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33.6KIt's Saturday Night108. The programme has done extremely badly and will be dropped after this series
ITV was still floundering with early Saturday evenings. The first new show of 1996 was Beadle’s Hotshots, a format which...
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33.4K1It's Saturday Night107. Congratulations, you have got the fucking Gen Game
“Here I go again! I should have been a channel swimmer, I’m always going backwards and forwards, backwards and forwards....
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9352RIPClive James, on television
The artist formerly known as Vivian James was initially more famous for writing about television than appearing on it, with his column...
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33.0K2It's Saturday Night106. Welcome to the new Saturday night
The boost the lottery had given the BBC was felt throughout the Saturday night schedule. When Noel’s House Party and Casualty...
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32.6K4It's Saturday Night105. It is in the cutlery drawer
With The National Lottery Live, BBC1 was now the place to be on a Saturday night. Regardless of the merits of...
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17.0K1Creamguide (Films) CommentariesCreamguide (Films) Commentaries: The Conjuring 2
Chris, Craig and Jack are back to round off your, undoubtedly over commercialised Halloween festivities, with Jack Rolfe from Howard’s Way yelling...
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32.0K2It's Saturday Night104. A reliable tent pole for Saturday evenings
1994 saw the end of a number of Saturday night fixtures. Most notably, in June came the final episodes of...
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16.8K1Creamguide (Films) CommentariesCreamguide (Films) Commentaries: Theatre of Blood
Chris, Craig and Jack alight upon the oeuvre of Vincent Price, via the incomparable “Theater (although we insist upon spelling it...
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31.7K1It's Saturday Night103. A litre of gin, ecstasy and crack cocaine
The pilot for Don’t Forget Your Toothbrush taught Chris Evans and Will Macdonald one very clear lesson: “We had a...
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16.6K1Creamguide (Films) CommentariesCreamguide (Films) Commentaries: The Boys in Blue
After a short break Chris, Craig and Jack are back Back BACK. And what better way to celebrate than anything other than...
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31.3K2It's Saturday Night102. Like a cup of cold sick
Saturday night television remains the only night of the week not to have been commandeered by a traditional soap. With...
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14.5K5What We Just WatchedWhat We Just Watched – Episode Sixteen
In the last of this particular run, Ian and Chris attend a colour-coded middle-management olympiad. This instalment includes: ‘Pluck’. If you don’t...
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14.5KWhat We Just WatchedWhat We Just Watched – Episode Fifteen
Chris and Graham settle down to two shows, and then talk about them. In detail. This instalment includes: Our nightly nibble on...
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15.1K2What We Just WatchedWatch What We Just Watched!
If you’ve ever wanted to watch a full-length cartoon featuring two bland middle-aged men chatting about two old shows from the corners...
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14.5KWhat We Just WatchedWhat We Just Watched – Episode Fourteen
TV Cream’s view-a-thing-and-then-chat-about-it podcast returns for an epic three-week residency! This instalment includes: Judith Chalmers If you don’t want to listen to...
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30.4K7It'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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30.4K3It'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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29.2K2It's Saturday Night99. If this doesn’t work out, we’re both snookered!
Since winning New Faces in 1976, Jim Davidson had been a constant staple of ITV’s light entertainment output. Almost immediately after...
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29.7K1It's Saturday Night98. 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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30.0K3It'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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30.0K5It'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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29.9K6It's Saturday Night95. A Double Order of Talent
1991 remains a pivotal year in the history of Saturday night television. It was the last time various genres of...
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30.0K7It's Saturday Night94. Oh Man, There Go All My Women Fans
In the early to mid 1980s, the US drama Knight Rider tapped into a period in which adventure series featuring high...
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30.2K1It's Saturday Night93. The characters and situations are real
Given the growing success of Casualty (which by 1990 was entering its fourth year and pulling in audiences in excess...
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30.4K3It's Saturday Night92. That’s the last thing I was expecting, Jim
In 1990, the BBC managed to trade in one master game show host for another. Bob Monkhouse had been presiding over...
