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All posts tagged "LWT"
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32.2K2It's Saturday Night86. He’s not a goody- goody hero
By 1989, Greg Dyke was getting into his stride as director of programmes at LWT, and was keen for the company to...
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30.8K3It's Saturday Night80. The Charge-And-Shout Brigade
Aside from streamlining the rank and file of LWT, Greg Dyke was also intent on maximising the company’s advertising revenues. To do...
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24.0KIt's Saturday Night55. The Most Sexless Person In Television
Unsurprisingly the press seized upon the failed Blind Date pilot and David Glencross and the IBA felt compelled to act. Birt, comfortable that...
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22.1KIt's Saturday Night54. 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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23.5K2It's Saturday Night53. I shouldn’t have accepted it
LWT’s head of comedy, Humphrey Barclay was growing increasingly concerned. Much effort had been made in the late 1970s to sort out...
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22.4K6It's Saturday Night52. A Shrivelled Little Thing
Bob Monkhouse found his niche at the BBC in 1984, but he was not the only one to attain a sense of...
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20.1K3It's Saturday Night47. Scope for humour and danger
As the new age of ITV co-operation started to bear fruit in 1984, further promises were made. Granada, still resistant to Birt’s...
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20.0K1It's Saturday Night46. We’ve got the fucking lot!
The steady trickle of new weekend ITV programmes made by the traditionally weekend-averse Granada and Central Television was taken as a personal triumph...
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8.1K1It's Saturday Night7. It was destined to be an anti-climax
A weekend television audience differs from a weekday one in both composition and expectation, so that the principles and practice of programming...
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8.0K3It's Saturday Night6. Synthetic propensity
On the evening of Monday 5 September 1969, the available LWT unit heads – Doreen Stephens, Terry Hughes, Humphrey Burton, Derek Granger and...
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7.7KIt's Saturday Night5. The whole thing suddenly fell apart
LWT’s output in those early days was as varied as any other ITV station, however the combination of, as David Docherty in...
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7.4K1It's Saturday Night4. A rising exasperation with the quantity of dirt
In 1968, Frank Muir sat down at his desk to write a letter. Concentrating on work was not always easy in this office....
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6.7K2Your Friday Night In...Your Friday Night In… August 1970
Friday, 7th August 1970 PICK OF THE DAY 5.20pm TWO D’S AND A DOG, ITV We think of spin-offs as a modern...
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