Honey might be considered a television disaster for documented reasons, exactly how many people would have seen it originally in 1990, and how much of its "hot potato" status is down to the media?
There was a reality show on Living TV (Family Forensics UK) that only had one episode aired. The remainder of the series was never aired: http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/news/a26521/co-stars-sex-crimes-get-middlemiss-show-axed.html though a refilmed version went out no problem.