Hey Hey it's Saturday was a British children's Saturday morning television series that aired on the breakfast television channel TV-am. It was produced by Clear Idea Productions.
Based on the Australian Saturday morning/night television series of the same name, the series ran from July 1990 until September 1991 when it was replaced by TV Mayhem. It was a replacement for WAC '90, which was previously known as the Wide Awake Club.
The series was presented alternately by Tommy Boyd, Mike Brosnan and Michaela Strachan.
The series includes several animated and live-action programmes such as Alvin and the Chipmunks, Captain N: The Game Master, Maxie's World, Top Banana, Dink, the Little Dinosaur, Animals in Action, The New Archies, Super Mario Bros, Captain Planet and the Planeteers and the live-action comedy series The Charmings.
Wacaday was a children's television series in the United Kingdom that ran in TV-am's school-holidays slot from October 1985 until 1992, in an 8:50-9:25 a.m. slot, and was hosted by Timmy Mallett.
My kind of people is an ITV television show presented by British entertainer Michael Barrymore broadcast in 1995. Barrymore travelled around the country in his customised sports car visiting shopping centres, where amateurs performed on a stage for the programme unrehearsed.
Some acts were simply shown performing together with the audience reaction, whereas others were interviewed by Barrymore or shown inter-dispersed with footage of Barrymore to the side of the stage engaged in foolish behaviour in order to get reactions from the audience. Often, Barrymore would join the act on stage and continue the tomfoolery.
Notably, Susan Boyle performed on the show before she became famous worldwide for her Britain's got talent audition in 2009. Barrymore mocked her as she performed "I don't know how to love him" from Jesus Christ Superstar at the Olympia Mall in East Kilbride, lying on the stage beneath her and pretending to look up her skirt as she performed, attempting to sing with her during the end of the song and the
Bostock's Cup was a one-off British television comedy drama about a football team which appeared on ITV on the eve of the 1999 European Cup final. It was written by Chris England, directed by Marcus Mortimer and produced by Mark Robson. It starred Tim Healy as the club's manager, Neil Pearson as a veteran sportscaster, and Nick Hancock as his upstart rival. The film featured innovative use of old footage of seventies football matches to recreate the era. It was aired on 25 May 1999.
No. 1 Soap Fan was a one-off gameshow hosted by Bradley Walsh for ITV on 29 December 2007. The show consisted of an audience of soap opera fans. The show had four rounds, the fist was naming barmaids from the Rovers Return. The second saw three soap stars com on stage and quiz a contestant about their character. The third round showed some of soaps classic or highest rating moments of all time and then Q&A followed. The winner from each round progressed to the final - the Soapstar Superboard that saw the 3 finalist given 90 seconds to answer 12 questions asked by 12 soapstars.
The show was made by Talent Television Limited and devised by Stuart Shawcross.
Don't Try This at Home is a British game show produced by LWT with Golden Square Pictures and broadcast on ITV between 16 May 1998 and 7 April 2001. It took up the slot of the Saturday challenge game show slot left by its long-running and more sedate predecessor You Bet!. The executive producers were Nigel Lythgoe for LWT and Victor Glynn for Golden Square Pictures.
It featured real people facing tough challenges such as swinging under a bridge. It was hosted by Davina McCall with co-hosts including Darren Day, Kate Thornton and Paul Hendy. Russ Williams was the event commentator. A lifetime medal was awarded for winning a challenge or having a very good try.
24 Hour Quiz is a British game show that was broadcast on ITV in early 2004, presented by Shaun Williamson and Matt Brown and created by Richard Osman for Endemol UK. It was shown from 5pm to 6pm. Several protest groups complained after several nude scenes appeared and a contestant was ejected due to offensive behaviour.
ITV2 provided live streaming from the "quiz pod". The series was axed after one series by ITV due to low ratings.
In October 26, 2012, Richard Osman, writing for The Guardian named 24 Hour Quiz among four of UK TV's worst ever gameshows.
