Cannon and Ball – TV Cream

90. It were a right smack in the face

In 1990 Cannon and Ball found their professional career in bad shape. During their final years at LWT they had struggled...

Aside from streamlining the rank and file of LWT, Greg Dyke was also intent on maximising the company’s advertising revenues. To do...

On Saturday 4 January 1986, ITV’s evening schedule included an oddity – 60 minutes of extreme alternative comedy in the shape of...

While 1983 saw Squire’s career briefly hit the stratosphere before descending back to Earth, Cannon and Ball’s star was still inexorably...

Yorkshire Television did its own bit for new comic talent on Saturday nights with the creation, in June 1980 of Rock With Laughter....

A weekend television audience differs from a weekday one in both composition and expectation, so that the principles and practice of programming...