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gfloyd
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 4861 Location: Here, There, Everywhere.
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Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 11:40 am Post subject: Teenage Kicks Transfers to TV |
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Paul Jackson, director of ITV comedy and entertainment, has announced that ITV are to make the BBC Radio 2 comedy hour show Teenage Kicks into an 8 part sitcom later this year
http://news.independent.co.uk/media/article2411706.ece _________________ His name was ernie ........ and he drove the fastest milk cart in the west..... |
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Behind Geddon's Wall
Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 1553 Location: Kingston Upon Hull/ The Cloud Factory
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Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 12:21 pm Post subject: |
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ITV nicks yet another radio comedy - Hardly earth shattering news. _________________ Geddon
You simply mustn't blame yourself -- the days were perfect
And so were exactly what I was born to spoil
For I am the Rider to the World's End
Bound across the cinder causeway
From the furnace to the quarry
Through the fields of oil |
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gfloyd
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Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 12:29 pm Post subject: |
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Behind Geddon's Wall wrote: | ITV nicks yet another radio comedy - Hardly earth shattering news. | Read the article. The BBC rejected it for TV first.
Still its relevant news for a Radio 2 forum. _________________ His name was ernie ........ and he drove the fastest milk cart in the west..... |
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Behind Geddon's Wall
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Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 12:33 pm Post subject: |
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I take your point, Ernie, but Radio comedy has always been a rich source for ITV. to purloin and bring to the TV. _________________ Geddon
You simply mustn't blame yourself -- the days were perfect
And so were exactly what I was born to spoil
For I am the Rider to the World's End
Bound across the cinder causeway
From the furnace to the quarry
Through the fields of oil |
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Ian Robinson Site Admin
Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 3609 Location: Chorley, Lancashire
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Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 1:11 pm Post subject: |
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It's interesting that the BBC rejected it - seems they'll only take any old tat from Mrs Edmondson. I notice that Paul Jackson has been signing up the Young Ones lot since starting at ITV, so it's not much of a surprise it's found a home there. |
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gfloyd
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Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 4:08 pm Post subject: |
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I cant see many other Radio 2 Comedy Hour shows making it to TV. Well not as comedies anyway. _________________ His name was ernie ........ and he drove the fastest milk cart in the west..... |
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Ella Sailyour
Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 579 Location: Marbella, Spain
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Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 4:30 pm Post subject: |
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ITV virtually gave up on sitcoms years ago (not long after deregulation in the early 1990s) and I can't see that this will work for the ailing network. Unless the Midas "Michael Grade" Touch is set to influence things.
Ella _________________ This week's $64,000 question: Why am I so gorgeous, possums? |
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gfloyd
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Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 4:37 pm Post subject: |
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Ella Sailyour wrote: | ITV virtually gave up on sitcoms years ago (not long after deregulation in the early 1990s) and I can't see that this will work for the ailing network. Unless the Midas "Michael Grade" Touch is set to influence things.
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Well at least ITV are trying a bit harder now.
Last nights BBC1 primetime "entertainment" featured a how to play the banjo lesson, followed by a bunch of dropouts moaning about the hardships of living on a tropical island for an hour. _________________ His name was ernie ........ and he drove the fastest milk cart in the west..... |
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Ella Sailyour
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Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 4:49 pm Post subject: |
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gfloyd wrote: | Well at least ITV are trying a bit harder now. |
With commercial TV ad revenues from spot-advertising and sponsorship deals falling to below danger levels they're going to have to try mighty harder than that.
Has Corrie gained a new corporate sponsor to replace the £10m per annum deal from Cadbury's yet, I wonder?
gfloyd wrote: | Last nights BBC1 primetime "entertainment" featured a how to play the banjo lesson, followed by a bunch of dropouts moaning about the hardships of living on a tropical island for an hour. |
I saw the Louis Theroux thing at 9.00pm. That was pretty good - and worth coming in from the nice, warm terrace for!
Ella _________________ This week's $64,000 question: Why am I so gorgeous, possums? |
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Ian Robinson Site Admin
Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 3609 Location: Chorley, Lancashire
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Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 6:42 pm Post subject: |
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gfloyd wrote: | I cant see many other Radio 2 Comedy Hour shows making it to TV. Well not as comedies anyway. |
Actually, this is the second in recent years - Flight of the Conchords has been remade for HBO in America. There are also plans for The Powder Room to transfer. |
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sheffieldbloke
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Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 5:15 pm Post subject: |
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Noooooooooooo! This was one of the worst "comedies" I've ever heard, what on earth are they thinking? |
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