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All posts tagged "Bobby Davro"
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33.5K7It's Saturday Night101. To allow such bilge on TV is an insult to the audience
Meanwhile, one of Davro’s protégés was at last making waves over on ITV. Brian Conley had appeared in a number of...
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33.1K4It's Saturday Night100. The humour of Beadle comes through humiliating people!
Also joining Big Break on Saturday evenings in 1992 was a former Sunday night staple, That’s Life! Esther’s show was taking up...
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33.5K3It's Saturday Night97. NTV brings you … empty rooms!
With a number of veteran series ending, what would take their place in the Saturday night schedules? Ironically, their initial...
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33.1K5It's Saturday Night96. If there is an air of spontaneity about it, it’ll be genuine
While the BBC was pulling up the drawbridge on traditional sketch show talent, the crop of comedians at ITV weren’t...
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30.8KIt's Saturday Night72. I don’t care if he doesn’t like me
Programmes come and programmes go, but in 1987, mainstream comedy continued to rule Saturday night television. In fact, on one fateful...
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28.6K3It's Saturday Night66. That’s just not funny Bobby, it’s corny – just don’t do that
For all its attempts at breaking new ground, Bobby Davro On The Box appealed to a relatively conservative audience. Journalist Stewart Knowles attended a...
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26.9KIt's Saturday Night65. It’s no good doing all the same old people all the time
On Saturday 4 January 1986, ITV’s evening schedule included an oddity – 60 minutes of extreme alternative comedy in the shape of...
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26.7K4It's Saturday Night61. More pilots than British Airways
While LWT was busy furnishing British entertainment with new, alternative comedians, the station’s dedication towards mainstream acts remained undimmed, and as if...
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7.4K13TV: C is for...Copy Cats
Ostensibly a fast-paced succession of celebrity-lampooning sketches and songs performed by a young team of impressionists, the sheer consistent lack of quality...
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