Seeing as there's a bit of discussion around the ITV Year of Promise, and I didn't have these available at the time of the original thread 3 years back, have the generally promoted Page 108 from Teletext from May 13th 2000 - about 2 weeks after their Day of Promise, although it makes no mention of the day. Page 107 also features loads of charity contact details - probably of less interest, but I can clean it up if people want.
Now there's a reason to visit Trago Mills if ever I heard one!
On a related note, an old TV Forum post drags up that bastion of ITV millennium programming - the Year of Promise - which apparently some people thought was a newer version of the telethon and so tried to pledge money to it:
https://tvforum.uk/tvhome/itv-telethon-30597/
The Year of Promise launched in a blaze of fanfare in 1999 with various outlets getting involved, though the entire thing later fell on its arse and now only exists at all in the form of the Wayback Machine, a CD in Scotland and a monument not far from the Thames:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18_6kLLKoEc
There's also a plaque (at least there was in 2014) at Lands End with several promises engraved in different plaques, albeit now faded.
The Children's BBC show What's That Noise is often overlooked. It tried to do for music what Tony Hart did for art. I remember there were some really good episodes including a large ensemble of musicians and singers performing Queen's Somebody to Love.
I remember the format between two ( the only two? ) of the series being quite different. Craig Charles presented one of them but can't remember who the other presenter was. IMO could have had a longer run.
I liked it. Seem to remember the theme tune went something like "Can you play the xylophone, saxophone, double bass or bass drum"
I remember the format between two ( the only two? ) of the series being quite different. Craig Charles presented one of them but can't remember who the other presenter was. IMO could have had a longer run.
There were about six series! The first two were presented by Craig Charles, with the concept being that he ran a recording studio, and with Nigel Kennedy appearing via satellite from America every week. It was a pretty distinctive show with big bold DEF II-style graphics and Charles being quite adult for a kids' TV host. His catchprase was "It's got to be funky!"
Then the next two series were presented by Tony Gregory, who moved from Motormouth to CBBC as Andy Crane was going the other way, and were more of a conventional magazine show, presented from a normal studio and no attempt at any kind of storyline. And the the last two(?) series were presented by The Tracy Brothers, the comedy double act featuring Mark "Gary-in-Maid-Marian-and-now-a-hugely-successful-author" Billingham, who hosted it from a different city each week to examine the music scene there.
All the series ended with all the contributors to the episode performing together, and usually making a right racket, but it all felt quite exciting at the time.
Can't find a single clip online but does anyone remember a late night discussion programme called The Vicious Circle on Channel 5 in the early noughties? It was made by Victor Lewis Smith's Associated Rediffusion and was similar to Channel 4's After Dark in that it featured a panel (or circle) of guests such as Richard Bacon, Keith Allen, Lauren Booth and on at least one occasion Kathy Burke. But I think rather than a variety of discussions they would only review TV programmes.
It was shot in a bizarre fashion on very grainy, locked off cameras. I want to say it was shot in black and white but that may be my memory playing tricks.
By the end of the run there were presumably such low ratings because they took to having fake ad breaks, or "piss breaks" as they were crudely signposted, that featured retro ads.
*raises arm*
By the end looks like it was just me and you watching then!
I think this was VLS's first post TV Offal programme - even though he didn't appear, just provided the theme tune and exec produced.
I loved this show because they would swerve from reviewing (or talking about) a really deep intelligent documentary, to the worst kind of quiz show by numbers you could think of.
Other guests that stick in my mind were Judge James Pickles, George Melly and some Lord who didn't own a television and AR had one installed in his house for the purposes of the show.
Your memory wasn't playing up. The black and white locked off cameras where used to get in and out of breaks or as conversation transition points.
I'm sure there was some form of butler serving drinks to the panellists/reviewers as well.
The spin off from Last of The Summer Wine, which portrayed the characters in their youth, just before the outbreak of WW2, "First of The Summer wine". Two series were made, but wasn't as popular. Peter Sallis, who played Clegg in Last of the summer wine, played his father in First of the summer wine.
