A warning for stating an opinion? This isn't digital spy.
I haven't seen the first episode, so my comment was based purely on the trailer I referred to and having seen some of Lemon's other shows. If I've been led to a wrong conclusion then I apologise if anybody was genuinely offended but that was my opinion of what I saw.
I was joking. But another member was warned for such a thing.
:-(
A former member
The programme originally began in this format on TV-am in September 1983 as Frost on Sunday and ran until the station lost its franchise at the end of 1992.
What is wrong with that Statement? Either way a lot of newspaper and compines are rather lazy gits ...
Does rather point to there being nothing prepared in advance.
I have to ask how do broadcasters prepare in advance for stuff a thing? how long in the planning do ITV/SKY/BBC decide yip said person is old enough to have file?
Depends on the person. The Queen's obituary will almost certainly be ready to roll and in the case of Sky, has probably been ready or near enough ready in some form for most of the life of the station. Other senior Royals and prominent figures may have VT's near enough ready to roll. Wasn't Margaret Thatcher's obituary VT rolled relatively soon after it was announced she'd died?
The programme originally began in this format on TV-am in September 1983 as Frost on Sunday and ran until the station lost its franchise at the end of 1992.
What is wrong with that Statement? Either way a lot of newspaper and compines are rather lazy gits ...
Frost on Sundays, never started until September 1986, I was able to found that out in seconds......
He did co present the "The Sunday Programme" which run from 1985 until early 86, which it was replaced by jonathan Dimbleby on Sunday which went out from march - September 1986.
you were calling the new series of Through the Keyhole a parody of the David Frost fronted episodes of Through the Keyhole. Apparently that isn't the case and you clearly meant something else.
I only spotted a trailer for a Frost program on AJE yesterday or the day before so certainly he was still on their books.
Yes, he still had a weekly programme on Friday night's/Saturday mornings. Originally it was a topical programme with several guests, recently it's been long form interviews, one guest a week recorded on location.
As mentioned by others, he was still very active and of course almost everything he did was through his company, Paradine.
That was the impression I got, perhaps parody is the wrong word but I can't think of a better one. I was assuming it was in the same vein as 8 out of 10 cats do countdown where messing about with the format is part of the show. That it's hosted by a comedian in character which adds to the impression that it's to be too faithful to the original.
I'm out if the country at the moment so I'll look forward to seeing the show when I have access to catch up.
Sir David Frost was a journalistic legend and an inspiration. The two best interviews he ever did, was the Richard Nixon interview in 1974, and his takedown of Emil Savundra in 1967. He will be missed by us all, but his genius lives on in those recordings.
Well, it seemed to catch the Beeb on the hop. I heard the news on Radio 2 at Noon. Nick Higham's
obituary was inaccurate, stated the Nixon interviews were in 1979, in fact they were (I think !) in 1977.
Does rather point to there being nothing prepared in advance.
I have to ask how do broadcasters prepare in advance for stuff a thing? how long in the planning do ITV/SKY/BBC decide yip said person is old enough to have file?
Well statistically you stand a 1 in a 1000 chance of not seeing your 50th birthday, beyond 50 things really do slide, so I'd be inclined to start preparing obituaries for any 'sleb over 50.
Does rather point to there being nothing prepared in advance.
I have to ask how do broadcasters prepare in advance for stuff a thing? how long in the planning do ITV/SKY/BBC decide yip said person is old enough to have file?
Depends on the person. The Queen's obituary will almost certainly be ready to roll and in the case of Sky, has probably been ready or near enough ready in some form for most of the life of the station. Other senior Royals and prominent figures may have VT's near enough ready to roll. Wasn't Margaret Thatcher's obituary VT rolled relatively soon after it was announced she'd died?
All news departments will have obits prepared for all the senior royals, in some cases for the top politicians of the day, and certainly for prominent people who are either of a certain age or known to be in ill health. I can think of at least one younger celebrity for whom obits were made when they had a serious illness but thankfully recovered and are fine now. These are updated whenever there are significant things to add and also if it is thought they might be needed soon, for example if they are elderly and are reported to be in hospital.
Aside from that, for certain figures there are obit documentaries ready to go, we've seen examples of these over the last few months with Margaret Thatcher and Patrick Moore. Some of these get regularly re-versioned whenever there are new things to add, the year caption needs to be updated, or in some cases because the subject of the obit has outlived some of the contributors. Others, when it doesn't have to go out on the same day, get a re-edit after the news has been announced.
I suppose it might sound a bit ghoulish to some but these are some of the few news events you know will happen sooner or later, so it's best to be prepared.