Shows that people forget or get lost in time

Maybe you are thinking of the Bravo advert from the mid 90s with the fish... Dunno why but it always stuck in my head for some reason

Suppose this fits in well here



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will think of more after a sleep or something....

It was Sky's short-lived Comedy Channel that had the fish tank test card. And then years later the Paramount Comedy Channel had a chicken crossing the road for theirs.

Light Lunch was great, full of innuendo and silliness. And I think widely documented as a vehicle just to get Mel and Sue a tv show. Never mind that it was supposed to be a cookery show. It was also responsible for one of my favourite cock ups when the chef said he was making a "warm goat egg salad".

It wasn't created for Mel & Sue. They auditioned for it. Channel 4 wanted to beef up their daytime schedule - that was its genesis.

I remember that ITV2 IVC studio, it was originally (and became again) the primary voice over booth for ITV 2 pres (the identical twin of the ITV 1 one, that was used for the last ever LWT pres junction with Glen Thomsett
and Trish Bertram in Oct 2002, done in vision from there)

Anyway, someone had had the whacky idea of having IVC for ITV 2, so the desk etc was stripped out, a tiny lighting grid installed (which made the room ludicrously hot) and that fish tank installed. I think the fish were relatively happy.

The start of Princess Productions too.

It was a very fresh and original format and look at the time, much copied since though and the faux 50s look is very much a thing of the time. Loved it at the time, a shame that it's successor Late Lunch didn't work as well.

I hadnt realised at the time how cheap it looked and how small the studio was (not that I was aware of such things at that time) where did it come from? I'm thinking Capital Studios?

Actually I seem to remember it was Studio 3 at TLS. I may be wrong though.

Wasn't light lunch the reason sesame street was dropped? Who remembers this morning with Richard NOT Judy.

I would say TMWRNJ is actually pretty well remembered, I never knew about it but I see a lot of discussion about it online.

High Stakes. It was spelt something like HI£H $TAKE$ on-screen and broadcast around 2000ish.

This was such a high profile series when it began, I remember the late and much lamented Deluxe magazine did a big feature about its launch and talking about all the marketing they were doing for it, saying they were doing a load of promos during the 1998 World Cup for it, lots of short ten second clips, weeks and weeks in advance. They did lots of poster and press ads as well, and as the RT Guide to TV Comedy points out, they did loads of focus grouping about it, so it really hit that vital 16-34 demographic.

Of course, when it appeared on screen it turned out to be the most bog-standard sitcom you'll ever see, and for all that the titular "babes" were promoted all over the place, most of the plots revolved around Karl Howman's character which could have fallen out of any other sitcom ever made. Interestingly the second series was flung about from pillar to post and the final episode was never broadcast at all, it was replaced by a news special and never rescheduled.



Yeah, Late Lunch was a bit of a disappointment, they simply couldn't create the wonderful freewheeling atmosphere in three half hours a week that they did when it was on every day and an hour (or more, I remember for the final week of the first series they were extended to about ninety minutes). I was a huge fan of it, it was great fun, especially when they had fun combinations of guests. There are some interesting episodes on YouTube, including one with Mel on her own because Sue was ill, and also the primetime Madonna Special which famously didn't feature Madonna at all as she'd pulled out.

As mentioned, they did audition for it, and I also remember that before it started they were sent out to get some experience of live and as-live telly, and sat in on some episodes of Vanessa just to see how it all worked - but Mel got a bit over-excited and started joining in with one of the discussions, they dug out the clip on a couple of occasions.



Er, I remember there was a mother on Right to Replay saying their kid was devastated it had been dropped, but I remember C4 relented and showed half hour edits of Sesame Street at twelve o'clock. For a bit.



And that's another series, like Frank Skinner's Shane, where they made a second series but didn't broadcast it. They shouldn't have bothered with the first series, actually, it was a boring Radio 4-style sitcom about men in suits which was totally inappropriate for primetime ITV.