Am I right in thinking that although these shows were firmly kids shows airing in kids slots in this country, in the U.S. they were seen more as family shows airing in a later time slot on more of a family network rather than Nickelodeon
Sabrina was originally made for ABC by Viacom, and Sister Sister was also first aired on ABC but appears to have been made by Paramount.
Wait a min, Alex Norton, that Taggart bloke was in Renford reject?
Yes, rather sad I know this but he was the Café owner, according to IMDB he was in all 4 series of Renford Rejects from 1998-2002 then joined Taggart in 2002.
:-(
A former member
It strange how you can remember programme but forget who was actually in them. I keep on forgetting Dermot Murnaghan did BBC Breakfast and Six oclock news.
Wait a min, Alex Norton, that Taggart bloke was in Renford reject?
Yes, rather sad I know this but he was the Café owner, according to IMDB he was in all 4 series of Renford Rejects from 1998-2002 then joined Taggart in 2002.
If you look on YouTube you'll see he was also a children's TV presenter on Play Away. ( Along with Anita Dobson and Jeremy Irons )
It's notable how all those American teen sitcoms were always really middle class, yet in the UK we had Grange Hill and Byker Grove, both gritty working class stuff set in grim urban surroundings.
It strange how you can remember programme but forget who was actually in them. I keep on forgetting Dermot Murnaghan did BBC Breakfast and Six oclock news.
The fact people like Bill Turnbull & Louise Minchin used to do the proper news is fast becoming a memory as well, particularly the light cuddly image Bill now has.
Am I right in thinking that although these shows were firmly kids shows airing in kids slots in this country, in the U.S. they were seen more as family shows airing in a later time slot on more of a family network rather than Nickelodeon
Sabrina was originally made for ABC by Viacom, and Sister Sister was also first aired on ABC but appears to have been made by Paramount.
Paramount and Viacom were one and the same - Paramount's endcap used A Viacom Company as a tagline at one point.
It strange how you can remember programme but forget who was actually in them. I keep on forgetting Dermot Murnaghan did BBC Breakfast and Six oclock news.
The fact people like Bill Turnbull & Louise Minchin used to do the proper news is fast becoming a memory as well, particularly the light cuddly image Bill now has.
He did the Six o'clock news aswell. There is whole period in my life where I can;t remember much about TV pre it around my early 20s. STV, ITV, sky were blurred lines
A show from the late 1980s, hosted by Noel Edmonds, called Whatever Next. Basically, two teams of two were playing a sort of what happens next type game. Only lasted one series. I remember one video they saw, a woman taking driving lessons, and they had to guess what happened next. Both guessed correctly, the learner in a car park at a river, drove into a yellow citreon 2CV, and put it in the water!
Surprised no one mentioned that Sister Sister also used to be on the Paramount Comedy Channel, which shared the same channel number as Nickelodeon on analogue cable and broadcast after 7pm. So in one evening you'd be able to watch the same series twice, on two different channels, without having to touch the remote...
Bad Boys from BBC Scotland starring Alex Norton. Comedy drama set in Glasgow's underworld, based on a McEwans Export advert. Never got repeated as far as I know and never had a regular timeslot, was never released on video (or DVD) either. Very little trace of it online.
EDIT: Someone has uploaded the full series on YouTube, although they're not great quality.
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