Great news for fans of comedy sort-of gameshows (or at least Unscripted Of Interest), the new series of Murder in Successville starts on BBC3 on iPlayer (with a proper broadcast at some point in the future) TODAY, episode one is Vicky Pattison.
Certainly the Jaime Laing episode last year was the hardest I’d laughed at anything for quite some time.
Meanwhile on UKTV On Demand, the first episode of the second series of Taskmaster is up on demand. I’m pondering whether I’m going to watch it tonight or enjoy it as a shared experience on Twitter when it goes out properly next week. Decisions decisions.
My TV Cream colleague Chris Hughes spotted this – the UNBROADCAST PILOT of Larry Grayson’s Generation Game!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nEuSFLCACQ
Introduced by Brucie’s theme, of course. An impressive line-up of guests for an unbroadcast show.
The channel also features the compilation that was his final show at Christmas 1981 (before you ask, the surname is BASSFORD), plus every single thing Hinge and Bracket ever did on television, including numerous episodes of The Alphabet Game.
Blimey!
That’s very entertaining, although I’ve always found the last five-ten minutes of Larry’s Gen Game a bit odd, not helped by the show’s rather cold and abrupt ending without any real sign off.
Well, he says “I love you all”, at least. The thing that always baffles me is why they need a quiz to decide who does the conveyor belt, with a consolation prize for the loser. They’re in the same family!
I found that pilot fascinating, as the production values were so high (bar the pan down shot right at the start, and the boom mic wandering around top centre in one game) it could have been an actual episode.
Also on that chaps channel via the Hinge & Brackett connection are a few Matthew Kelly era Wetten Da .. sorry, You Bet’s.
Worth a watch. Got me wondering. How long did one of those take to record? I’m guessing somewhere around 3 hours?
Given the pace of modern production, I’d be amazed and really impressed if they did You Bet in three hours.
Although saying that I suppose not many of the challenges had large set-ups in the studio really, or at least not much that couldn’t be bought in and out on castors. There’s normally one quite grand in-studio set-up per episode, others would be pre-filmed. Hmm.