I do agree with your points about the Live & Kicking revamp being given extra time. The idea of the revamp and change to the show worked wonders to bring it up to date whilst still keeping key elements of the programme. I think that the BBC should have bitten the bullet and rested L&K as usual over the summer; losing Katy Hill and a change in production team affected the programme as it did for the Saturday Show for the two year afterwards.
Exactly right, although the one thing I'm glad that Nigel Pickard did was commissioning the series to be on all year round for the final series especially as the BBC was now focusing on an all year round series just like what ITV had.
And of course the final Live and Kicking had a brilliant send off which was better than what SM:TV had as L&K looked back on their best bits and some of the presenters came back to say goodbye.
And of course the final Live and Kicking had a brilliant send off which was better than what SM:TV had as L&K looked back on their best bits and some of the presenters came back to say goodbye.
SM:TV looked back at their best bits for 3 months and the former presenters came back to say goodbye
:-(
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Smtv knick idea its ideas from everyone else. Postbag and the use of that song come from fully booked etc
Yeah I agree with you SM:TV was a crap show and the presenters And, Dec and Cat weren't very good either. The best Saturday morning show has to be Live and Kicking and my favourite presenters were Katy Hill, Sarah Cawood, Ortis, Trey Farley and Heather Suttie Who remembers it cause I do and I watched the show every Saturday till the end in 2001.
As per the original post, I was referring to the later years.
L&k was on its way out from 1999 onwards. It was still dire and its replacement the Saturday show set the industry back years.
Live and Kicking was not on it's way out. It was all down to Nigel Pickard.
Clearly was, the ratings were poor and when it went to Scotland it become a whole different show.
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Maybe it's because it was a Children's BBC show and that it's suppose to concentrate on it's target audience that's why just under 1 million people watched the show where as ITV weren't doing anything until the end of 2001 to try and get rid of audience who were over 15 years old as saturday mornings are devoted to kids and not adults. That's why I'm glad that Ant and Dec left because SM:TV should never have attracted an audience who some of them were adults.
Look, BBCTelevision, you are absolutely entitled to each and every one of your views - but you *do* have to realise that some of these views may not be held by many other people.
