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HC
Hatton Cross
Inspector Sands posted:
Yes, Richard hosted Runway which was one of the 9:25 quiz shows. it was preceeded by the normal live promo for This Morning which meant that Richard and Judy introduced Richard's programme

Which lead to some wonderful handovers to Runway from Richard that still stick in the memory

"That's all coming up later.. but first - me"
"Now, here's something I did on my summer holidays"
"If you can't wait until This Morning later to see more of me - you are in luck"
SW
Steve Williams
Andrew posted:
Off topic, but what a ridiculous Granada News set, looks like a reception desk.


The whole set was totally ridiculous, the desk was massive and when two people sat behind it on Granada Tonight it looked even weirder. Bob Greaves and Stuart Hall had a bit where they would take a trademark Sideways Look At The News and they sat in giant thrones. Was such a demented set. Didn't last very long, though.
VM
VMPhil
Is that the infamous typing-on-the-keyboard era?

https://youtu.be/OhRkZSnNHoA?t=2m5s
RU
russty_russ
VMPhil posted:
Is that the infamous typing-on-the-keyboard era?

https://youtu.be/OhRkZSnNHoA?t=2m5s


If you do play the entire clip, it does involve Richard Madeley in Speedos! Shocked
BS
Ben Shatliff
Steve Williams posted:
Andrew posted:
Off topic, but what a ridiculous Granada News set, looks like a reception desk.


The whole set was totally ridiculous, the desk was massive and when two people sat behind it on Granada Tonight it looked even weirder. Bob Greaves and Stuart Hall had a bit where they would take a trademark Sideways Look At The News and they sat in giant thrones. Was such a demented set. Didn't last very long, though.


It lasted April 1992 till October 1992. Then they moved Granada Tonight back to Manchester with the print house look. Granada News still came from Liverpool with another new look this time with a live shot of Albert Dock or The Liver Buildings but the clicking of keyboard for a live link remained for quite some time.
NT
Night Thoughts
Wasn't the weather map still in Albert Dock for a number of years after This Morning moved to London? (apologies if this has been mentioned before...)
LL
London Lite Founding member
Night Thoughts posted:
Wasn't the weather map still in Albert Dock for a number of years after This Morning moved to London? (apologies if this has been mentioned before...)


It was, Fred was kept on.
WH
Whataday Founding member
I remember it still being present on the first incarnation of Google Earth.
AG
AxG
Whataday posted:
I remember it still being present on the first incarnation of Google Earth.

Yes, it was still present in the 2003 imagery, but gone in 2005.
WH
Whataday Founding member
I always wondered how that map worked. Did it float? It looked a little too stable for that. And at the end of the very last episode from Liverpool there was a shot of all the crew standing on it - a lot of people for something just floating atop the water.
IS
Inspector Sands
At the beginning of the second series when the map was installed* I remember them showing a time-lapse of its construction. The map pieces were sitting on a metal grid just under the water line, that I presume was attached to the bottom of the dock.

I never noticed any tide in the dock so I presume it didn't need to float?


*the original one was a map painted onto a rectangular platform, presumably floating and tethered
CM
cmatthews13a
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