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All posts tagged "The Generation Game"
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50.1K9It's Saturday NightEpilogue: Why Haven’t You Written a Series of Articles on Tuesday Night Telly?
The success of Doctor Who – with another two series already commissioned before the end of the run – and the failure...
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42.6K2It's Saturday Night123. King of trash, that’s me
By the start of 2002, Saturday night television had become fashionable again. One of the biggest TV audiences of the year...
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37.1K2It'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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34.1K3It'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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5.6K6Your Wednesday Night In...Your Wednesday Night In… July 1991
Wednesday, 24th July 1991 PICK OF THE DAY 7.00pm WOGAN, BBC1 The unthinkable has happened and Old Tel has been prevailed upon...
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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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7.5K7Your Friday Night In...Your Friday Night In… October 1993
Friday, 15th October 1993 PICK OF THE DAY 7.15pm THE LIVING SOAP, BBC2 Billed as following on Sylvania Waters, but really an...
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8.9K1It's Saturday Night8. This is your show now
Although a disaster for Forsyth, Bruce Forsyth’s Big Night eventually came up trumps for Cannon and Ball who, on the strength of their...
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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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7.4K5Your 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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6.9KIt's Saturday Night3. A new kind of game show
By the late 1960s, Bruce Forsyth had been a big star for a long time. Since coming to prominence in 1958 as compere...
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4.7K1A bit of businessWe’re cock-a-hoop!
Another of our very occasional excerpts from the big buff-coloured folder entitled ‘TV Cream Failed Pet Projects’. Here, from the never-to-be realised...
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