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Post by Cartman on Jul 18, 2021 9:07:28 GMT
Does anyone remember this? It was late 90s/early 00s and was THE worst thing ever in the entire history of broadcasting. The repulsive Kelvin Mackenzie was behind it, which probably tells you everything you need to know about it.
I only ever saw little snatches of it, and it would have insulted the intelligence of an amoeba. It was seemingly a TV version of The Sun, but much less intelligent, a bloke used to dress up in a rabbit costume and dance about in the background when news headlines were being read out, weather in Norwegian, it was mind bogglingly bad.
I don't know if it was a deliberate send up, or if it was just stupid anyway.
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Post by Nightfly on Jul 18, 2021 13:19:41 GMT
Does anyone remember this? It was late 90s/early 00s and was THE worst thing ever in the entire history of broadcasting. The repulsive Kelvin Mackenzie was behind it, which probably tells you everything you need to know about it. A mate of mine who had one of the early satellite dishes sent me a few clips on video at the time. It certainly was dire. Topless Darts, The News Bunny and Rusty Goffe, the little fella who presented the weather forecast on a trampoline. It made you want to go back to the days of just three channels on the telly.
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Jul 18, 2021 13:24:09 GMT
I've seen clips of it on those compilations of bad tv, topless darts & the dwarf actor Rusty Goffe doing the weather forecast on a trampoline. According to wikipedia there were some now respectable tv presenters on it- Julia Bradbury, Claudia Winkleman, Richard Bacon & newsreader Charlie Stayt.
I'm sure they genuinely believed that there was an audience for it given that The Sun was/is one of Britain's most popular newspapers. I suppose one thing you can say for Live TV is that it didn't pretend to be anything but trash ( at least from the clips I've seen ) unlike much of today's 'reality' tv. Also the failure of the channel seems to prove that it's how you market trash that matters, it needs to be glossy & not cheap. Low budgets don't matter if the content is good but can you imagine shows like 'Love Island' done on the cheap?
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Post by Sparky on Jul 18, 2021 14:34:30 GMT
First time I ever came across Live TV was when we had cable TV sometime in the early-mid 1990s. (Nynex?)
It was a baptism of fire, while jumping through the channels I ended up with a dwarf on a trampoline doing the weather and then a game of darts played by Topless women - Bullseye it wasn't!
I thought my step-mum had laced by tea with LSD.
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Post by Nightfly on Jul 18, 2021 15:05:43 GMT
I thought my step-mum had laced by tea with LSD.
It would be 2003 when I made the leap to satellite telly. Lots of weird channels that would appear and disappear within months. I remember there was an Exchange and Mart channel with one half of the screen showing some exclusive they were plugging and rolling classified ads on the other half. The bandwidth/resolution was pretty bad and you couldn't read the ads ! Then there was Legal TV, a channel with the odd discussion show for solicitors punctuated with back to back old episodes of Crown Court. There was also something I think was called The Landscape Channel. Just continuous views of shots of lakes, rivers and various scenery set to classical music. A kind of Potter's Wheel concept, but 24 hours a day.
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Jul 18, 2021 19:05:57 GMT
Did anyone ever see a channel featuring promo videos of a young amateur female vocalist, it was funded by her sugar daddy husband who clearly hoped it would make her a star, I think it only broadcast a few hours each day & didn't last long. From memory it appeared about 20 years or so ago. Not seen anything like it before or since.
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Post by Cartman on Jul 18, 2021 19:36:54 GMT
No, I don't remember that one Arthur.
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Post by Nightfly on Jul 18, 2021 19:52:21 GMT
Did anyone ever see a channel featuring promo videos of a young amateur female vocalist, it was funded by her sugar daddy husband who clearly hoped it would make her a star, I think it only broadcast a few hours each day & didn't last long. From memory it appeared about 20 years or so ago. Not seen anything like it before or since. Can't say I've heard of that one, Arthur. I get the impression a lot of people have an idea for a channel and then, once launched, realise how much it costs to run. There was a spate of specialist channels a few years ago. There was one devoted to horses, ponies and countryside pursuits that came and went. There were also a lot of "Living In Spain", "Living In Cyprus" etc type channels promoting overseas property and usually had someone who was once a big name fronting it. I remember one channel had the guy who played Curly Watts in Coronation Street extolling the virtues of buying an apartment in the sun. Well if it's good enough for Curly then sign me up.
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Post by Dirty Epic on Jul 19, 2021 8:18:47 GMT
IIRC didn't L!VE TV alternate with local based Cable TV channels that used to exist around that time like Channel m, Liverpool Live etc.
Didn't see too much of it and as said L!VE wasn't much to write home about and that's putting politely.
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Post by Sparky on Jul 19, 2021 8:38:15 GMT
Did anyone ever see a channel featuring promo videos of a young amateur female vocalist, it was funded by her sugar daddy husband who clearly hoped it would make her a star, I think it only broadcast a few hours each day & didn't last long. From memory it appeared about 20 years or so ago. Not seen anything like it before or since.
So I didn't dream it.
I saw this once and wondered what the hell it was. As you say Arthur, it must be at least 20 years ago.
Can't remember her name.
They used to have a football show on a Saturday morning/lunchtime, and then on a Sunday with edited highlights - as they didn't have rights to the big matches they would cover much lower leagues. I remember catching the end of a Rushden & Diamonds match. And another with someone like Goole FC.
Much of the crowd banter hadn't been blooped or masked, as the grounds were much smaller - you could hear all the abuse being turfed out from the terraces!
Can't remember any other time I heard people singing "Who's the ba**ard in the black" on Sunday lunchtime TV. Morning Worship or Highway it certainly wasn't.
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