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Teenage Kicks Transfers to TV

 
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 11:40 am    Post subject: Teenage Kicks Transfers to TV Reply with quote

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
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 12:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

ITV nicks yet another radio comedy - Hardly earth shattering news.
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 12:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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.
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 12:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I take your point, Ernie, but Radio comedy has always been a rich source for ITV. to purloin and bring to the TV.
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 1:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 4:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I cant see many other Radio 2 Comedy Hour shows making it to TV. Well not as comedies anyway.
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 4:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 4:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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.
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 4:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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!

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PostPosted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 6:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 5:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Noooooooooooo! This was one of the worst "comedies" I've ever heard, what on earth are they thinking?
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