Dear Mother...Love Albert later retitled Albert! was a British sitcom broadcast between September 1969 and June 1972. It was created by and starred Rodney Bewes. Bewes co-wrote and produced the series with Derrick Goodwin. The show proved popular and regularly made the TV ratings top ten throughout its three year run.
The theme song was sung by Bewes, co-written by Mike Hugg. Hugg had also encouraged Bewes to sing the theme to his previous sitcom The Likely Lads, but Bewes recalls "I think I drank a bottle of port in the end, but I couldn't get it".
There were 26 episodes, including the three Christmas specials, all three broadcast as part of All Star Comedy Carnival. The fourth and final series was broadcast as a sequel entitled Albert!, which ran for a further series of seven episodes. Series 1 was produced by Thames Television, while the subsequent series 2-4 were produced by Yorkshire Television.
Under Offer is an ITV game show that aired from 14 April 1998 to 17 June 2001 and ran for 4 series. It is hosted by Yvette Fielding and team captained by Fred Dineage and Toyah Wilcox.
Nightwatch with Steve Scott was a weekday late-night documentary series on ITV, first broadcast on 8 January 2008. The series was presented by ITV News journalist Steve Scott and was produced by ITV Central. Nightwatch featured various regional ITV programmes focusing on crime and emergency services. The series aired on ITV on various nights, anytime between midnight and 0300. The show was also repeated on ITV-owned digital channel Men & Motors. Nowadays, Nightwatch with Steve Scott is seldom shown on the ITV network but can be seen occasionally on ITV Channel Television.
The series is presented from a regional news studio at ITV Central's studios in Gas Street, Birmingham.
Thames News was the flagship regional news programme of Thames Television, serving the Greater London region and broadcast on weekdays from 12 September 1977 to 31 December 1992.
The news service was produced and broadcast from Thames TV's headquarters at Euston Road in north-west London and during its last few years in operation, from district newsrooms in Dartford in Kent, Guildford in Surrey and Watford in Hertfordshire.
Grundy's Wonders is a Tyne Tees Television architecture programme presented by John Grundy, which began in 2000.
On the programme, Grundy explores buildings in north-east England, as well as Cumbria and Yorkshire. Each programme has a particular theme or type of building, and Grundy names his favourite piece of architecture his "Grundy's Wonder", and gives a "Big Boot" to things he dislikes.
Grundy presents the programme in an enthusiastic way, while covering many aspects of the northern English region's history; this is also one of few architecture series on television.
Scotsport was a Scottish sports television programme, broadcast on STV in northern and central Scotland, as well as on ITV Border in southern Scotland. It was recognised as the world's longest-running sports television magazine.
Country House Sunday is a British television series presented by Lynda Bellingham. The programme sees the actress and her team travel to some of Britain's largest and grandest stately homes. It is produced to Twofour.
The show is currently airing on Sunday mornings on ITV at 8.25am. The first series began on 21 April 2013 and lasted for 21 episodes.
The Chrystal Rose Show was a British talk show presented by Chrystal Rose. Produced by Carlton Television, the programme discussed controversial subjects and was first broadcast on ITV in January 1993.
In a remote part of the Welsh countryside in the late 1980s, Gwyn and his family remain haunted by the disappearance of his sister, Bethan, in a snow storm five years before. On his ninth birthday, Gwyn's eccentric grandmother, Nain, gives him five unusual gifts - sparking off an adventure when she declares 'Time to find out if you're a magician!'
Revolution is an ITV gameshow hosted by Carol Vorderman, the pilot episode was recorded at Elstree Film Studios on Saturday 31 March. On 29 June 2013, it was announced that the show had been "scrapped" by ITV.
This Is... is a British entertainment show, celebrating the best of British Music. Starring Michael Bublé, JLS, Justin Bieber and Lionel Richie. Presented by various celebrity hosts including Christine Bleakley and Reggie Yates