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All posts tagged "Matthew Kelly"
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43.6K1It's Saturday Night126. Win the ads
After the success of Pop Idol, Ant and Dec had turned around a career with ITV that had looked like it...
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37.0K2It'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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33.2K2It'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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17.8KIt's Saturday Night43. If you want Russ Abbot to do it, then you have to accept me and my ideas
Even before the arrival of Surprise, Surprise, Birt’s public confidence in LWT’s output appeared well founded. By the end of 1983...
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11.0KIt's Saturday Night16. Killing the Golden Goose
“The nation talked about it,” says Boyd of Game For A Laugh. “’Did you see that daft story?’” “We did three series, then...
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11.0K3It's Saturday Night15. Older men, doing school boy tricks
“Nothing on television so exercises the critics as the game shows,” wrote Laurie Taylor and Bob Mullan in their book Uninvited Guests: Intimate Secrets...
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11.8K3It's Saturday Night14. It worked like a dream
“Those of us who watched (Game For A Laugh) for the first time, did so in slightly gob-smacked admiration,” says David Docherty,...
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12.1K2It's Saturday Night13. Alan is too commercial
In the history of Saturday night television few programmes have dominated quite like The Generation Game during the 1970s. Even the departure of...
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7.3K5Your Friday Night In...Your Friday Night In… September 1993
Friday, 24th September 1993 PICK OF THE DAY 8pm BRUCE FORSYTH’S GENERATION GAME, BBC1 Everyone forgets it now, but the ultimate Saturday...
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6.1K1Your Friday Night In...Your Friday Night In… March 1981
Friday, 6th March 1981 PICK OF THE DAY 7.00pm A QUESTION OF SPORT, BBC1 If not at the peak of its powers...
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4.3KTV: H is for...Holding the Fort
DR WHO does sitcom!
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3.7KTV: Q is for...Quandaries
A BIT LIKE SCRUPLES. In fact, a lot like Scruples. But with MATTHEW KELLY.
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3.8KTV: R is for...
Relative Strangers
HIRSUTE NON-HYSTERICS from MATTHEW KELLY
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4.5KTV: P is for...
Pickersgill People
WHIMSICAL DRAMA by MIKE STOTT set in and around a fictional Lancashire town.
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2.8KTV: S is for...
Sensible Show, The
BARELY-BELIEVABLE QUIZ quackery hosted by a bristling MATTHEW KELLY.
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7.2KTV: G is for...
Game for a Laugh
GENERATION GAME-SLAUGHTERING, hysteria-mongering, surprise-springing, staircase-shimmying, Beadlebum-annointing ogre of Saturday nights.
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3.1K1TV: M is for...
Madabout
IN THE words of KENNETH WILLIAMS: "It's MATTHEW KELLY isn't it?! Game for a laugh!"
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