Sunday evening TV memories - Page 6

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Night Thoughts 10 December 2020 12:59pm

At the other end of the night ITV had Spitting Image at 10pm, and I remember Hardware too about a decade later, and I think Tarrant on TV sometimes aired in that slot, but presumably there are a few forgotten efforts too.

Hot Metal's just sprung to mind. (Later repeated on Channel 4...)

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robertclark125 10 December 2020 1:15pm

One thing about Sunday, until the mid 1990s there was no regional news on bbc.

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JKDerry 10 December 2020 1:22pm

robertclark125 posted:

One thing about Sunday, until the mid 1990s there was no regional news on bbc.

The attitude was that there would not any anything worth reporting from the regions on a Sunday.

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Colm 10 December 2020 1:28pm

That's except for viewers in Northern Ireland.

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bluecortina 10 December 2020 1:28pm

Night Thoughts posted:

Brekkie posted:

At the other end of the night ITV had Spitting Image at 10pm, and I remember Hardware too about a decade later, and I think Tarrant on TV sometimes aired in that slot, but presumably there are a few forgotten efforts too.

Hot Metal's just sprung to mind. (Later repeated on Channel 4...)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPix1ACxH6o

Blimey, another one!

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Brekkie 10 December 2020 3:55pm

JKDerry posted:

robertclark125 posted:

One thing about Sunday, until the mid 1990s there was no regional news on bbc.

The attitude was that there would not any anything worth reporting from the regions on a Sunday.

More often than not other than local sports results they were probably right.

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Markymark 10 December 2020 4:22pm

Night Thoughts posted:

News Review and the Money Programme here, and their memorable theme tunes. And as others have said, the 10pm "adult comedy" on ITV later on.

News Review seems quite quaint by the pacey standards of contemporary TV journalism, though I wonder if such a programme would work now.

I wonder how many careers in finance or financial journalism began because of parents putting BBC2 on to swerve Songs of Praise or Highway and ending up with this cool theme (first used in the 1964 film The Carpetbaggers, I've just found out through searching for it).

https://www.ravensbourne.ac.uk/bbc-motion-graphics-archive/money-programme-1981

News Review's style reminds me a bit of EuroNews in the 00s. There'd be relatively long stretches with no voice over.

The Money Programme was also a sort of a 'thinking-man's' consumer affairs programme, it made commerce and business <horrible modern term> accessible </horrible modern term> to a wider audience. There's no contemporary equivalent sadly.