After the success of Pop Idol, Ant and Dec had turned around a career with ITV that had looked like it...
ITV was still floundering with early Saturday evenings. The first new show of 1996 was Beadle’s Hotshots, a format which...
Elsewhere, LWT was taking steps in the right direction, nurturing talents such as Brian Conley and Hale and Pace. While Conley’s 1989 Brian...
Come 1989 and Beadle’s About was at its absolute peak, pulling in up to 15.2 million viewers (for an edition screened on...
ITV in 1986 was not just about straight comedy series. Another force for light entertainment was burgeoning too. With Game For A...
In 1982 British television had to cope with the arrival of a new terrestrial channel, whiIe ITV also had to contend with...
“The nation talked about it,” says Boyd of Game For A Laugh. “’Did you see that daft story?’” “We did three series, then...
“Nothing on television so exercises the critics as the game shows,” wrote Laurie Taylor and Bob Mullan in their book Uninvited Guests: Intimate Secrets...
“Those of us who watched (Game For A Laugh) for the first time, did so in slightly gob-smacked admiration,” says David Docherty,...
In the history of Saturday night television few programmes have dominated quite like The Generation Game during the 1970s. Even the departure of...
While the acts breaking through to British television in 1980 were, in the main, well established live performers, their ascension to the...
Friday, 15th March 1985 PICK OF THE DAY 7.00pm WOGAN, BBC1 And it’s our last visit of the week to the verdant...
Round-the-clock provider of actual genuine 'talk', much of it provided by unusually 'talk'-friendly roster
FIRST EVER UK-based commercial station, beating Capital to the air by that all-important couple of months, and offering up a heady mixture...
By the mid seventies Radio 2 was already turning into a rest home for dwindling nightclub acts and those intriguingly billed 'all-round...
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