Alan Boyd – TV Cream

124. It’s about rejection now

If a Saturday night without the Generation Game seemed unusual, what about one minus Blind Date? In November 2001 it had been...

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98. You’re BBC, you shouldn’t be here

ITV also came up with a new Saturday night banker in 1991. Michael Barrymore had already established himself a big success...

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69. The powers that be listened to Denis

ITV in 1986 was not just about straight comedy series. Another force for light entertainment was burgeoning too. With Game For A...

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54. We would be the spoilsports

“It’s wallpaper TV,” claimed Daily Mail entertainment columnist, Baz Bamigboye in 2000. “But watching Cilla is like using an illegal substance. You know you...

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34. It was considered by LWT and then put in a bottom drawer

In 1982 British television had to cope with the arrival of a new terrestrial channel, whiIe ITV also had to contend with...

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16. Killing the Golden Goose

“The nation talked about it,” says Boyd of Game For A Laugh. “’Did you see that daft story?’” “We did three series, then...

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15. Older men, doing school boy tricks

“Nothing on television so exercises the critics as the game shows,” wrote Laurie Taylor and Bob Mullan in their book Uninvited Guests: Intimate Secrets...