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30.2K1It's Saturday Night91. Look Straight Into My Eyes And Everything Will Be Alright, That’s A Promise
Game shows, having been slightly overshadowed in the middle and later years of the 1980s by the endless stream of...
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30.1K1It's Saturday Night90. 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...
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12.4K2A bit of businessTV Years: Classic Children’s Programmes
Do you remember Bagpuss? The next issue of our favourite magazine, TV YEARS, goes on sale on Tuesday June 4, and it’s celebrating classic children’s TV!...
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29.8K1It's Saturday Night89. 1990 Who would employ an ex-alky with lowered self-esteem
And so into the 1990s. Almost none of the programmes that inhabited the Saturday night schedules at the beginning of the...
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29.7K1It's Saturday Night88. The feel of Saturday night
Elsewhere, LWT was taking steps in the right direction, nurturing talents such as Brian Conley and Hale and Pace. While Conley’s 1989 Brian...
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29.5K1It's Saturday Night87. The Sexism, The Dolly Birds, The Catchphrases
One of the significant barriers LWT had to overcome in attracting the ABC1 audience that it so craved was the belief commonly...
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29.3K2It'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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28.7KIt's Saturday Night85. Can you come up with a good solution for the Murder Weekend mystery?
The concepts of strip-scheduling, and reality television, not to mention the idea of having members of the public becoming immersed into...
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28.9K1It's Saturday Night84. The interviewer always has to know when it’s best to keep his or her mouth shut
Over at the BBC, attempts were being made to commission a new Saturday late-evening chat show. Ever since the departure of...
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29.2K3It's Saturday Night83. Beadle’s A Prick
Come 1989 and Beadle’s About was at its absolute peak, pulling in up to 15.2 million viewers (for an edition screened on...
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29.1K2It's Saturday Night82. We just weren’t allowed into UK terrestrial television
“A dazzling array of top flight entertainment is coming to you,” proclaims the double page advert. ” … There’s family fun with...
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29.0KIt's Saturday Night81. I sat for a moment in silence, then turned in my chair and left the stage
Cissie Charlton made the trip to London all the way from her home in Ashington. The pensioner thought she was going...
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10.6KA bit of businessTV Years: The Nineties
Here it is, another issue of TV YEARS. This time it’s covering the 1990s and it’s on sale from Tuesday April 2....
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28.2K3It'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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28.8KIt's Saturday Night79. The yarns worked their tried and tested magic
Another welcome return to Saturday nights occurred in 1988, and although All Creatures Great And Small hadn’t been away for quite as...
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28.4KIt's Saturday Night78. You wanna bet on it?
Another familiar, some would say iconic, figure also found his way back to his rightful place in 1988. Unbelievably it had...
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28.4K1It's Saturday Night77. Taking on Blind Date would be a real challenge
1988 brought with it the prospect of fresh new challenges. For the BBC, there was the continuing and ever accelerating reform...
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28.0K2It's Saturday Night76. There’s good news for perplexed fans of 3-2-1!
1987 would herald the departure of one of ITV’s longest running and most successful game shows. Produced by Yorkshire Television, and based...
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27.8K1It's Saturday Night75. This is your show, folks, and I do mean you
In 1986, Central Television saw fit to resurrect New Faces. Hosted by previous winner Marti Caine and featuring the then fearsomely ubiquitous...
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28.0K2It's Saturday Night74. I Heard A Seat In The Stalls Go ‘Gerdonk!’
“A pale, pretty girl dressed in black is singing a sad love song,” observes writer Nicki Household. “Her voice cracks a...
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28.1K4It's Saturday Night73. There’s such a passion for nostalgia right now
While comic impersonators enjoyed pretty much a monopoly on Saturday evening comedy programmes, series like Summertime Special provided a platform for a...
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27.6KIt'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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28.0K4It's Saturday Night71. I was in obscurity until this series
Of course, Casualty and The Houseman’s Tale were unrepresentative of the BBC’s previous homegrown Saturday night dramatic fare. The lineage of The...
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27.5KIt's Saturday Night70. Stretchers never go up stairs
“Death is part of our business whether we like it or not, and somewhere along the line we have to compromise.” So...
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27.2K6It's Saturday Night69. 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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